Clifden Poor Law Union archive collection, Descriptive List, GPL3.pdf

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
16a. 9 March 1853 - 28 June 1853 Volume of minutes (first ¼ of volume is blank), includes
­ „Resolved that the Board have reason to believe the strictness that ought to be used by
the Officers of the House in preventing paupers from being about the town, and the Board
being determined to stop such proceedings, they have called the attention of the Master,
and parties, to the circumstances and directed them in future not to allow any paupers
outside the House on any pretence whatsoever, except the boys required as messengers
...‟ (1 June 1853, p13).
16b. 9 Mar 1853 - 7 July 1853 Volume of Rough Minutes - Closed due to fragile condition
17. 6 July 1853 - 7 December 1853 Includes:
­ Includes list of 21 inmates discharged who were issued with ‘suit of clothes’ (10 Aug 1853,
p109), giving their name, age, electoral division, and [date of admission], further list
included in 17 Aug 1853, p129.
­ „Ordered that the Clerk do write to the Westport Board of Guardians requesting they will
send to this Board the sum of £129, appearing due to the Clifden Union by the Final
adjustment order of the PL Commissioners.
Mr Hall, PL Inspector brought under the notice of the Board the claim of the Westport
Union for £22.10, value of meal alleged to have been left in store in Inishbofin Island…‟
(p513).
18. 14 December 1853 – 7 June 1854 Includes:-
- „Mr Kearnes (Relieving Officer) also informed the Board that he had been served with an
Eviction notice against 87 families in the Electoral Divisions of [Derryculla] and
Dunloughan, the notice was signed by Mr John Robertson‟ (p51).
- „The Master reports that on the morning of Saturday last Samuel [Panes] Esq. P.P. called
his attention to a woman named Biddy Joyce an inmate of the Infirm Ward whom he found
crossing the River near the Workhouse with a bottle of milk in her possession which she
stated belonged to herself and was carrying it to her daughter who was then sick in
Ardbear‟ (p69).
- „PL Commissioners‟ letter no. 60,756/53, 29 th Dec., stating that they the PLC being
responsible, that Medical Aid shall be available when required by the sick poor they cannot
consent to the proposal of the Board of Guardians to reduce the number of Dispensary
districts and, consequently, the number of Medical Officers employed therein under the
Medical Charities Act‟ (p70, see also p73).
- „That of the 21 persons ordered to be discharged by the Board on the last day the Master
discharged 10 of them, the remaining 11 could not be discharged in consequence of their
own clothes not being in the old clothes store and would suggest that the Board do
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