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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
53. 18 August 1880 – 11 May 1881 Minutes for last two weeks are detached. Includes:
- „Resolved That the LGB be requested to grant a loan of £3,000 for the purpose of emigration
that owing to the destitute state of the Union and the numerous applications before us for
assistance in this direction and having regard to the impoverished state of many landowners
whose valuation does not exceed £3 and who are anxious to emigrate the Board beg leave
respectfully to represent that if such loan be allocated for such purpose it would help
materially to mitigate distress throughout the Union and better the condition of the poor
people to which we refer if provided with means to emigrate‟ (f6).
- „Resolved That the heartful thanks of the Board of Guardians of this Union be given to Major
Gaskill for the kind and efficient manner in which he (as the representative of the Duchess of
Marlboro Fund) has relieved the poor of this Union‟ (f24).
- „Resolved that the LGB be asked to give the Board a loan of £2,000 under Relief of Distress
Act, 1880 108 to meet the liability of the Union and to carry us on until the collection of new rate
which we fear will be most difficult to collect‟ (f53).
- „Resolved That we respectfully call the attention of the Government to the great distress
prevailing amongst the labouring classes, artisans and small tenant farmers of this Union and
strongly urge the immediate necessity of forthwith opening all the public works passed in last
session under the Relief Act and that the erection of a Railway line from Galway to Clifden
would give useful and necessary employment …‟ (f133, see also f157).
- „Resolved that we agreed with Mr Blake, C.E., as to the necessity of opening the sewerage of
Clifden and advertisements for contractors should be issued at once to complete said works
and that the sanction of the LGB in asking a loan of £300 for said works be requested‟ (f134,
see also f157).
54. 18 May 1881 – 21 December 1881 Includes:
- „Resolved that the collection is in a very backward state and that the collectors do not
appear to have used due diligence and that more energy on their part should have been
used and that they have not complied with the Board‟s order of 11 th inst. and that the Local
Government‟s attention be called to the matter‟ (f5).
- „Resolved. That this Board of Guardians hail with great satisfaction the proposal of a
Steam tramway between Galway outward and to Clifden and give their unanimous
approval of the undertaking and further feel it their duty to urge upon the Grand Juries of
the county of Galway, of the Town of Galway and on the Town Commissioners the great
necessity existing for the carrying out such a project‟ (f68).
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Relief of Distress (Ireland) Act was passed in March 1880 (43 Vict. c.4).
Cartlann Chomhairle Contae na Gaillimhe „…cuimhne dhoiciméadach Chontae na Gaillimhe a shealbhú, a chaomhnú agus a dhéanamh inrochtana’
Galway County Council - Archives „…to acquire, preserve and make accessible the documentary memory of county Galway’
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