The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-01-23 00:00:00

BRIDPORT HIGHWAY BOARD.

The annual meeting of this Board, whims opera- I
time have ben fro uniformly secossofel.—
we believe, in a great measure, the besinteete
ability and wind= of the egoellent chairman—took
place on Wednesday, when there were peewit :
(lundry, Esq., (chairman), Archdeaose Sanctuary,
and Mars. W. Bebop, J. Tucker, A. Elliott, W.
Doannett, S. Warren, C. Gongs, A. Tooker, W.
Donning, W. a Lea, 8. Dommett, J. Bryant,
W. °anemia, and C. W. Deming.
The following report of the surveyor (Mr. B. J.
Coe) and financial statement were read :
" Sines your last meeting I bath maseyed the road
at Bthekham Bridge, is the pariah of Whltehertib, orid
I against* the coot for widening and improvise it will
be somewhere about £5O. Al the Goner of Bucket's-
Moe lithe road between Broad Oak and Shave Crow, la
the pariah of Whitebureh, there Is a very awkward
corner respecting which I have received oompisists. It
might be removed and the road Goesidenbly improved
atsiioiltlayolfrc.gstoflo. At the lest westing I
pw:orderid Se tempest the reed near Ded's lye in the
rliab of &inhered. I hove dthe ea, sad estimate
that the cost of improving it will be shout al I
have received romplaiate regretting Iwo awkward
COMM in the road leading from Shave Cram to Bollix.
condee, in the parish of Maishwood, ose othr the per
way leadiag to the Manor House, and the other at
Watt's rernor war the briek-kilo. I estimate the
oast of improving both will be amok £l2. At the last
meeting I received cadets to survey the road leading
from Weytown to Beltway tab, and known as Pine
Apple and Ford-lane. The oat of making it a good
road will be at lewd between £2OO and kOOO This
outlay is so large that I would beg to suggest that a
portion
wbosierepeled; bet ot coursel sea only await 7011 W
In We Wier. Oilabiae, Intl.

Nethertetry, is in • dangerous slate, owixig to the fences
hems di oayet and the bridge in a dilapidated state. The
trot of the neeeseery repairs will fell on the amplera of
the adjacent property. I have surveyed the road lead-
ing from Symondsbury to Breed Oak, in aecosdance
with year orders. The oust of widening the whole of
the past of which toomplaists hese been made will be at
least t9Oll. I would ragtag:ally sanest that • portion
be done, and the Board gine me order, as to what
amount. At the road near gyps ferns-hones the sides
of the banks have slipped. Mr. Alfred MUM bee kindly
offerel to cart the whole of the earth so that the
expense to the parish will be only £2O. The im-
provement will be very groat, and the torting tied
other work, which Mr. PitAsid has offered to do at
Iris own coat, would have cost the parish at least £9O.
I have surveyed the road et Poorton, as ordered by the
Board. I And the coat of trideoing and improving the
land will be about 215. There are general complaintu
throughout the whole diatriat reapeeting the hedges
and trees, which are not properly cut and erased. In
misty places the lanee are almoot impassable. I have
se repeatedly brought this matter before the Board
that I hope now mine proceedings will he tiken to
Im/urea shove necessary requirements. Unless you order
I me to summon parties before the magistrates. I feed
convinced the cutting and mooing will still be neg-
lected. In very many pariah.s in the district, the
roads are much injured by the practiee of owners of
property who drain their land, making the main
carriers empty into the highways, at times flooding
them, and ren4ering them almost ietrassable, beidee
causing extra outlay in ripaire I have received a com-
plaint from Mr. Robert Boonton, of A Ilington,
which I now produce reseeding an occupation road
In the pariah of Symondabory. Mr. Salisbury and others
residing to the parish of Netherbury, complain that a
road repairable ration* tontine and leading from
Withay to Salsa, Ash is impassable. I receive
complaints chilly rewording roads repairable rat on.
tonere, and a 'cry large part of coy time is occupied In
writing to, and mein pardon who are ageoyed by these
reeds le lug out of repair. I have brought this matter
frequently before the Board, but only in • few come
have repairs been dose when ordered, and eves when
done love generally been in an uneatishietery meaner.
Hariug again mentioned this I hope steps will now be
tido n that I may be relieved front the multitude of
coropisinia"
The accompanying balance sheet show. the receipts
and expenditure of this board in reepsot of .soh parish
from the lat January. 1865, to the Slit December, 1655,
Wei the third litteneial year. The receripta are :
Balsam in hand last year in some perishes. £9l Oa. 7d.;
tarnishes, Cl 19e. 9d.• other receipts. 7..; rates, Ike.,
£4,261 la 9.1.; total, k 4,374 9e. 14. ifipeedirure :
Rolando overepsnt last year in some pariahs.,
£1379 15s. 7d.; manual labour, 21.016 18s. 11d.; ham
oitte, £484 54.; materials, £792 fle. 8d ;
£76 Os. 44.; common charges, 1:329 19. Id.; turnpikes,
£562 65. 3d.• ethos' payments, £'O 61. 134•:
improvements. '2387 sa. 31.; £4,279 Si. 94.
I oaring a Wane* in hand at the elid of the year of
£95 3e. 48. At the commencement of the
present year the Board was indebted In the sum of
£4BB 156., this has been discharged and forms a part of
the total expenditure forth, present year. The amount
see...tided in actual repairs, turnpike., and common
charge. is £3,312 4s. 11d. The total expenditure
:zujhout the district before the formation of the
on an average of three years amounts to
13.855 13.. 9d., thus the Board has worked this year
£453 Be. 10.1. less than the average of the three years
previous to the operations of the Board. The common
Ounce are £329 19e. Id. being 21-32ude of a penny,
or less than three farthings in the pound on the rateable
value of the district. It was estimated that the items
coming under commas charges previous to the forma-
tion of the Board mounted to 2692 3s. Si._ .

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With regard to repairs at Oxbridge, the clerk was
instructed to require the parties liable to do what ow
required.
Al to the cutting and waning of hedges and trees,
the surveyor ow ordered to take prowedblite under the
65th section of the Act.

It wee ordered that the nuisances in nonnection with
drains complained of be abated.
In reference to the road at Symondsbury (shish Mr.
B. lieuaaell complained of). and roads repairable rations
'mare, the Clerk was ordered to require the parties
lieble to resell. them.
The CHAIRMAN spoke in the hirbett terms of the
services of Mr. B. J. Cox, she s yor' and bore-
sorb. were fully endorsed by Mr. Simon Warren, Mr.
A wire. Tucker, and Mr. O. Trenchard, and • gratuity
of 05 for the pest year was naanimonsly voted to him
by the B erd, and an additiou to his salary of CBS per
year for the future, making £4OO annually.