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Despatch, 7 April 1923, from TM Healy, Governor General, to the Duke of Devonshire, Secretary of State for Colonies, stating that his Ministers do wish for recommendations to be made to His Majesty for grants in respect of future cases of triplets. To ensure that `no hardship may be caused by the discontinuance of this custom they are prepared to make suitable provision for such cases including the case of Mrs Guinan's triplets'.

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Despatch

Copy, incomplete, of a letter to `Madam' from IM Gilbert, Vice Regal Lodge, Dublin, sending her a draft, the bounty in respect of the birth of triplets. A handwritten note states that this is a form letter to be used in future cases of triplet bounty, 20 January 1926

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Letter

Note to the President from [Donal?] stating that Mr McDunphy suggests that the Triplet Bounty should in future be issued over the name of the President. The note however, continues `As the number of these grants is very small (only four this year up to the present), it hardly appears worth while making a change', 1 October 1925.

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Note

Memorandum from the Department of Finance, 10 April 1933, submitted to the Secretary, President's Office. The memorandum addresses the question of the origin of the grant, the amount of the grant and the conditions governing the grant. For example, paragraph 2 states:
`The amount of the bounty is £3. It was formerly the practice to pay smaller sums in cases where some of the children did not survive, but on review of the position in 1929 it was decided that, having regard to the smallness of the annual expenditure involved, the full amount should be paid in all cases where at least two of the children were born alive, and no variation is now made in the amount paid'.

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Memorandum

Letter to the Attorney General from `SOM', Runai, enclosing the memorandum issued from the Department of Finance and stating that the bounty should now be issued in the President's name and inquiring as to whether there is any legal objection. He wishes the matter to be treated as urgent as there are two applications at the moment, 11 April 1933.

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Letter

Letter from the Attorney General, Conor A Maguire, to Mr Moynihan, 12 April 1933, stating that he can see no legal objection to the proposed change to have the triplets' bounty issued under the name of the President in future cases.

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Letter

Memorandum to Mr McDunphy, stating that the President agrees to the payment of the triplets' bounty in his name.

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Memorandum

Memorandum from [?] stating that the change to issue the triplets' bounty in the name of the President was effected and that the first case in which the bounty was thus issued was that of Mrs Mary Farrelly, Ballyscanlon, County Mayo, 27 April 1933.

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Memorandum

Letter from S Gallchobhair, County Galway Board of Health and Hospital and Dispensaries Committee, 29 August 1933, inquiring as to whether the King's Bounty is still available in some form and stating that triplets `have recently been born in Galway and the parents are of the very poorest class'.

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Letter

Memorandum to the Secretary, Department of the President from the Secretary, Department of Local Government and Public Health, enclosing a copy of the letter from the Secretary, Galway Board of Health and Public Assistance concerning bounty in respect of triplets, 6 September 1933.

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Memorandum