The Gazette 1913-14

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Vol. VII, No, 10.]

April, 1914.

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Meetings of the Council.

that the Registrar had " observed a tendency ' on the part of certain Solicitors to lodge two ' 01 more applications to discharge eqiiities, ' or two or more assents on transmission ' where one of such documents would have ' been sufficient. This is a practice which ' entails on the clients unjustifiable costs." The Council made objection to the terms of this circular, as making an undue reflection on the profession generally. After a corres pondence with the Land Registry Office, a letter from the Registrar was received intimating that the copy of the circular exhibited in the local offices would be removed. Certificates. Applications by two Solicitors for renewal of their Certificates were considered, and orders were made in both cases. Adjournment. The Council adjourned until Thursday, 23rd April. Council Meetings. MEETINGS of the Council will be held upoaa the following dates :— April 23rd. May 6th and 20th. Committee Meetings. THE following Committee Meetings were held during March :— Costs, 4th. Court of Examiners, 9th. Gazette, 13th. Land Act, 20th.

March Uth. Increment Value Duty.

A LSTTER was read from the Controller of Inland Revenue in reply to the letter from the Council, drawing attention to the great delay in the notification of what increment duty (if any) is payable. A copy of the letter of the Controller appears in this GAZETTE. Court of Examiners. The report of the Court of Examiners upon the March Intermediate Examination was submitted. The result appears in this GAZETTE. Certificates. Applications by two Solicitors for renewal of their Certificates were considered, and orders were made in both cases. March 25th. Portrait of Lord Ashbourne. , Mr. J. M. Colles having presented to the Society an engraving of the late Right Hon. Lord Ashbourne, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, to be added to the collection of engravings in the Council Chamber, it was resolved that the best thanks of the Council be conveyed to Mr. Colles for his gift. Land Registry, The attention of the Council was called to a circular issued from the central office of the Land Registry of Ireland to the Local Registrars (with a direction to display the same in the Local Offices), in which it was stated