CITY OF LONDONDERRY. 
ESTABLISHMENTS FOR THE INDIGENT. 
Name. 
Object. 
Management. 
Number relieved. 
Funds. 
From Public Bodies. 
Ten schools are wholly or 
partly supported by bene¬ 
volence. 
The removal of ignorance. 
Sundry societies. 
8(35 pupils receiving instruc¬ 
tion. 
£ J. d. 
045 15 4. 
Clergymens’ Widows’ Fund. 
To relieve the widows of cler¬ 
gymen of the diocese. 
Committee of nine beneficed 
clergymen. 
13 
Savings’ Bank. 
To enable the working classes 
to amass the fruits of their 
industry. 
Committee of management, 
9 Directors, 
1 Accountant, 
1 Secretary and Treasurer, 
1 Actuary. 
G10 on the books, 20th No¬ 
vember, 1834. 
Interest paid by government 
on deposits. 
Charitable Loan. 
To aid the poor by loans of 
£2, payable by weekly in¬ 
stalments of Is. in the 
pound. 
A committee of 18. 
About 400 persons receive 
£2 per annum in loans. 
Irish Society. 
£10 a year. 
County members, £5 each. 
City member, £10. 
Ladies’ Penny Society. 
To relieve sick and indigent 
room-keepers, and the in¬ 
dustrious poor. 
Patroness, president, and a 
committee of 14 ladies. 
550 in 1834. 
Bequest of £30 a year, and 
Irish Society £30 a year. 
Flax Fund (a branch of the 
Ladies’ Penny Society). 
To employ the poor. 
A lady. 
450 average per annum. 
Irish Society, £20 a year, 
occasional charity sermons. 
Poor Shop. 
To sell clothes and bedding at 
prime cost. 
Committee ofladies. 
Uncertain. 
Mendicity, 
To support street beggars and 
the labouring poor. 
Committee. 
190 on the books, 4th Feb., 
1835. 
Irish Society, £30 per annum. 
Penitentiary. 
To serve as a temporary asy¬ 
lum for unfortunate females. 
Patroness, and a committee of 
ladies. 
7 
Irish Society, . £10 0 0 
Draper’s Com. . 10 10 0 
Gaol. 
To inculcate habits of indus¬ 
try amongst the prisoners, 
and thereby diminish the 
temptation to crime. 
Governor and other officers. 
Fluctuating. 
Earnings of prisoners pur¬ 
chase materials and tools. 
Bequest. 
To relieve the poor of the 
parish. 
Fallen into disuse. 
Uncertain. 
1 To distribute to 34 inhabi- 
tauts of the city and liber- 
j ties, on the Derry side of 
the river. 
Dean and curates of Derry, 
and executors. 
34 
1 To distribute among the poor 
Bequest. 1 of the parish. 
Church-wardens. 
152 
BENEVOLENCE. 
ESTABLISHMENTS FOR THE INDIGENT. 
Funds. 
Annual Expense or 
MANAGEMENT. 
Relief afforded. 
When founded. 
From Private Individuals. 
House Rent. 
Salaries. 
Diet. 
Clothing. 
Money. 
Otherwise. 
• 
£ s. d. 
2G90 4 7. 
With other ex¬ 
penses, £601. 
£ s. d. 
1059 12 6. 
87 pupils dieted. 
87 pupils clothed. 
Exhibitions at 
College for pu¬ 
pils of Dioce¬ 
san School. 
Pupils appren¬ 
ticed from Gwyn’s 
Institution. 87 
pupils lodged. 
At sundry periods. 
One per cent, on the nett 
incomes of the clergy 
of the diocese, and the 
interest on the accu¬ 
mulated capital which 
fluctuates in different 
years. 
Treasurer and Se¬ 
cretary, £35 a 
year. 
£35 a year to 
each widow. 
The 5 senior wi¬ 
dows have house 
rent free. 
1729. 
£13,460 6s. Id., amount 
of deposits on books, 
20th Nov. 1834. 
Sums drawn out 
by depositors, in¬ 
creased by com¬ 
pound interest. 
1816. 
19th February. 
From collections at places 
of worship, and annual 
donations of £450, 
a835.) 
House rent, £1. 
One clerk, £20 
Attendant, £l 
Loans amounting 
to about £800 
per annum. 
1809. 
Donations, about £140. 
£4 tOa. Oil. 
Meal, 500 pecks, 
(worth about £30 
annually), & bread 
and groceries. 
Various articles 
of female dress. 
Soap, and straw, 
and turf. 
1815. 
8th January. 
£16 14s. Ad., 
(including other 
expenses.) 
£12 12s. Oil. 
10<f. a spangle 
for yarn. 
.. . 
Subscriptions, about £55, 
(average.) 
From £20 to £25 a year. 
1800 (average) 
articles of 
clothing sold 
annually. 
1821. 
Voluntary subscriptions, 
average on the last nine 
years, £656. 
Oatmeal, pota¬ 
toes, milk, &c. 
Donations of some 
garments. 
Snulf and tobacco 
(to some). 
1825. 
13th May. 
Voluntary subscriptions and 
donations, £107 9s. 2d. 
£27 0s. Orf. 
£35 15s. 0 d. 
Inmates fed. 
Inmates clothed. 
1829. 
1st May. 
Earnings of prisoners pur¬ 
chase materials and tools. 
No separate expense. 
Usual diet. 
Usual clothing. 
The prisoners re¬ 
ceive £rd of 
their earnings 
when they leave 
gaol. 
1826. 
81st May. 
Colonel John Mitclielburne, 
£5, late Irish currency. 
• 
,£5 late currency. 
1721. 
12th July. 
Alderman Peter Stanley, 
£42 a year, late Irish 
currency. 
£42 late curren¬ 
cy* 
1826. 
6th November. 
Miss Margaret Evory, £20 
a year. 
£20. 
1831. 
5th February. 
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