Browsing JSSISI: 1849 to 1851, Vol. II Transactions of the Dublin Statistical Society by Title

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    • Remarks on the adjustment of the poor rate taxation in Ireland 

      Stoney, Sadlier (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 ...

    • Report of the address at the opening of the fifth session of the Dublin Statistical Society 

      Kane, Robert, Sir (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 ...

    • Some statistics respecting the sales of incumbered estates in Ireland 

      Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)
      In this paper I propose to direct your attention to some statistical information which I have collected respecting the sales of estates in Ireland by the Incumbered Estates Court. The questions which I proposed to myself ...

    • Statistics of crime 

      Haughton, James (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)
      On the present occasion I purpose to lay before you some statistics of crime, principally derived from the "Returns of the Dublin Metropolitan Police", which appear to have been carefully compiled. To these I shall add ...

    • Thoughts on reading the Hon. John P. Vereker's paper on absenteeism 

      Shackleton, Ebenezer (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)
      Even if we grant that Absenteeism is an evil, in an economical sense, what then? How would you cure it, without interfering with personal freedom? Who do you call an absentee? Is it the man who derives rent from one ...

    • The transfer of land considered in relation to the rights of judgment creditors 

      Osborne, Robert W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)
      Whilst the laws affecting property in these countries have wisely given to every one an unrestricted power of disposal over the property of his own creation, they have, at the same time, indirectly interfered with that ...