Browsing JSSISI: 1885 to 1893, Vol. IX, Parts LXIV to LXXIII by Title

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    • Forestry in Ireland 

      Bailey, William F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1889)
      In view of the proposed extension of the Land Purchase Acts, the question of the protection and development of Forestry in Ireland is one of very great importance and interest to the entire community. The effect of ...

    • Free trade and protection with reference to Ireland 

      Coffey, George (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1886)
      Some recent conversations on Free Trade and Protection with reference to Ireland, have suggested to me to bring before our Society the following short consideration of the subject. Within the next few years the question ...

    • The fusion of the two branches of the legal profession 

      Lawson, William (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1892)
      I have gone into the history of the question at some length in order to show that the proposition advanced by Mr. Murphy, namely, that it scarcely needs proof that the distinction between the two branches of the legal ...

    • German socialism 

      Finlay, T.A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1890)
      The progress of that movement which we know by the somewhat ill-defined term, Socialism, is the most interesting, as it is the most important phenomenon of our present economic and social condition. During the past half ...

    • The government valuation of Ireland: an examination of its authority as a standard of value 

      Bailey, William F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1893)
      The first act for the valuation of Ireland was passed in the year 1826 (7 Geo. IY. cap. 62). It was intended to form the basis of rating for county purposes only, its object being, according to the preamble, "the more ...

    • Graduated taxation in Switzerland 

      O'Brien, Murrough (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1887)
      The object of this paper is to bring under the society's notice a law passed last year in the Canton Vaud, establishing a progressive property and income tax. Such a system of taxation has often been proposed for England, ...

    • Homestead laws 

      Bastable, C. F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1888)
      The present paper aims at giving a concise account of the origin and development of the Homestead Laws of the United States, with notices of similar legislation to be found elsewhere. It next considers the practical ...

    • Irish intellect, and its geographical distribution 

      Flinn, D. Edgar (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1889)
      It is difficult in a paper of this nature to estimate who shall be deemed worthy of being included in a list of those who have contributed to Ireland's roll of fame; and I have undertaken the task of making an analysis ...

    • Irish progress during the past ten years, 1881-1890 

      Grimshaw, Thomas Wrigley (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1891)
      We have just come to the end of the decade, 1881-90; the census has been taken, we have available nearly all the information as to progress during the year 1890, which is capable of statistical treatment, and accordingly ...

    • The law and the lunatic 

      Sigerson, George (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1886)
      Dr. Sigerson, having given an historical sketch of the subject, noted recent cases of abuse under the present system, and made a detailed analysis of the Lord Chancellor's Bill, proceeded as follows :? It must be borne ...

    • The law of divorce in Ireland 

      Samuels, Arthur W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1887)
      In this paper I have no intention of raising the question whether there should be conferred on the court in Ireland any such power to dissolve marriages as is exercised by the Divorce Court in England. Leaving, however, ...

    • Laws: constitution of the Society 

      Unknown author (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1891)
      Constitution of the Society and rules

    • Legislation on behalf of neglected children in America and elsewhere 

      Barrett, Rosa M. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1892)
      It is only since 1889 that a father in England has been obliged to maintain his child ? until then it was a voluntary act. In America even a taskmaster in the old slave days, who starved a slave might be (and actually ...

    • Local registration of title 

      Lawson, William (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1890)
      The object of this paper is to call attention to the leading provisions of the Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Bill, which was introduced in the House of Commons late last session by Mr. Madden, M.P., the present ...

    • Magistrates' law and suggested increase of jurisdiction and powers 

      Moore, Fletcher (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1893)
      Having had some years experience in the workings of these courts [Magistrates courts] and of observing where and by what methods they might be made more useful to the suitors and to the public generally, I purpose to set ...

    • The mechanism of statistics 

      Matheson, Robert E. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1893)
      It has fallen to my lot to serve in a Department where every variety of statistical work is to be found, and where the practical problems of how information is to be collected, tabulated, and published at a minimum ...

    • Memoir of the late William Neilson Hancock, LL.D., Q.C 

      Ingram, John Kells (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1889)
      The President, in his address at the opening of the present session, referred in a few apt and sympathetic words to the loss we had sustained in the death, of our distinguished member, Dr. Hancock. But he and others ...

    • Monetary reform 

      Bastable, C. F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1886)
      A noteworthy feature at the present time, is the disposition to neglect minor reforms, and to seek for great and almost instantaneous results by wide and sweeping measures, which, unfortunately, rarely produce the effects ...

    • Note on the operations of some Swiss land banks 

      O'Brien, Murrough (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1888)
      IN connection with two papers published in this Journal on Continental Land Banks, the editors permit me to add a note as to the operations of some of these banks for the year 1887.

    • Note on the reduction of the rate of interest since 1870: with some remarks as to the probable amount of encumbrances on Irish land, and the possible fund available for their payment 

      Erck, Wentworth (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1889)
      It is evident that capital invested either in mortgage, or in purchase, of land cannot expect to be exempt from the fate of capital invested in other securities. This fate is a steady, progressive, and of late rapid ...