JSSISI: 1868 to 1870, Vol. V, Parts XXV to XXXIX
Recent Submissions
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Report of the Council at the opening of the Twenty-second Session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)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 ... -
Address at the opening of the Twenty-second Session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)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 ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: twenty-second session 1868/1869, first to third meetings
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)meeting: The Society met at 35, Molesworth-street, the Eight Hon. William Monsell, Y.P., in -
Should the Local Government Acts be extended to Ireland?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)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 ... -
The defects of private bill legislation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)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 ... -
Government purchase of railways in Ireland: how can it be accomplished?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)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 ... -
Further extension of free trade and direct taxation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)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 ... -
Marriage settlements; their social and economic effects
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)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 ... -
Consolidation of sanitary and medico-legal offices, and abolition of coroners' courts
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)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 ... -
Affidavits
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)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 ... -
On the effects of the law of distress and the feudal rule as regards improvements in the relations between landlord and tenant
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)The laws affecting the relations between landlord and tenant have so frequently been discussed by the members of the Statistical Society, that some curiosity may naturally be excited by the subject being again brought ... -
On the preservation of the seed of the flax plant in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)Although many treatises have been written, and many speeches delivered in this country within the last few years by landlords and agriculturists on the cultivation of flax, yet few have thought it worth their while to ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: twenty-third session 1869/1870, fourth to sixth meetings
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Report on the extension of Admiralty jurisdiction in Ireland to cases of freight and demurrage; prepared for the Council
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1870)While the Court of Admiralty in Ireland has jurisdiction to proceed against the masters of ships at the suit of the merchants employing their vessels, it has no correlative power of entertaining complaints by captains ... -
The Irish county courts
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1870)The course of legislation during the present session of parliament indicates very clearly what the future of the County Courts of Ireland will be. They will be the courts in which all the proceedings with respect to the ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: twenty-second session 1868/1969, fourth to seventh meetings
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The linen trade and the customs' duties
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1870)Such, then is the nature of the depression in the linen business, and I propose to show 1st. That for this depression our system of levying taxation by customs' duties is responsible. 2nd. That customs' duties are ... -
The utilization of the reclaimable waste lands of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1870)The title of this paper is so suggestive, that the greatest difficulty arises in endeavouring to arrange the topics which crowd upon the mind when proceeding to treat upon it. The idea is not new. It has occurred to ... -
On the diminution of the national wealth from cattle diseases
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1870)In 1869 we had in Ireland 542,758 horses; 3,531,154 cattle; 4,141,280 sheep, and 1,157,734 pigs. The gross value of these was upwards of #50,000,000. The question I propose to submit for the consideration of the Society ... -
Tenures and land legislation in British India
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1870)The Irish land question verifies a twofold truth. Every social movement grows out of an antecedent intellectual progress, yet the results of solitary thought gain both in depth and interest by becoming instrumental to ...