Source: Local Government and Taxation of Towns Inquiry Commission (Ireland).
Supplement to Part III. Report and Evidence, with Appendices: Kingstown and Dalkey. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty ,
1877, Dublin, 25
Date: 5 April 1877
Place: Kingstown, Ireland
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
Mr. ENNIS re-called.
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242. ***Are Albert and Adelaide roads and Tivoli-terrace in Kingstown? Yes.
297. Mr. Thomas Sexton is put down as the person paid for Adelaide-road. The contractor put down for Albert-road is Mr. John Pluck ? That is another local contractor. That is a distinct sewer. The work was commenced in previous years; but being part of the plans embraced in the contract for £430, it was not earned out until 1876. The Adelaide-road sewer mentioned below is a continuation of the former sewer, and is a separate contract. This sewer is put down in another place as the Albert and Adelaide road sewer.
298. According to that account (referring to account of payments produced) although you had power to pay contracts to the extent of only £2,000 you have paid £10 over? Yes, we were pretty close.
299. Was Mr. Sexton the person who laid the pipes on a former occasion? No, he had nothing to say to the former contract for laying pipes.
300. Was that contract for £1,300 for the pipe-laying submitted to public competition? Decidedly.
301. Had Mr. Sexton any previous experience in laying mains or water-pipes ? Not in Kingstown.
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*** Sequential number of question and answer in the minutes of evidence.
