Loughrea Poor Law Union, Board of Guardian Minutes, 1850-51

Includes:

• ‘Letter No 42,443 dated 1^st August intimating the receipt of a Communication from the Chief Secretary’s Office, respecting the transmission and safe arrival of 25 emigrant pauper girls from the Loughrea workhouse to Sydney’ (pp76-77, 3 Aug 1850).
• ‘Resolved that the Clerk be directed to write to Messrs Grace & Co., Mr A Ireland, Mr Commerford and Messrs Evans (emigration agents) to ascertain the lowest average cost of emigration for each pauper to British America or United Sates’ (p87).
• Resolved: That Dr Lynch be the medical officer of the Fever Hospital at Mount Pleasant proposed to be maintained under the 16^th Section of the Act 6 & 7 Vic, Cap 92 and that his salary for attending that Hospital and the workhouse be £120 per year’ (p107).
• ‘Letter 30^th August from the clerk of the Portumna Union, requesting to get a boiler at Tynagh for the use of a temporary Workhouse in Portumna and also to get one now at Monivea for the same purpose’ (p117).
• Details of Medical Officer’s recommendation for dietary needs for inmates (p180).
• ‘The Board of Guardians of Portumna Union having proposed to withdraw about 160 paupers of certain classes belong to their Union, from this Workhouse and not having clothing for them have requested a supply of suits for the above number’ (p217).
• ‘Resolved: That having considered the Commissioners letter no. 63,816 dated 6 December in relation to the Portumna Union, and desiring as much as possible to accommodate them, this Board do agree to increase the accommodation afforded to the paupers of that Union from 1/5 to ¼, the Reservation Order being changed accordingly by the Commissioners, provided that it is guaranteed by the Commissioners that out of the large sum now due to the Loughrea Union the Portumna Board pay at present £500, and pay punctually in future the amount of the monthly estimate as prescribed by the Reservation Order, till the accounts of the Unions are finally made up, and provided also that the Portumna Union shall be liable to ¼ of the rent of the Auxiliary Houses, which this Board are now obliged to retain for their accommodation, till such periods as the Loughrea Guardians may be at liberty according to law to surrender or give up such houses’ (GPL2/9, p277, see also p267).
• Discussion regarding the amount due to the Loughrea Union by the Portumna Union for maintenance of its paupers in the Loughrea workhouse, which amounted to €883.6.3 ½ (p287).
• ‘The Master states that a man named James Boohan no. 1773 desires to have his registration altered to Roman Catholic’ (p335).