Thirtieth annual report of the Local Government Board for Ireland, for the year ending 31st March 1902

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Dublin (Equalisation of Rates) Act, 1901. 
xxxi Table B shows that further Improvement Schemes have been, or are about to be, submitted to us, proposing to provide 4,630 new cottages, with garden allotments, 3,342 additional half-acre allotments to cottages already sanctioned, and 2H acres of land to be parcelled out in allotments to be let to labourers living in villages or towns. 
From a further Tabic it will be seen that during the year Loans were sanctioned for 61 Rural Districts amounting as already stated to £358,748, and making the total amount of Loans sanctioned since the inception of the Acts, £2,410,122. 

XL—Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland) Acts, 

1890 to 1896. 
Part III. 
of Act of 1890. 
The Corporations of the Cities of Kilkenny and Limerick have been granted loans of £500 and £3,000, respectively. 
The following Urban Districts have also been granted loans, viz.:— 
Carlow, £5,300; Dalkey, £2,000; Ennis, £2,650; Enniscorthy, £2,350; Galway, £160; Letterkenny, £120; Navan, £3,500; Omagh, £4,000; Tralee, £1,700 and £715; Tullamore, £2,250. 
The Town Commissioners of Newbridge have been granted a loan of £3,000. 
Thebe sums, added to £438,550 lis. 
mentioned under this head in our last Report, make the total amount of the loans sanctioned in connection with houses for the working classes residing in towns £469,795 lis. 

XII.—The 
Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, 1899. 
The Corporation of the City of Dublin have been granted a loan of £960 ; and the Rural District Councils of Antrim and Longford have been granted loans of £160 and £1,222 8s., 
respectively, with a view to enabling them to make advances to residents in certain houses for the purpose of acquiring the ownership thereof under this Act. 
These sums, added to £1,262 mentioned in our last Report, make the total amount of the loans sanctioned under this Act £3,604 8s. 

XIII.—Dublin, 
Rathmines and Rathgar and Pembroke 

(Equalisation of Rates) Act, 1901. 
Under the Dublin, Rathmines and Rathgar and Pembroke Equalisation of Rates Act, which received Royal Assent on the 9th August, 1901, an important and novel duty was imposed on the Board. 
The Corporation of the City of Dublin, bad, in the Sessions of 1899 and 1900, promoted Bills seeking from Parliament statutory powers for the extension of the Boundaries of the City, and an¬ nexing thereto the surrounding Urban Districts of Rathmines and Rafhgar, Pembroke, Clontarf, Drumcondra and Kilmainham, and certain portions of the Rural Districts of North and South Dublin. 

* See page 184.