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CSO/RP/1822/2141

Letter from chief magistrates, Head Office of Police, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, advising that a proposal from Abraham Lane to supply the police establishment with clothing should be accompanied with an estimate of cost; includes letter from Lane, 3 Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin, to Gregory, offering to supply wearing apparel for police force; also includes letter from Frederick Pemberton, King’s Inn Police Office, 17 Mountrath Street, Dublin, to Gregory, reporting on case of a deserted female child aged ‘about five years’, and recommending introduction of an arrangement to have such cases admitted to the House of Industry.

18 Feb 1822-14 Mar 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/2142

Letter from chief magistrates, Head Office of Police, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing copy letter from William Wellesley-Pole, Dublin Castle, to magistrates, acknowledging submission and advancing proposals for reorganisation of Dublin metropolitan police: proposes a reduction in the horse patrol department and introduction of a more extensive foot patrol section with six small divisional houses in the country.

10 Feb 1810-18 Mar 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/2143

Letter from Frederick Darley, John Graves and Major Henry Charles Sirr, chief magistrates, Head Office of Police, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing copy letter from L Bomford, chief clerk, Sixth Divisional Office of Police, 15 College Street, Dublin, to magistrates, stating that claimed losses by George House, hotel keeper, are ‘correct and true in all respects’; also returns memorial of House, Royal Arcade, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting remission of license fees on his hotel at 34 College Street, demanded by the magistrates of police, on account of a ‘Bona Fide loss to memorialist of upwards of Four Hundred Pounds’.

10 May 1822-18 May 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/2144

Letter from Frederick Darley, John Graves and Major Henry Charles Sirr, chief magistrates, Head Office of Police, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, reporting in favour of Mary Carr, following investigation of claim to one third part of father’s property; encloses substance of statement from Carr, outlining basis of claim to portion of estate of father Hugh Maginness [McGuiness].

14 Mar 1822-15 Mar 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/2211

Resolutions of magistrates of King’s County [County Offaly], outlining detail, organisation and staffing of county police establishment in light of Peace Preservation Act: recommends ‘some gradation of Salary’ for constables and extends appreciation to Major Thomas Powell, chief constable, for his ‘unweaned zeal, exertion and ability…in preserving tranquility in our County’, signed by Laurence Parsons, 2nd earl of Rosse.

1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/2213

Letter from Frederick Darley, John Graves and Major Henry Charles Sirr, chief magistrates, Head Office of Police, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, indicating that four extra constables have been assigned to Finglas, County Dublin, and seeking sanction for relocation of constables of county of Dublin police to Ashbourne, County Meath, to aid protection of roads in that area; encloses letter from Sir Marcus Somerville, Somerville, Navan, County Meath, to Darley, seeking augmentation of police on road between Dublin and Ashbourne, and complaining on one branch of that highway ‘there are more than fifteen armed robbers upon it, and that latterly their audacity has been so great, as to attempt and perfect their crimes before sun set’.

26 Oct 1822-31 Oct 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/2238

Letter from William James McCausland, law agent to Board of Education in Ireland, 38 Upper Merrion Street, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, seeking sanction for police protection in order to serve ejectments on school estate lands of Raphoe, County Donegal: claims that local ‘Tenantry have set their Landlords at defiance, and will not pay one Shilling of Rent’; also mentions as alternative to ‘endeavor by a liberal payment to procure a party of the yeomanry to attend the Bailiff for his Protection’.

21 May 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/2245

Letter from an anonymous correspondent, Enniscorthy, County Wexford, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, London, England, suggesting insertion of clause in Irish Constabulary Act passing responsibility for inspection of roads to police constables: alleges that fraud is practiced under the present arrangement and observes that introduction of proposed change would ‘be a Saving to this country alone of from £1000 to £2000 p[e]r ann[um]’; includes letter signed ‘Ipso Facto’ to Goulburn, offering observations on various aspects of the intended Irish Constabulary Act: casts critical eye over management of constables, their clothing, pay, and complains of the ‘arbitrary power vested in the magistrate of dismissing any man without the Smallest investigation’.

14 Jun 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/2266

Letter from Major Samson Carter, chief magistrate of police, county Cork, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, offering observations in favour of establishment of a general and independent police force under Government: considers such issues as cost of officers, effectiveness, impartiality, background, uniformity, discipline, and relations between the local and chief magistrate of a county.

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1822

CSO/RP/1822/2277

Letter from E Elliott, magistrate, Clonmore, Waterford, County Waterford, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, offering opinion on new Irish Constabulary Act and reflecting on issue of maintaining independence as magistrate operating in barony of Iverk, County Kilkenny, with particular reference to difficulties with ‘Walsh’, agent to Lord Bessborough [Frederick Ponsonby]: indicates support for new bill but admits ‘I look with an eye of jealousy upon this part of it, that the Chief Magistrate for each county should be the organ of communication between the rest of the magistrates & the Government’; includes letter from Elliott referring to case of poor widow woman pursued in law due to non payment of tithe: observes if the person in question was unable to find just in excess of five shillings to satisfy the clergyman, ‘how much more would she have been incapable to pay the debt when the nine shillings and eleven pence in costs were added’.

21 Jun 1822

1822