Items of waste deducted, or Prices copied. Registering Tenements. Land items calculated, or items above Tables, such as Rents, &c. Items of Land calculations compared, Entering Tenements into Poor Law sheets. Made copy of Field or House Book, No. of lines. House items squared, priced, and cast up. Houses or Land reduced by per centage. House items, or Surveys, checked or compared. Entered Houses into poor Law sheets. Reduced Irish to English Acres. Made Printer's copy, as far as quantity only, or in full. Inking in final value of Land and Houses into Poor Law sheets. Comparing in full both Poor Law sheets. Comparing printed proofs, No. of lines. Rent Book, No. of lines written. I hereby certify that the entries made in this Return are correct. Name, 1 Fennagh, Travelling from Carlow to Tullow. Fennagh, Commonsquarter & Castlemore. 10 7 20 Castlemore, Castlemore. 331. FORM OF THE PROGRESS RETURN TO BE MADE BY VALUATOR OR SURVEYOR. Counties of Carlow, Cork, and Kerry. RETURN OF PROGRESS made in the Month of January, by JOHN BOYAN, Valuator, District at which engaged. Perambulated. Houses Valued. No.ofTe. nements Survey fed under No. of No. of one acre. Houses. Items. 15 7 0 Travelling from Carlow to Dublin and writing out field not es in office. Dublin to Mal low and preparing field work. 10 15 11 14 ⚫ 20 17 312 120 12 389 23 316 25 318 10 208 Boundaries altered. 30 and set tled Valu ation of the Village of Carrickduff. Writing field book and arranging Nos. on Map and in book, &e, Raheen, Revising Valuation of Houses, correcting Boundaries and names of Occupiers and Les sors. Do. do., do., do. do., do.. do, Calculating divided Lots. settling values and revising and corr ecting Poor Law sheets in office. Travelling from Mallow to Killar ney. Union of Mallow. do. I hereby certify that this Account of my time is correct. John Boyan, Valuator. FINANCE. 332. The following regulations are to be observed by the valuator or surveyor, relative to his monthly expenditure for the General Valuation service. 333. The valuator or surveyor should continually bear in mind the necessity of observing the strictest economy in the expenditure of money for the purposes of the General Valuation, and he is not in any case to incur expense unless previously authorized by the Commissioner of Valuation to do so, except when it is manifestly for the interests of the service, and there is reasonable ground to presume on the subsequent acquiescence of the Commissioner, as in the case of trifling disbursements for stationery, &c. 334. All the monthly accounts, vouchers, or financial documents of the valuator or surveyor are to embrace only the period in any given month during which such valuator, surveyor, or their assistant labourers may have been actually employed, as no allowance can be authorized except for services which have been performed. 335. Every valuator or surveyor will be furnished with a supply of printed forms of receipts, bills, &c., which are to be filled up at the end of each month or less period, as here directed, viz :— PAY RECEIPT. 1st. The valuator or surveyor's monthly pay receipt should bear his signature and contain the name or names of the county or counties credited, the whole amount of pay charged, capacity and dates during which engaged, as follows: GENERAL VALUATION OF IRELAND. Counties of Carlow, Cork, and Kerry. Received from RICHARD GRIFFITH, Esq., Commissioner of Valua tion, the sum of twenty-five Pounds sterling, being the amount of Valuator, from the first to the thirty-first day of my pay as January, 185 £25 Os. Od. Dated this We think it right here to observe, that in inserting these tables and extracts from "The Book of Instructious," and in devoting so con siderable a portion of our space to this peculiar description of matter, we are exposing ourselves to the charge of tediousness and unnecessary prolixity. However, we write upon a subject new to most readers, and one also around which a mirage of misconception, abuse and positive falsehood, has been raised by writers who seek revenge for disappointed expectations, or by clamorous politicians endeavouring to gain popular applause by trading upon the ignorance of the public or upon their prejudices. We have endeavoured, through the medium of these extracts and examples taken from "The Book of Instructions," to show the excellence of Dr. Griffith's System, and the plain, simple rules laid down for the guidance of those employed by him. And thus we enable the reader to judge for himself, rendering his opinion independent of the sentiments expressed by those who have every interest in misrepresenting the facts bearing upon the valuation of Ireland. The charges made against Dr. Griffith, reminds us of a passage in Sir William Petty's account of the false charges made against himself, in which he informs us "He became to bee esteemed the -, or evil angel of the nation; and although God enabled him to cleare himselfe beefore the Councill and all other authorityes, as allsoe to any other particular persons who was but curiose enough to understand the reason of his actings, yet all he did, it was still said to bee but delusion, and casting a mist before the eyes of men he dealt with." THE VALUATION OF IRELAND. TRAVELLING EXPENSES. 767 2nd. The following is the form in which the bill of travelling ex penses is to be kept : I have received from RICHARD GRIFFITH, Esq., Commissioner of Valuation, by the hands of Mr. FRANCIS ELAND, the amount of the above account. 3rd. An account of allowance for hotel expenses of so much per day, in cases of special duty, should be kept as follows: January. To allowance in lieu of Hotel expenses, from 1st to 16th, being sixteen days, at 3s. 4d. per day, 2 13 4 I have received from RICHARD GRIFFITH, Esq., Commissioner of Valuation, by the hands of Mr. Fancis Eland, the amount of the above account. Dated this day of 185 (Signed) JOHN BOYAN. |