Browsing by Author "Bailey, William F."
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Baronial guarantees under ?The Tramways Act, 1883?.
Bailey, William F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)Anyone who has watched the progress of business at the last spring assizes in Ireland, must have been struck by the interest exhibited in, and the time and attention devoted to the question of the construction of tramways ... -
Forestry in Ireland
Bailey, William F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1889)In view of the proposed extension of the Land Purchase Acts, the question of the protection and development of Forestry in Ireland is one of very great importance and interest to the entire community. The effect of ... -
The future of American agricultural competition
Bailey, William F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1883)In this paper I shall endeavour to bring before the members of the Statistical Society some figures, which seem to me to throw considerable light on the vexed question of the extent to which farming in the United Kingdom ... -
The government valuation of Ireland: an examination of its authority as a standard of value
Bailey, William F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1893)The first act for the valuation of Ireland was passed in the year 1826 (7 Geo. IY. cap. 62). It was intended to form the basis of rating for county purposes only, its object being, according to the preamble, "the more ... -
Ireland since the famine: a sketch of fifty years' economic and legislative changes
Bailey, William F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)In addressing you this evening I propose to review, as shortly as the subject will admit, the economic and legislative changes that have taken place in Ireland during the last half-century?to take stock of our position ... -
Magisterial reform: being some considerations on the present voluntary system, and suggestions for the substitution of an independent paid magistracy
Bailey, William F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1885)At various periods since the Union bitter controversies have arisen on the subject of magisterial reform, and the question of a paid versus an unpaid magistracy has frequently occupied the public attention. When we consider ... -
On fiscal relations of the United Kingdom and Ireland, with special reference to the state purchase of land
Bailey, William F. (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. ... -
Primary education: with a review of the German, Irish, and English systems
Bailey, William F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)In the paper which I would lay before the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society this evening, I have endeavoured to bring under consideration the more important questions which occupy the attention of statesmen and all ... -
The Prussian agrarian reforms of the present century: their method and extent
Bailey, William F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1890)Much misunderstanding exists, even among those who have made land reform a special study, respecting the principles and methods of the Prussian agrarian legislation of the present century. The prevailing belief is that ... -
The Ulster tenant-right custom: its origin, characteristic and position under the Land Acts.
Bailey, William F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1894)Few subjects connected with Irish land have been the cause of more discussion than the Tenant-right Custom of Ulster. For many years before 1870 a controversy was carried on with respect to the attributes of the custom, ... -
The woods, forests, turf-bogs, and foreshores of Ireland: opportunity for, and advisibility of, establishing government management and protection
Bailey, William F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1890)In the paper on "Forestry in Ireland," read by me before the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, in July, 1889, I described at some length the forestry regulations of the principal European countries, and ...