The Gazette 1927-30

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Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society or Ireland.- ^

DECEMBER, 1929]

to this arrangement being brought into force. Yours faithfuUty, (Signed) F. W. CLARKE, Chief Clerk. W, G. Wakely, Esq., Secretary, Incorporated Law Society, 45 Kildare Street, Dublin. THE SOCIETY'S CALENDAR, 1930, Members are requested to send to the Secretary, 45 Kildare Street, Dublin, a note of any corrections which they desire to suggest to be made in the compiling of the Calendar for 1930. POSTAL ADDRESSES. Attention is drawn to the request of the Postal Authorities, that in addition to the postal town, the name of the County in Ireland in which such town is situate, should be included in addresses of letters and postal packets. HILARY LECTURES, 1930. The Junior (Common Law) lectures will begin on Thursday, 16th January. The Senior (Real Property) lectures will begin on Friday, 17th January. The Lectures for both Classes will be held in the Royal College of Surgeons, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. The Lectures for the Junior (Common Law) Class will be held on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Junior Class Apprentices are requested to note the alteration of the days, and that Lectures will not be delivered on Mondays. The Lectures for the Senior (Real Pro perty) Class will be delivered, as heretofore, on Tuesdays and Fridays. ALL communications connected with THE GAZETTE (other than advertisements) should be addressed to the Secretary of the Society, 45 Kildare Street, Dublin, C.17.

1917, when he was appointed Taxing Master.' He was a member of the Council of the Society from 1901 to 1917, and was President of the Society for the year 1909-10. MR. EDWARD HILL, Solicitor, died upon the 13th November, 1929, at his residence Ollarview, Ballyclare, Co Antrim. Mr. Hill served his apprenticeship with the late Mr. Wellington Young, Belfast, was admitted in Hilary Sittings, 1901, and practised at Ballyclare. LAND REGISTRY. The following letter has been received in reference to the bespeaking of copies of documents, the originals of which bear revenue duty :— Land Registry, Central Office, Chancery Street, Dublin, 15th November, 1929 Dear Sir, I am directed by the Registrar to nitimate to the Incorporated Law Society that he has been in correspondence with the Revenue Commissioners with reference to a claim made by them as to the payment of Revenue duty on copy documents bespoken in this Registry, The Registrar is satisfied, having regard to Section 63 of the Stamp Act, 1891, that copies of instruments, on which Revenue duty was impressed on the original, are liable to I/- stamp duty, save in isolated cases of certified copies requiring a lesser duty than I/- by reason of the original instrument bearing stamp duty of less than */-• In these circumstances, it will be necessary for Solicitors bespeaking copy instruments in this Registry, to obtain from this Office on and after the 25th instant, a blank form and to have I/- Revenue duty impressed thereon at the Stamp Office, Dublin Castle, pending arrangements being made by the Revenue Commissioners with the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs for a supply of the necessary stamped forms being made avail able to the public at the Upper Ormond Quay Post Office. We have been informed by the Revenue Commissioners that they are in negotiations with the Post Office Authorities with a view