The Gazette 1916-17

THE GAZETTE OF THE 0f

December, 1916.

Vol. X, No. 6.]

T FOR CIRCULATION L AMONGST MEMBERS.

Half-yearly General Meeting. THE Half-yearly General Meeting of the Society was held in the Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts, on Monday, November 27th. The chair was occupied by Mr. Charles St. George Orpen, President of the Society. . The following members were present:— John H. Walsh (Vice-President) ; A. H. S. Orpen (Vice-President) ; Patrick J. Brady, M.P.; H. J. Synnott, W. S. Hayes, R. A. Macnamara, James Henry, A. E. Bradley, J. W. Richards, W. H. Fry, C. G. Gamble, J. E. MacDermott, R. G. Warren, R. Blair White, James Moore; T. G. Quirke, Basil Thompson, W. V. Seddall, W. T. Sheridan, E. N. Edwards, E. H. Burne, P. K. White, Patk. Rooney, James Brady, H. D. Draper, E. S. Lowe, W. J. Ryan, P. M. Seales, Raymond Stephenson, F. S. de V. White, George Collins, G. H. Parkes, W. J. Byrne, G. A. G. Byrne, Edwd. Condell, R. A. O'Brien, Jas. L. Burke, W. H. C. Lloyd, D. B. Dunne, H. R. Maunsell, J. R. CressweU, J. W. Dyas, R. W. MacNeice, B. R. W. Doran, Sydney Bell, Samuel Kerr, John Read, G. H. Lyster, J. J. Beatty, A. Lloyd-Blood, Chas. Corcoran, M. A. Smyth, H. P. Mayne, B. G. Barton, J. G. Lidwell, P. J. Kavanagh (Cork)' M. A. Corrigan, E. J. Kenny, Elliott McNeill, W. J. Ryan, F. V. Gordon, H. C. Neilson, J. P. Collins, G. M. Porter, C. B. W. Boyle, E. S. Lowe (Jun.), D. A. Quaid, J. W. Davis, W. J. M. Coulter, Charles Daly, A. T. Ellis, T. F. Figgis. THE SECRETARY (Mr. W. G. Wakely) read the notice convening the meeting, also the minutes of the Half-yearly General

Meeting heldj last May, which latter were signed by the President, who also signed the audited accounts. THE SECRETARY then read the Report of the Scrutineers of the ballot for election of Council for year ending 26th November, 1917, which stated that the following had been returned unopposed as Provincial Delegates :—Thomas M. Greer, for Ulster ; Henry Blackall, for Munster ; Michael Buggy, for Leinster ; and Henry J. Concanon, for Connaught; and that the following, having received the number of votes placed after their names, had been elected as the thirty- one Ordinary Members of the Council:— Patrick J. Brady, M.P., 293 ; William S. Hayes, 278; Charles St. G. Orpen, 263 ; H. J. Synnott, 261 ; W. J. Shannon, 259 ; R. A. Macnamara, 253 ; A. E. Bradley, 245 ; T. G. Quirke, 244; J. W. Richards, 240; A. H. S. Orpen, 238; J. E. MacDermott, 235 ; W. V. Seddall, 235 ; I. J. Rice, 234 ; J. H. Walsh, 232 ; Henry Shannon, 230 ; James Henry, 227 ; Sir A. F. Baker, 222 ; R. G. Warren, 213; C. G. Gamble, 205; James Moore, 205 ; R. Blair White, 193 ; Basil Thompson, 192 ; W. H. Fry, 192 ; E. H. Burne, 182 ; W. T. Sheridan, 177 ; M. L. Hearn, 177 ; P. K. White, 165 ; J. H. Callan, 158 ; P. J. Meehan, M.P., 156 ; E. N. Edwards, 154 ; L. C. P. Smith, 153 ; and the following to form a supplemental list to fill vacancies :—Patrick Rooney, 141 ; A. W. Stirling, 123 ; and James Brady, 118. THE PRESIDENT, in moving the adoption of the Annual Report of the Council, said :—We meet here once again, and we are still under the shadow of the great war.