ROBERT STANLEY WEIR, D. C. L

Recorder de la. Cité.

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bas ever since resided liere. He pursued his studies at the McGill Normal School ; graduated 'from McGill University with the degree of B.CX. in 1880, and in 1897 received from his Aima Mater the degree of D.CX., his thesis being a learned essay upon The Administration of the Old Régime in Canada. In 1881, Dr. Weir was called to the bar, and for several years practised his profession in partnership with Donald Macmaster, D. C. L., K. C, and Mr. Hntchinson, K. C, M. L. A. Judge Weir when at the bar took great interest in municipal questions and lias contributed many of his studies to the press. In 1898, he was appointed one of several eminent advocates to revise the charter of the City of Montréal, and it is understood tliat many of the important sections of that charter relating to expropriations and the power of the City to pass by-laws, were written b}^ his h and.

Mr. recorder Weir lias also cultivated a natural taste for niusic and is a performer of acknowledged skill upon the pianoforte and organ, but chiefly reserves his performances for the circle of his more intimate friends. He lias also published a nuniber of works, amongst which are the following : An Insolvency Manual, the Bills of Exchange Act 1890, the Education Act, the Civil Code, the Code of Civil Procédure, the Municipal Code, besides occasional verse and other contributions to the leading magazines of both Canada and the United States. The Recorder is also professor of Liturgies and Jurisprudence in the Congregational Collège of Canada, affiliated with the McGill University.

He received his appointment as Recorder on the 6th May 1899 ^^^ ^^s assiduously devoted himself to the duties of his office.