STATE PAPERS. 



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council, declaring six (*) of the 

 baronies of the county of Tip- 

 perary to be in a state of disturb- 

 ance, and subjecting them to the 

 provisions of the insunection act. 



Another (f) barony of the 

 county was, in a few days after- 

 wards, included in this proclama- 

 tion, on the application of the 

 magistrates. 



In the course of the month of 

 October, another memorial was 

 presented to me from thirteen 

 magistrates of the county of Tip- 

 perary, assembled at an extraor- 

 dinary session of the peace, ex- 

 pressing their oj)inion, that four- 

 additional baronies, (J) not in- 

 cluded in the proclamations, were 

 in a state of disturbance, and 

 praving that they also might be 

 proclaimed. 



Not having had sufficient rea- 

 son to think that the baronies 

 last mentioned were in such a 

 state of distuibance as to call for 

 the application of any extraordi- 

 nary measure, I directed the clerk 

 of the peace to be called upon to 

 furnish the sworn informations 

 of outrages committed, upon 

 which the allegations of disturb- 

 ance rested. 



After a consideration of the do- 

 cuments with which I was fur- 

 ni.>-hed, I did not think the neces- 

 sity for a compliance with the 

 memorial 1 have last mentioned 

 sufficiently established. 1 enter- 

 tained a conttiient hope, that if 

 the act was effectual in the baro- 



(•) The six baronies were thoseof Mid- 

 dlelhird, Kiliiainaiiagh, Eliogarty, Slewar- 

 dauli, and Conipsi'Vi Claiiwilllaiu, and the 

 eastern barony "1 Ilia and Oiia. 



(t) That of Tlla and Olla West. 



(]) Upper and Lower Urinond, Ikerrin, 

 and Ownay and Arra, 



nies in which it had been recently 

 enforced, its influence would be 

 felt in those immediately adjoining 

 them. 



At the latter end of September, 

 I received from forty-seven ma- 

 gistrates of the county of Limer- 

 ick, assembled at a spi cial sessions 

 on the ^6th, a representation that 

 the entire of that county svas in 

 a state of disturbance, occasioned 

 by a very general confederacy 

 among the lower ordeis, and 

 praying that the county might be 

 proclaimed under the insunection 

 act A memorial was also receiv- 

 ed, concluding with the same 

 prayer, from the magistrates of 

 the ctmnty of the city of Limerick. 



Having had sufficient evidence 

 that the ordinary operation of the 

 law was inadequate to maintain 

 tranquillity in this county, and 

 that it was in a state of set ious 

 disorder, it was j)rocl;iimed in 

 council under the provisions of 

 the insurrection act, on the 30th 

 of September ; and the county of 

 the city, with the exception of 

 such paiishes as are within the 

 city, was ])roclaimed on the 3d 

 of October. 



In conseqnence of the number 

 of piisoners in the gaol of the 

 county of Limeiick, I deemed it 

 expedient to issue a warrant for 

 a special commission, for the pur- 

 pose of bringing the otlendeis to 

 tiial. 



In the early part of November 

 it gave me great satisfaction to 

 be enabled to inform yonr lord- 

 ship, that since the insunection 

 act had been in foice in the coun- 

 ties of Tipperary and Limerick, 

 comparatively, few crimes in vio- 

 lation of tlie public pence have 

 been committed in these counties, 



and 



