§ DISSENTIENT:
- "1. Because the provisions of this Bill involve an interference with the acknowledged rights of property, to an extent without precedent in the legislation of any civilized country.
- "2. Because this Bill has been founded on an alleged exceptional state of affairs as to the relations between landlord and tenant, which allegations are not founded on facts, it having been satisfactorily shown that the land in Ireland is rented at a lower rate than that in any part of Central Europe, and that evictions, other than those for non-payment of rent, have been inconsiderable.
- "3. Because exceptional legislation is calculated to create an exceptional state of circumstances, and to interpose a barrier to the future improvement of the country.
- "4. Because the liberty of contract upon which all transactions between man and man ought to be based, is improperly interfered with, restricted, and violated, to the disadvantage of the Commonwealth, and destructive to personal responsibility.
- "5. Because the effect of this Bill will be to promote litigation between the owners and occupiers of the soil, and to interfere with those reciprocal feelings of cordiality and good will on which the welfare of an agricultural community so much depends.
- "6. Because the imposition of a tax in Ireland which is not imposed on a like article in England, as is done by this Bill, is a direct violation of the Treaty of Union between Great Britain and Ireland.
- "7. Because, while professing to give security of tenure to the small farmers, the obvious consequence of this Bill will be to promote the consolidation of farms, and the removal of the Irish peasantry from their small holdings.
§ "CLEMENTS.
§ "TALBOT DE "MALAHIDE.
§ "For 1st, 4th, and 5th Reasons—"SALTERSFORD.
§ "For 1st, 4th, and 5th Reasons—"CLONBROCK.
§ "For 1st, 3d, 4th, and 5th Reasons—"ROSSE.
§ "For 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th Reasons— "DUNSANY.
§ "For 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th Reasons— "KILMAINE.
§ "For the 1st, 3d, and 4th Reasons—"SOMERHILL."