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IE CCCA/BG/65 Clonakilty Board of Guardians
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3 Jan 1851 – 26 Dec 1851
The volume is indexed. Includes:
3 Jan 1851 Total inmates: 583 (Bandon: 403; Dunmanway: 8; Skibbereen: 172) [ A note reads ‘No in House – Saturday December 29/49 – 882’. Such notes of numbers of inmates a year previously are included in most ‘State of the Workhouse’ tables in this volume . See also 10 Oct below]. Resolution passed submitting a list to the PLC of eight paupers charged to Clonakilty by the Bandon Union ‘to which we believe we are not liable’. [Disputed admissions a recurring subject] 10 Jan 1851 Resolution noting ‘the whole of this union is divided into dispensary districts and the dispensaries are all in full operation’, and expressing the view that dispensary physicians (who are paid from the county rate) should ‘vaccinate all persons applying to them for the purpose’ and that ‘payment of another officer for the same duty... would be needless expense’. [PLC states that the board is required to provide vaccination by contract].
31 Jan 1851 PLC Circulars read regarding the duties of the returning officer and registry of owners and claims to vote in elections of guardians.
14 Feb 1851 Letter from the master of Bandon workhouse stating that an inmate (of Clonakilty union) ‘requests that her religion may be changed from Protestant to Roman Catholic’. 21 Mar 1851 PLC letter asking why certain paupers were discharged from Bandon. The clerk is to state ‘that the guardian of the Knocks electoral division promises to give them employment’. 2 May 1851 Letters read (1) from the Census Commissioners asking that any errors in census forms be corrected; (2) Collector of Customs, Cork, regarding rating of coast guard stations [see also 9 May; re police barracks, see 4 July].
23 May 1851 Total inmates: 651 (Bandon: 415; Dunmanway: 21; Skibbereen: 215). Note ‘No in House Saturday May 18/1850 – 1116’.
30 May 1851 Clerk’s note explaining to the PLC an application for terms of payment from the National Deaf and Dumb Institution and the Catholic Institution for the Deaf and Dumb on behalf of a boy seeking admission under the Poor Law Acts. Resolut ion referring to relieving officers ‘absenting themselves’ during board meetings, and directing them ‘to continue in attendance and not to depart from the court house until so directed’. 6 Jun 1851 Letter from the War Office stating that two children of a soldier from Clonakilty who died at Corfu will be sent from Parkhurst. Resolved, ‘that the claims of the Bandon and Skibbereen Unions for the payment of debts due to them for maintenance of our paupers be referred to the Finance Committee’ [a recurring su bject; see, e.g., 7 Feb, 4 Jul].
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