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CSO/RP/1825/1371

Letter from Major Benjamin Blake Woodward, [commissioner of the Lord Lieutenant’s School Fund], Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, drawing attention to a query by the commissioners of imprest accounts over expenditure of £30 per annum for a clerk on the fund’s accounts. Indicates the commissioners request sanction for the charge in question, which was ‘verbally permitted’ by Charles Grant [Chief Secretary of Ireland,1818-1821] and approved of by William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle. With annotation on base from CSO stating ‘let it be authorised’. Also letter from Woodward to Goulburn, raising again the issue of the outstanding clerical allowance and requesting a response.

3 Oct 1825-21 Oct 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1372

Letter from Alexander Nimmo, civil engineer overseeing public works in the western district of Ireland, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting on the completion of a ‘great road’ passing through the towns of Strokestown and Elphin in County Roscommon. Adds for further information detail on the direction of the new line of communication which passes by demesne of Thomas Mahon, 2nd Baron Hartland, via Ballyslish bridge and Croghan to a place near the church of Estersnow. In the expectation the new road might be used as a mail coach road, he observes, ‘it has been executed in a substantial manner; and of the breath of thirty-two feet at the least’. He further notes in a postscript that the new line may be conjoined with the new entrance to the town of Boyle.

19 Oct 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1373

Letter from John Litton, secretary of the Lord Lieutenant’s school fund, 20 Leeson Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting that a grant of £103 from parliamentary funds has been awarded to aid the establishment of the Hibernian School at Youghal in County Cork. Indicates the institution in question was made reference to at number 928 in the last report by the commissioners of the school fund.

17 Nov 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1374

Letter from James Morgan, president, committee of merchants of Cork, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, complaining of a want of new silver currency to supply the needs of local commerce. Following an exchange of old bank tokens for new money, the local Bank of Ireland branch remain deficient of £26,000 in British silver, and are especially short of small silver coins and copper. An oversupply of half crowns was sent to the region, he observes, which aggravated the difficulties experienced by the dearth of small silver denominations. To address the shortage, he requests an ‘immediate’ dispatch of new British silver to the local bank. Also draft reply from Goulburn, expressing regret over the disproportionate quantity of silver half crowns sent to County Cork. He undertakes to convey to the bank agent at Cork a supply of smaller coins as soon as the same is received from England.

10 Nov 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1375

Letter from Lieutenant General William Fyers, Major General Brooke Young, W Booth, S Thomas and John Butcher, Office of Ordnance, Lower Castle Yard, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, conveying that instructions are given the barrack master [Major J Babington] at Templemore, County Tipperary, to provide a room at the barracks for use of an officer of the commissariat department who has responsibility to exchange old bank tokens for new silver currency.

14 Nov 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1376

Letter from John Singleton, high sheriff of County Clare, Ennis, County Clare, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, stating he has issued instructions for a room at the court house at Ennis to be set aside for the accommodation of the officer of the commissariat department entrusted with responsibility to receive old bank coins and distribute new silver currency. Remarks the room selected is a ‘safe place’ which will admit of sufficient security for the ‘waggons [sic] containing the coins’.

12 Nov 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1377

Letter from Francis Percy, chief constable of police and half pay lieutenant, Newcastle, County Limerick, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, indicating he will provide suitable accommodation in the barracks to the visiting officer of the commissariat department who has responsibility for receiving the old bank coins and dispensing the new silver currency. Also notes that proclamations have been circulated throughout the barony, in accordance with instructions communicated in an earlier message from government.

12 Nov 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1378

Note of instructions concerning arrangements for the removal of old bank tokens and introduction of new silver currency in the north-east and north-west of Ireland. Proposes that the bank agents at the towns of Londonderry and Belfast release all old bank tokens to the officer of the commissariat department; also advises the tokens be prepared and packed for transportation to London, as was done earlier in Dublin. It is proposed that a sum of Stg£20,000 in new silver be given to the agent of the Bank of Ireland in Belfast. It is directed a communication be made with the captain of a vessel for the purpose of removing the old currency from Belfast.

[1825]

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1379

Letter from James Saurin and Henry R Paine and John Radcliff, directors general of Inland Navigation, Inland Navigation Office, 11 Merrion Street, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking sanction for the implementation of an act [of the 6th of George IV, chapter 101] intended to ‘provide for the repairing, maintaining and keeping in Repair certain Roads and Bridges in Ireland’. Asks that a warrant be issued to the Vice Treasurer to allow a credit facility to them for the sum of £500 with the Bank of Ireland, in order that their responsibilities under the act might be carried forward. In accordance with the will of government, they recognise, certain roads in counties Clare and Galway have been placed under their care and supervision. Remarks on the necessity for a staff of men to maintain the roads, which, they point out, will consist of a supervisor, 8 overseers and a paymaster or clerk, plus a number of general labourers [an estimate of salary costs is provided]. The post of inspector is reserved for John Killaly, civil engineer to the directors general of Inland Navigation.

Oct 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1380

Letter from Thomas Popham Luscombe, deputy commissary general, commissary general's office, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, drawing attention to plans for an exchange of old bank tokens for new silver currency in counties Limerick, Clare and Waterford, and part of County Wexford. He requests the governors and directors of the Bank of Ireland be directed to issue for the use of the commissariat officers the sum of Stg£40,000 in new silver coin and £16,000 in Irish bank notes. In preparation for the transaction, he observes, men from the corps of waggoners [sic] will be in readiness to proceed from Dublin with the money on 9th of November.

5 Nov 1825

1825