The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-03
ENGLISH WOMEN
MAY PRACTICE LAW
The Cabinet Endorses Lord
W0lmer's Bill
TO HEAR BARONY CASE
Sir Robert Fraser Turing Wants
Bar0ny of Foyeran-Box of Old
Exchequer Tally Sticks Are
Placed in Museum
Nv PAUL LAMBETH

London, July 3-(Special.) members of
the cabinet express willingness to accept
Lord Wolmer's bill which would enable
English women to aspire to to- woolsack
of the lord chancellor. The only members
upon this concession to "womens rights
are David Lloyd-George and Walter Run
Gilman. 1t is understood that they have
been prevailed upon not to oppose the
measure. while their disapprobation is to
be accepted matter of too little con-
sequence to be magnified into cabinet
split"
ID A woman shall not on the ground
of her sex alone be disqualified
ta) for being called to the BAR as bar
rister; or
(b) for being admitted to the roll of So
| licitors of the supreme court and acting
as solicitor; or
| (c) for being registered as parliament
airy agent and acting as such; or
! cd for being admitted as a student al
| any inn of court, or entering as a can
ddate in any examination. or taking, in
the like manner and on tho like terms as
a man, any other preliminary steps noe
essary for any of the purposes aforesaid
Ireland aud Scotland are purposely re-
served from the operations of the "Portia'
bill.
The baronetage committee of the privs
council have finally fixed MonGay. july
| l, for the consideration of the petition OF
Sir Robert Fraser Turing to be placed or
the official roll of baronets. The hearing
| will take place in the council chamber
Whitehall. The family of Turing orig.
inaly French. settled at Tourin, Forfar-
shire, and held the barony there for sew.
| era generations. They were exiled will
David H., but when the fortune of that
monarch changed he rewarded Sir VIII
liam Turyn with the barony of Foveran
| In Aberdeenshire, which his defendants
held for three centuries. The claim of the
present Sir Robert was admitted by the
| Lyon office In Scotland IN 1882 but he now
seeks to have 1t placed on the official roll
of the United Kingdom.
! Sir Benjamin Stone has deposited in the
museum attached to the Standards de-
partment of the board of trade, in Old
| Palace yard, a box containing a number
of the old exchequer tally sticks, upon
which, until an early period in the last
century, 1t was the custom to keep the
national accounts. The tallies were
notched sticks of seasoned willow OF
! hazel. the notch on the edge representing
| the particular amount-the smallest fol-
pence, a larger notch of shillings, and tbs
| largest for pounds. The system. which
| was first introduced into this country by
| the Normans In the year 1905. was moi
| finally abolished until the reign of VIII
liam ", and then only with disastrous
results. An order was promulgated that
the accumulated TALES, amounting tC
many thousands. were to be destroyed
| and they were accordingly burned In one
| of the stoves in the house OF lords. BY
| some means or other the stove became
| choked. the panelling caught fire, and In
the end the whole Of the palace of West
Minister with the exception of Westmln-
ster Hall. was destroyed Some years age
| a number or these old tally sticks were
discovered In Martins bank, in Lombard
street, whilst before the Pyx-Chapel, In
Westminster abbey. was formally opened
TO the public the floor was strewn with
many of the same curious relics of the
national finance keeping of days gone by
| At the annual meeting of the Society
| for the State Registration of Trained
| Nurses, a resolution was adopted protest
| ing against the exclusion of the trained
nurses organizations from direct repre-
sentation of the advisory committees un.
der the national insurance act, and de.
| caring exclusion the more unjust because
| every other class of women affected by
| the act had been accorded that privilege
| through their professional and social as
| soeiations or trade unions. In moving the
resolution. which further asked the chan
celor of the exchequer to remove the
grievance, Miss Klngsford, the president
said she could not think trained nurses
were passed over by accident. She was
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