The Gazette 1909-10

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

[FEBRUARY, 1910

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Vendor, and the purchase was to be carried out by a separate lease for ever of each lot, reserving a.rent of thirty shillings per Irish acre. Lot 2 was sold for £1,950, and Lot 3 for £1,300. Vendor's Solicitor furnished title and gave searches, and the two leases were executed in duplicate and registered. Both lots were purchased by the same purchaser. The conditions of sale provided that the purchaser should pay the costs of the leases. Vendor's Solicitor claimed to be paid by the purchaser lease scale fee on the rent of the two leases, registration fee on each of the two leases, and the purchase scale fee on each of the two fines. The purchaser's Solicitor claimed that the scale fee on each of the two fines should be reduced by the sum of ten shillings per cent, negotiation fee, contending that the lease scale fee covered the negotiation. The Committee reported that, in their opinion, the purchaser is not entitled to the reduction of ten shillings per cent, claimed on his behalf in respect of the scale fee on the fines, and the report of the Committee was adopted. Education of Apprentices. A report from the Special Educational Committee of the Council was received, and the recommendations of the report relative to the Intermediate and Final Examinations were adopted. These recommendations apply to the Final Examinations to be held in and after January, 1911, and to the Inter mediate Examinations to be held in and after July, 1911, and provide that the subject of Book-keeping be taken out of the final course and be placed in the Intermediate course ; that there be three papers set at the Inter mediate Examination—one in Practice con taining seven questions, one in Book-keeping containing five questions, and one in Theory containing ten questions. At the Final Examination there are to be six papers in Practice, each containing five questions ; and three papers in Theory, each containing ten questions, and the examination is to occupy three days.

meeting of Solicitors' Apprentices, at which it was resolved to form a new Debating Society, and the rules prepared by the Council were accepted. Arrangements were made for the election by ballot of officers for the session ending July next, and the meeting adjourned till 14th February. Examinations. The report of the Court of Examiners upon the January Preliminary and Final Examina tions was adopted. Certificates. Four applications by Solicitors for renewal of their certificates were considered and granted, a fifth was postponed for further information. Board of Works Deeds of Charge, A letter was read in reply from the Treasury Solicitor stating that, as requested by the Council, future issues of letters from the Accountants' Office of Board of Works, in reference to the execution of deeds of charge, would contain a statement that such deeds might be executed before a Solicitor in addition to a Magistrate and Clergyman. Preliminary Examination. A memorial from an intending apprentice to the Lord Chancellor and Judges named in Section 18 of the Solicitors (Irelnnd) Act, 1898, praying for exemption from the Pre liminary Examination was considered, and it was resolved to request their Lordships not to accede to the prayer of the memorial. Report upon Costs Query. A report was received from the Costs Com mittee upon the following query submitted for their decision:—A. being absolutely entitled to certain trust funds standing in the joint names of B. and C., as Trustees, and being desirous of taking over the funds, proposed to execute a Deed of Release to B. and C. By whose Solicitor should the Deed of Release be prepared ? The Com mittee reported that, in their opinion, the Deed of Release should be prepared by the Solicitor for the Trustees. The report of the Committee was adopted.

January 26th. Apprentices' Debating Society.

The President informed the Council that upon the 17th inst. he had presided at a