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CSO/RP/1818/731

Petition of Dominick Daly, distributor of stamps for County Galway, 10 Stafford [Wolfe Tone] Street, Dublin, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting a further two months to comply with demand for payment of arrears due the Stamp Office. Claims that additional time is needed as he expects to have a financial settlement due to him from a local sub-distributor of stamps.

16 May 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/732

Letter from William Gore, Commissioners of Stamps, Stamp Office, Dublin, to Robert Peel, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing memorial of William Haliday, asking that petition of Michael Hearn is stopped, and also copy report of Robert Borrowes, solicitor, Stamp Office, Dublin, on the case. Encloses petition of Haliday, Arran Quay, Dublin, outlining financial difficulties arising from arrears due him from Edward Smyth, for whom he acted as rent receiver; and referring to an ‘outrageous attack’ on his property by Hearn, a relative of Smyth, who subsequently pressed for proceedings in the courts against Haliday. Also includes copy report of Borrowes to Commissioners of Stamp Duties, relative to a parcel of unstamped acknowledgments passed by Haliday, in which he conveys opinion of the Attorney General that the circumstances, like an earlier one of the same nature, ‘is not a fit case for prosecution’.

5 Jan 1818-14 Jan 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/733

Memorandum concerning collection and control of legacy duties in the Stamp Office, with discussion of revenue structures and operational improvements introduced since 1815.

15 Jul 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/734

File of papers relating to non-payment of stamp duties by those seeing election to post of freeman to Limerick Corporation. Includes letter from Thomas G Fitzgibbon, Distributor of Stamps, Stamp Office, Dublin, to Edward Parker, town clerk, Limerick, County Limerick, stressing recipient’s ‘Personal Liability as well as the Corporation themselves’ with respect to compliance with the law through payment of stamp duties ‘on the admission of Freeman into the Corporation of this city’, 10 July 1818; also letter from William Gore, Commissioners of Stamps, Stamp Office, Dublin, to Robert Peel, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, communicating on failure to pay stamp duties in Limerick election and reflecting on circumstances surrounding the controversy, 22 July 1818; encloses copy letter from Robert Borrowes, solicitor of Stamps to the Distributor of Limerick, to the Distributor of Stamps, pointing out that stamp duty has not been paid by several persons standing for election of post of freeman to Parliament, that the Corporation is liable for this infringement of the law, and that failure to pay the duty carries a £10 penalty, 8 July 1818; also letter from William Speight, Inspector of Dies and Plates to the Commissioners of Stamps, County Limerick, to the Commissioners of Stamps, explaining that Thomas Fitzgibbon has requested his company to carry out an inspection of the Corporation admission books as ‘it had been alleged that several of the Entries of admission were unstamped’, 15 July 1818; also letter from Charles Vereker, 2nd viscount Gort, Limerick, on matter and list of names who allegedly have paid ‘no stamp’.

8 Jul 1818-22 Jul 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/735

Letter from H Howard, William Gore and John Trench, Commissioners of Stamps, Stamp Office, Dublin, to Robert Peel, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, indicating that Isaac B Phibbs, clerk, Warehouse Keeper of Stamped Goods, has been granted leave of absence for two months, due to ‘indisposition’, and requests permission to appoint an assistant to that office.

21 Jul 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/736

Letter from William Gore, John Trench and Edward Glascock, Commissioners of Stamps, Stamp Office, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, with observations on memorial of John Charles White, clerk, Secretary of Stamps Office, Dublin, who requests further leave of absence as he is ‘confined in the Sheriff’s Prison for Debts’. Encloses petition from White to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting three months leave and explaining: ‘Memorialist being young and inexperienced has been made the dupe of [by] several supposed friends, in accepting Bills and which has been the cause of leaving your Memorialist in the Sheriff’s Prison’; also later petition to Earl Talbot, requesting further leave of absence, or if dismissal from office is imminent that his resignation might be proffered and a substitute post provided.

31 Jul 1818-13 Aug 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/737

Letter from John Prendergast-Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, regarding directions given by the Commissioners of Stamps relative to enforcement of stamp law in the Limerick elections. Also includes memorandum relating to subject of investigation by the Commissioners of Stamps.

17 Aug 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/738

Letter from R Malins, Stamp Office, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing an account of incidental expenses paid by the Receiver General of Stamp Duties, for quarter ending 5 July 1818 [not extant], on behalf of the Commissioners of Stamps.

26 Sep 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/739

Letter from John Stokes, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, complaining that stamp duty on sea insurance ‘is contrary to the Act of Union’ on grounds of the differential in value between the British and Irish currencies.

13 Oct 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/740

Letter from William Gore, Commissioner of Stamps, Stamp Office, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, offering observations on difference in rates of stamp duty payable on sea insurance between Britain and Ireland.

23 Oct 1818

1818