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Petty Sessions Office Millstreet Co. Cork 18th May 1916 Sir I have been directed
to transmit to you
the following copy of a Resolution Passed
at a specially convened meeting of the
Magistrates of the Millstreet Petty Sessions
District held at the Courthouse here on 17 May 1916 The following Magistrates were
present
Messrs R.R. Leader (in the Chair) C O.
Callaghan J P Hegarty M. Howard G.D.
O'Sullivan D Tangney J.J Hickey and
J.A. Hardy. It was resolved on the Proposition of
Mr. O. Callaghan that a Request be sent
to Government to put the Peace Preservation
Act in force immediately and increase the
Police Establishment here by the addition
of at least six Constables. This was seconded by Mr M Howard
and Passed unanimously. I have the honour to remain
Sir
your obedient Servant
R. T. Pomeroy
C.P.J. I Ack. II Under Secretary,
To see I done 23/5 I despd 29/5 The Under Secretary
This is a letter from Richard Thomas Pomeroy (1858-1937), member of the Petty Sessions
Office on Mill Street District Cork, to Robert Chalmers (1858-1938), the under-secretary
to Ireland. Robert Chalmers assumed the role in 1916 for a brief period following
the resignation of Matthew Nathan (1862-1939), after accepting political failure during
the 1916 Easter Rising. The letter claims to transmit a resolution made by the magistrates
of the Mill Street petty session district on 17 May 1916. The resolution regards the
events of the Easter Rising, stating that the board has resolved to suggest to the
government that the Peace Preservation Act should be enforced, along with more policing.
Pomeroy names man who attended the meeting, including James J. Hickey (b.1876) and
Joseph Alexander Harty (b.1862).