http://hdl.handle.net/2262/8739 2013-06-18T05:18:32Z 2013-06-18T05:18:32Z SSISI http://hdl.handle.net/2262/6418 2010-06-03T15:55:53Z 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Report of the Council at the opening of the Twenty-second Session Author: SSISI Abstract: The Council of this Society have now, at the commencement of the twenty-second session of its existence, to offer to you some account of its proceedings during the past year. In interest they compare not unfavourably with those of previous years, and show that the members are fully alive to the importance of discussing the great social and economic questions of the day at the meetings, so that the views of each may be corrected or confirmed by others who have devoted attention to the same subject. Description: Read Friday, 22nd January, 1869

1869-01-01T00:00:00Z Monsell, William http://hdl.handle.net/2262/6417 2010-06-03T15:55:53Z 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Address at the opening of the Twenty-second Session Author: Monsell, William Abstract: It has been the custom at the commencement of our annual sessions to direct attention to laws passed during the year, likely to affect our social or industrial progress, and to consider the remaining impediments to that progress, and the best means of overcoming them. The first subject will occupy us but for a few moments. The Industrial Schools' Act, which has worked successfully in England for the last fourteen years, has been extended to Ireland by a bill introduced and passed by The O'Conor Don. The only other measure to which I need refer is one in itself of great importance, and still greater on account of the principle involved in it—the transfer of the telegraphs of the United Kingdom to the government. For the rest, the last year is peculiarly worthy of observation. It closed the last series of five years that have elapsed since 1853, when the first vigorous effort was made to throw off the prostration caused by the great famine. Description: Read Friday, 22nd January, 1869

1869-01-01T00:00:00Z SSISI http://hdl.handle.net/2262/6320 2010-06-03T15:55:53Z 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: twenty-second session 1868/1869, first to third meetings Author: SSISI Abstract: meeting: The Society met at 35, Molesworth-street, the Eight Hon. William Monsell, Y.P., in

1869-01-01T00:00:00Z Hancock, John http://hdl.handle.net/2262/6120 2010-06-03T15:55:52Z 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Should the Local Government Acts be extended to Ireland? Author: Hancock, John Abstract: In September, 1867, at the request of the Council of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, I read a paper at the Belfast Congress in answer to the question, " Should the Local Government Acts be extended to Ireland ?" which was printed in the Transactions of the year; and at the same meeting a valuable paper was read by Mr. Anderson on Irish Municipal Government, calling attention to the defective provisions of the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854; stating that the Act and its incorporations now embrace more than 900 sections, and recommending consolidation; and suggesting that these towns should be exempt from county cess, and bound to keep their streets in order at their own expense. Two years' volumes of statute law have been issued since I read my paper, and I propose now to call your attention to such acts as bear on the question already proposed. Description: Read Tuesday, 16th February, 1869

1869-01-01T00:00:00Z Malley, George Orme http://hdl.handle.net/2262/6000 2010-06-03T15:55:52Z 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The defects of private bill legislation Author: Malley, George Orme Abstract: The great importance of the question of Private Bill Legislation in relation to the growing wants of the community is so vast and so interesting, that it requires no small resolution for anyone, however experienced, to undertake the treatment of the subject. I hope, however, that before an audience like this, the defects in my manner of dealing with it will be received with every indulgence, and my deficiencies atoned for by the motives which have induced me to accept the responsibility. Description: Read Tuesday, 16th February, 1869

1869-01-01T00:00:00Z Greer, Samuel M. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5999 2010-06-03T15:55:52Z 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Government purchase of railways in Ireland: how can it be accomplished? Author: Greer, Samuel M. Abstract: For the last four years the people of Ireland have had under their consideration the policy of having the Irish railways purchased by the government, and worked in future at the lowest possible tariff for the benefit of the public, instead of for the profit of shareholders. It appears to me that the purchase of the Irish railways by the government may be safely and speedily carried into effect. Public opinion in Ireland is ripe for such a change; and nothing but a favourable opportunity in the political world is wanted to carry into effect an arrangement which will do more to develop the resources and advance the position of Ireland, than any legislative measure which has been enacted for a long series of years. Description: Read Tuesday, 8th December, 1868

1869-01-01T00:00:00Z Haughton, James http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5997 2012-02-06T10:44:18Z 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Further extension of free trade and direct taxation Author: Haughton, James Abstract: At the period I refer to, some fourteen hundred articles of commerce were subjected to duties on entering the ports of Great Britain and Ireland. And now that experience, coming to the aid of sound reasoning, has proved the utter fallacy of the idea that such restrictions on commerce were wise, we are met in our efforts to carry out our sounder views to their full extent, by the self-same arguments, that there is danger and inexpediency in the course we recommend— which experience, as well as truer reasoning, has proved to have no foundation whatever. The question I am now discussing seems to me to be one of those objects which should bring us together like sensible men for effecting a good purpose— setting aside for the time being party or sectarian considerations. This purpose is one in which all are alike interested, and in which all should be alike desirous to ascertain the wisest course to pursue. Passion and prejudice cannot perhaps be wholly set aside on any subject of human discussion; but in this case surely we should not permit such feelings to prevent our cordial and general co-operation, when the knowledge and wisdom gained by experience, and by a clearer insight into those economic laws of God which govern commercial intercourse, are more generally diffused than they were even a very few years ago, and an adherence to them more generally acknowledged to be essential for promoting the peace, and happiness, and wealth of mankind. Description: Read Tuesday, 8th December, 1868

1869-01-01T00:00:00Z MacDonnell, James http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5977 2010-06-03T15:55:52Z 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Marriage settlements; their social and economic effects Author: MacDonnell, James Abstract: In the upper and middle ranks of society in this country the custom of settling estates is so common, that one seldom meets a person who is the absolute owner of all the property from which his income is derived. It will generally be found that a married man is tenant for life only of his estate, and unable to sell or otherwise dispose of it for any period longer than the duration of his own life. Property thus circumstanced is said to be in settlement, and the greater part of the land of this country, and a very large proportion of the public funds, are in settlement. Settlements are most commonly made on marriage, and it is to the social and economic effects of such settlements that I wish to call your attention on the present occasion. Description: Read, Tuesday, 26th May, 1868

1869-01-01T00:00:00Z Mapother, E. D. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5921 2010-06-03T15:55:52Z 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Consolidation of sanitary and medico-legal offices, and abolition of coroners' courts Author: Mapother, E. D. Abstract: I propose to comment very briefly on the provisions made by the State for the prevention of disease, the collection of mortuary statistics, and for the conduct of medico-legal enquiries. They seem to me to be less perfectly organized and less successful than those of many continental and American states. Description: Read, Tuesday, 12th May, 1868

1869-01-01T00:00:00Z Shaw, G. F. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5920 2010-06-03T15:55:29Z 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Affidavits Author: Shaw, G. F. Abstract: Whether it is that I am sadly deficient in the bump of veneration, or that I belong to that class who, we are told, rush in where angels and Members of Parliament fear to tread, I am going tonight to intrude into this high and holy place from which the Commissioners were warned off; to raise the awful veil which shrouds the venerable mystery of legal swearing, and to ask some plain questions, and give what may be considered, no doubt, some presumptuous answers as to the operation and effect of this system. Description: Read, Tuesday, 28th April, 1868

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