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—— doubtful, for guardians, may be refused by the returning officer,
293.

Voting papers for guardians, improper interference with, 266;
penalty for destroying or defacing, 293.

Wages, act for the regulation of, 21;
impolicy of, 22;
of agricultural labourers in Ireland, rate of, 62;
average rates of in 1836, 131.

Wanderers, idle, act against, 34.

Wardens, enactment for the appointment of in townlands and parishes,
226.

Wards in workhouses appropriated to pauper lunatics, 286.

——, towns with 10,000 inhabitants may be divided into, for the purpose
of electing guardians, 233.

Wars, private, not to be made without consent of the governor, 18.

Waste lands in Ireland, quantities of, 89.

Waterford, resistance to the payment of rates in, 235.

Wealth and distress may be concurrent in a country, 97.

Wellington, duke of, support given by to Irish Poor Law bill, 219, 220.

West of Ireland, portion taken by the author in his First Report, 159;
severe distress in during 1839, 256;
amount of government relief to, _ibid._ _note_.

Western unions, total destitution of in 1849, 358.

Wexford, stormed by Cromwell, 10.

Wheat, average price of in Mark Lane in November 1853, 1854, and 1855,
17, _note_.

Whipping, a punishment for begging without a licence, 53.

Widows, helpless, mendicity-houses and almshouses recommended for, 145;
enactment making them chargeable with the support of their children,
227.

Wild herbs, used as sustenance by the distressed poor, 132.

Wilkinson, Mr., engaged as architect for the Irish workhouses, 243
_note_.

William the Conqueror, design of for bringing Ireland under subjection,
3.

William the Third opposed by the Roman Catholics of Ireland, 10.

William IV., death of, 195.

Witnesses, Commissioners empowered to summon, 334.

Wool, act against the pulling from living sheep, 32.

Work to be provided for the destitute poor in workhouses, 225.

Workhouse, act for erecting one in Dublin in 1703, 35;
regulations for the government of, 36;
rate to be levied for the support of, 37.

—— relief, advantages and disadvantages, as regards Ireland, 134;
not recommended by the Commissioners of Inquiry, 135.

Workhouse system recommended for Ireland by G. C. Lewis, 152.

—— masters in London, testimony of as to the characters and habits of
Irish poor, 158.

—— system of England, doubts whether practicable in Ireland, 169;
assurance arrived at that it is, 170;
doubts whether fitted for a test of destitution, _ibid._;
assurance arrived at that it would be more so in Ireland than in
England, 171;
expense occasioned by adopting not likely to be inordinately large,
172.

—— officers, estimated expenses of salaries for, 209;
dietaries, order for, 252;
employment, nature of, 274.

—— expenditure in the years 1842 to 1846, 323;
in 1847, 329, 345;
in 1848, 363;
in 1849, 366, 371;
in 1850, 376;
in 1851, 387;
in 1852, 394;
in 1853, _ib._

—— accommodation, extreme pressure upon, occasioned by the potato
disease, 324;
necessity for an increase of in 1847, 342, 343;
auxiliary establishments provided in 1849, 352;
amount expended in procuring increased, 366;
extent of, from 1847 to 1851, 377.

—— hospitals, insufficiency of during the prevalence of the potato
disease, 325.

—— mortality, greatly increased ratio of during the distress of 1846-7,
326.

Workhouses to be provided in each county, 53;
recommendation that houses of industry should be made available for,
186;
estimated expenses of constructing, 209;
architect engaged to erect, 243;
number of provided in 1840, 245;
in 1841, 260;
number of in operation in 1842, 271;
cost of up to 1842, 273;
sanitary state of, 275;
number in operation in 1843, 282;
inspection of by the author in 1842, 284;
amount of government loans for the erection of in 1845, 302.

Works, useful, recommended as a means of employing the distressed poor
in Ireland, 100.

Young, Arthur, his account of the state of Ireland in 1776-78, 59 _et
seq._

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Transcriber’s Note

On p. 215, the quoted material refers to the Belgian ‘bleuse’ (blouse). This may be a misprint, however the report being quoted is closely paraphrased in other texts using the same spelling.

On p. 398, a quoted passage introduced by “commissioners remark in their Report” opens with a quotation mark which has no corresponding close. It is not obvious where that passage closes.

Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original. References with three numbers refer to corrections to footnotes.

46.26 or within the same walls with child[r]en, Inserted.

99.11 An apprehension was more[o]ver Inserted.

99.25 to a greater certain[t]y of crop Inserted.

215.38 The men universally wear the [bleuse] _Sic._

106.52.1 Dr. Doyle in his eviden[e/c]e before the Replaced.
committee

158.29 to adduce any ad[d]itional proofs Inserted.

211.4 me[n]dicancy Inserted.

224.8 from the time of such app[p]ointment Removed.

380.15 de[c]laring that Inserted.

416.58 Ninth Report of the proce[e]dings in 1847 Inserted.