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Statement from the President of the Executive Council's Office, 29 August 1934, relating to the British Breach of the 1923 agreement on triplet's bounty.

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Statement

Newsclipping from the `Irish Press', 10 October 1934, relating to the birth of triplets at the Rotunda Hospital Dublin and stating that the King's Bounty has been replaced by a State Bounty in respect of triplets born in Ireland,

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Newsclipping

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Letter from the Lord Mayor of Dublin, A Byrne, relating to triplets born to Mrs B Kelly, 27 Marshalsea Lane Barracks, Thomas Street, [Dublin] and inquiring about `what was known as "The King's Bounty"', 22 November 1934.

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Letter

Letter to Alfred Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, from, Sean O Muimhneachain, Secretary, stating that Mrs B Kelly was forwarded £3 as a bounty on 1 December 1934.

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Letter

Memorandum from Sean O Muimhneach, Secretary, Office of the President of the Executive Council, to the Secretary of the Department of Finance, 22 October 1936, relating to the discontinuance of the precedent that in the case of the bounty in respect of triplets at least two of the children should be born alive. If this condition remained, Mrs Bridget O'Sullivan, Athy, would be deprived of the bounty.

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Memorandum

Statement for the Office of the Department of the President of the Executive Council, stating that in respect of a bounty for triplets it `has been agreed to waive the condition that at least two of the children must be born alive', 11 November 1936.

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Statement

Memorandum from the Secretary, Department of the President, to the Secretary, Department of Finance, 30 April 1935, relating to the application for triplets' bounty on behalf of Mrs McCarthy, Skibbereen, County Cork.

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Memorandum

Memorandum from Arthur D Codling, Department of Finance, to the Secretary, Department of the President, 20 May 1935, relating to the application for triplets' bounty on behalf of Mrs McCarthy, Skibbereen, County Cork. `In the case of Mrs. McCarthy, the information before the Minister is that the family is in comfortable circumstances, occupying a holding of about 70 acres of fairly good land with a valuation of about £30. The grant of bounty in her case would be tantamount to a complete waiver of the `necessitous circumstances' condition, a course which the Minister is not disposed to adopt'.

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Memorandum

Statement from the Department of the President relating to procedure in relation to bounty in respect of triplets. The statement declares that it was decided by the Department of Finance to adhere to the condition that bounty would not be paid where the parents were in a comfortable situation, 6 May 1935.

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Statement

Letter from the Master of the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin, John F Cunningham, to Sean T O'Kelly, Minister for Local Government and Public Health, 29 September 1937, enquiring as to whether any bounty in respect of triplets is granted by the Government.

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Letter