| Description | Hard bound manuscript general ledger recording debit and credit accounts of the Mater Misericordiae Hospital. There is an alphabetical index by account name at the front of the ledger under the headings: ‘Folio’ [the folio page number in the ledger]; ‘Account’; ‘Paid by’; and ‘Due In’. Each account is separated into debit and credit entries; the title of the debit accounts reads ‘Mater Misericordiae Hospital in account with’ or ‘…on foot of’ whilst the title of the credit accounts states the account name with any extra notes on monetary amount and percentage of stocks or shares invested. Each account notes the months that payments are received or made, the times of which depend on the individual account; some are once a month, some are biannual or triennial. The amounts paid and received each month within a given year are noted, along with the yearly total.
Accounts are for various stocks, shares, bequests and moieties owned, received and invested by the hospital, as well as for rents on properties owned by the hospital. Manuscript notes within accounts detail: the total monetary amount paid to and from each account; the percentage of consolidated or preference stocks or shares in each investment and rate of interest on each; that similar accounts were merged and reinvested; or that accounts were sold and closed. Income from bequests or charitable institutions was sometimes invested in stocks or shares as per the Commissioners of the Charitable Bequest Office.
Entries make reference to older folio entries transferred from an ’old ledger’. Page 35 is missing from the ledger either skipped or pasted together.
Accounts include: income from bequest of R J McDermott; income from bequest of Joseph Burke; income from Moran Charity; Anglo-Argentine Tramway Company Limited; Bank of Ireland stock; income from D L Mulligan bequest; Dublin United Tramway Company Limited; moiety on rental properties in Redmond’s Hill and Bishop Street from E J Byrne Charity; Kingstown Urban District; Government Exchequer Bonds; Great Southern and Western Railway; Newry Port and Harbour Trust; rent from 97 and 98 Summerhill, Dublin; bequest from P J Dunne to endow a bed in the hospital; Dublin Port and Docks Board; income from Miss Cruise bequest (Oct 1857); Dublin Corporation stock; income from bequest of Mrs Maria; Brisbane Electrical Tramway Investment Company Limited; income from McOwen charity; income from the P A Smith trust; Canadian Northern and Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Great Northern Railway; Bernard Kiernan charity; T L Murphy charity; income from Murray Charity; John Fitzpatrick Charity; Dr Laurence O’Reilly charity; Pierce O’Donnell charity; Grand Canal preference shares; moiety of rental from estate of late Cornelius Swiney, Cork; Japanese Government bonds; rent of Leigh estate; Mr Egan charity; James Duffy and Company Debenture Stock; Peter [?Tharcel] charity; Howth and Clontarf Tramway Limited; William Burke bequest; Bridget Conlon charity; rent of premises in Cecilia Street, Dublin; Bank of Ireland stock; Third National Loan (Irish Free State); Cork Corporation stock; income from Eleanor Clinch charity.
Enclosures include: a manuscript debit and credit account for a loan from the Sisters of Mercy, Carysfort, Blackrock to the Mater Misericordiae Hospital listing payments to Carysfort and incoming revenue from the loan over the period from 31 May 1930-8 September 1932 ([c8 Sept 1932]; 1p); and a printed repeat order card for Dollard Limited, Printing house, Dublin ([c1920]; 1p).
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