Local Authority & Local Authority Organisations, Liaison with/ Tuam Town Commissioners, Fairs, Markets & Bye-Laws (Tuam), 1963-1966
Tuam Town Commissioners, Fairs, Markets & Bye-Laws (Tuam): File of material relating to the bye-law on Fairs & Markets in Tuam, includes correspondence between the Tuam Town Clerk (Miss Madge Whyte or Gerald O'Connor) to Tuam Town Manager, generally Assistant County Manager, regarding the drafting of bye-laws, and copies of the similar bye-laws for Loughrea & Ballinasloe and background information, copy of Counsel's Opinion regarding Tuam Tolls and the possibility of the Commissioners applying for an injunction to restrain the Mart from holding what is in the Opinion described as a "rival market" (1964), interrpretation of terms, and printed copy of Tuam bye-laws with respect to markets held in Tuam and interruptations of same(1965).
Includes
- notice - appropriation of parts of the Market Place, Tuam,(1963)
- Loughrea Markets Notice 1960 & copy of printed Bye-laws with 'respect to the markets in the town of Loughrea (1959)
- Ballinasloe Urban District Council Bye-law, interpretation of terms (1963);
- Details on background to fairs & markets in Ballinasloe, stating 'The Urban Council became interested in the purchase of the Fairs Markets rights for Ballinasloe when the Solicitors for the Cloncarty Estate offered to sell these Rights to the Council in 1943;
After protacted correspondence the Urban Council agreed in 1947 to purchase from the Earl of Cloncarty, "the Fair Green (about 16 acres) together with the exclusive right to hold Fairs and Markets therein and in the Market Square and the Town of Ballinasloe and the Right to collect the Tolls and stallage thereat together with the weightbridge and Market House" for the sum of £1,700. This purchase was not approved by the Department until the Council was constituted a Market Authority...'.
- Letter from the Revenue Commissioners advising that Hawker's licences are issued by the Revenue Commissioners (1965).