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to recommend its immediate completion during the approaching vacation, as a measure which would greatly facilitate the dispatch of business, and be a vast benefit and convenience both to the public and to the practitioners, who incur much loss of time and expense by the present inconvenient situation of that court.

the propriety and justice of the claims put forward pleased to favour so desirable an arrangement, and on behalf of the Attorneys and Solicitors of Ireland, in respect to such appointments, and similar opinions have been published by two very eminent and distinguished Masters in Chancery in Ireland, both of whom, from their experience and high standing in their professions, are, it is respectfully submitted, most competent to give an opinion on the subject.

That in Ireland, all judicial appointments and situations are properly allotted to the Bar. And Petitioners submit, that all the offices and situations for the practical administration of the law, as distinguished from the judicial, should be given to Attorneys and Solicitors.

May it therefore please your Excellency to take the subject of the foregoing Memorial into your Excellency's gracious consideration.

And your Memorialists will pray.

Signed on behalf of the said Society,
WILLIAM GODDARD,
President.

RICHARD MEADE,

R. J. T. ORPEN,

Vice-Presidents.

EDWARD ILES,

May it therefore please your Honourable House to take the premises into your consideration, and to enact that the second Taxing Master to be appointed for the taxation of law costs in Ireland, in conjunction with Henry Colles, Esq., shall be an Attorney and Solicitor of ten years' standing; and that all future appointments of both Taxing Masters shall, in like manner, be selected from the profession of Dublin, 30th June, 1853.

Attorney and Solicitor in Ireland, and of ten years' standing at the least; and that the jurisdiction, duties, and emoluments of both Taxing Masters shall be similar and equal, with an appeal from either officer to the court.

And your Petitioners will pray.

Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts,
Dublin, 4th June, 1853.

No. II.

TO HIS EXCELLENCY EDWARD GRANVILLE, EARL
ST. GERMANS, LORD LIEUTENANT GENERAL AND
GENERAL GOVERNOR OF IRELAND:

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY,

The Memorial of the President, Vice-Presidents, and Council of Management of the Incorporated Society of the Attorneys and Solicitors of Ireland, on behalf of themselves and other Attorneys and Solicitors practising in Ireland :

SHEWETH—

That your Memorialists beg leave most respect fully to call the attention of your Excellency to the very great inconvenience which has arisen to the public and the attorneys and solicitors practising in the Incumbered Estates Court, in consequence of the place appointed for holding of the court, and for the offices annexed thereto, being at a considerable distance from the Four Courts, where the law and equity business of the country is transacted, and where counsel and solicitors are of necessity obliged to be in constant attendance.

That your Memorialists have learned with much

satisfaction that it is in contemplation to remedy a

matter so generally complained of, by providing accommodation at the Four Courts for the Com

missioners and establishment of the Incumbered

Estates Court; and your Memorialists respectfully approach your Excellency on the present occasion in order to solicit that your Excellency will be

Solicitors' Buildings,
Four Courts,

No. III.

Secretary.

TO HIS EXCELLENCY EDWARD GRANVILLE, EARL
ST. GERMANS, LORD LIEUTENANT GENERAL AND
GENERAL GOVERNOR OF IRELAND:

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELENCY,

The Memorial of the Society of the Attorneys and
Solicitors of Ireland, incorporated by Royal Char-

ter.

SHEWETH

That Memorialists beg leave respectfully to bring the attention of your Excellency to a matter which they consider of vital importance not only to the inrests of their profession, but also to the public welfare, namely, the recent appointment of a gentleman, not being an attorney, to the office of Crown Solicitor on the Leinster Circuit.

That such appointment was made upon the resignation of an attorney who had for many years filled that important office, the duties of which, such as the examination of witnesses, preparation of briefs, &c. &c., and properly getting up the cases for trial, fall almost exclusively within the province of an attorney.

That certain classes of business appertaining to the office of Crown Solicitor can only be undertaken or performed by a regularly-admitted attorney, who has taken out his annual licence or certificate.

That for a long series of years previously to the making of the treasury minute hereinafter referred to (and which was addressed to your Excellency, when acting as Chief Secretary for Ireland), the Crown Solicitors in Ireland were always paid for their services by bills of costs composed of the usual charges and fees due and of right payable to attorneys only, and were always examined and taxed by the Clerk of the Crown of the Court of Queen's Bench. But it being thought that a saving would be made to the public by paying the

Crown Solicitors by salary instead of by bills of costs, the Lords of the Treasury were, by a minute of the 12th of October, 1841, pleased to direct the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to intimate to the Crown Solicitors, that from and after an early day bills of costs would no longer be allowed, but that a fixed annual salary would be paid to them as compensation for all legal business which they might undertake on behalf of the Government. And with respect to those salaries, their Lordships stated that they would await his Excellency's consideration, being unwilling to act definitively in a case where the Irish Government had so strong an interest, and withal the best means of estimating the amount requisite to secure the services of effi. cient and respectable solicitors.

That by said minute their Lordships further observed, that without discussing how far a superintendent barrister (as previously proposed by Lord Ebrington) was calculated to discharge effectively the duties of a solicitor, they could not but bear in mind that there was a barrister already placed in the Castle, with an adequate salary, as an assistant to the Attorney and Solicitor-General, for the express purpose of promptly affording legal advice as to the conduct of prosecutions and other legal matters, and their Lordships stated, that they therefore thought it a better arrangement that the Crown Solicitor for the County of Dublin should continue to discharge those duties which then devolved upon him, and should act from time to time to time un der the direction of the legal advisers of the Government, with whom he would be in daily communication in cases where the advice of a barrister might be necessary.

Their lordships also further stated, that the result of their consideration of the minute then before them was, that it would be proper to retain a Crown Solicitor for Dublin, and one for each of the several circuits, at annual salaries, fixed with reference to what might be an adequate remuneration for their own services, and for the maintenance of the

That Memorialists submit that the minute referred to contains the deliberate opinion of the Lords. of the Treasury that attorneys had been the longtried and efficient servants of the Crown, as Crown Solicitors, and that they were the persons properly qualified to execute the duties of the office, and entitled to have their services retained therein; and Memorialists fearlessly assert, that the Crown Solicitors (all of whom are attorneys) have not since, in any one instance, forfeited the good opinion then entertained of them by their Lordships, and that the attorneys, as a body, are fully as efficient now to dischage the duties of the offices as they then were.

That the arrangement proposed by said minute was subsequently carried out, and since the year 1842 the Crown Solicitors have been paid by salaries instead of by bills of costs, which Memorialists submit was the only change intended to be made by the Lords of the Treasury.

Memorialists submit, that in many instances situations which in former years were always held by attorneys, such as Masters of the Law Courts, have of late been conferred upon barristers, to the great prejudice of the profession of your Memorialists, a profession which contributes largely to the Revenue in Stamp Duties upon their indentures, and upon admission into the Law Courts, and by a fixed annual certificate duty of large amount, but your Memorialists submit, that no part of the duties of such offices require that they should be performed by a regularly-admitted attorney, and therefore, although prejudicial to Memorialists' profession, were not contrary to law, and Memorialists submit to your Excellency, that it would be highly unjust further to take from a profession already greatly reduced in their profits and emoluments by the late legal reforms, any of the very few situations or offices which are open to them.

Memorialists beg leave also to call to your Excellency's recollection, a Memorial presented by the Attorneys and Solicitors of Ireland to His Excel

necessary establishment for the conduct of the bu-lency Earl De Grey, when Lord Lieutenant of

siness; and that the Dublin Crown Solicitor should undertake also the Civil Law Business of the Government, and the drawing and preparing such Bills for Parliament as might be required to be drawn in Ireland, as well as all other legal acts and proceedings.

That Memorialists beg leave respectfully to request the attention of your Excellency to the concluding sentence of the paragraph of said minute, conveying as it does an honourable and, as we believe, a justly-merited tribute to the efficiency of the Crown Solicitors, which is as follows: - " It will, no doubt, be the wish of his Excellency, as it is of my Lords, to retain the services of those gentlemen who have so long and so satisfactorily discharged the duties of Crown Solicitors in Ireland, and my Lords trust that the change of system may be carried into effect, in a manner so consistent with a just regard to economy on the one hand, and a due consideration of reasonable claims on the other, as to insure their continuance in office notwithstanding the reduction hereby effected in their present emoluments."

Ireland, placing before him their claims to certain Ministerial Offices in the Legal Departments, on which occasion your Excellency (in your then capacity of Chief Secretary), in replying to said memorial, was pleased to say, "His Excellency is fully prepared to acknowledge, that when vacancies shall occur it will be his duty to attend to the just claims of so respectable a profession, and to the grounds put forward in support of them."

Memorialists therefore respectfully protest against the said appointment, as being not only an infringement on the rights of their profession, but also contrary to law, inasmuch as no one but an attorney can legally perform many of the duties of the office, and therefore calculated to obstruct the due administration of the law, "the securing of which the Lords of the Treasury (in the minute before referred to) declared to be the main object of every Government."

Memorialists therefore respectfully pray, that your Excellency will cancel the appointment of Mr. Thomas Kemmis as Crown Solicitor for the

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MEMBERS will please observe, that henceforth the two general meetings in the year of the Society, will be held on the day after the last day of Easter and Michaelmas Terms (unless either of such days shall fall upon a Sunday, in which case the meeting shall be held on the day following.)

The ballot for a council will also in future com

mence on the Ist, and close on the 2nd day of December, remaining open from eleven to four o'clock each day.

The rules of the Society may be had on application at the Secretary's Office.

The annual subscription of £1 becomes due and payable on the 1st of May in each year.

Members adınitted for the first time in or after Michaelmas Term, in any year, and previous to the 1st May following, are only required to pay half a year's subscription up to such 1st May.

When equally convenient, it is very desirable that subscriptions should be paid at the Secretary's Office, to save troubling the Members by the Secretary calling at their houses.

Those Members and such of their Apprentices only as have paid their subscriptions, are admissible to the Solicitors' Hall (and whose names appear posted on the lists in the Hall.)

The Apprentices of Members are admissible to the Solicitors' Hall and Library on payment of 10s. annually.

Members requiring presses in the Solicitors' Hall will please apply to the Secretary; and Meinbers whose subscriptions are in arrear, and who have no further occasion for their presses, are particularly requested to return their keys, there being an increased demand for presses.

In addition to the Dublin, London, and Provincial Newspapers, the votes and proceedings of the Houses of Lords and Commons, and Acts of Parliament, together with the various periodicals and publications containing legal and other intelligence, and all the most recent Practical Law Works, and likewise a complete set of the Ordnance Maps of Ireland, and Grffith's General Valuation, and the recent legal publications, affording most useful and valuable information to the profession, will be found on the tables of the Solicitors' Hall.

Members are reminded that every facility is afforded for posting rentals, and all other advertisements relating to professional subjects; and that books are kept on the table, containing entries for the sale and purchase of estates and property of all kinds, and the lending and borrowing of money, and for communicating information on all professional matters.

It is hoped that for the future no infringement on the rules of the Society will take place by Members bringing their clerks into the Solicitors' Hall, to which none but Members and their Apprentices (being subscribers) are admissible.

Persons requiring Members to be called out of the Solicitors Hall will please apply to the hall porter or his assistant, as very frequent complaints are made to the Secretary and to the Council that the rules of the Society are infringed, and not sufficiently enforced as to prohibiting all but Members and Apprentices (who have paid their subscriptions) having access to the Hall.

It is also requested, that when any member has occasion to send the key of his press for papers or other purposes, the apprentice or clerk sent shall apply at the Secretary's Office, or to the hall porter to open the press, as the locks are frequently put out of order.

Arbitration and Consultation Rooms in the Soli

citors' Buildings, for the use of the profession, on application to the hall porter, or at the Secretary's Office.

Members are requested from time to time to enter in the Suggestion Book (kept on the table in the Solicitors' Hall) such books as they recommend to the Council to be purchased for the use of the Library, and to which every attention will be paid.

Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts,
Dublin, 20th December, 1853.

IN THE COURT OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR THE SALE OF INCUMBERED ESTATES IN IRELAND.

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and

This Estate will be sold free of Quit Rent; which is to be redeemed out of the Purchase Money.

The Roman Catholic Chapel and Burial Ground on this Lot are not to to be sold, nor conveyed to the Purchaser.

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252 11 10

Ballybanaun Mountain,

Total,

The Ballintobber Estate is about ten miles from Ballinrobe, twelve miles from Westport, and three miles from Ballyglass, which is its Post Town. The Ballybanaun Estate lies upon the margin of Lough Mask, so celebrated for the beauty of its scenery, and is within six miles of the Ballintobber Estate. It adjoins the Village and Post Town of Tourmakeedy, distant from Ballinrobe about twelve miles.

The improvements daily taking place in the Inland Navigation of Lough Corrib and the intended connection of that Lough with Lough Mask, by means of a Canal, the works of which are considerably advanced, will, when completed, materially enhance the value of these Estates.

Dated this 11th day of February, 1854.

J. LOCKE, Auction Clerk.

For Rentals and further Particulars, apply at the Court of the Commissioners, 14, Henrtetta-street, Dublin; to

Messrs. READ and CRAWFORD, Solicitors for the Rev. Sir Hunt J. Walsh, Bart., having Carriage of the
Order for Sale, 35, Dame street, Dublin: to

JAMES RUTLEDGE, Esq, Castlevilla, Hollymount, in the County of Mayo, the Receiver over said lands;
PATRICK JOHN BLAKE, Esq., 18, Frederick-street, Dublin :

JOHN GRIFFIN, Esq., Solicitor, Ballinrobe;

Mr. WILLIAM GARNER, Office for the Registry of Incumbered Estates for Sale in Ireland, ?, Sher.

bourn-lane, City, London;

The Weekly News and Chronicle Office, 337, Strand, London;

Messrs. HODGES and SMITH, 104, Grafton-street, Dublin;

Mr. THOMAS BERMINGHAM, Office, 2, Duncannon-street, West, Strand, London; and

MILLER'S Office for the Registry of Incumbered Estates in Ireland, Edinburgh:

COUNTY KERRY.

IN THE COURT OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR SALE OF
INCUMBERED ESTATES IN IRELAND.

In the Matter of the Estate of
John Bateman

and Rowland Bateman,
his Son, of Oak Park, in
the County of Kerry, Esqrs.,

Owners;
Ex parte

Elizabeth Stokes,

Petitioner.

THE THE Commissioners will,
on FRIDAY, the 10th day of
MARCH, 1854, at their Court, Dublin,
SELL BY AUCTION the following
Lots, situate in the Barony of Trughen.
ackany, and COUNTY OF KERRY.

LOT No. 1.

Comprising the Ordnance Townland of Gortaleen. and Gortaleen Mountain, and Rosscullen Island, part thereof known as Kiileen, and Killeenardnasack, and the two Gneeves of Ballyar. kane, containing 1,2594 2R 27P, statute measure, producing a net yearly rental of £124 17s. 6d.; lies about 3 miles from Castlemaine, 11 from Tra. lee, and 16 from Dingle. Griffith's valuation is 1587. 158.; Collis's, 1537,146,

LOT No. 2,

Comprising part of the Ordnance Townland of Mullen, containing 1844
OR OP. statute measure, and producing a net yearly rental of 451, 28 7d;

lies about 6 miles from Castleisland, and 5 from King William's Town
Griffith's valuation is 704.; Collis's, 654,

LOT No. 3.

Comprising part of the Ordnance Townland of Derreen, containing 42A 3R 4P, statute measure, and producing a net yearly rental or value of 267. 14s. 6d; adjoins Lot No. 2.

Derreen Lodge is situated on this Lot. Griffith's valuation is 184, 15s.;
Collis's, 30%.
All the Lots are held in fee; they will be sold discharged of quit and
crown rent,

Dated the 31st day of January, 1854.

J. LOCKE, Auction Clerk.

For Maps, Rentals, and further particulars, apply at the office of the
Commissioners, Henrietta-street: or to the following Solicitors :-

JOHN NEWMAN BEA MISH, Cork.
EDWARD FARMER, Mallow.

SAMUEL FREDERICK ADAIR, No. 25, Upper Mount street,
EDWARD DE MOLEYNS, No 59, Upper Mount-street.
DAVID and THOMAS FITZGERALD, No. 2, Fleet-street.
THOMAS FELL WHITE, No. 11, Upper Ormond-quay.
HENRY BASTABLE, No. 33, Rutland square, West; and
STOKES and CREAGH, having Carriage of Sale, No. 10, Upper
Gloucester street, Dublin; and Castle street, Tralee.

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