The remainder were
to be dismissed by successive reductions, at such times and in such
proportions as would be determined by the Board. The order in which
dismissals wore to be carried out was, that persons holding ten acres of
land and upwards, were to be discharged on the 20th of March, _even if
they should exceed the twenty per cent._; if they fell below it, the
persons holding the next largest quantity of land should be discharged
in order that the full twenty per cent. should be dismissed. In
districts where rations of soup could be supplied by the Relief
Committees, the Relief Works were to be entirely suspended.
It was added in the Minute, that as the Commissioners of Public Works
were of opinion that, in existing circumstances, the mode of employing
persons by task work did not answer the expectations that were formed of
it, there should be a recurrence to daily pay, at such rates as might be
fixed with the sanction of the Lord Lieutenant.
As soon as the Relief Commissioners entered upon their duties, they drew
up a code of rules for the information and guidance of Relief
Committees.
The following are the principal:
1. Relief Committees to be under the regulating control of a Finance
Committee for each Union.
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