The Gazette 1912-13

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland,

[NOVEMBER, 1912

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The amounts applied for but not advanced on the 31st March, 1912, were :— £ Act of 1903 ... 35,556,355 Act of 1909 ... 2,609,533 Total 38,165,888 and in addition the Congested Districts Board were in negotiation for the purchase of lands in the congested districts counties of an estimated' purchase money of 4| millions, in respect of which agreements had not been entered into on that date. The purchase money under the Act of 1909 is payable in 3 per cent. Guaranteed Land Stock equal in nominal amount to the sum to be advanced, while in the case of pending sales under the Act of 1903 the purchase money is payable in cash as regards £27,415,861, and as regards the balance vendors elected to accept payment either wholly or partly in Guaranteed 2| per cent. Stock in accordance with Section 3 (2) of the Act of 1909 for their estates, representing a purchase money of (a) £6,632,244, (b) £1,508,250, in (a) half stock half cash, and (b) wholly in stock. Parliamentary Paper Cd. 6130 of this year gives the most recent estimate prepared as regards the information asked for in the con cluding portion of the Question. [Uh November, 1912.] New Solicitors. ADMISSIONS DURING AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, AND OCTOBER, 1912. Nnme Srrved Apprenticeship to Hastings, John Lawrence Joseph I. Donaghy, Bel- Rentoul fast Herron, James ... R. A. E. Evans, Ballyna- hinch Horne, Francis Junius ... Joseph Carroll, Newry, and Edwin Harris, Newry Martin, George ... John Macka)', Dundalk, and John V. Fahv, Dublin O'Connor, Francis Joseph T. G. Quirke, Dublin Rutherford, Samuel F. G. McKeever,Drogheda George Smith, John Joseph ... E. I. Thornton, Waterford Tarrant, Samuel ... John Tarrant, Sligo, and M. J. Howley, Sligo

County Dublin, County Kilkenny, Queen's County, King's County, County Meath, County Westmeath, County Louth, County Longford, County Wicklow, County Kildare, County Wexford, County Carlow. Connaught (at which the Right Hon. Mr. Justice Kenny will preside).—The Winter Assizes for Connaught will be held at Limerick for the County Leitrim, County Galway, County Mayo, County Roscommon, County Sligo, and the City and County of Limerick. Irish Land Purchase, THE following has appeared in the Parlia mentary papers :— Q. Mr. Lardner.—To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, if he will state the total amounts paid in Ireland for land under each of the respective Land Purchase Acts, the Amount of the purchase money of land agreed to be purchased under recent purchase Acts, and for which the purchase money has not yet been paid, showing whether these estates are to be paid for with cash, stock, or part cash and part stock ; and will he state the sum estimated to be necessary to com plete land purchase in Ireland. [4/7; November, 1912.] A. Mr. Birrell.— The amounts advanced for land purchase under the Irish Land Purchase Acts up to the 31st March, 1912, were as follows :—

518,933 240,801 9,992,536 13,146,892 49,128,508 1,488,039

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Act of 1870 Act of 1881 Act of 1885 Acts of 1891-6 Act of 1903 Act of 1909

Total ... 74,515,709 This figure does not include advances amounting to £3,588,829 made out of the Land Purchase Fund pursuant to' Section 16 of The Labourers Act, 1906, and is also exclusive of payments in cash amounting to £1,358,898 made by tenant purchasers in part payment of the purchase money of their holdings.

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