The Gazette 1967/71

Carrigan, Gerald Hickey, Brendan McGrath, Wil liam Osborne, T. O'Connor and M. Kenny. The President summed up the discussion. Mr. Gerard M. Doyle raised the question as to the time of (he ordinary general meeting to be held on 21st November, 1968. It was decided to place the matter on the agenda for the May meet ing in 1968. A vote of thanks to the chairman was proposed by the President of the Dubllin Solicitors' Bar Association. LOCAL AUTHORITY SOLICITORS' ASSOCIATION The following Officers and Committee were elected at the Annual General Meeting of the Association for 1967/68: — Chairman — D. M. F. Wals'h, Law Agent, Dublin Corporation. Honorary Treasurer and Secretary — M. J. Leech, Law Agent, Dun Laoghaire Corporation. Committee — MessrsD. Brilley, Assistant Law Agent, Dublin Corporation, Timothy Murphy, County Solicitor, Kerry County Council, and Matthew Purcell, County Solicitor, Dubliln County Council. The Meeting was addressed by Mr. Brendan McGrath, Solicitor, President of the Federation of Professional Organisations and Chairman of the Corporate Bodies Solicitors' Association. The Chairman, in the course of his address, ad vised all salaried Solicitors to become members of one of the various Associations catering for slaried Solicitors within the framework of the Law Society. The Chairman pointed out the advantages that membership of such an Association would bring and stated that these Association had been formed for the welfare of salaried Solicitors, who now number a substantial number in the profes sion. The Council of the Incorporated Law Society, he added, had actively encouraged the formation of such Associations and these Associa tions would receive the full support of the Council at all times. These Asoeiations, along with Bar Associations, could play an active part in the af fairs of the profession as a whole. The Meeting paid tribute to Mr. Matthew Pur- cell, Dublin County Solicitor and Mr. John M. Eyre, Assistant Law Agent, Dublin Corporation, on their retirements from the public service after a

number of years service. They were both elected life members of the Association.

CORPORATE BODIES SOLICITORS' ASSOCIATION The Annual General Meeting of the Association will be held on Wednesday, 17th January, 1968, in the Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts, Dublin, at 8 p.m. The President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland will addrress the meeting. SECTION 45 OF THE CHARITIES ACT, 1961 Section 45 (2) of the Charities Act, 1961 (No. 17 of 1961) which came into operation on the 1st July, 1961, enacts that a gift for the advance ment of religion shall be appied in accordance with the laws, canons, ordinances and tenets of the religion concerned. So far as gifts for Masses are concerned, the effect of the Section is that the application of such gifts is now regulated by the code of Canon Law. On consideration of the Section, the Irish Hierar chy, at their Meeting held on the 3rd October, 1963, Ruled canonically that: — (i) where a gift for Masses in favour of a Priest who had predeceased the testator or who had survived him but died 'before receiving payment, or (ii) where the conditions attaching to a gift can not reasonably be carried out, the amount of such gift should be remitted to the Bishop of the Diocese in which the legatee resides so that he may arrange to have the Mass obliga tion fulfilled in such manner as he thinks best. With regard to gifts for perpetual Masses, it was decreed at the Plenary Council of the Irish Hierarchy held in 1956 that the maximum period in respect of which a gift for perpetual Masses may be established is 50 years. At the expiration of this period, the capital representing the gift must •be realised and applied in the immediate celebra tion of Masses in accordance with the intentions expressed by the donor or testator (as the case may be). 67