Loans.
Ixv VI.
Loans for Workhouse Buildings and Improvements.
(Section UI of the Load Government Board {Ireland) Act, 1&98.)
This section sets forth the terms on which loans may, cince the passing of the Act, be obtained by Boards of Guardians, and substitutes the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland for the Public Works Loan Commissioners in all enactments relating to borrowing by Boards of Guardians.
The following list shows the amount of each loan under the section sanctioned by us during the year under review, and the purpose for which the money was in each case borrowed:—
List op Workhouse Loans sanctioned Year ended
31st March, 1900.
Union.
Gorey, Dungannon.
Athlone, .
Belfast, .
Londonderry.
Strabane, Clonakilty, Birr, , Stranorlar,
Amount.
Purpose.
Date of Sanction.
Accommodation for Nuns acting as Nurses at the Workhouse.
Laundry Improvements at the Workhouse.
Workhouse hospital and heating arrangements.
Erecting of dressing-rooms at the Workhouse.
Infirmary alterations, Ae.,
Improvements in board¬ room, &c.
Bath-rooms and w.e.'s
at the Workhouse.
Hospital accommodation,.
Infirmary alterations, ac¬ commodation for Nuns acting as Nurses.
22nd December, 1899.!
31st January, 1900.
5th January, 1900.
22nd January, 1900.
13th March, 1900.
19th March, 1900.
24th January.
1900.
23rd Mareh, 1900.
27th January 1900.
VII.
Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland) Acts,
1890 to 1896.
Part I.
of Act of 189(1 A loan of £3,000 was sanctioned to the Corporation of Limerick.
Part III.
of Act of 1890.
The Corporations of Belfast, of Cork, of Dublin, and of Water-ford, have been granted loans of £8,000, £5,500, £28,000, and £2,750 respectively; the Urban District Councils of Clonmel, Drogheda, EUliney and Bally brack, New Ross, and Tralee, loans of £4,792 5s.,
£20,000, £3,150, £2,48110s.
and £1,000 respectively; and the Town Commissioners of Naas, Skibbereen, and Tipperary have received loans to the amount of £3,500, £250, and £2,700 respectively, for the purposes of the Act in question.
These sums, added to £293,040 16s, mentioned under this head in our
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