SCHEDULE I. (Hansard, 24 May 1898)

§ MR. M. HEALY
At present, if a policeman in Cork got maimed in a drunken brawl with some soldiers, say, of a Lancashire or a Sussex regiment, he might get £1,000 as compensation, which would be levied upon the ratepayers of Cork. That has happened several times in the county of Cork within the last few years. A policeman is paid handsomely for keeping the peace of Ireland, and he also gets a pension. I cannot, however, get compensation, because I am not a police officer. The man who is paid well for his work, and whose duty it is to pre- Page, 49, line 17, at end, Insert—

§ * MR. SERJEANT HEMPHILL
It appears to me that the Dublin Grand Jury Acts ought to have been included in the schedule of the Acts regulating malicious 658 serve the peace, gets a large pension if this legislation is passed. The Act for the creation of the Irish constabulary was quite a proper thing, for all police officers as they existed, and they should lave been protected in this way, because they were county officers, and there was no means by which they were paid or compensated. The notion that the police of to-day—who are handsomely paid and pensioned, and who are provided with the best of everything—for simply discharging their duty, if they are maimed or injured should be able to mulct the ratepayers, whilst the ordinary subject; of Her Majesty can get nothing if he is hurt in similar circumstances, does seem monstrous. I make this as a protest against keeping alive this ancient archaic piece of legislation passed at a time when Ireland was as different as could possibly be. I beg to move this Amendment.

§ MR. ATKINSON
The constabulary are responsible for the preservation of the public peace, and it is most just and right that they should be protected, because nothing could be more fatal in Ireland than to make the maiming and wounding of policemen a popular amusement. It seems to me that you cannot discriminate in this matter, because when a man is injured in a particular place the fair conclusion is that the members of that community where he is injured should bear the cost of compensation. It is very hard, if a man is injured in the county of Cork, that some other county should be called upon to bear the cost of compensation.

§ MR. M. HEALY
I do not think it will be any good to press the Amendment, and I beg, therefore, to withdraw it.

THE CHAIRMAN
Does the right honourable Gentleman move anything?

§ * MR. SERJEANT HEMPHILL
Yes. I move the Amendment standing in my name as follows:— Schedule 1, page 49, line 35, add— Richmond Lunatic Asylums Act, 1897. That is necessary, because under the 9th section the powers of the Lunatic Asylums Acts are transferred to the new-councils, and for the definition we have to look to the schedule. If this Act was not in the schedule it would not fall within the definition. Under the Lunatic Asylums Act of 1897 extensive borrowing powers were given to lunatic asylums, and special borrowing powers were given to the governors, and also to the Board of Control, and it is absolutely necessary for the conduct of those asylums that those

§ MR. M. HEALY
I think there was an earlier Lunatic Asylum Act than that. I thought that the Government Had deliberately excluded it for some reason.

THE CHAIRMAN
I think we must dispose of this Amendment first.

§ MR. M. HEALY
On this should not the Dublin Police Act of 1890, and a portion of the Dublin Collection of Rates Act be included? The original code in existence in Dublin is modified in a large way by the Dublin Private Act of 1890, and. I should have thought when you were applying the Collection of Rates Act it would be necessary to include as one of the Acts the Act of 1890.

PART IV.—DUBLIN COLLECTION OF RATES ACTS.
Session and Chapter.	Title.	Short Title.
12 and 13 Vic, c. 91	An Act to provide for the collection of rates in the City of Dublin	The Dublin Collection of Rates Act, 1849.
17 and 18 Vic, c. 32	An Act to enable the Collector-General of Dublin to levy money to repay a certain outlay by the Corporation for preserving and improving the port of Dublin in and about repairing the quay wall of the River Liffey and for future repairs thereof, and for repairing and rebuilding bridges over the said river	The Dublin Bridge Act, 1854.

PART V.—DUBLIN METROPOLIS POLICE ACTS.
Session and Chapter.	Title or Short Title.
6 and 7 Will, 4, c. 29	…	…	The Dublin Police Act, 1836.
7 Will. 4, and 1 Vic., c. 25	…	…	The Dublin Police Act. 1837.
2 and 3 Vic., c. 78	…	…	The Dublin Police Act, 1839.
5 and 6 Vic., c. 24	…	…	The Dublin Police Act, 1842.
12 and 13 Vic., c. 91	…	…	An Act to provide for the collection of rates in the city of Dublin.
22 and 23 Vic., c. 52	…	…	The Dublin Police Act, 1859.
31 and 32 Vic., c. 95	…	…	The Dublin Police Act, 1867.
37 and 38 Vic., c. 23	…	…	The Resident Magistrates and Police Commissioners Salaries Act, 1874.
46 and 47 Vic., c. 14	…	…	The Constabulary and Police (Ireland) Act, 1888.