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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 ReferenceG00/05/54 Date27 November 1915 to 8 April 1916 Production date 1915-11 - 1916-04 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. Includes an index to main resolutions passed and subjects discussed. Includes - ' Read a letter from Messrs Golding & Sheill, Solicitors, Ballinasloe dated the 8th January, 1916 stating that as a Decree for possession of Mrs Hocdorfer's house was granted at Loughrea Quarter Sessions, and as she has absolutely no means of paying the rent due, she will be certainly quite destitute, if the Decree is executed, and in these circumstances the Guardians should have no difficulty in feeling satisfied that they are safe in granting her the allowance which she claims' (p207, see also p235, p345). - 'Resolved :- That we join with the public boards all over Ireland in protesting against the withdrawal of Education, Agricultural and other Grants in Ireland. The action of the Treasury in this starving Irish while pampering English services is only another evidence that even yet unjst discrimination between England and her weaker sister continues to be the fixed policy of the British Government' (p235). - 'That our experiences of the working of the Insurance Act in Ireland convinces us day by day not along of its utter worthlessness but of its injustice to employer's and employees alike. We are assured that no amount of contemplated amendment can make it either now or in future beneficial or popular in this Country and as its benefits are in no way proportionate to the erroneous cost of its administration we call for its complete abolition' (p317). - 'That We, the Members of the Ballinasloe Board of Guardians in meeting assembled, in union with the whole Irish Nation condemn in the strongest possible manner the mean and cowardly action of the Local Government Board in resurrecting a dead buried, and long since rotten Act of Parliament in order to enable them to levy an ignoble tax on our Saintly Priests the Franciscan Fathers of Athlone, and while condemning this dastardly crew the Auditor & Co., of the Local Government Board, we tender all thanks and praise to the Chairman and Members of the different Boards of 'stout' Athlone as also to Messrs Jophn Dilloan (sic), J.P. Hayden, and Sir Walter Nugent for their manly action in condemning this bigoted folly by an almost obsolete body of hirelings' (p403). Extent537pp LanguageEnglish Conditions governing accessAvailable by appointment. Unrestricted access. The material in this collection is available to all bona fide researchers by appointment only, and subject to the conditions of access governing the consultation of archival material at Galway County Council Archives. 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 G00/05/54 Ballinasloe Poor Law Union: Minute Book of Board of Guardians 27 November 1915 to 8 April 1916file

TitleBallinasloe Poor Law Union: Minute Book of Board of Guardians

RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services

ReferenceG00/05/54

Date27 November 1915 to 8 April 1916

Production date 1915-11 - 1916-04

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. Includes an index to main resolutions passed and subjects discussed.

Includes

- ' Read a letter from Messrs Golding & Sheill, Solicitors, Ballinasloe dated the 8th January, 1916 stating that as a Decree for possession of Mrs Hocdorfer's house was granted at Loughrea Quarter Sessions, and as she has absolutely no means of paying the rent due, she will be certainly quite destitute, if the Decree is executed, and in these circumstances the Guardians should have no difficulty in feeling satisfied that they are safe in granting her the allowance which she claims' (p207, see also p235, p345).

- 'Resolved :- That we join with the public boards all over Ireland in protesting against the withdrawal of Education, Agricultural and other Grants in Ireland. The action of the Treasury in this starving Irish while pampering English services is only another evidence that even yet unjst discrimination between England and her weaker sister continues to be the fixed policy of the British Government' (p235).

- 'That our experiences of the working of the Insurance Act in Ireland convinces us day by day not along of its utter worthlessness but of its injustice to employer's and employees alike. We are assured that no amount of contemplated amendment can make it either now or in future beneficial or popular in this Country and as its benefits are in no way proportionate to the erroneous cost of its administration we call for its complete abolition' (p317).

- 'That We, the Members of the Ballinasloe Board of Guardians in meeting assembled, in union with the whole Irish Nation condemn in the strongest possible manner the mean and cowardly action of the Local Government Board in resurrecting a dead buried, and long since rotten Act of Parliament in order to enable them to levy an ignoble tax on our Saintly Priests the Franciscan Fathers of Athlone, and while condemning this dastardly crew the Auditor & Co., of the Local Government Board, we tender all thanks and praise to the Chairman and Members of the different Boards of 'stout' Athlone as also to Messrs Jophn Dilloan (sic), J.P. Hayden, and Sir Walter Nugent for their manly action in condemning this bigoted folly by an almost obsolete body of hirelings' (p403).

Extent537pp

LanguageEnglish

Conditions governing accessAvailable by appointment. Unrestricted access. The material in this collection is available to all bona fide researchers by appointment only, and subject to the conditions of access governing the consultation of archival material at Galway County Council Archives.

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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