The New Irish Constitution: An Exposition and Some Arguments
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The New Irish Constitution: An Exposition and Some Arguments
Home rule -- Ireland; Ireland -- Politics and government
_Group I.—The Treasury._
(1) General Finance.
(_a_) Taxation, Bills before the Legislature.
(_b_) Budgets, Recoverable Loans, Local Taxation Account.
(_c_) Courts of Law, Legal Establishments, Legal Business.
(_d_) Other Civil Departments, Pensions, Valuation and Boundary
Surveys.
(_e_) Trade and Commerce.
(_f_) Exchequer and Audit.
(2) Local Finance.
(_a_) Municipalities, Urban Councils.
(_b_) County and Rural Councils.
(3) Registry, Receipt and Issue of Letters.
_Group II.—Law and Justice._
(1) Supreme Court of Justice and its Officers.
(2) Recorders.
(3) County Court Judges.
(4) Resident Magistrates.
(5) Crown Business.
(_a_) General.
(_b_) Law Officers.
(_c_) Crown Prosecutors, Crown Solicitors.
(_d_) Petty Sessions Clerks.
(6) Police.
(_a_) Royal Irish Constabulary.
(_b_) Dublin Metropolitan Police.
(7) Prisons, Reformatories, Criminal Lunatics.
(8) Miscellaneous.
(9) Registry, Receipt and Issue of Letters.
_Group III.—Education, Science and Art._
(1) Primary.
(2) Secondary.
(3) University.
(4) Technical.
(5) College of Science.
(6) National Gallery, Public Libraries, Museums.
(7) Registry, etc., of Letters.
_Group IV.—Local Government._
(1) Rural.
(2) Urban.
(3) Sanitation.
(4) Medical Relief, Hospitals.
(5) Poor Law Relief, Orphanages and Asylums.
(6) Crop Failure, Famine Relief.
(7) Labour questions, Housing of the working-classes.
(8) Audit of Local Accounts.
(9) Registry, etc., of Letters.
_Group V.—Public Works._
(1) Roads and Buildings.
(2) Railways and Canals.
(3) Marine Works.
(4) Drainage, Irrigation and Reclamation.
(5) Mines and Minerals.
(6) Registry of Letters.
_Group VI.—Agriculture._
(1) General.
(2) Relief of Agricultural Congestion. (Congested Districts Board).
(3) Land Improvement, Seeds, Manures, Agricultural Implements, etc.
(4) Improvement in the breed of Horses, Cattle, etc.
(5) Diseases of Animals and Plants.
(6) Agricultural Schools, Experimental and Demonstration Farms, etc.
(7) Arboriculture, Afforestation.
(8) Registry of Letters.
_Group VII.—The Land Commission._
(1) Land Purchase.
(2) Relief of Congestion.
(3) Recovery of Annuities and Sinking Fund.
(4) Fixation of Judicial Rents.
(5) Registry, etc., of Letters.
_Group VIII.—Registration._
(1) General and Vital Statistics.
(2) Deeds.
(3) Titles.
(4) General Records.
(5) Friendly Societies.
(6) Registry of Receipts and Issue of Letters.
_Group IX.—General Purposes._
(1) Sea and Inland Fisheries.
(2) Labour Questions, other than Housing.
(3) Scientific Investigations.
(4) Thrift and Credit Societies; Agricultural Banks.
(5) Quit Rents.(68) (Woods and Forests).
(6) Temporary Commissions of Enquiry.
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