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CSO/RP/1818/821

Certificate of George Gibbs, deputy clerk of the crown, Galway, County Galway, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, making application for a presentment for £600 ‘for the purpose of building a Fever Hospital’ in the town of Galway, to be levied on the county of Galway over a period of six years, ‘by half yearly Installments of fifty pounds each’; includes damp press copy reply from Dublin Castle, confirming that the Lord Lieutenant has signed a warrant in favour of issue of money from the Treasury of that amount.

17 Aug 1818-25 Aug 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/822

Letter from Daniel Corneille, John Armit and James Saurin, Navigation Office, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting warrant for payment of sum of £5,000 for purposes of providing ‘a Line of Canal from Lough Allen to the River Shannon below Battle bridge’ under direction of engineer, Mr Killaly; also indicates intention of publishing plans of the proposed work on the canal.

18 Aug 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/823

Letter from HR Draper, Dublin, to Robert Peel, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting payment of £800 ‘to Discharge the three Vessels at Cove’ County Cork, a previous payment of £500 having been expended ‘for transmitting of Felons from this to the City of Cork’; also letter from Draper to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting payment of £1,000 ‘to pay off the two last Brigs, their Freightage and Demurrage, the Victualing the Guards and Convicts’; also includes account of supplies and expenditure on convicts.

19 Jun 1818-11 Aug 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/824

Letter from Daniel Corneille, John Armit and James Saurin, Navigation Office, 11 Merrion Street, Dublin, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting warrant for payment of sum of £5,475, part of sum voted by Parliament, towards the ‘Establishment and maintenance of the Public Navigations’.

25 Aug 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/825

Petition from Sir Hugh Nugent, John Longfield and George Archdall, commissioners, Board of Works, Dublin, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, stating that expenditure on the convict depot in Cork has gone beyond budget by £626.16.5 and that a sum of £2,200.16.9 has been spent on construction and building supplies by Edward Carolin: encloses letter from Francis Johnston, Architect's Office, Dublin Castle, to Robert Robinson, indicating approval of work and two account sheets, one in detail, of work completed on the depot; includes memorandum concerning grants of money made to the convict depot in Cork, 1815 to 1817, provided out of the Consolidated Fund.

15 Jun 1818-11 Aug 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/826

Letter from Isaac Evans, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing account for ‘Ringing the Funeral Bells of Christ Church Cathedral for the late Queen at £2.5.6 per day for 13 Days’ and for similar service at St Patrick’s Cathedral, together with a charge for ‘Muffling the Bells’ of each church of £1.2.9.

15 Dec 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/827

File of papers relating to charges and expenses of legal services to Government. Includes expenses accounts of Bryan Beahan, William Maryon, James Dawes, John Lee, William Hodges and Paul Farina, legal messengers, mainly for 1818, and legal bill of Thomas and William Kemmis, crown solicitors, December 1816 to April 1818; also includes account of salary due Thomas Lord Manners, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, for quarter ending 25 March 1818 and for quarter ending 24 June 1818; account of salary due Sir William McMahon, Master of the Rolls, for quarter ending 24 June 1818; also includes bills for attendance at special sessions court from assistant barristers Francis Hamilton, Richard Moore, and for James J Dickson, counsel at law, 1 May to 5 June 1818; also letter from Piers Geale, crown solicitor, Home Circuit, 10 Lower Gloucester Street, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting payment of balance of £128.13.11 ‘to meet the various expenditures of the Circuit’, 27 June 1818.

25 Mar 1818-14 Jul 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/828

File of papers relating to expenses claims by magistrates of police and crown solicitors working on the Irish court circuits. Includes five letters from Edward Wilson, chief magistrate for the baronies of Kilnamanagh and Eleogarty, County Tipperary, making application for payments and dealing with other business, 16 June 1817 to 7 July 1818; also includes letter from Wilson, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting permission and funds to purchase new supplies to equip thirty constables for service on horseback, 29 April 1818; also includes letter from Major D O’Donoghue, chief magistrate of police, County Dublin, to Robert Peel, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting payment of £800 for expenses of ‘Police Establishment’, 29 June 1818; also includes applications to cover financial requirements from Thomas D’Arcy, magistrate, Carndonagh, County Donegal, John Wills for County Kildare and requests for payment by crown solicitors, James Galbraith, Samuel Prendergast and T Kemmis, amongst others, 6 May 1818 to 8 August 1818; also includes various petitions for payment for service as register, clerk of assizes or clerk of nisi prius, from Hugh McClelland, Richard Livesay, Thomas Johnson, Charles Fleetwood, J Mayne, Wellesley Pole Fletcher, Andrew Blair Carmichael, John Domville, William Cosgrave, Mathew Franks and Peter Jackson and William O’Grady, for duties as judge, 26 February 1818 to 25 May 1818.

16 Jun 1817-14 Jul 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/829

File of papers concerning payment of lodging costs to judges working the Irish court circuits. Includes applications for expenses accrued for accommodation for work in counties Carlow, Down, Fermanagh, Kildare, Louth, Longford, Monaghan, Mayo, Queen’s County [Laois], Roscommon, Sligo, Tyrone, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford, Antrim, Cavan, Cork, Wicklow, Armagh, Clare, Donegal, Galway, Kerry, Limerick and Tipperary for Lent or Spring Assizes, 1818; also includes circuit returns for counties Limerick, Roscommon, Kerry, Clare, Armagh, Londonderry, Kilkenny, Leitrim, Meath and Donegal, for Summer Assizes, 1818.

7 Mar 1818-29 Jul 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/830

File of papers relating to various demands placed on government financial and fiscal resources. Includes petitions and applications for payments from Thomas Haffield, clerk, Office of Auditor General, Daniel Corneille, chairman of navigation Office, Sir Charles William Flint and Mr Cowper of the Irish Office, London; also includes applications for authorisation for funds from the Consolidated Fund for use of the Vice Treasurer of Ireland, for use of John Galloway, secretary to Commissioners of Consolidated Fund and for use of Hans Hamilton, possibly for work on the harbour of Skerries, County Dublin, 19 May to 18 June 1818; also includes memorial from George Palmer, secretary, Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, and memorial from William Deey, broker for the Reduction of the National Debt, asking for payment of salary, also account of loans and annuities issued to that body, 1785 to 1818; also includes material relating to payment of salaries to personnel in the Public Coal Yard, on [Dublin] city quay, 22 April 1818 to 1 June 1881; also includes estimates for pratique service in the Port of Dublin, 25 December 1817 to 24 June 1818, produced by Stephen Draper, deputy pratique master, Dublin.

25 Mar 1818-11 Jul 1818

1818