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Actions	Gort Poor Law Union: Minute Book, 1853 Remove from selection Add to selection TitleGort Poor Law Union: Minute Book, 1853 RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services ReferenceG01/12/14 DateNovember 1852 to 9 May 1853 Production date 1852-11 - 1853-05-09 Scope and Content Includes - Letter from John Daly Nolan, Solicitor, regarding the case against Thomas Quin former rate collector charged with embezzlement, advising the Board that ‘upon my applying to the Crown Solicitor and to the Clerk of the Peace, they both respectively refused to prepare Bills of Indictment and as the case was one always very difficulty to sustain they advised me to employ Counsel on behalf of the Guardians, I accordingly called upon Mr Galbraith the Barrister to prepare the Bill and to attend as Counsel in the prosecution for which I am indebted to him in the sum of two Guineas…. I have to state that although the charges were clearly proved against Quin the Jury chiefly I believe owing to the character he received were of opinion he was not guilty’ (pp109), - ‘Mr Hall (Poor Rate Inspector) having drawing he attention of the Board to the consideration of the arrears of rates up to 1849 with a view to a revision of them. It was ordered that all Poor Rate Collectors do furnish lists of al Poor Rates due up to and for 1849 …’(p131). - The Master called the Board’s attention to the necessity of covering the well; a serious accident had like to take place last week while one of the pauper women was in the act of taking water she slipt (sic), and fell in, and had it not been for the timely interference of a Country woman who called for assistance most likely she would have been drowned.’ (p247). - ‘Letter from the Roman Catholic Chaplain stating t that the few pounds ordered by the Board to provide Altar requisites is entirely inadequate, and requesting it will be increased to twenty pounds to purchase suitable requisite’s for the due administration of divine worship’ (p309). - ‘Resolved that the Board considering the Industrial training of the Juvenile inmates of the workhouse to be a matter of the first importance in Order that they may bee accustomed to manual labour at an early age, and that they may hereafter become useful members of Society; direct that the schoolboys between the ages of 12 and 15 bee employed in cultivating the workhouse land, under the superintendence of the Labour Master, and that the school Girls between the ages of 12 and 15 years be employed in the industrial occupations carried out in the Workhouse namely in the workhouse kitchen, and bakery, under the superintendence of the Matron, and that they be also taught spinning, knitting, and plain needle work in mending, and making their own clothing’ (p311). - ‘…We cannot conceive on what grounds of Justice the Commissioners act in stating the salaries of this Union are only equal to those of others when the Clerk of Loughrea Union, a second class house, has but £80 a year and the Clerk of this Union a third class house has £100 a year. We are still of opinion this salary should be reduced to same as Loughrea, with respect to the other salaries we are also of same opinion they should be reduced as proposed. If it was deemed prudent to increase the salaries when the work and the numbers increased to about 3,400 is it not equally just and prudent to lessen the expense when the numbers have decreased to fully a 1/3 or 1235, also considering those officers have no capital engaged, no risk to run, no anxiety of mind and that their salaries are except from Poor Rates, Public cess, Tithes, quit and Crown rent or any deductions whatever while hundreds who contribute by their toil and industry to those salaries can scarcely procure a sufficiently of the necessaries of life and are daily obliged to see in foreign lands that protection for their industry which excessive taxation denies them in this’ (p329). - Letter from the Roman Catholic Chaplain Rev. Patrick Tully to the Board calling to their attention the ‘unwarrantable conduct of the Protestant Clergyman who gave prayers at the Gort workhouse on Sunday the 10th inst. Not content with confining himself to the duties he had come to discharge, the Rev. Gentleman took the liberty while mass was being read and in sight of the Altar to make most gross and insulting remarks on the mysteries of our holy religion to the Porter who is a Catholic. I respectfully request Gentlemen that you will prevent the ubiquitous feelings of the Catholic inmates of this House from being thus outraged in future…’(p409). Extent476pp LanguageEnglish SubjectWorkhouses Conditions governing accessAvailable on microfilm 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 G01/12 Gort Poor Law Union, 1844-1921 1844 - 1921fonds contains 7 parts G01/12/1-103 Gort Poor Law Union, Board of Guardian Minutes Books, 1844-1921 1844-1921series contains 98 parts G01/12/14 Gort Poor Law Union: Minute Book, 1853 November 1852 to 9 May 1853file

TitleGort Poor Law Union: Minute Book, 1853

RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services

ReferenceG01/12/14

DateNovember 1852 to 9 May 1853

Production date 1852-11 - 1853-05-09

Scope and Content

Includes

- Letter from John Daly Nolan, Solicitor, regarding the case against Thomas Quin former rate collector charged with embezzlement, advising the Board that ‘upon my applying to the Crown Solicitor and to the Clerk of the Peace, they both respectively refused to prepare Bills of Indictment and as the case was one always very difficulty to sustain they advised me to employ Counsel on behalf of the Guardians, I accordingly called upon Mr Galbraith the Barrister to prepare the Bill and to attend as Counsel in the prosecution for which I am indebted to him in the sum of two Guineas…. I have to state that although the charges were clearly proved against Quin the Jury chiefly I believe owing to the character he received were of opinion he was not guilty’ (pp109),

- ‘Mr Hall (Poor Rate Inspector) having drawing he attention of the Board to the consideration of the arrears of rates up to 1849 with a view to a revision of them. It was ordered that all Poor Rate Collectors do furnish lists of al Poor Rates due up to and for 1849 …’(p131).

- The Master called the Board’s attention to the necessity of covering the well; a serious accident had like to take place last week while one of the pauper women was in the act of taking water she slipt (sic), and fell in, and had it not been for the timely interference of a Country woman who called for assistance most likely she would have been drowned.’ (p247).

- ‘Letter from the Roman Catholic Chaplain stating t that the few pounds ordered by the Board to provide Altar requisites is entirely inadequate, and requesting it will be increased to twenty pounds to purchase suitable requisite’s for the due administration of divine worship’ (p309).

- ‘Resolved that the Board considering the Industrial training of the Juvenile inmates of the workhouse to be a matter of the first importance in Order that they may bee accustomed to manual labour at an early age, and that they may hereafter become useful members of Society; direct that the schoolboys between the ages of 12 and 15 bee employed in cultivating the workhouse land, under the superintendence of the Labour Master, and that the school Girls between the ages of 12 and 15 years be employed in the industrial occupations carried out in the Workhouse namely in the workhouse kitchen, and bakery, under the superintendence of the Matron, and that they be also taught spinning, knitting, and plain needle work in mending, and making their own clothing’ (p311).

- ‘…We cannot conceive on what grounds of Justice the Commissioners act in stating the salaries of this Union are only equal to those of others when the Clerk of Loughrea Union, a second class house, has but £80 a year and the Clerk of this Union a third class house has £100 a year. We are still of opinion this salary should be reduced to same as Loughrea, with respect to the other salaries we are also of same opinion they should be reduced as proposed.

If it was deemed prudent to increase the salaries when the work and the numbers increased to about 3,400 is it not equally just and prudent to lessen the expense when the numbers have decreased to fully a 1/3 or 1235, also considering those officers have no capital engaged, no risk to run, no anxiety of mind and that their salaries are except from Poor Rates, Public cess, Tithes, quit and Crown rent or any deductions whatever while hundreds who contribute by their toil and industry to those salaries can scarcely procure a sufficiently of the necessaries of life and are daily obliged to see in foreign lands that protection for their industry which excessive taxation denies them in this’ (p329).

- Letter from the Roman Catholic Chaplain Rev. Patrick Tully to the Board calling to their attention the ‘unwarrantable conduct of the Protestant Clergyman who gave prayers at the Gort workhouse on Sunday the 10th inst. Not content with confining himself to the duties he had come to discharge, the Rev. Gentleman took the liberty while mass was being read and in sight of the Altar to make most gross and insulting remarks on the mysteries of our holy religion to the Porter who is a Catholic. I respectfully request Gentlemen that you will prevent the ubiquitous feelings of the Catholic inmates of this House from being thus outraged in future…’(p409).

Extent476pp

LanguageEnglish

SubjectWorkhouses

Conditions governing accessAvailable on microfilm 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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