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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
61. 21 October 1885 – 5 May 1886 Includes
- „Resolved that owing to the very few persons who are qualified to fill the position of
Guardian in this Union the qualification being £30 that the LGB be requested to reduce the
qualification from £30 to £10 in Clifden Electoral Division and seven pounds £7, in the other
Divisions‟ (pp50-51, see also p68).
- „LGB Letter no. 40607 dated 29 Dec 1885 stating that they are willing to reduce the
qualification for the office of Guardian to £12 for each Electoral Division of the Union (p188).
- „The little girl Toole is ordered to be admitted by way of loan, her father becoming
contributor for her support to the extent of one shilling per week‟ (p189).
- „Resolved: That in consequence of the general reduction in rents throughout Ireland, owing
to the depression of all kinds of agricultural produce and the low price of stock we the
Guardians of the Glenamaddy Union, hereby place on record our opinion that all
mortgagees should give a substantial reduction on the interest of their mortgages so as to
enable the landlords to grant a reduction now sought and needed throughout Ireland.
Passed unanimously‟ (p191).
- „Resolved that consequent on the great distress at present prevailing among the people in
many parts of this Union and which distress might be averted by giving the people some
employment and some earnings and that the Government should be at once called on to
render the required assistance to such measures as may be decided on. We also appeal to
the landlords and shopkeepers within the Union to act leniently and indulgently towards the
people during the time of their present trying ordeal‟ (pp209-210).
- „Resolved. That we the Guardians… are quite certain that if the landlords of this Union,
also the agents of absentee landlords, press the tenants for rents due at present they must
surely want the unfortunate people out of the country and we think it advisable that the
landlords should at present refrain from enforcing these rents by ejectment or otherwise
until we meet with better times and that the landlords should accept outstanding rents by
instalments, as at present since forty seven and forty eight (1847 & 1848) we never had a
worse prospect of the times nor the people in a worse condition and we also think that the
present rents fixed by the Land Commission are fifty per cent too high‟ (p211).
- „That we the Board of Guardians of the Clifden Union are of opinion that in view of the result
of the late Parliamentary Election a large measure of Local self government for Ireland
should now be granted subject however to the following indispensable conditions
1 st . The maintenance of the supremacy of the Imperial government
2 nd . The due representation of all classes and interests in the Irish legislature and
3 rd . The conversion of fair terms of all agricultural tenants into freeholds‟ (p391).
- „Resolved: That we beg to call the attention of the LGB to the very great distress and widespread
poverty existing in this Union. And we would urge upon the LGB the necessity of
getting the Government to open up works of public utility immediately…‟ (p409).
- „Resolved: That the Board of Guardians have sufficient facts before them that widespread
and dire distress exists throughout the entire Union, and the Board beg to affirm that if
exceptional powers are not permitted to the Board, to relieve distressed occupiers of land
and sufficient funds placed at their disposal as indicated under Relief of Distress Act, now
passing through the House of Commons, hundreds of families will starve. The clause in the
Act referring to the repairs and making of roads, and boat slips and piers may be carried out
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