[29] See 19th Report (1911), Cd. 5712. The Act of 1909 more than
doubled the area and population, bringing the area to 4,000,000 acres,
and the population to 600,000. The former endowment was L86,000.
[30] Comprising the whole of the counties of Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo,
Roscommon, Mayo, Galway, Kerry, and parts of the counties of Clare and
Cork.
[31] The members of this admirable Board are Mr. Birrell, Lord
Shaftesbury, Mr. O'Donnell, Dr. Mangan, Sir Horace Plunkett, Sir David
Harrel, and six others.
[32] For the governing clauses of that Act see Appendix E.
[33] May not the Insurance Act do the same? It is very likely.
[34] See Appendix J.
[35] Private Bill legislation to be settled in Dublin. Irish internal
expenditure to be handed to a financial council half elected and half
nominated. An Irish Assembly to be created with a small power of
initiative.
[36] April 8th.--Second Reading Speech on 1886 Home Rule Bill.
THE HOME RULE PLAN
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY BILLS AND THE
BILL OF 1912.
"Without union of hearts identification is extinction, is
dishonour, is conquest--not identification.
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