The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-01-25 00:00:00

RESIGNATION Or THE SURVEYOR.

The Tow omits( read the following :
" the TO .1 COUneil f M RarassiA of Frey...milt and
Meicoodse Regis
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"Mr Mayor and gentlemen, —Toil' require of me answers IA
several questions, respecting the sewering and surface drainage
of the Perk First, you had drainage In the Park that C3O
spent on It would have made It all that was requirel, for the
conveyance of the sewerage, surface water. and to take rainfall
fn on the adjoiaing land This you allowed to be destroyed and
male useless. For this you have that which I. not, nor ever
• ill be, effectual lor @overage, or surface drainage. In the
01.1 you had capacity and good gradlenta, in the new you have
neither. My attempting to advise a plan to remely this would
he madness on my net, as I have alreuly beet, told the fault
lies with me. Auto the filling up, lithe 01.1 drainage had been
made good, every owner could have filled up, as he built his
house. £1,930 has been spent on the new sewers without any
poet effect, and an attempt has been made to !dace this on Inc ;
therefore I place my office at your disposal
"660R011 SEAMAN.
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" Weymouth. January ?0, 1876."
Mr. WALLIA tUllid this was a very serious matter—the
resignation a their surveyor. An onus had been cast on
him that he ought not to have had to bear.
Mr. Euor did not think they could go into this matter
at present, and . .

Mr. AT14710 said it was not part of the business thtn.
Mr. WALLIS said Mr. Seaman bad been forced to wend
in that resignation. Supposing they were to say to Mr.
Ailing 'You are too old to sit in that chair "—how would
he like it?

Mr. THOMAS : You would not be far wrong—{laughter).
Mr. Watus said as • man gets older he becomes more
discreet Because the Surveyor spoke the truth, was he
to have an onus thrown upon him?
Mr. THOMAS should move that tenders be invited upon
the plan given by Mr. Seaman, because he knew he under-
stood this matter! .

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Dr. DREW: He must give several month's notice. must
he not
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The TOWN CLERK: ijil services are determinable at the
pleasure of the Council.
Mr. RYLES said before they passed a resolution, the plan
should he before the Board. because there were %nine
serioun objections to repairing the Pile Pier with stone.
because it was paid it would be dangerous to naviga-
tion. . .

Nlr. WALKER said an alteration had been made in that,
and Mr. Seaman stated that the stones be proposed
placing were of such • size that they would not interfere,
and they would be put inside and not outside.
Mr. CHARLES thought the llarbour•maater Slid they
would he dangerous.
Dr. Dazw propeeed that tenders be invited for coin•
plating the Pile-pier in wood and in stone, according to
the specifications prepared by the Surveyor.
Seconded by Mr. Titers&
Mr. ATLES said the best plan would lie a combination of
wood and stone._ .

Mr. Watini : Before we enter into ebb matter, Wt: must
know how much In going to be done.
11r. Dagw : I think we bad better meet together on
Monday. . . .

Mr. WALLIS: Then let us discontinue thin discussion :
we are only losing time. Has there been any communica-
tion from Messrs. Andrews and Pope, of Dorchester,
respecting Mr. Thresher's claim
The Towx CLRRK : No, I have none; they are better
engaged—(a laugh).
Roferring again to Mr. Seaman, Mr. Wsitis said the
Surveyor is wide enough awake to see that his services
are not required.
Mr. ELIOT was understood to say then we must get
another.
Mr. WALL:a : That is what the Board want: but it is
not fair to the old gentleman. The Board is like a lot of
hounds upon him.
Mr. LUNDIE Then we have no report about the Park.
Mr. ELIOT : No. I have been expecting to have • report.
Mr. WALKER: It WKS stated at the last meeting that
the Surveyor was appointed by the committee to prepare
and present • report, and to say the state in which he
found the Park.

Wai:Cia-; Did the committee say that Mr. Seaman
Mll not competent to carry out the work
Mr. WALKIR: No, they did not. Such • question never

Some o jec on was made to Mr. Wallis continuing the
subject of the Surveyor when
I Mr. WALLIS replied: am just as much in order to talk
about the Surveyor, as you are to talk about the Park
drainage.tr. tsnis asked if the Town Clerk had received any
money from those gentlemen whose land had been filled
up in the Park I
The Tows CiAltic had not, with the exception of one;
but be was going to have all the parties before him, and
he should have to make a special report.
Mr. Etior thought the Town Cleric should lose no time
in recovering the. money. . .

THOMAS said some poor wretched woman in London
had been summoned and made to repay the expense laid
out by this &wird, but there were genUetuen on the
Board itself who had not paid, and he thought this
exceedingly wrong.
Mr. WALLIS begged leave to move that the Town Clerk
be instructed to enforce payment of the whole—not to go
down on the widow and fatherleas, and leave out parties
who tan afford to pay,
The TOlvx CI ERk said the lady was not fatherless that
he ',new 01, at shy' rate aim vaa very well off.

ANOTHER CLAIM FOR COHPINSATION.
The next business was to consider Mr. iturdon's action
against the Board.
The TOWN CUIRK said he had • good defence to the
action, all he wanted was that the Board should Instruct
him to resist him.

Mr. LUDIL proposed that the Town Clerk be authorieed
to_rpsisl.the action.

Mr. WALL'. said before they did that, they ought to
kir.w all about it.

Mr. LUNDIP said they knew already. A thousand
pounds damage for what?
Mr. WALLIS said the Dan. was supposed to be an
acquisition to the town; but it had proved • curse. There
were one or two claims to be settled, and now here was
another" Burdon " cast upon them to increase their bur-
dens. Were they to be continually infested with these
claims for compensation t He believed there were others
behind the wanes waiting to see the result
Mr. IUNDI6 said no doubt it WU a rich legacy : the dam
was • godsend for some.
Mr. Vigo= meant to say the property was improved.
Mr. WALLIS said the Dam was something like Madame
Rachel, it was to make the town 'beautiful for ever," hut
it had proved a failure ; it was the cause of their being
pulled to pieces for money.
It was resolved that the Town Clerk be instructed to
enter appearance to the action by Mr. Burden and to
defend it.
PAPAPIIICINT OP LOAN.
The Towg Cu= introduced the subject of repaziski
the loan of xszio on special district rate to Mr. John iox.

Mr. THONaa said 15 years am he prom.ed tau
lon be paid off. It was resolved than an additional :2
be made: they ha.l the additional rate; but they did
net
pay off the loan.
It was re.olve.l to pay off the loan out of a
mulated .urplus.

HACKWATEM Map.
Mr. VINCENT brought forward a motion to renime
from the Backwater between the hottoin of fia,l;47,
road an.: the Gasworkn. Thin ought to be done,
could not be undertaken Lint summer because it brought on on about June or July. 4500 or zigio w„up
thought, be sufficient, if they began (run the ilasy
and went across to the Gasworks.
Mr. WALLIS said a lot of al,le•lrcliel I'per, wer,„
the Workhouse; they went out e irned atg of :none,
in the summer and returned to the family 111311,1.1111 b th'e
! winter, and these men might be put on the cork,
Mr. THOMAS Slid there were not four men in the House
capable of performing the work.
The Tows (.11.611K read • letter from the Local f:,were.
ment Board, asking him to furnish a statement showis.
how the amount borrowed had been applied, an,linehlia
a total estimate for the work.; now propose! to be
crated, lie had hal enor ~,,, trouhle to get con•ent te
the f orrowing of £2.120, awl there wan no more rhanes
getting the consent now asked for, without full details,
than of going up to the moon.
Mr. WALL'S sail Mr. flarrison never rezmumended
weir to he put in the pain.
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WA a-ea a:Lid it would he decidedly pi...ter:tido to
attend to the health of the people than to go to work ia
the Harbour, and spend money there. The mud woo to be
removed from the harbour; but people in the Park bad
to live in mud. .

Mr. LUNDIE seconded Mr. Vincent They were doing
their hest for the Park, and this mud WA, quite as Lik
to be injurimui as anything in the Park.
Mr. CHARLES naked were they not without a Surverr
Mr. ATLING said thou4h the Surreyor had ?.ent in hiS
migeguen, they had not areepted it, and Mr. Se.iman
hi.l intimated that he would be willing to assi,t the

Mr. 1% ALLIS: Pull down that horrilde wall of sir John
Ciode's near the Gas-house. that is neither :zoo for man
nor beast. The beasts can't go across with a burden, and
a man is afraid of slippim: down.
The Towit ('LEEK aid tie present matter was one of
the thineo that must be communicated to the Itoard
above. They had asked for certain infortuaion before
they could answer the memorial and this would be p.
of the particulars tho Board would have to eve.
Mr. WALLIS : The ',seal Government &Aril has 110
fyith in us, liecause wr lilve injudiciously spent the money
Viey let us born, Y. The money has been squandered use-
lessly, and the ratepayers have to suffer.
it transpired in the course of discussion that the Stir.
veyor had sail the work would coat 1:1.109, and in the
(ace of the TOWS Clerk's statement the mattn. dropped.