JSSISI: 1879 to 1886, Vol. VIII, Parts LVI to LXIII: Recent submissions
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: thirty fifth session 1881/82, second to seventh meetings
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: thirty seventh session ? 1883/84
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Some grievances of jurors
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)There is an old theory in the political and social system of these islands that a man when called upon to discharge a public duty must do so at his own charges. But, like all theories, it has undergone considerable ... -
On the economic theory of rent
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)In a recent number of the Contemporary Review, Professor Bonamy Price, under the title of ?What is Rent?? gave an explanation of rent, its ?nature? and ?character?. He limited his explanation to agricultural rent, which ... -
A common poor fund for the metropolis
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The Charity Organisation Committee of this Society, in their report in 1876, drew attention to the London system of having a common poor fund for the metropolitan unions, and suggested the desirability of extending this ... -
What the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland has effected (1847-1880)
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)Without referring to the dissemination of sound statistical knowledge and a knowledge of Political Economy, and the correction of erroneous impressions, and the saving of waste of capital by discouraging such enterprises ... -
Obituary notice of the late Alexander Thom, Esq. J. P., Queen's printer in Ireland, a vice-president of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)Since the last meeting of this Society, we have lost one of its original members, Mr. Alexander Thom, who did more to popularize statistics in Ireland and place before the world the real condition of the country than any ... -
Bright Clauses of the Irish Land Act
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)I may at the outset plainly state that I do not intend to travel over the whole ground occupied by the subject which I have chosen for my text. I take it that all reasonable people and a large number of the unreasonable ... -
Irish linen laws and proposed amendments thereof
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The custom, largely adopted in many manufacturing districts, particularly in the north of Ireland, of manufacturers in the linen and damask trade giving out to weavers the materials for webs to be woven by them in their ... -
On the equal importance of the education, poor-law, cheap law for small holders, and land questions, at the present crisis
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)In an article in the Fortnightly Review for January, I called attention to the case of the migratory labourers in Mayo, and their sufferings from non-employment in England last year, as one branch of the present crisis to ... -
Some further information as to migratory labourers from Mayo to England, and as to importance of limiting law taxes and law charges in proceedings affecting small holders of land
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)The great interest which has been taken in the facts I brought forward at the last meeting as to the migratory labourers, induced me to continue my researches. The points to which I specially directed my attention were: ... -
Comparison between boarding-out and pauper schools
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)After I had considered in an address to the Statistical Society the question of the proper mode of dealing with the children whom destitution has brought into the care of the state, this paper was sent to me by the late ... -
On the report of the Select Committee appointed ?to enquire and report whether any and what steps ought to be taken to simplify the title to land, and to facilitate the transfer thereof, and to prevent frauds on purchasers and mortgagees of land?, and on the first report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed ?to enquire into the law relating to the registration of deeds and assurances in Ireland?.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)To simplify the title to land and facilitate the transfer thereof must always be a subject of much interest in this country, where so large a proportion of the wealth of the inhabitants consists of land. I will therefore ... -
The difficulties of bimetallism
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)There has been within the past few months a marked revival of the bimetallist agitation, that had for some time previously been declining under the, for it, unfavourable influences of expanding trade and industrial ... -
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 ...
