The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has (says a Dublin paper) in addition to his salary of £20,000 a year, likewise an ' allowance ' on mo\ ing into office of £3000 paid to him out of the public funds This ' allowance ' is not paid under any M.itu'ory obligation, but is the pubiect of a special estimate In the eighteenth centuiy three English noblemen were appointed in immediate succession Lords-Lieutenant of Ireland Not one of the three ever put foot on Irish soil They all, howe\er, received and pocketed the £.1000 ' allowance ' for the expenses of entering on their office.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 23, 4 June 1903, Page 31
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96Untitled New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 23, 4 June 1903, Page 31
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