TABLE OF CONTENTS OF GENERAL REPORT.
Recital of the Commission
Proceedings ....
Arrangement of the Inquiry
Circuits Conduct of the Inquiry-List of Topics Mode of Examination .
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Reference to Documents and Records Separate Reports Heads of General Report I.
EXISTING STATE OF THE CORPORATION.
List of Corporations which have exercised Functions in the last century .....*..*
Other Boroughs which returned Members at the Union .
Ancient Boroughs .
, .
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.
» Corporations now existing ......
become extinct since the Union .
, Existing State of the Corporations as to their Constitution and Structure .........
List of Corporations in which Freemen have Corporate Power II.
MODE of ELECTING and APPOINTING the MEM¬
BERS and OFFICERS.
III.
DEFECTS IN THEIR CONSTITUTION.
List of Corporations or Boroughs before James I.
.
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created since , * Members of the Corporations .......
Freemen or Commonalty ......
Language of early Charters as to .
* * .
Qualification of ...,.„
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Charters of James I.,
&c, granted to Inhabitants ,
Construction of
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Sligo case .......
"New Rules," as to Foreigners, &c.
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Galway Acts
.......
Recognised Rights or Titles to Freedom .
, ,
Birth, Marriage, and Servitude , , How far admitted in different places, Dublin, &c.
No general Right to Freedom
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Objections to the Rights by Birth, &c.
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, Admission of
...,.#.
Vested in Governing Bodies
How exercised Instances Freedom by Gift
Purchase Non-resident Freemen
Statute 10 Henry VII.
c.
7.
Cases of Limerick, Wexford, and Waterford Observations on the Control of the Governing Bodies over Admissions to Freedom .
Definition and Objects of Municipal Corporations Designed for the Residents Consequences of the Exercise of this Control
Roman Catholics
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Conduct of some Corporations since the Reform Act Governing Classes of the Corporations
Titles of Numbers definite in some places
Instances
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Elected by the General Body or self-elected
" New Rules" How elected in Corporations created by James I.,
&c
Others
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Instances
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Dublin
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Cork .
Non-resident
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Statute 21 Geo.
II.
c.
10 .
Consequences of this Act ....
Patronage ....,.,
Union Compensation.
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, General Defects in Municipal Constitutions
1.
Exclusion of the Inhabitants 2.
Self-election of-Governing Bodies
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