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Great deficiency of employment for labourers in Connaught

Statement of the very small proportion employed in the Union of

Milford, County of Donegal

Great number of helpless poor, widows, orphans, &c.

Can the poor-law be worked throughout Ireland?

How is the unemployed population of the West to be supported?

Reference to Statistical Tables of the Annual Value of Property

liable to be rated for Poor-rate in England and Ireland

Great difference between the two countries, as respects their capa-

bility of supporting the poor

Nevertheless, the greater part of Ireland well able to support its

Very doubtful whether the unions along the Western coast can

Mode of working the Poor-law Act

Difficulties in collecting the rates

Immediate lessors liable for the poor-rate on holdings valued at

If arrears be re-assessed and stringently enforced, some districts

will be pauperized.

Will the poor-law confiscate the estates of embarrassed proprietors ?

Irish poor-law nearly similar to that of England in this respect

The law might be altered so as effect a confiscation; but would this

be good policy?

While assistance should be afforded to some places, payment of

rates should be enforced from all solvent parties

Some electoral divisions even in the West able to support their poor 205

Other electoral divisions unable to do so

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Our feelings instinctively prompt us to relieve the distress around

Information of a local committee essential for good management

of out-door relief

Important that the able-bodied should be supported by labour

Resolutions of Limerick Grand Jury

It appears advisable that the districts for taxation should be smaller

Townlands have been suggested, but are unsuitable, being the

opposite extreme

Reference to a case of peculiar hardship

Poor-law Commissioners have power to vary the size of unions and

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Clearances of estates will go on under any system, and can only

be met by a law of settlement

Settlement clause in Poor-law Act of last session

Question of settlement considered.

Power of removal considered-present law often inflicts great

hardships on Irish poor in England

Union rating would not enable the property of Ireland to support

If one part of the empire suffer beyond its local means, it is

entitled to assistance from the Treasury

In this spirit the government have acted

The Eastern counties of Ireland cannot be properly called on to

assist those in the West

Supposed case of Manchester in the event of a failure of the
cotton crop

Difficulty of efficient management under present arrangements

Some assistance necessary; continuation of the appointment of

inspecting officers proposed

A poor-law guardian should be disqualified, if his rates remain

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Proposal of assessing the landlord for his portion of the rate con-

Poor-law, unless well administered, may do much harm

For efficient management, a middle class required

Security of property and freedom in the sale and transfer of land

the best means of raising up a middle class

Recent legislation has given increased facilities for conducting

mercantile affairs.

The public are prepared for further progress in the same direction

The principles of free-trade should be extended to land

This will best meet the various difficulties of Ireland

Some of the difficulties existing in the South and West stated

Same features exist in other parts, though in a lesser degree

Want of security as respects title to, and possession of land, the

main difficulty

This is felt by both the proprietor and the tenant

A large proportion of the land is entailed

The landlord has little interest in improving an entailed estate,

even though able to do so

If the heir assist his father in charging the estate for this purpose,

a debt is commenced which frequently results in ruining the

And acts upon the tenantry in a way which endangers the peace

Permanency of property in land a great social advantage

Legislation cannot contravene the laws of Providence, which

render prosperity dependent on prudence

Effects of entails in interfering with the exercise of parental

There are limits to the power of an owner over his land

It has been already limited by law

Inability to grant leases injurious to towns

Case of Birkenhead cited, to show the beneficial effects of a free

Poor rates, &c. fall wholly on the landlord, the mortgagee not

being called on to pay any portion

How is employment to be provided for the able-bodied ?

Government must supply the capital necessary, or the land must

be sold to those who have the means of employing the people

With freedom of sale and transfer, and security and simplicity of

title, this object will be effected

This would be a great change

We cannot remain as we are

A crisis is at hand

The future prospects of the country depend on the mode in which

this crisis is met

Bill of last session for the sale of encumbered estates

Causes stated for its withdrawal

Effects if it had passed

Note-Extracts from P. Mahony's evidence in 1832

It is much better that estates should be sold, than administered

under the courts

Tenure by lives renewable for ever a serious grievance

The remedy is to convert such tenures into perpetuities

System of intermediate interests or middlemen, an evil which

Some of the injurious results of this system stated

The head landlord can distrain for the rent of the whole from any

part of the property

Large proportion of land leased in perpetuity

Remedy proposed to enable the holder of such a lease to pur-

Present scale of stamp duties discourages the sale of land in small

Note respecting the value of the Ordnance Maps for this purpose

Such a system of registration would render transfers much less

No class of yeomanry in Ireland

Importance of increasing the number of those who hold land in

Reference to the experience of other countries

Large entailed estates in Spain

Miserable condition of Sardinia

Comfortable circumstances of the people of Norway

Careful cultivation of Northern Italy.

Industry of the peasant-proprietors of Savoy

Switzerland a country of small proprietors

Improving spirit of the people of Switzerland

Zurich a manufacturing canton

The small farms in Belgium compared with those in Ireland

Belgian superiority results from security

Instance of the extraordinary industry of squatters on a mountain

common in Ireland

Note on this subject.

Opinion of Arthur Young as to the effect of property in land

Prussia has made more progress since 1815 than during the pre-

ceding hundred years

Example of Prussia is peculiarly in point

Effects of property in land in promoting feelings of loyalty

Freedom the grand and simple principle advocated by the writer 288

With freedom of sale, estates of all sizes will exist

Peasantry of France stated by Inglis to be the happiest in Europe

Honesty of the French

Attributed to the general diffusion of property

Facility of purchasing land in small portions enhances its price

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