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Glimpses of Irish Industries - Page 37
by John Bowles Daly - 1889 - 235 pages
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Rambles on Railways...

Sir Cusack Patrick Roney - 1868 - 568 pages
...mentioned, we cannot concur in the expediency of the purchase of the railways by the State, and we arc of opinion that it is inexpedient at present to subvert...impose for the general welfare of the public." " As regards the purchase of Irish railways," the Commissioners add, at clause 80, " having come to the...
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The History of British Commerce and of the Economic Progress of the British ...

Leone Levi - 1880 - 730 pages
...of leaving the construction ard management of railways to the free enterprise of the people, urder such conditions as Parliament may think fit to impose for the general welfare of the public. Bell started a steamboat OD the Clyde, and that was soon after followed by a boat making a passage...
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The Journal of Political Economy, Volume 15

1907 - 698 pages
...him to the conclusion, expressed, by the Duke of Devonshire's Royal Commission on Railways in 1865, that it is "inexpedient at present to subvert the...to impose for the general welfare of the public." M. Peschaud declares that expense of operation under state ownership in Belgium has increased unduly,...
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Railways and Nationalisation

Edwin A. Pratt - 1908 - 472 pages
...have mentioned we cannot concur in the expediency of the purchase of the railways by the State, and we are of opinion that it is inexpedient at present...fit to impose for the general welfare of the public. IRISH RAILWAYS. Proposals for Government Purchase. It has, however, been suggested that Ireland might...
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The Railways and the State

Frederic William Pim - 1912 - 320 pages
...have mentioned we cannot concur in the expediency of the purchase of the railways by the State, and we are of opinion that it is inexpedient at present...to impose for the general welfare of the public." And, after consideration of the arguments which had been presented for exceptional treatment of the...
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English Railways: Their Development and Their Relation to the State

Edward Carnegie Cleveland-Stevens - 1915 - 410 pages
...and of the Act of 1844 (the twenty-one years fixed by which had now elapsed),4 the Commissioners were of opinion : " That it is inexpedient at present to...think fit to impose for the general welfare of the public."5 . . . "The Act of 1844 1 Report, Section 173. 2 Ibid., Section 117. 3 Ibid., Section 99....
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Great Britain from Adam Smith to the Present Day: An Economic and Social Survey

Charles Ryle Fay - 1928 - 488 pages
...portion could not be taken over without the other. The Commission further declared itself in favour of ' leaving the construction and management of railways...think fit to impose for the general welfare of the people.' 1 In other words, they commended the status quo of 1844 to 1867. And parliamentary control...
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Transport in Britain: From Canal Lock To Gridlock

Philip Bagwell, Peter J. Lyth - 2002 - 316 pages
...policy which has hitherto been adopted of leaving the construction and management of the railways to free enterprise of the people under such conditions...think fit to impose for the general welfare of the public.21 The government, nevertheless, came under increasing pressure from traders, chambers of commerce...
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Transport in Britain: From Canal Lock to Gridlock

Philip Bagwell, Peter Lyth - 2006 - 310 pages
...policy which has hitherto been adopted of leaving the construction and management of the railways to free enterprise of the people under such conditions...think fit to impose for the general welfare of the public.21 The government, nevertheless, came under increasing pressure from traders, chambers of commerce...
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British Almanac and Companion, Volume 41

1868 - 448 pages
...words : — " We cannot concur in the expediency of the purchase of the railways by the State, and we are of opinion that it is inexpedient at present...to impose for the general welfare of the public." The Irish system of railways presents such exceptional features that it has been set aside for separate...
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