Bantry Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/43
23 Oct 1850 Letters regarding ‘the establishment of a Transatlantic Packet Station in one of the Western Harbours of the county’. Major Beamish asks the board to ‘ascertain the dispositions of the landed proprietors as to the concession of the lands required for a railway to the harbour’. 13 Nov 1850 Letter to PLC regarding annuities for repayment of advances, which they describe as ‘most monstrous and unjust’. They think that repayment ‘should not be required’ on advances for buildings or under the Temporary Relief Act, and ‘protest altogether against the demand for interest’. T hey note that a five year annuity would require a rate ‘which it would not be possible to pay’, while a forty year annuity would mean interest on the debt of £14000 to the amount of £12220 16s 8d.
18 Dec 1850 Letter from Michael Murphy read offering his store at Donemark as an auxiliary workhouse (offer accepted).
23 Dec 1850, Resolved, ‘that the paupers be allowed white bread and coffee for breakfast on Christmas day, and that the master purchase about 2 and a half hundredweight of beef to improve the s oup they receive at dinner’. 15 Jan 1851 PLC letter regarding the fact that the number of inmates currently exceeds the amount of accommodation provided, and the responsibilities of the visiting committee in this regard. It is explained in response that a store has been taken as an auxiliary workhouse, and it is ordered that ‘the master endeavour to remove the boys there by the close of this week’. [Total inmates: 1354; workhouse accommodation: 1100; hospital 50; fever sheds: 50] 12 Feb 1851 PLC letter declining to sanction proceedings in the superior courts against Lord Berehaven and RD Beamish for non-payment of rates as immediate lessors. They ask why proceedings by civil bill are not taken. [See 18 Dec 1850]
19 Feb 1851 Noted, ‘there are now none in t his workhouse chargeable to the Castletown union’.
5 Mar 1851 Resolved, that the Castletown board of guardians ‘be requested to pay a further instalment of their debt to this union’, particularly in the context of an execution for over £200 held against the board which they ‘are quite unable to avert’ unless the request is met. [See also 12 Mar 1851]
12 Mar 1851 Total inmates: 1708.
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19 Mar 1851 – 8 Oct 1851 15 Oct 1851 – 5 May 1852 12 May 1852 – 1 Dec 1852 8 Dec 1852 – 28 Sep 1853 5 Oct 1853 – 4 Oct 1854 11 Oct 1854 – 26 Sep 1855 3 Oct 1855 – 24 Sep 1856 1 Oct 1856 – 25 Mar 1857 1 Apr 1857 – 24 Mar 1858 31 Mar 1858 – 13 Apr 1859
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