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person earned his living could not be kept in pledge. The fees 

 of doctors were regulated by the old laws, and the position and 

 way the doctors house should be built was stipulated. The fees 

 of lawyers and teachers were stipulated, and a series of laws 

 relating to weaving, spinning, brewing, and building, landlord 

 and tenant, master and tenant. These laws are all in existence 

 since the fifth century, as they are now and were in existence 

 centuries before that in probably a slightly different form. The 

 colonists which landed on these shores from Egypt, Greece, or 

 Spain brought with them an advanced civilisation, from which 

 sprung the ancient code of laws, bardic schools, orders of learned 

 men, poets, musicians, and historians. We Irishmen are deeply 

 indebted to such men as Dr. Petrie, Bishop Reeves, John 

 O'Donovan, and Eugene O'Connor, as well as others, for 

 unravelling the tangled skein of Irish history from manuscripts, 

 the oldest in Europe, from buildings hoary with the lapse of 

 centuries, which show the position our country held in religion, 

 learning, and culture in remote times. 



Messrs. W. Gray, W. Armstrong, and the Chairman offered 

 a few complimentary remarks on the the papers. 



Messrs. Young and Milligan having rephed, 



The proceedings terminated. 



