The Gazette 1944-46

the Chairman. Messrs. Kevans & Son, Auditors and Accountants, were re-appointed Auditors for the year to end 30th April, 1945. The Secretary read the report of the Scrutineers of the Ballot for the Council for the year to end 26th November, 1945, which stated that the following had been returned unopposed as Provin cial Delegates : Ulster, John Gillespie ; Munster, A. J. Blood-Smy th ; Leinster, William L. Duggan ; Connaught, Christopher E. Callan, and that the following had been elected as the thirty-one ordinary members of the Council, having received the number of votes placed after their respective names :—Arthur Cox 405, Louis E. O'Dea 402, William S. Hayes 355, J. Travers Wolfe 355. Patrick R. Boyd 348, Henry St. J. Blake 348, William J. Norman 345, Henry P. Mayne 341, Patrick F. O'Reilly 337, Scan 6 hUadhaigh 333, G. A. Overcnd 332, John B. Hamill 331, John S. O'Connor 325, Edward M. FitzGerald 316, James .1. Lynch 314, Daniel O'Connell 309, John P. Carrigan 307, Peter O'Connor 303, Michael E. Knight 298, Robert A. Macaulay 280, John J. Dunne 275, Cecil G. Stapleton 270, John J. Bolger 268, John J. Smyth 267, Roger Greene 260, James R. Quirke 258, F. J. W. Darley 258, William S. Huggard 255, Hugh O'Donnell 246, John J. Dundon 238, Matthew G. R. Lardner 224, and the following would form a supplemental list in case of vacancies : Joseph Barrett 222, P. C!. Moore 214, David R. Pigot 209. The President, in moving the adoption of the Annual Report said :— You have all been supplied with copies of the Report of the Council and that, together with the monthly Gazette, gives a fair synopsis of the work carried out by the Council and the Com mittees thereof during the year that has passed and will obviate the necessity of my giving you details of the work. The history of this Society has great interest for members of the profession, and is given very ably in a work published by Mr. Charles Gamble in the year 1921. In that excellent work he shows that in the year 1607 the Society of Kings' Inns was established, the membership of which included Solicitors and Attorneys as well as practising Barristers. In the year 1841 a Society was formed to watch over and protect the position and interests of the Solicitors' Profession in Ireland, and for assuring the proper control of their own domestic affairs and property and it was in that year the old Solicitors' Buildings were erected. We celebrated the Centenary of the establishment of that Society three years ago under the Presi-

Barley, E. M. FitzGerald, Roger Greene, John B. Hamill, W. S. Haycs, H. P. Mayne, W. J. Nor man, D. O'Connell, Scan 6 hlladhaigh, P. F. O'Reilly, G. Acheson Overcnd, J. R. Quirke, J. J. Smyth, C. G. Stapleton, T. H. R. Craig, V. E. Kirwan, H. MacNeice, W. B. Fawsitt, Brendan Walsh, D. M. F. Walsh, P. C. Moore, C. O'Farrell, L. Carr Lett, M. J. K. Dore, M. J. Bowers, Oliver G. Fry, A. G. Joyce, H. E. W. Flanagan, Geo. Crowlev, D. Moran, L. Webb, A. E. Walker, V. Walker, R. P. Humphries, M. A. Corrigan, E. J. O'Brien, H. W. McCormick, J. W. Gentleman, T. J. Kenny, P. J. Walsh, J. B. McCann, J. Plunkett Dillon, James Fagan, James Fagan, Junr., Lucy Fagan, M. A. Smyth, Gerald Byrne, Chas. Doyle, R. D. English, Raymond Downey (North Cork Bar Association), Matthew Purcell, W. J. Keery, D. J. Farrell, Arthur Murphy, A. W. Stirling, T. G. Quirke, R. M. Meares," C. G. Stapleton, R. J. Walker, Denis Greene, Win. Fry, Robt. Hayes, J. D. Hollinger, P. C. Furlong, A. H. S. Orpen, Ray mond Kenny, A. G. Ardagh, H. A. Williams, D. R. Pigot, Patk. Glynn, R. J. Tierney, R. W. Johnston, W. H. Phayre, R. C. Bathurst, H. R. Maunsell, B. R. W. Doran, Saml. Hayes, J. P. O'Connell, L. W. Webb, H. D. Hurley, G. G. Overend, C. T. Blair-White, J. Maher, J. F. Donovan, D. V. Miley, D. D. MacDonald, A. E. Prentice, D. FitzGerald, E. Proud, P. Woods (Louth Bar Association), J. P. J. Smyth, Ivan Howe, Eugene Collins, R. E. O'Brien, Miss S. Webb, G. F. McGowan, L. Jameson, John J. Shiel, J. B. Murphy (Monaghan Bar Association), E. N. Edwards, J. Gillespie, F. J. Dunne, Stephen Lynch, Denzil O'Donnell, J. M. Dudley, J. H. Bergin, C. H. Hardman, Francis Clinch, M. J. Fitzmaurice, W. J. Walsh, R. L. McDoimell, C. Gavan Duffy, H. D. Draper, J. Malvern White, Joseph Barrett (Dublin Bar Association), Basil Thompson, Francis Gibncy, Thomas J. Greene, A. B. Watson, C. Gore Gr'imes, C. B. W. Boyle, Gerald Robinson, Miss M. O'Neill, J. R. Cresswell, L. J. O'Neill, G. H. Parkes, H. Sheil, G. Sweetman, R. W. Oulton, J. G. Oulton, G. M. Meares, W. J. Reilly, M. J. Dunne, Kevin Burke, R. N. Mathe- son, D. B. Gilmore, P. J. Masterson, T. A. W. Purefroy. By permission of the meeting the notice con vening the meeting was taken as read. The min utes of the half-yearly General Meeting, held on May 16th, were read, confirmed and signed by the Chairman. The audited accounts of the Society for the year ending 30th April, 1944, were adopted and, -with the consent of the meeting were signed by

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