Browsing JSSISI: 1870 to 1876, Vol. VI, Parts XL to XLIX by Title
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The recommendations of the Land Transfer Commission of 1869, considered with especial reference to their applicability to transfer of land in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1874)One of the last letters written by Richard Cobden contains these remarkable words: ?The Land Question has a wider bearing than has yet been given it in our public discussions; and it will not be seriously entertained by ... -
Report of committee of the council on (1) Mr. Jephson?s suggestions for securing greater attention to suggestions for amendments in the law, contained in reports and papers read before the society; and on (2) Mr. Jonathan Pim's suggestions for obtaining information as respects the differences which now exist between the laws in force in England, and those in force in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1874)The committee, appointed at the April meeting of the Council, to consider Mr. Jephson's and Mr. Pim's suggestions, met on Tuesday, 27th of April: present, Mr. Jonathan Pim, Vice-President, in the chair; Mr. Jephson, Mr. ... -
Report of committee on suggestions for diminishing the excessive summoning of jurors in the county and city of Dublin
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1874)The committee met at Mssrs. Pim's, 22, William-street, on Friday the 12th June, Alderman Campbell, J.P., in the chair; also present, Mr. Frederic W. Pim, Mr. Richard W. Kelly, Mr. Joseph T. Pim, Mr. Thomas Edmondson, and ... -
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 ... -
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. -
Report of the Council at the opening of the twenty-eighth session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1874)The plan, introduced this time twelve-months, of applying to the management of the Barrington Lecture Trust Fund the change which had been previously applied to the public funds given towards scientific instruction in the ... -
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 of the Council at the opening of the twenty-ninth session of the Society
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)Three out of the six ordinary meetings were devoted to the important subject of Local Government. Mr. Joseph T. Pim read a paper on ?Municipal Government and Taxation?, a matter of growing importance, having regard to the ... -
Report of the Council at the opening of the twenty-sixth session of the Society
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1873)The Council have much pleasure in submitting the following report to the members. During the past session some important papers were read on Jurisprudence, The President read a paper on the ?Practicability of Codifying ... -
Report on amendment of the law as to ruined houses in towns
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)The Council of the Charity Organisation Society of London having entered into the subject of the defective state of houses in London, and had a committee of inquiry, and having made representations to the government on the ... -
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, ... -
Report on the application of the principles recommended by the Judicature Commission to the Irish County Courts
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1874)Since the subject of this report was entrusted to me, the principles recommended by the Judicature Commission has received the sanction of the Legislature, and become the law; and the year that has just now closed will ... -
Report on the best means of facilitating land transfer, by means of local registry
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1874)The question of the comparative merits of large and small farms has been one of the best debated in Political Economy. The controversy cannot be said to be yet terminated. But some portions of the field have become neutral ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Savings banks as a state function developed by charity organisation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)It is commonly recognised that one of the most valuable institutions for encouraging prudence and self-denial amongst the poor is the system of Post Office Savings Banks, with its numerous offices open on every week-day ... -
Suggested improvements in private-bill legislation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)Bills for the particular interest or benefit of individuals, public companies, corporations, parishes, cities, counties, or other localities, as distinguished from measures of public policy in which the whole community is ... -
Suggested practical checks on excessive drinking and habitual drunkenness
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)In the session of 1871, the late Government introduced into Parliament a Licensing Bill, and the late Mr. Donald Dalrymple introduced a Habitual Drunkards' Bill. Neither Bill became law; and in the interval between the ... -
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 ... -
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, ...
