Poor Relief (Ireland) Inquiry Commission: report, evidence and appendices

Back to Search Bibliographic Data Print
-


iv POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) INQUIRY COMMISSION.


payers could be lessened by any alteration in the boundaries of such Union
or Unions, or by any other change, without injury or danger to the sick and
destitute poor.


And we do hereby authorize you, by all lawful and proper ways and means,
to make full inquiry into the matters aforesaid in such places as to you may
seem necessary and convenient.


And for the better enabling you to make the said investigation, we hereby
grant unto you full authority, for all or any of the purposes aforesaid, to call
and examine before you such persons as you shall deem necessary and com
petent, by whom you may be the better informed on the matters herein
submitted for your consideration; and also to call for and examine all such
books, documents, papers, and records as you shall judge likely to afford you
the fullest information on the subject of this Commission, and otherwise to
inquire of and concerning the premises, and every part thereof, by all reason
able ways and means.


Provided always that nothing herein contained shall affect the position of
either of you as Inspector of the Local Government Board for Ireland, or
abridge or diminish the power and authority possessed by either of you as
such Inspector; and that, notwithstanding the issue of these presents, each
of you may and shall continue to perform the duties and exercise the powers
belonging to the office of such Inspector as aforesaid.


And we enjoin that upon the examination of the premises you do, as soon
as can reasonably be after the date of this Commission, certify and report to
us in writing, under your hands and seals respectively, what you shall have
done and may find concerning the premises, upon such inquiry and investiga¬
tion as aforesaid, together with your opinions touching and concerning the
several matters hereby referred for your consideration.


And for so doing this shall be your Warrant.


Given at Dublin Castle, this 3rd day of November, 1886.


By his Excellency's command.


R. G. C. HAMILTO