local taxation

Claims Approved

Gerard Hannan 3 weeks ago

The Treasury approved compensation claims submitted by two former deputy cess collectors whose employment had been affected by the transfer of local administration from the Grand Jury system. The decision, reported on 13 January 1900, reached Limerick County Council by telegram. Councillors had previously concluded that they possessed no legal authority under the Local Government (Ireland) Act of 1898 to compensate deputies who had not been formally appointed by the Grand Jury. The successful applicants therefore carried their cases beyond the Council, asking the Treasury to recognise the financial loss created when the older machinery of county taxation was replaced.

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Labour Sanctioned

Gerard Hannan 3 weeks ago

The Local Government Board approved Limerick County Council’s decision to undertake certain road works by direct labour where contractors had failed to tender. The ruling, reported on 5 January 1900, allowed the Council to place such roads under the County Surveyor and employ labourers without relying upon the customary contracting system. Approval did not introduce direct labour across every county road. It applied to works for which satisfactory private tenders had not been received, giving the newly established local authority a practical means of maintaining routes that might otherwise remain neglected.

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