Kanturk Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/98
BG/98/AL Rural Sanitary Authority Minute Books (Labourers Acts) Scope and Content:
Volumes recording minutes of proceedings of the board of guardians acting as the rural sanitary authority under the Labourers (Ireland) Acts, 1883, 1885 and 1886. Meetings were generally held weekly, and minutes are signed by the chairman and the clerk, acting as executive sanitary officer. The principal subject is schemes for erecting labourers’ cottages, and related actions. These include seeking and approving tenders, receiving loans from the Commissioners of Public Works, receiving architect’s reports, legal processes and disputes, letting to tenants, rents, and communicating with the LGB on all aspects of each scheme.
Date : 4 Feb 1886 – 24 Jul 1897 (Gaps)
Level : Series
Extent : 3 items
1.
4 Feb 1886 – 5 May 1887
Includes:
25 Feb 1886 Resolved, to forward to the LGB petitions seeking confirmation of the board’s improvement schemes and applications for sanction of loans.
25 Mar 1886 Resolution asking the LGB whether plots of ground attached to cottages may be let prior to their completion, ‘the Guardians being desirous to giv e the plots to the labourers for tillage purposes’. [ Not permitted]
10 Jun 1886 LGB letter commenting on the plan, specification, and estimate for cottages proposed to be erected submitted by the board.
15 Jul 1886 LGB letter referring to their inspecto r’s statement that ‘the advances to the contractors are greatly in excess of the value of the work done’. 5 Aug 1886 LGB letter regarding the report of Col Spaight, following the local inquiry held on 29 June. Spaight recommends that 169 of the 247 proposed cottages be erected, ‘the remainder being unsuitable or unnecessary’.
12 Aug 1886 Stated labourers declared tenants in 12 electoral divisions.
2 Dec 1886 Resolved, that the architect submit all relevant documentation to the Commissioners of Public Wor ks ‘with a view of obtaining the services of an arbitrator to fix the price to be paid to the owners and occupiers of the plots under the Labourers Ireland Acts 1883 to 1886’.
9 Dec 1886 LGB letter stating that ‘the “Kanturk Union Labourers O rder 1886” has become absolute no petition against the order having been lodged’.
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