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Actions	Ballinasloe Poor Law Union: Minute Book of Board of Guardians Remove from selection Add to selection TitleBallinasloe Poor Law Union: Minute Book of Board of Guardians RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services ReferenceG00/05/60 Date5 October 1918 to 29 March 1919 Scope and Content Volume recording details of attendance and proceedings of weekly meetings relating to the maintenance, administration and financing of the workhouse, distribution of out-door relief, and the care of workhouse inmates relating to their accommodation and employment, and to medical, pastoral, educational, and dietary needs. Minutes include details on the number of persons accommodated in the workhouse, and the number receiving outdoor relief ; confirmation that various reports, financial and other records, such as the Workhouse Register, Provision Check Accounts, Out-door Relief Lists, Medical Officers’ books and reports of the Visiting Committee, the workhouse Master and other Officers’ were produced, examined and approved together with details of required action relating to the information provided therein, and details of all monies received or paid, and all orders and cheques given, such as those required for the supply of food and clothing; details of rates collected, arrears, and declared irrecoverably in each electoral division ; also includes details of orders and letters received from or written to the Poor Law Commissioners and others, and details of subsequent resolutions passed and instructions issued authorising required action; details of the master’s report and resolutions adopted to address any issues raised therein ; and from 1854 provision is included for minutes of the proceedings of the Board under the Medical Charities Acts and Nuisances Removal and Disease Prevention Acts, and subsequently under Public Health Acts ; from 1874 the proceedings of the Board as the Sanitary Authority are recorded ; and from 1893 the proceedings of the Board of Guardians acting as the Rural Sanitary Authority under the Labourers (Ireland) Acts are included. The minutes are generally dated, and signed by the Clerk of the Union, the Chairman. Several volumes include an index to main resolutions passed and subjects discussed. Includes - Master's report detailing the number and classification of inmates transferred to Portumna Workhouse, and advising that the 'body of the house was officially taken over by the miliary Authorities (per Captain George R.E.) on 10th inst'... (p29, see also p317). - 'Mr Beresford (Local Government Inspector) who was present at the Meeting read a letter from the Clerk of the Portumna Union regarding the reception of the Inmates from the Ballinasloe Union and the treatment they received on arriving. When on the motion of the Chairman, Seconded by Mr Hoban a vote of thanks was passed to the Guardians and Officers of the Portumna Union for their kindness to the transferred inmates,…' (p33) - Resolved, 'That the Prime Minister be called upon to release all the Irish Prisoners interned in English and Irish prisons at the present time for political offences, as we consider that the time has now come for a general Amnesty to be extended to all persons suffering for political offences' (4 January 1919, p297). Extent551pp LanguageEnglish Conditions governing accessAvailable by appointment. Unrestricted access. The material in this collection is available to all bone fide researchers by appointment only, and subject to the conditions of access governing the consultation of archival material at Galway County Council Archives. No material may be reproduced from this collection without the written permission of the archivist, and reproductions are subject to the conditions of access. Conditions governing reproductionNo material may be reproduced from this collection without the written permission of the archivist, and reproductions are subject to the conditions of access. Levelfile Hierarchy browser G00/05 Ballinasloe Poor Law Union, 1842 – 1931 1842 - 1931fonds contains 36 parts G00/05/60 Ballinasloe Poor Law Union: Minute Book of Board of Guardians 5 October 1918 to 29 March 1919file

TitleBallinasloe Poor Law Union: Minute Book of Board of Guardians

RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services

ReferenceG00/05/60

Date5 October 1918 to 29 March 1919

Scope and Content

Volume recording details of attendance and proceedings of weekly meetings relating to the maintenance, administration and financing of the workhouse, distribution of out-door relief, and the care of workhouse inmates relating to their accommodation and employment, and to medical, pastoral, educational, and dietary needs. Minutes include details on the number of persons accommodated in the workhouse, and the number receiving outdoor relief ; confirmation that various reports, financial and other records, such as the Workhouse Register, Provision Check Accounts, Out-door Relief Lists, Medical Officers’ books and reports of the Visiting Committee, the workhouse Master and other Officers’ were produced, examined and approved together with details of required action relating to the information provided therein, and details of all monies received or paid, and all orders and cheques given, such as those required for the supply of food and clothing; details of rates collected, arrears, and declared irrecoverably in each electoral division ; also includes details of orders and letters received from or written to the Poor Law Commissioners and others, and details of subsequent resolutions passed and instructions issued authorising required action; details of the master’s report and resolutions adopted to address any issues raised therein ; and from 1854 provision is included for minutes of the proceedings of the Board under the Medical Charities Acts and Nuisances Removal and Disease Prevention Acts, and subsequently under Public Health Acts ; from 1874 the proceedings of the Board as the Sanitary Authority are recorded ; and from 1893 the proceedings of the Board of Guardians acting as the Rural Sanitary Authority under the Labourers (Ireland) Acts are included.

The minutes are generally dated, and signed by the Clerk of the Union, the Chairman. Several volumes include an index to main resolutions passed and subjects discussed.

Includes

- Master's report detailing the number and classification of inmates transferred to Portumna Workhouse, and advising that the 'body of the house was officially taken over by the miliary Authorities (per Captain George R.E.) on 10th inst'... (p29, see also p317).

- 'Mr Beresford (Local Government Inspector) who was present at the Meeting read a letter from the Clerk of the Portumna Union regarding the reception of the Inmates from the Ballinasloe Union and the treatment they received on arriving. When on the motion of the Chairman, Seconded by Mr Hoban a vote of thanks was passed to the Guardians and Officers of the Portumna Union for their kindness to the transferred inmates,…' (p33)

- Resolved, 'That the Prime Minister be called upon to release all the Irish Prisoners interned in English and Irish prisons at the present time for political offences, as we consider that the time has now come for a general Amnesty to be extended to all persons suffering for political offences' (4 January 1919, p297).

Extent551pp

LanguageEnglish

Conditions governing accessAvailable by appointment. Unrestricted access. The material in this collection is available to all bone fide researchers by appointment only, and subject to the conditions of access governing the consultation of archival material at Galway County Council Archives. No material may be reproduced from this collection without the written permission of the archivist, and reproductions are subject to the conditions of access.

Conditions governing reproductionNo material may be reproduced from this collection without the written permission of the archivist, and reproductions are subject to the conditions of access.

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