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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
57. 9 May 1883 – 2 January 1884 Includes:
- „Resolved. That as the Resolution said to be passed at the Board meeting on the 11 th April
was neither proposed, seconded nor put from the Chair that it be expunged from the Minutes
of said meeting and that we the Guardians of Clifden Union now bind ourselves not to
borrow any money for which interest would have to be paid and furthermore we call upon the
collectors to use more exertion in the collection of the Rates in their respective districts so
that money may be forthcoming to meet outstanding debt‟ (f4).
- Mrs C. I. Blake having attended before the Board and explained that her tenants have not
paid any rent since the 1 st November 1881. It is resolved she be allowed time to pay the
arrears of Poor Rate provided she pays it on instalment of £50 at a time on certain townlands
or numbers the rate in the Division being exceedingly high 5/3d in the £ (f24).
- LGB forwarding letter „...from Michael Laffey an inmate of the workhouse proferring complaint
against Dr Payne, Medical Officers of workhouse…‟ (f44, see also f53).
- „Resolved: That the Burial Ground of Ballyconneely in the Bunowen Electoral Division be
enlarged by adding thereto an additional piece of land, as owing to the overcrowded state of
the graveyard there is not at present space left to open new graves consequently they have
to lay coffins one over another without sufficient covering‟ (f85, see also GPL3/58, f14).
- „Take Notice that I will this day fortnight move that some of the Relieving Officers be
discontinued as we have a good harvest now and no sickness in the county and the Union
being so much in debt‟ (f185).
58. 9 January 1884 – 3 September 1884 Includes:
- Details of the election of a Chairman for the ensuing year (9 Apr 1884, f91).
- Details of tenders for coffins for the workhouse and outdoor relief, coffins for a 12 month
period, and supplies, such as tea, sugar, starch, candles, sherry, paraffin oil, Indian meal,
oatmeal and coal, to workhouse for next six months (23 Apr 1884, f105).
- Details of the Board‟s case to the LGB for reducing the qualification of Guardians from £30
to £7 (ff116-117, see also f135).
- „Master reports that Hanna Hughes, aged 90, a Protestant, notified on yesterday the 13 th
inst. that she desired to see the Roman Catholic Chaplain and requested to have her
religious denomination changed to Roman Catholic‟ (f134).
- „The Master reports that Michael Laffey, workhouse inmate, desires to have his religious
denomination changed from Protestant to Roman Catholic‟ (f144).
- „Resolved: That in the opinion of this Board there is great want of employment for the
people in the Cleggan district and as the money has been granted for the erection of a Pier
at Cleggan, this Board respectfully requests the Board of Works to push forward the
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