POOR LAW, &c.
(IRELAND.)
RETURN to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commons,
dated 9 July 1855 ;—for, A COPY " of any Minutes of the Treasury by which the Retired Allow¬ ances enumerated in Return, No.
320, of this Session were granted, and of the Correspondence relating thereto."
Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, \ taihtt-c.
iuttc
20 July 1855.
j JAMES WILSON.
COPY of Correspondence relating to the Retired Allowances enumerated in Return, No.
320, of this Session, and Treasury Minute authorising the Grant thereof.
Poor Law Commission Office, Dublin, Sir, 7 February 1855.
Adverting to the letter addressed to you by direction of the Commissioners for administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland, on the 12th October last, in which the Commissioners stated, that the necessity of a reduc¬ tion in the annual expenses of the Poor-law Establishments in Ireland had been strongly urged on the attention of the Commissioners by the Chief Secre¬ tary of the Lord Lieutenant, and that the question of the extent of reduction in the number of Poor-law Inspectors and Medical Inspectors, together with other possible reductions, was then under the consideration of the Commissioners, I am now directed by the Commissioners to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, that the Commissioners have, with the approval of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, determined to discontinue the services of the following Inspectors from and after the 31st March next, viz.,
Mr.
Joseph Burke, Mr Phelan, Mr.
Barron, Mr.
Huband, and Mr.
Lynch, Poor-law Inspectors, and Dr.
Dillon, Medical Inspector.
The Commissioners have also determined to discontinue the services of Captain Owen, auditor, from the same date.
In announcing to these gentlemen the approaching termination of their appointments, the Commissioners have informed them that the question of a retiring allowance to the several officers now retiring from the service of the Commission, and of the amount thereof, if such allowance be granted, rests on the decision of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury in each case.
The intention of the Commissioners to make further reductions in their office establishment has been communicated to the Chief Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant, hut as these reductions are more directly and closely connected with a contemplated alteration of the provisions of the Irish Poor-law, no actual step can be taken by the Commissioners in regard to the individuals whose offices will be abolished or rendered unnecessary by the proposed change of the law, until the intended measure has been submitted to Parliament.
Sir C.
E.
Trevelyan, k.c.b.,
I have, &c.
&c.
&c.
&c.
(signed) W.
Stanley, Secretary.
Treasury, London.
Poor Law Commission Office, Dublin, Sir, 12 February 1855.
I am directed by the Commissioners for administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland, to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commis¬ sioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, that they have received a communication from Colonel Clarke, one of the inspectors at present in the service of the Com¬ mission, in which he states that his health is most seriously and, he fears, permanently impaired, in consequence of exposure to wet and cold while 4,2-travelling
