Browsing JSSISI: 1870 to 1876, Vol. VI, Parts XL to XLIX by Date of Publication
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A comparison of the law of poor removals and chargeability in England, Scotland, and Ireland, with suggestions of a plan of assimilation, and a remedy for hardships now caused by removals.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1871)The law of poor removals had its origin in what was properly called the law of settlement. It is now a part of the law of chargeability of districts to support their own poor, and is in fact part of the machinery by which ... -
A plan of applying the latest sanctions of parliament in the management of the public debt and of town finance to the debts and borrowing powers of the town council of Dublin
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1871)Of all the modes of borrowing money for public purposes which were resorted to by financiers from the reign of William III, when the National Debt may be said to have commenced, till 1816, when it reached its greatest ... -
On the expediency of the total abolition of grand juries in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1871)The grand jury is the only public institution now in existence which on a large scale controls and administers taxation without representation. The grand jury is selected by one individual irresponsible to all authority, ... -
Address at the opening meeting of the twenty-fourth session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1871)We have, at once, to labour that we may keep fairly abreast with the current of Imperial legislation, and to take care that, so far as it is applicable here, it shall be applied with a due consideration of our ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: twenty fourth session 1871, third to seventh meetings
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On the grand jury question in Ireland, considered with reference to the latest English analogies
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1871)As all our institutions for local government and administration are founded more or less on English precedents, it is useful, in collecting the information necessary for any important change, to combine a sketch of the ... -
Report of the Council at the opening of the twenty fourth session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1871)The Council have to report the progress of the Society as indicated by the importance and practical character of the papers read and subjects discussed during the past session. -
Suggestions for the extension of the jurisdiction of the Civil Bill and Quarter Sessions Courts in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1872)In bringing this important question again under the notice of the members of this Society, and through them of the public, I should consider it necessary to apologise for its re-introduction, were it not that every class ... -
Address at the opening of the twenty-fifth session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1872)As President of your Society, I have been called upon to discharge the usual duty of delivering the opening address from this chair. I take the opportunity of returning thanks for the honour conferred upon me, and of ... -
On the Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1872)I desire in the present paper to give a short sketch of the several bills which were introduced into parliament in reference to the Irish land question, in order to compare the Act of 1870 with the attempts at previous ... -
On legal education in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1872)The object of this paper is to set forth the provision already made for legal education m Ireland; to examine how far the requirements of the legal profession are met by the means of legal education so provided?regard being ... -
The limits of state interference with the distribution of wealth, in applying taxation to the assistance of the public
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1872)The science of political economy teaches the laws which regulate the creation, accumulation, and distribution of wealth. It has been fully proved that as soon as society arrives at a very moderate degree of civilization, ... -
On the practicability of codifying English law, with a specimen code of the law of evidence
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1872)There is a very natural desire on the part of the public to have our laws simplified and condensed. It is a legal maxim that everyone is supposed to know the law, and every person is visited with the consequences of his ... -
Educational endowments and their application to the middle class and higher education of girls and women
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1872)Educational endowments mean endowments applied for the purpose of education at school of boys and girls, or for the purpose of exhibitions tenable at a school or university, whether in the shape of payment to the governing ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: twenty fifth session 1871/1872, fifth to seventh meetings
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: twenty fifth session 1871/1872, first to fourth meetings
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Report of the Council at the opening of the twenty-fifth session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1872)On the present occasion the council have much pleasure in referring to three very large and important measures of law reform, which received the sanction of the legislature in the past session of parliament, upon subjects ... -
Report on the differences in the law of England and Ireland as regards the protection of women
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1873)In the execution of the task you have entrusted to me?namely, to report on the difference in the Law of England and Ireland, as regards the Protection of Women?I shall endeavour to confine my remarks within the strict ... -
A visit to Russia
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1873)I had the honour of an invitation to the International Statistical Congress held at St, Petersburg last August. This was the eighth of the series of similar Congresses which have been held. The first Congress was at Brussels, ... -
On the working of the sanitary laws in Dublin, with suggestions for their amendment
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1873)The state of the laws relative to the Public Health in Ireland was, previous to the year 1866, extremely unsatisfactory. The attention of the Town-Council of Dublin having been directed to the matter by a report of Edward ...