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6. Men servants ; 7. Womenemployed in agriculture; 8. Sempstresses; 9. Spinners; 
10. Women servants. In the second class, price of the use of capital, or rate of profit, 
we have—11. Interest charged by money-lenders to the poor; 12. Interest charged.on 
bills above 20/,; 13. Cost of erecting a single-roomed cabin; 14. Rent of a single- 
roomed cabin. In the third class we have—15. Land let to yearly tenant; 16. 
Pasture-land; 17. Building-ground; 18. Conacre; 19.° Tenant-right or good-will. 
For the fourth class we have—20. Flour; 21. Oatmeal; 22. Indian meal; 23. Po- 
tatoes; 24. Turnips; 25. Mutton; 26. Pork; 27. Fowls; 28. Eggs. For the fifth 
— _ elass—29. Coals; 30. Turf. For the sixth class—3]. Flax; 32. Hay. Then, for 
the price of each article, there are two prices to be observed, viz. what is ordinarily 
considered a high price, and what is ordinarily considered a low price; and the table 
is constructed to have these observations kept for a period of six months, the prices 
being observed once a month. These tables are now in the hands of parties in Ire- 
land, who are making observations. 


On the Use to be made of the Ordnance Survey in the Registration of Judgments 
and Deeds in Ireland. By Prof. W.N. Hancock, LL.D., M.R.LA. 
He said that the Ordnance Survey at present was used to ascertain boundaries for 
all public purposes, and was also extensively used by private parties. The townland 
maps were complete for all Ireland, on which the name of every townland was marked 
with the number of acres contained in it. From the structure of the maps they af- 
forded the greatest facility, for having tenements marked on them as well as town- 
lands; as all the boundaries of tenements were on the sheets, except in some of the 
northern counties, the survey of which was first published, and on which the boun- 
daries were now being inserted. On the brass plates from which the maps were taken, 
all these lines were laiddown. He proceeded to show that the Ordnance Survey was 
thus adapted to be made the basis of a general registry of land, by requiring every 
deed or judgment to contain the names of the townlands and number of tenements 
affected by it. The reason which hitherto prevented the adoption in England of a 
plan of registry with reference to a general map, was the expense. As that expense 
had been incurred in Ireland, there was no reason why the maps should not be used. 
He proceeded to explain how the Survey might be used in registering judgments in 
Ireland; and said that the effect of the adoption of his suggestions would be to get 
rid of the delay and cost of negative searches for judgments and for deeds, which 
must now be incurred on every sale of every portion of land however small. In 
every case where the seller had a common name, or sold a number of portions of 
Jand, the delay and cost were at present excessive, and in the sale of small proper- 
ties operated as a complete barrier to the transfer of land. The changes which he 
suggested would also diminish the delay and costs of Chancery proceedings, as 
the names and residences of all parties entitled to notice respecting the sale of any 
_ portion of land would be at once disclosed. This would lay the foundation for ap- 
plying the doctrine of market overt to land, and obviate the lengthened investigation 
of title required in every case of sale; as with a perfect registry based on the Ord- 
nance Survey, it might safely be enacted that after due notice to all parties on the 
register a public sale bya party having a power of sale should confer a parliamentary 
litle, the purchase-money, if anybody required it, being lodged in the Court of Chan- 
cery. He concluded by quoting the opinion of the Real Property Commissioners, 
that “the subject of registry of deeds and instruments relating to land exceeded in 
Magnitude and importance all the subjects which they had to consider,” and “ that 
the regulations of the Act of General Registry in Ireland were imperfect, and occa- 
sioned unnecessary trouble and expense.” 
1 2 The Usury Laws.—Statistics of Pawnbroking. 
i By Prof. W. N. Hancock, LL.D., M.R.I.A. 
= In the course of some investigations into the condition of the poorer classes in 
_ Treland, Professor Hancock's attention was directed to the state of the trade of lend- 
| ing money among them. He found that while the larger farmers resorted to regular 
) banks to make deposits and obtain loans, there were no banks established for the 
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