Here is Union-rating in 1847.

Immediate preparations were made to carry this Act into effect. 
Commissioners were appointed; a General Order was issued by the Lord
Lieutenant, and in due time that most potential of documents, a Treasury
Minute, was published.[246]

In virtue of the powers conferred on him, his Excellency, in his General Order, declared that besides the justices, Poorlaw Guardians and Relief Inspector; archbishops and bishops of every denomination, the principal officiating clergy of the three denominations, and the three highest ratepayers of the district should be members of Relief Committees.  Some further regulations were made to meet such special difficulties as might arise.  In the next place his Excellency defined the duties of Government Inspectors.  They were:  1.  To direct and stimulate the Committees within their districts; 2.  They were to exercise vigilance in order that relief should be given only to persons really in need of it; 3.  And they were commanded to interfere as little as possible with Committees that were performing their duties well, whilst, at the same time, it was laid down as their duty to interfere with, and address Committees whose proceedings were of an injurious kind.

As to Finance Committees, the Lord Lieutenant explained that they were to be composed of the resident gentlemen, who had the greatest interest in the welfare of the districts.  The legislature intended, he said, that they were to be the superintending controlling bodies over the proceedings of the Committees of Electoral Divisions, inasmuch as it was to them the country had to look for the carrying out of the provisions of the Act, with the least injury to the great interests concerned.  There is no doubt that in this matter the Lord Lieutenant used the powers vested in him with a good deal of freedom as to the appointment of the Finance Committees.  The clause of the Act referring to them (the 6th) runs thus:  “And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in every case in which it shall appear to him expedient, to appoint in every Union in which this Act shall be in force, a Finance Committee, which shall consist of the Inspector, to be appointed as aforesaid by the Relief Commissioners for such Union, and of such justices resident in the Union, or such other persons as the Lord Lieutenant should think fit, not being less than two and not more than four persons in addition to such Inspector.”

The Treasury Minute repeats the numbers on the public works during the month of February.  They were, in the

     Week ending on the 6th, , . . 615,055
     Week ending on the 13th,. . . 605,715
     Week ending on the 20th,. . . 668,749
     Week ending on the 27th,. . . 708,228

It also gives the outlay for three months, not including the expenses of the Commissariat Department, which were by no means inconsiderable.