The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-11-16 00:00:00

DORCHESTER TOWN COUNCIL

A General Quarterly Meeting of this body took
place M the Guildhall, on Tuesday left, Wm.
Menne Beg., *vat% presiding, There Were pre.
mut Alderman U ft Kenning,l3aunoillare Curme,
11",tolf Camas, Look, Oitlnin, linear, bishop,
Drvenish, end Garland, the last named gengsPlim
Mkng i hie mat, amidst the eungratulations or the
Coutifill, after Aln almenue (thin the Ward mu&.
sinned by a 'furious and istintul illness

THII MAYORALTY.
'the Worshipful the Marna stated that the Orel
business before the (bunch l wee to select a new
Mayor for the mooing ymr,
Mr. pniposed Mr. H. boa% at aft person
M
to till the hos, He did sii, he salii, ir Iwo or
three reasons. First, Mr. Look wee the perfidy
member of the Column who hail not filled the chile
chair, and as he Ilimight the office now properly
devolved upon that gentleman, under these oiromn.
atones' which he always *Med to keqi In view,
end further seeing that the mnitir member Was will.
big to undertake thou duties, and would dieeharge
titers properly, he felt that the eleotbin of Mr,
honk would lie satisfactory In the Ontincil and the
town generally. He felt aseureil that Mr. Look
would give him boot attention to the carrying out
efficiently the business of that important onto", end
he hail therefore much plum" in proposing his elm.
tion for the ensuing year.
Mr. COOl4llO begged to second the proposition.
The MAYOII havirig ;Mike question as to whether
any member of the Council desired to propose any
other member for the Mite.' and no reply being
given, his Worship declared that Mr. Look woe
unanimously elected Mayor of Dureliseter fin the
ensuing year.
The Myoe elect said he must express his thanks
to Mr. Ensor in particular for the very kind manner
in which he had propued hi. election, and also for
the unanimous election whioli had taken place. He
felt himself his own deficiencies for perfinining Natio.
fhetorily the flutist of the data; but at the same
time he was satiofied from the election they had made
that ,ley that the Council would give him every
Assistance and enoourapment. He hoped that
during the ensuing year the labours of the Mayor
would be rather more important than on ordinary
occasions, in as much as ihey had several subjects
which would niqulrs a great deal of time and anxious
thought. First, there wee the drainage and wittar.
supply of our town, which had occupied a Imp poi,
thin of their oonsiderstion, while large sums of -money
had been expended on thou works without realising
any immediate advantage.. He hoped they would
be in • position to sac, in the ciouree of the ensuing
year, that the Corporation woo able to provide good
water and efficient drainage for the town. On the first
of August they had something to do in connection
with the Bath and West of England Agricultural
&misty. Now that was a subject which would take
up some considerable portion of their time, and it
was a subject, no doubt, of great importanoe to the
town; and he would express the hope that if there
existed any feeling' of supineness or indifference with
regard to the visit of that Society, that those feelings
would be dispelled, so that they might be enabled to
say before the year wiui out that they were able and
willing to give the society • warm, cordial, and en.
thusisatio reception. Then, there was another
matter—the Wollaston Field ; that was another sub.
jeet for reflection. All he required and asked of
the Council was, that they would attend here at
the Council.chamber, and be hoped they should
then be able to get through their duties in a proper
way. Again he tendered his best thanks for the
office to which they had so kindly elected him, and
he trusted he should be able to discharge the duties
devolving upon him, not only with satisfaction to
the Council but to his fellow townsmen. (Hear.)

OF CoMbtISTE6B, ko.

This being the 9th of November the several
committees were appointed for the ensuing year,
and the days fixed for holding the General Quarterly
Meetings.
In the course of a lengthened conversation which
took place in connection with this business,
Mr. GALPIN observed that a report went abroad
that there was a desire on the part of the Council to
transact their business privately in committee.
That, he said, was not the case, because the subject
reader of the committees' proceedings was afterwards
brought before the whole Council.
The MAYOR said in his experience the whole of
the material business of the Council was certainly
iratunicted in committee, and added that he had
sever seen a single report emanating from these
oommittees ever rejected by the Council.
It was then agreed that the Finance and General
Purposes Committees should consist of the whole
Council.

Mr. WINTON, the Borough Treasurer, presented
an order from the Court of Quarter Sessions for the
payment of the costa in the appeal ease, Smith v.
Ifavileid and Eneor.
Mr. GALPIN desired information as to the position
of the Council in reference to this order, there ap•
pairing to him to be something anomalous in the dis•
tutraement of their funds by the order of magistrates
of another Court. _ . .

The TOWN Cutxx recited the clauses in the Act
of Parliament, 9th Geo. IV., chap. 61, 8430. 29, fully
And explicitly authorising the payment by the
Borough Treasurer of these costs on the order of the
Court of Quarter Sessions; and he further quoted,
for the information of Mr, tailspin the Act of Par.
liament having reference to the uties of the Borough
Treasurer, clearly pointing out that there was nothing
whatever inconsistent in those prescribed duties
with the payment of the order in question, which,
he said, was undoubtedly imperative upon the
borough.