Midleton workhouse Board of Guardians (BG118)

Midleton Board of Guardians IE CCCA BG/118

report on 122 labourers’ cottages being built, to enable issue of a further loan instalment.

89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99.

23 Feb 1889 – 17 Aug 1889 24 Aug 1889 – 15 Feb 1890 22 Feb 1890 – 16 Aug 1890 23 Aug 1890 – 7 Feb 1891 14 Feb 1891 – 8 Aug 1891 15 Aug 1891 – 13 Feb 1892 20 Feb 1892 – 13 Aug 1892 20 Aug 1892 – 11 Feb 1893 18 Feb 1893 – 12 Aug 1893 19 Aug 1893 – 17 Feb 1894 24 Feb 1894 – 18 Aug 1894 25 Aug 1894 – 16 Feb 1895 23 Feb 1895 – 17 Aug 1895 24 Aug 1895 – 15 Feb 1896 22 Feb 1896 – 15 Aug 1896 22 Aug 1896 – 20 Feb 1897 27 Feb 1897 – 21 Aug 1897 28 Aug 1897 – 26 Feb 1898 5 Mar 1898 – 27 Aug 1898 3 Sept 1898 – 4 Mar 1899

100. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. 107. 108.

Includes:

28 Jan 1899 Sealed order declaring that all paid workhouse and dispensary officers are eligible to serve as county councillors under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.

109.

11 Mar 1899 – 24 Jun 1899

Proceedings under the Public Health Acts and Labourers’ Acts last recorded on 24 June 1899. [Reflecting changes in functions resulting from the coming into effect of the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898]

Includes:

11 Mar 1899 Notice of sealed order fixing the scale of remuneration for services under the Registration Act 1898.

15 Apr 1899 Resolved, that application be made to the County Council for £1600 to meet Poor Law expenses for the next four months; resolved, that the guardians meet on Saturdays after the meeting of the Rural District Council. 22 Apr 1899 Resolved, that ‘as the landlords are exempted from contributing by the LG Act to the rates… that the landlords should be got rid of altogether by the government … by the compulsory sale of the la nds to the occupiers and tillers of the soil on fair and equitable terms… with the enforced reinstatement of the evicted tenants… and where necessary to compel the surrender of grabber farms by the land grabbers to the former holders’.

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