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July 8, 1848 Board of Guardians Minute Book for Killarney. There were 123 Applicants admitted to the Workhouse, 7 Applicants disallowed, 162 discharged, and 4 died. The Master’s estimate of Provisions and Necessaries required for the ensuing week was examined, and orders were duly made for 22 lbs butter, 34 ½ lbs meat, 4480 lbs Indian meal, 5700 qts skim milk, 6750 lbs flour, 7 lbs pepper, 17 lbs dipped candles, 6 lbs mould candles, 112 lbs soap, 4 lbs starch, and 28 lbs M. Soda. Provisions for the Infirmary included: 4 lbs tea, 35 lbs scale sugar, 3 lbs loaf sugar, 10 lbs meat, and 4 qts whiskey. The Board of Guardians resolved that “great mispractise is liable to be committed against several of the Rate Payers in some Electoral Divisions of this board by reason of a sufficient control not being kept over the Collector of Poor Rates for want of a Supervisor of Poor Rate who should perform all the duties prescribed but particularly those contained in the 10th and following Articles of the Order of the Poor Law commissioner’s for the appointment of such an officer address to the North and South Dublin respectively and contained in the 8th Report of the Commissioners Appendix 6 to 6 but which are not considered and consequently not performed by the review of this Union as his duties this Board request the commissioners will state all the duties in the Order referred to should constitute the duties of the R---- of the Union and if not whether this Board have the power of appointing a Supervisor of Poor Rates as the Board considered the appointment.” There was a letter dated 8 July 1848 “in reference to the appointment of Mr. Moriarty to the Office of the Poor Rate Collector for the Electoral Division in the place of his brother Mr. John Moriarty, who is unable to perform his duties through illness”. There was a letter dated 5 July 1848 “acknowledging the receipt of answers to queries to the appointment of Mrs. Mary Fitzgerald to the Office of Hospital Nurse”. “The Proposal of Mr. John O’Reardon Collector of Poor Rates for the Electoral Division of Killarney offering Mr. John C. O’Reardon of in place of the late Mr. Stephen O’Reardon was accepted.” |
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