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Gníomhartha	Clifden Poor Law Union, Minute Book, 1880-1881 Remove from selection Add to selection TeidealClifden Poor Law Union, Minute Book, 1880-1881 StórGalway County Council Archives Services TagairtGPL3/53 Dáta18 August 1880 - 11 May 1881 Cruthaitheoir Clifden Poor Law Union Dáta táirgthe 1880-08-18 - 1881-05-11 Scóp agus Inneachar Includes Minutes for last two weeks are detached. Includes :- -‘Resolved: That the LGB be requested to grant a loan of £3,000 for the purpose of emigration that owing to the destitute state of the Union and the numerous applications before us for assistance in this direction and having regard to the impoverished state of many landowners whose valuation does not exceed £3 and who are anxious to emigrate the Board beg leave respectfully to represent that if such loan be allocated for such purpose it would help materially to mitigate distress throughout the Union and better the condition of the poor people to which we refer if provided with means to emigrate’ (f6). -‘Resolved: That the heartful thanks of the Board of Guardians of this Union be given to Major Gaskill for the kind and efficient manner in which he (as the representative of the Duchess of Marlboro Fund) has relieved the poor of this Union’ (f24). -‘Resolved: That the LGB be asked to give the Board a loan of £2,000 under Relief of Distress Act, 1880 to meet the liability of the Union and to carry us on until the collection of new rate which we fear will be most difficult to collect’ (f53). -‘Resolved: That we respectfully call the attention of the Government to the great distress prevailing amongst the labouring classes, artisans and small tenant farmers of this Union and strongly urge the immediate necessity of forthwith opening all the public works passed in last session under the Relief Act and that the erection of a Railway line from Galway to Clifden would give useful and necessary employment …’ (f133, see also f157). -‘Resolved: That we agreed with Mr Blake, C.E., as to the necessity of opening the sewerage of Clifden and advertisements for contractors should be issued at once to complete said works, and that the sanction of the LGB in asking a loan of £300 for said works be requested’ (f134, see also f157). Fairsinge260ff TeangaEnglish ÁbharPoverty, Railways NótaíAvailable 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. Coinníollacha a rialaíonn atáirgeadhNo material may be reproduced from this collection without the written permission of the archivist, and reproductions are subject to the conditions of access. Tagairt DhigiteachDigitised in 2012 and available online at Access URL Here LeibhéalItem GPL3 Clifden Poor Law Union 1849 - 1921 (with gaps)fonds 5 GPL3/ 1 - 107 Clifden Poor Law Union, Board of Guardian Minutes 1849 - 1921 (with gaps)series 97 GPL3/53 Clifden Poor Law Union, Minute Book, 1880-1881 18 August 1880 - 11 May 1881Item

TeidealClifden Poor Law Union, Minute Book, 1880-1881

StórGalway County Council Archives Services

TagairtGPL3/53

Dáta18 August 1880 - 11 May 1881

Cruthaitheoir Clifden Poor Law Union

Dáta táirgthe 1880-08-18 - 1881-05-11

Scóp agus Inneachar

Includes

Minutes for last two weeks are detached. Includes :-

-‘Resolved: That the LGB be requested to grant a loan of £3,000 for the purpose of emigration that owing to the destitute state of the Union and the numerous applications before us for assistance in this direction and having regard to the impoverished state of many landowners whose valuation does not exceed £3 and who are anxious to emigrate the Board beg leave respectfully to represent that if such loan be allocated for such purpose it would help materially to mitigate distress throughout the Union and better the condition of the poor people to which we refer if provided with means to emigrate’ (f6).

-‘Resolved: That the heartful thanks of the Board of Guardians of this Union be given to Major Gaskill for the kind and efficient manner in which he (as the representative of the Duchess of Marlboro Fund) has relieved the poor of this Union’ (f24).

-‘Resolved: That the LGB be asked to give the Board a loan of £2,000 under Relief of Distress Act, 1880 to meet the liability of the Union and to carry us on until the collection of new rate which we fear will be most difficult to collect’ (f53).

-‘Resolved: That we respectfully call the attention of the Government to the great distress prevailing amongst the labouring classes, artisans and small tenant farmers of this Union and strongly urge the immediate necessity of forthwith opening all the public works passed in last session under the Relief Act and that the erection of a Railway line from Galway to Clifden would give useful and necessary employment …’ (f133, see also f157).

-‘Resolved: That we agreed with Mr Blake, C.E., as to the necessity of opening the sewerage of Clifden and advertisements for contractors should be issued at once to complete said works, and that the sanction of the LGB in asking a loan of £300 for said works be requested’ (f134, see also f157).

Fairsinge260ff

TeangaEnglish

ÁbharPoverty, Railways

NótaíAvailable 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.

Coinníollacha a rialaíonn atáirgeadhNo material may be reproduced from this collection without the written permission of the archivist, and reproductions are subject to the conditions of access.

Tagairt DhigiteachDigitised in 2012 and available online at Access URL Here

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