Tuam Poor Law Union, Board of Guardian Minutes, 1839-1842
Including:
-Petition to Parliament imploring it to ‘issue instructions for the admission of the public and press to the meetings of the PL Guardians’ (p17 Feb 1840, see also 9 May 1840).
-Extra-ordinary meeting held on 29th June 1840 to discuss borrowing ‘£8,400 (sterling) or thereabout for the erecting, fitting, furnishing and providing utensils, instruments and machinery for setting the poor to work therein together with the sum required for the purchase of said lands’ (p29 June 1840).
-Details of elected Guardians, and appointments to various committees (29 Mar 1841, p 4).
-Details of agreed salaries for the Medical Officer, Master, Matron, and Porter, together resolution instructing the Clerk to advertise for same (31 January 1842).
-Details of elected Guardians, and appointments to various committees (28 Mar 1842).
-Details of tenders for supplies, which as blankets, sheets, rugs, and so (28 Mar 1842).
-Details of tenders for clothing for inmates, which as waistcoats for men, caps, woman’s shifts, cotton bed gowns and so on (4 Apr & 25 Apr 1842).