Claims Approved
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.
