Browsing JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847- by Title
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The relation of the state to the railways
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)A notion, however, appears still to exist, that State intervention for the purpose of making railways more useful would be "a relaxation of the strict principles of political economy, to be justified, if at all, only ... -
The relative expediency of defraying the expense of war by loans or by increased taxation considered with reference to the present financial system of the United Kingdom
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)The present war has already taught two important lessons. It has shown how vain were the expectations of those who had flattered themselves that the principal nations of Europe had grown too wise to appeal to the sword ... -
Remarks of G. Shaw Lefevre, M.P., and Right Hon. Hugh Law, M.P., on preceding papers
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1878)G. Shaw Lefevre, M. P., who was received with applause, said he felt very much pleasure at being called on to say a few words on the very able and interesting papers they had just heard read. He felt that he owed that ... -
Remarks on the adjustment of the poor rate taxation in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)While it is the fashion of all classes of individuals at the present day, and for the last few years, as far back as I can call to memory, to rail at the taxation imposed on them by the government of our country, to ... -
Remedies for overcrowding in the city of Dublin
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)This question is no new one; it has been discussed in and out of this Society; much has been done by private and public effort to remedy the overcrowding which admittedly exists in the city of Dublin, but the latest ... -
Report of a Committee of the Dublin Statistical Society on the registration of marriages, births, and deaths in Ireland, presented to the Society by the Council
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1859)Marriages, births and deaths are now registered not only in England and Scotland, but (with the single exception of Ireland) in all the civilized states of Europe, whether Roman Catholic or Protestant; and we beg to report ... -
Report of a local committee as to the best means of diminishing vice and crime in Dublin
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)In respect of marriage, the law draws a clear line for the protection of minors under twenty-one years of age. By Lord Hardwicke's famous Act against clandestine marriages, Parliament lays down the principle that they are ... -
Report of committee of the council on (1) Mr. Jephson?s suggestions for securing greater attention to suggestions for amendments in the law, contained in reports and papers read before the society; and on (2) Mr. Jonathan Pim's suggestions for obtaining information as respects the differences which now exist between the laws in force in England, and those in force in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1874)The committee, appointed at the April meeting of the Council, to consider Mr. Jephson's and Mr. Pim's suggestions, met on Tuesday, 27th of April: present, Mr. Jonathan Pim, Vice-President, in the chair; Mr. Jephson, Mr. ... -
Report of Committee on Legislation by Provisional Orders in England, Scotland, and Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1877)The small extent to which the Provisional Order System of Legislation has been practically adopted in Ireland cannot be understood without noticing the system which preceded it?viz., that of allowing the inhabitants of ... -
Report of committee on suggestions for diminishing the excessive summoning of jurors in the county and city of Dublin
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1874)The committee met at Mssrs. Pim's, 22, William-street, on Friday the 12th June, Alderman Campbell, J.P., in the chair; also present, Mr. Frederic W. Pim, Mr. Richard W. Kelly, Mr. Joseph T. Pim, Mr. Thomas Edmondson, and ... -
Report of Council at opening of Thirty-fourth Session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The Council joined with the Town Council of Dublin in inviting the Social Science Congress to meet in Dublin in 1881, and the invitation has been accepted. The Council invite the co-operation of all the residents in Dublin ... -
The report of Council at the opening of the thirtieth session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)The Council joined with the Town Council, and the authorities of Trinity College, and of other societies in Dublin, in the invitation, which has been accepted, to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, to ... -
Report of Council at the opening of thirty-first session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1878)The legislation of the past session was marked by a large amount of assimilation of the laws, a subject to which the exertions of the Society have been specially directed since the committee was appointed at the suggestion ... -
Report of Council on Mr. Jephson's suggestions as to Census for 1881
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The Council of this Society have had under their consideration the suggestions in the enclosed paper of Mr. Henry Jephson, read at the Society's meeting on the 17th inst., as to the importance of including in the census ... -
Report of the address at the opening of the fifth session of the Dublin Statistical Society
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)Honoured by the request of the council of this society that I should, as acting vice-president, open the business of this its fifth session with such observations as might serve to supplement the annual report which has ... -
Report of the Charity Organisation Committee on imbeciles, idiots, and harmless lunatics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1877)We have considered the final report of the Special Committee of the Charity Organisation Society of London, on the ?Education and Cure of Idiots, Imbeciles, and Harmless Lunatics?, adopted on the 2nd of January in the ... -
Report of the Charity Organisation Committee on the organisation of the courts by which drunkenness is punished, in connexion with suggested extension of the Justices' Clerks Act, 1877, to Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1878)In investigating the causes of distress, drunkenness appears at once to be one of the chief causes. It is also intimately connected with the prevalence of vice, as it weakens the checks against immorality. So again, the ... -
Report of the council
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)In presenting the first annual report, the council have much pleasure in referring to the proceedings of the society during the past year. -
Report of the Council at the opening of the eighteenth session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1865)The review of the past session of the Society affords abundant matter for congratulation, and permits of the council to indulge in sanguine anticipations for that which is to-night inaugurated. -
Report of the Council at the Opening of the Eighth Session of the Society
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)We have much pleasure in congratulating you on the favourable auspices under which the eighth session of our Society is now opened. We have a favourable report to give of the several departments of the Society's business ...