rs, which would have included
the beginning of the South African War).

INDEX

Abercromby, Sir R., 57, 129
Absentee taxes, in Ireland, 23-30;
in Australasia, 116
Absenteeism,
in Ireland, 12, 51;
in Prince Edward Island, 75-76;
in Upper Canada, 80;
in Lower Canada, 85;
in Australia, 110
Acadia. See Maritime Provinces
Act of Union, 1800, 60-64, 232-233
Administrators, in South Africa, 197
Agricultural Co-operation. See Irish Agricultural Organization Society,
also 168, 177
Agricultural Grant, Ireland, 267
Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, 267
Agricultural Statistics, Ireland, 150, 306-308
Amendment of Constitution,
Ireland, 225-227, 338;
Colonies, 225-226, 338
American Colonies,
colonization of, 8-9;
land tenure in (see Land Tenure);
mercantile system, 17-18, 30;
government of, 22-23, 33;
Revolution in, 30-35, 72, 74.
See also United States
Anglo-Normans, in Ireland, 6-7
Annuities, tenant's. See Land Purchase
Armagh, Peep o' Day Boys in, 55
Army Act, 1881, 220 (footnote)
Army and Navy, 218-219, 329
Arnold, Benedict, 40
Ashbourne Act, 1885, 309.
See also Land Acts
Australian Colonies Act, 1850, 107, 225
Australian Colonies Customs Duties Act, 1873, 220, footnote
Australian Colonies, history of,
See Chapter VI., and under names of the various States;
federation of, as Commonwealth of Australia, 119, 196, 198;
finance in, 227-228, 245-246, 288, 295-298.
See also Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, 1900,
Constitutions, Federal Systems, Customs and Excise, Subsidies

Baldwin, Robert, in Upper Canada, 82, 103
Balfour, Arthur,138, 152, 172, 212
Balfour, Gerald, 152, 158, 338
Baltimore, Lord, 21
Barbour, Sir David, on Anglo-Irish Finance, 249-257
Barry, Sir Redmond, 114
Belfast, 45, 146, 162, 170, 175
Belgium, cost of Government in, 253
Berkeley, G.F.H., 178
Bidwell, B., in Upper Canada, 82
Birrell, Augustine, his Land Act of 1909.
See Land Acts, Land Tenure, Land Purchase
Bloemfontein, Convention of, 123
Boer War of 1880-1881, 125;
of 1899-1902, 128-129, 133,216
Bonus to landlords, 310-312, 317.
See also Land Purchase
Boomplatz, battle of, 1848, 123
Botha, General, 143
Brand, President, 124
Bright, John, 69, 71, 213, 308
British Columbia, finances of, 246, 299;
Upper Chamber in, 331
British North America Act,
1867, citations from, 219, 220 (footnote), 225, 299, 323,
325 (footnote), 327, 330 (footnote);
1891, 335.
Se