Page:The Irish land acts; a short sketch of their history and development.djvu/8

 FOREWORD.

This pamphlet was prepared in its original form for the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into and report upon the operations of the Acts dealing with Congestion in Ireland, the working of the Congested Districts Board, and the Land Commission under these Acts, and the relation of the Board with the Land Commission and the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction. It has since been revised and in part re-written; additional information explanatory of its subject has been incorporated in it, and the latest available figures have been substituted for those in the first issue. Thus amended, it will be found, I trust, a serviceable and handy outline of the operation and rationale of the Irish Land Acts.