Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-14
PARNELL,s PLAN FOR IRELAND,

PARNELLsS PLAN FOR IRELAND
 Home Rule as He Would Have 1t.
 County Boards and Central Board 1 50 Govern HreIand-The Plan i'm F FuII 1 LONDON, Aug. 13.-The proposal of MI
 Parnell for the settlement of the Irish ques
 tion, which Mir. Chamberlain refers to in hi
 letter to the Times as having been brought t.
 him by MT. O'Shea in 1885, and which is ap l pended to his letter, is headed fsLocal Self l Government in Ireland" and is.as follows: 1 It is proposed to create county boards, tt I be elected by ratepayers triennially by ballot The boards would levy county rates, would be sanitary authorities and would administer l all county business-relief of the poor, in | firmaries, hospitals, asylums, roads, bridges and harbors. The boards would have power I to compulsorily purchase or lease land fol l any of these objects, as we'll as for the erec- tion of churches, schools, 1aborers' cottages, I etc.; to grant concessions for and to pro- | vide county and baronia1 subventions and ! guarantees of interest to railways, tram ways and other public undertak- | ings within the county; to order ol undertake such subsidiary schemes of arterial drainage as may be confined to their areas of of Jurisdiction, and to delegate their powers
 to committees A board would, moreover, be authorized to associate itself with one or more boards for business of the nature indi- csted, which might overlap it's boundary. In order to guard the rights of landowners Q representation in proportion to the rates
 paid by them might be admitted to the
 board. Generally speaking, the landlord pays half the poor rates and the tennant half
 the poor rates and the whole of the county excess now.
 According to the return of local taxation
 in Ireland just presented to Parliament, 1t appears that in 1883 the amounts levied on
 real property outside of the towns were for
 poor rates &1, ,147, ,322 and for country. cess
 e1 ,191, ,920. Supposing, therefore, that the
 landowners were found to bear one-fourth of
 these burdens, they might be allotted one-
 fourth representation on the county boads.
 To make sure of this system of separate
 elections for the two classes might be estab-
 lished. It would perhaps be found conve-
 nient to levy single county rate for the
 purposes, such rate to be eQuitably divided
 between landlord and tenant, according to
 the present average in proportion to their re- spective ratings.
 "County boards and municipalities would elect representatives according to population to serve on a central board in Dublin. For the purpose of these elections the representa- tives of the landowners would have separate elective power proportionate to that of their constituents in elections to the county boards. To the central board would be handed over the management of such public departments as the following:
 1. Local government board. 2. Board of works. 3. Board of national education. 4. Board of intermediate education. D. Irish fisheries board. 6. Lunatic asylums board. 2. General valuation and boundary survey. 8. Charitable donations and bequests eom- mission. 9. Endowed schools commis- sion, etc.
 The central board would have general powers over these departments and over the rc0 ay,iz ofi of be authorized to delegate such powers, or any of them, to committee, and to appoint 8 president, vice. president and emyioyes to ad- minister them. The central board would have the power to levy national rates for such pur- poses as internal improvements, harbors, ar- terial drainage, tree planting, and reclama- tion and improvement of land; for subsidies and guarantees for interest to railways, tram ways and public enterprises for guar antees in reference to the purchase of holdings for tenants and similar objects, and for the better housing of the poor working classes. It would be entitled to borrow morrow money from the treasury for purposes sanctioned by law, and to grant loans to owners and occupiers of land sub- ject to the consent and regulations of the treasury in so far ss might concern the ad- vances made to it by the latter. It would have the power to move the ministers to ask Parliament for contributions from the impe- ElAI CACu0QA0E HUI 6Ac90Oluk tu0 pTOPOEL1Ou of such contributions to the rates granted for similar purposes in England. It would have control over all public endowments for edu- cational purposes in Ireland and over the unapplied balance of the Irish church fund now in the keep ing of the land commissioners. but the collection of money on account of this fund would be left to the treasury or the land commissioners. who would hand the proceeds to the central board. When either the county boards or the central board should exercise the right of compulsorily taking on lease or purchasing land, in order to enlarge holdings or supply other holdings to ten nants in oongested districts, the valuation for the lease or purchase might be left to the and commissioners. Lsvies for compensa- sion for outrages or for extra police should De collected by the police authorities. There would be no appeal from the central board except on the question of legal power, and such appeal would be finally decided by the Supreme Court of Appeal.
 HDuhIin January IA 1895 H