Browsing JSSISI: 1885 to 1893, Vol. IX, Parts LXIV to LXXIII by Date of Publication
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Amalgamation: being some considerations on proposed changes in the relations of the legal professions in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1886)Not seldom are complaints made of the unwillingness of a legislature to enact reforms until compelled to do so by agitation. In some cases this procrastination has its advantages. Instances indeed are not unknown in ... -
Notes on some continental prisons
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1886)In bringing before this society the subject of prisons, I feel that no apology is required. It is one well suited for full and serious consideration before a society founded for the purpose of discussing social questions. ... -
Monetary reform
(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 ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: thirty-ninth session 1885/1886
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On fiscal relations of the United Kingdom and Ireland, with special reference to the state purchase of land
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1886)A scheme was put forward some short time ago, which promised to effect a radical and sweeping change in the ownership of the land, without imposing any great hardship or additional burden on any class in the State. Mr. ... -
Free trade and protection with reference to Ireland
(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 law and the lunatic
(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 ... -
American railways
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1886)It will be my aim in this paper, first to exhibit a summary view of the railways as a whole; second, to show from an examination of the accounts of some leading lines, the peculiarities of the financial circumstances ... -
The congested districts of Ireland and how to deal with them
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1887)The phrase congested districts has acquired in the discussion of Irish problems an almost technical meaning. By the congested districts I understand to be meant those parts of the country which are unable, at least in their ... -
Graduated taxation in Switzerland
(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, ... -
On the desirability of establishing by Act of Parliament a corporate body to act as trustee, executor, administrator etc.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1887)Every person who dies possessed of any estate, however small, must be succeeded by an administrator, executor, or trustee, whose duty it is to administer, manage, or realize that estate in accordance with the provisions ... -
Continental land banks and land registers
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1887)The Statistical Society allowed me on a former occasion to give an account of a Swiss State Land Credit Bank, from the operations of which it seemed to me some useful lessons might be learned. The question of making loans ... -
Considerations as to an extended scheme of land purchase
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1887)There appears to be a general concensus of opinion that the Irish land question can only be finally settled by an extension, on a wide scale, of the system of land purchase inaugurated by Lord Ashbourne's Act, and by the ... -
The prices of some agricultural produce and the cost of farm labour for the last fifty years
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1887)In venturing to bring before the Statistical Society a few notes on the above subject, I do so with much diffidence, because a matter of such importance at the present time should be dealt with by one who is a master of ... -
The law of divorce in Ireland
(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, ... -
Address at the opening of the fortieth session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1887)The Statistical Society has now been in existence for thirty-nine years. In its youth it enjoyed a much larger share of popularity than has latterly been extended to it. This was due in a great degree to the fact, that at ... -
The Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885, generally known as Lord Ashbourne's Act
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1887)Notwithstanding that a Royal Commission is now sitting to examine into the working of this measure, it may be useful for the purpose of drawing forth public opinion, that our society should discuss some of the questions ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: fortieth session 1886/87
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1887)Fortieth session, first meeting: The Society met at the Leinster Lecture Hall, 35 Molesworth-street, The President (Mr. James McDonnell) in the chair. Second meeting: The Society met at the Leinster Lecture Hall, 35 ... -
Emigration and immigration
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1888)Alike in old and new countries there has been, during the last few years, a remarkable revival of interest in the long debated and apparently exhausted problems of emigration and colonization. Many important European ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: forty-first session 1887/1888
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