XXX CONTENTS. 



Chap. Page 



IV. Small Tenantry 57 



V. Attempted changes by the Consolidation of Farms . 73 



VI. Of Emigration 87 



VII. The State of Agriculture 96 



VIII. Of Capital 106 



IX. Of Taxes and Tithes Ill 



BOOK II. 



CONDITION OF THE FAMILIES OF LABOURERS EMPLOYED IN 

 AGRICULTURE. 



_Table of Parishes, number of witnesses, and Assistant- 

 Commissioners 119 



I. Food, Lodging, and Clothing of the Peasantry . . 122 



II. Orphans, Foundlings, and Bastards 134 



III. Widows with young Families 149 



IV. Aged and Infirm Poor 164 



V. Sick Poor 175 



VI. Vagrancy and Mendicity 190 



VII. Able-bodied persons out of work 198 



VIII. Public-houses or small Taverns 206 



IX. Pawnbrokers and Savings'-banks 209 



BOOK III. 



ABSTRACT OF THE RESULTS OF THE INQUIRY, AND MEASURES 

 PROPOSED BY THE COMMISSIONERS WITH A VIEW TO AME- 

 LIORATE THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE. 



Extract from the Report of the Commissioners .... 215 



Section 



I. Results of the Inquiry ffi. 



II. A Poor-Law unsuited to Ireland 224 



III. Compulsory Employment 227 



IV. Emigration 233 



