Browsing JSSISI: 1855 to 1856, Vol. I, Journal of the Dublin Statistical Society by Author "Hancock, W. Neilson"
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The excessive Mortality of British Residents in India, as affecting the choice of the Civil Service of the East India Company as a career for young men
Hancock, W. Neilson (Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)In this paper I propose to direct your attention to some facts, commonly overlooked, but which ought, nevertheless, to be fully considered by those who have to decide either for themselves or for others, as to the wisdom ... -
Is fire insurance a proper subject for taxation?
Hancock, W. Neilson (Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)OF the questions which the good feeling now subsisting between England and France has given rise to, perhaps the most remarkable is the competition in Fire Insurance between French and English Companies. A French Company ... -
On the advantages of policies of insurance terminable at the age of 63 or at death, instead of at death only
Hancock, W. Neilson (Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)The common mode of life assurance is subject to one defect. If the insured should happen to attain a considerable age, he changes, as time advances, from being a productive member of society, to a state of inability for ... -
On the general principles of taxation, as illustrating the advantages of a perfect income tax
Hancock, W. Neilson (Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)There are few branches of political economy more interesting in themselves, or of more importance at the present time, than the subject of taxation, and yet there is scarcely any on which greater errors are prevalent. I ... -
On the present state of the savings' bank question
Hancock, W. Neilson (Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)About three years since, I had the honor of reading before this society a paper on the duties of the public with respect to charitable savings' banks. Since that time there have been promises of legislation, but nothing ... -
A plan for extending the jurisdiction for selling Incumbered estates to cases where a Receiver has been appointed over a life estate
Hancock, W. Neilson (Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)The chief benefit which the Incumbered Estates Act has conferred upon Ireland, has been the substitution of solvent for insolvent proprietors To appreciate the full extent of this change, we must raise our views above ... -
Sir Robert Peel's Bank Act of 1844 explained and defended
Hancock, W. Neilson (Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)THERE are few acts of parliament more important in themselves, or which have given rise to more discussion, than Sir Robert Peel's celebrated Bank Act of 1844 (7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 32). I am anxious to take an opportunity ... -
What a perfect income tax of ten per cent would produce
Hancock, W. Neilson (Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)It is the plain duty of every subject of this great empire to contribute any information or suggestion that he may deem of use towards sustaining the contest in which we are now engaged. In discharging this duty, I do ... -
The workhouse as a mode of relief for widows and orphans
Hancock, W. Neilson (Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)The principles on which the Irish Poor Law is to be administered for the future must be learned not from the traditions of the changes introduced in England in 1834, nor from the idle theories prevalent in Ireland in ...