Gort Poor Law Union: Minute Book, 2 April - 24 September 1857
Includes
- ‘Resolved that applications for payment of liabilities amounting to over £150 being laid before the Board this day and the Guardians not having funds available nor any respect of funds, until a rate is made and a long having been offered to the Board to enable it to get out of the present difficulty. That the Commissioners be requested to sanction a long of £300 to pay present demands and current expenses until a rate is in course of collection, the interest of which t be paid out of the sale of hay and timber sheds, now on the Workhouse land and cemetery and the principal to be paid out of the new rate’ (p311).
- ‘The Honble. Capt. Gough having attended the Board on this day and having agreed on behalf of Lord Gough to re-let to the Board of Guardians the land lately given up by them to him, and to give a lease of the same at the original rent £20.5.0 per annum, for the term as the lease of the Workhouse premises, with a [terminal] clause of surrender after the expiration of the first seven years commencing from the 25th March last’ (p350).