The Gazette 1910-11

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland,

[NOVEMBER, 1910

150

Belfast, was admitted in Michaelmas Sittings, 1885, and practised at Ballybay and Castle- blayney up to the year 1908, when he retired. MR. STANISLAUS M. J. O'FARRELL, Solicitor died upon the 6th October, 1910, at East London, Cape Colony. Mr. O'Farrell, who served his apprentice ship with Mr. Michael C. O'Meara, 20 Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin, was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1900. MR. CHARLES P. J. DOWNES, Solicitor, Cahirciveen, died upon the llth October, 1910, at his residence, Cahirciveen. Mr. Downes, who served his apprenticeship with his father, the late Mr. Thomas Downes, Skibbereen, was admitted in Hilary Sittings, 1907, and practised at Cahirciveen. MR. JOSEPH GALLOWAY, Solicitor, Dublin, died upon the 24th October, 1910, at his residence, The Priory, Monkstown, Co. Dublin. Mr. Galloway, who served his apprentice ship with his father, the late Mr. John Galloway, 35 North Cumberland Street, Dublin, was admitted in Trinity Term, 1860, and practised, under the style of J. & J. Galloway, at 55 Upper Sackville Street, Dublin, in partnership with his son, Mr. J. W. Dyas, who continues to carry on the business. Commissioners to administer Oaths. THE Lord Chancellor has appointed the following to be Commissioners to administer Oaths :— Thomas J. Deering, Solicitor, 12 Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin. Richard W. MacNeice, Solicitor, 12 West- moreland Street, Dublin. Alexander D. Orr, Solicitor, 5 Foster Place, Dublin. Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1906. In the month of July, the President re ceived a letter from the Local Government Board requesting his attendance at a consul tation with the Board relative to a new Order which the Board desired to make under the Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1906. The object of this proposed Order was to amend the Labourers (Ireland) Order, 1909, so as to provide that the words " owner "or " lessee,"

where used the Order of 1909, should not include a judicial tenant, nor a tenant from year to year, nor a tenant who has entered into an agreement to purchase his holding under the Land Purchase (Ireland) Acts. The Board desired to make this new Order in consequence of the decision of the Lord Chief Baron, in the case of Elliott and another v. Stranorlar Rural District Council (reported in GAZETTE of May, 1910, page 109), in which it was held that the word "lessee 1 ' included a judicial tenant, and, accordingly, that the solicitor for a judicial tenant should be paid for shewing title the remuneration prescribed for a solicitor for a lessee under the Labourers (Ireland) Order, 1909. The President, in the month of July, laid before the Board very fully, both verbally and by letter, his reasons for dissenting from the terms of the proposed Order. The letter of the President was acknowledged upon the 26th July by the Board, with an intimation that it would receive most careful considera tion. No further communication was re ceived from the Board by the President, but upon the llth October the Order, as origin ally drafted by the Board, appeared in the Dublin Gazette as having been made on 6th October. The Order is in the following terms : THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD FOR IRELAND. THE LABOURERS (IRELAND) ORDER, 1910. In pursuance of the powers vested in Us by the Labourers (Ireland) Acts, 1883 to 1906, and of all other powers enabling Us in this behalf, We, the Local Government Board for Ireland, after consultation with the President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland, do order, and it is hereby ordered, that the following shall be rules under the said Acts, and shall have effect and be observed in regard to the several matters to which they relate :— 1. This Order may be cited as "The Labourers (Ireland) Order, 1910," and shall be construed as one with the Labourers (Ireland) Order, 1906, and the Labourers (Ireland) Order, 1909, and these Orders, and this Order may be cited collectively as the Labourers (Ireland) Orders, 1906 to 1910, in