JSSISI: 1870 to 1876, Vol. VI, Parts XL to XLIX: Recent submissions
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Session -1975/76
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: one hundred and twenty-sixth session -1972/73
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: one hundred and twenty-eighth session -1974/75
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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. -
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 ... -
Notes as to proceedings of the State Charities' Aid Association of New York
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)The Fourth Annual Report of the State Charities' Aid Association of New York, bearing date 1st March, 1876, has been received, and it contains information on points that have interested this Society. One object of the ... -
The importance of industrial education
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)In the course of some recent investigations which involved enquiry into the working and results of Reformatory and Industrial Schools, it seemed to me that the subject had not yet received the attention it merited, on the ... -
Further information as to the proposal to extend the Scotch law as to improvements in town holdings, to Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)The want of this reform in small towns as well as large is shown by a case which happened at the Home Circuit at the Spring Assizes of the present year, 1876. The case related to the Borough of Portarlington, where the ... -
On the importance of extending the British gold standard with subsidiary silver coins to India, as a remedy for the inconveniences in India from the rapid depreciation of silver
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)The early years of Her present Majesty's reign were distinguished by the great reform for securing the perfect convertibility of Bank notes into gold, embodied in the Bank Act of 1844, which we owe to Sir Robert Peel and ... -
Report upon the importance of extending to Dublin the London system of having a common fund for metropolitan unions, for all expenditure in workhouse relief
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)From some facts that have been brought under the notice of the Committee, they think it of importance to direct attention to the unsatisfactory position of Dublin for purposes of improved administration of poor relief, ... -
Report on houseless poor, other than destitute wayfarers and wanderers
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)Taking the houseless poor, recorded amongst the admissions to the Bow-street Night Asylum as ?strangers?, to represent the wayfarers and wanderers, and those recorded as ?citizens? to represent the other houseless poor, ... -
Complaints against bankers in Ireland on account of the saved capital of Ireland not being lent to a sufficient extent to the farmers and small owners of land in Ireland, considered, and traced to (1) defective state of law as to sheriff's sales; (2) want of local jurisdiction in equity and bankruptcy; (3) want of local map registration of such interests; and (4) the unreformed state of offices of clerk of the peace, sub-sheriff, and sheriff s bailiff, with suggestions for the reform of these offices
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)Complaints against bankers in Ireland on account of the saved capital of Ireland not being lent to a sufficient extent to the farmers and small owners of land in Ireland, considered, and traced to (1) defective state of ... -
The Law of Judgments and the jurisdiction of the sheriff in selling land, considered with reference to the complaints of the County Down people on the subject: (1) That the Law of Judgments operates unequally and harshly on leasehold interests and upon yearly tenancies, (2) That the jurisdiction of the sheriff in selling leasehold and yearly tenancies under the writ of ?fieri facias? is burdensome and oppressive, (3) That the creditor who involves the tenant in the heaviest law costs can get an unjust priority over other creditors, (4) That the judgment creditor can in many cases confiscate the rights of the widowed mother and the younger brothers and sisters of the tenant, (5) That sales by ?fieri facias? is a new procedure that has sprung out of the Land Act
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)The Law of Judgments and the jurisdiction of the sheriff in selling land, considered with reference to the complaints of the County Down people on the subject: (1) that the Law of Judgments operates unequally and harshly ... -
Essay on the simplification effected by the codes of law prepared and adopted for British India, and the desirability of framing similar codes for England, Ireland, and Scotland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)The formation of codes, or of consolidated statutes relating to portions of Indian law, has taken place within the last few years. The greater portion of this work was carried out in the year 1872. The first statute on ... -
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 ... -
Address at the opening of the thirtieth session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)The honour you have done me in electing me as your president, brings with it the responsibility of addressing you on the occasion of this, the opening meeting of the thirtieth session of the Statistical Society. Having ... -
On the legal provisions in Ireland for the care and instruction of imbeciles, idiots, deaf and dumb, and blind, with suggestions for amended legislation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)In pursuance of the reference of the Council, at the suggestion of Mr. Jonathan Pim, to prepare a report on queries submitted by Sir Charles E. Trevelyan, Bart., K.C.B., viz.: (a) What arrangements have been made for the ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: twenty ninth session 1875/1876, fifth to seventh meetings
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Mr. MacNeel Caird's essay, in ?The Cobden Club Series?, on local government and taxation in Scotland, considered with reference to the suggestions it affords upon the following questions: (1) road authorities in Scotland and Ireland; (2) Scotch and Irish local courts; (3) union rating; (4) the Scotch law for securing improvements in town holdings
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)At the last meeting of Council of this Society, Mr. Jonathan Pim, made a suggestion that the recently published series of essays obtained by the Cobden Club on Local Government and Local Taxation in England, Scotland, ... -
Address at the opening of the twenty-ninth session: The organization of charity, and the education of the children of the state
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)The public mind seems for the present averse to the discussion of questions which divide political parties. As if over-strained by the effort necessary to carry the great measures of late years, it now shows a marked ...