The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-11-28 00:00:00

THE
_BOROUGH POLICE..

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The following is Supt. Vickery's report to a late-
meeting of the Watch Committee :-
" Police °Mee, Weymouth.
" Oentlemen.-I beg respectfully to submit my annual
police report for the year ending the Slith September. 1878
1,, the reporeit will be seen that 38 indictahle'utlences were
report.' during the year, for which 28 persons were
apprehended and 219 =omitted fur trial. Last year the
number was 23 apprehended, which shows an increase of
5 The sue% however, are of slighter stature than in the
live previous years ; 332 persona were proceeded against in
a .mruary manner, against 419 last year, which shows
a decrease of 87 persona. Of these 946 were men and 44
women: but of these 212 men and 31 women were
convicted, the classes being as follows :-Assaulta on
women and children. ; common assaults., 27 ; breach of
the peace, 28: drunk, or drunk and disorderly, ii?;
larceny, 27; breach of the by..-laws, 23; breach of the
Vagrant Act, ; breach of the Shipping Act, 25; other
offences, 87. The class of pecans proceeded against
was as follows : -Seamen, ill soldiers. 31 vagrants
aad tramps, 28 : known thieves, 26; prostitutes, 13:
characters unkown. 33 ; suspicous characters, 21 s
previous gaod characters, 34. Nine persons
under police supervision have reported theniselve;
, during the year, three of whom are still residing in the
I borough. whilst one is dead, one being re-convicted, and
four left the Town. 288 persons were relieved at this
otil.ar during the year and sent to the union, as against 177
last year. Doling the year, between the hours of twelve
p.m., and six a.m. 3lio doors an 1 windows of dwelling
houses were f9Und open bv the police and the inmates
called up to secure them. tat doors and windows of shops,
warehouses, and stores were also found open, all of which
were closed and marked by the police. Two men have left
the police force during the put year. During the past
year niembers of the police force have sawed the lives of
three persons -two from the harbour, and one from the
seaopposite the Kaplanade. Of these two were saved by
P.C. Carter at the risk of his own life. Two constables
were mill tired in the execution of their duty, Rs. Ilaeyey
being kicked by a soldier, and P C. Hansford in stopping
a runaway horse on the quay. I find the hoero of fluty
done hy the pollee between 51 iy and September toaverage
tat elve and-a-half hours each day. In 1873 a sliding scale
"of pay for the police was adopted by the Watch Committee
and appraral of by the Secretary of State. A merit clam
was alu estaldialn.d. by which the nom were entitled to
time increase from the ;Slth of September, hot it was
thought advisable not to :wept. it until it was again
brought before your committee I bug n.,onflv to rearm-
mond to your notice for iirionothei to the iu6rit clam the
following count Jill.: -P.C. 11.trtIntt. P.C. Illansforl,
Stickland. P.C. Delasuont, and P.C. Carter.- -I am.
gentlemen, you obedient s •resist, SAMI/KL A. VICKERY.
holu.irinten.lent. To the Watch Committee of the borough
of Weys..outh and Holcombe Itegis.

ARMY SCRIPTURE RE %DERV socirnr.
The anneal ineetinz of the rien,i of thiv valuable
society was held on Monday hist at rt.:. National school
room, Me'combo Regis. There were on the Watt... Nan—the
Rector Rev. T. A. °reeves, Mr. It. if. Eliot. Capts...-
I,tuasell, ILE., Rev. T. Falkner. Lieut. Col. Willoughby
seircanry : and Lieut. CoL Rowiandson. The attendanos
was very ices! The procevlin,rs commenced by the
alaginfi of the Lyn,. commencing "Stand up, stand up for
Jesus.
Mr. It. ff. ELIQT read the ttoazcial report, Mr. Eliot
said it was always a pleasing duty to th report progress,
Lc was happy to say that there had teen a large ifICTPIS•
Anbscriptioaa; Collected hy Miss G. Parker £lY26a 7*d.
lase udale ZS ls. 61., by Captain
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1-13- —_ being‘.
(4lii.• ' elk 40,. to collector., £3311. 64.. Collected se flOiflinatsil Mr. Ayling for ward alderman. —Unani-
Russell Le ._ ._ • 44. et Total OD 35. W.. by far the mous y re-ek.cted.
at Meeting., Lis '-4 ygt teen abl4 to came: but be The MAYOR being chosen chairman for the Melconige
largest amount they to. ''• gini le se:ile to raise a still Regis committee proposed Mr. Millodge for ward alder-
did not see why they *home --A vd..l=6 noble nian, and Mr. Milledge was al: i unanimously re-rlectod.
larger amount Let them rimy t.. REPORTS.
444°4 is..-.' • iirveyor's report related to crossings labor required
society, whose aims were only to spread ...
our soldiers. (Applause.) ti, tlie v.. 41. end of l'a.k.st
and :steps a rixt and the
the north harbourmaster's
Ivolt end of the to
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The 4.31.4110101 called on Capt. Russell, IL E. saying ho .
he was sorry this would be very likely the last time 4 %int tu% ,
Russell would address them, as he was about to be ilr'"ge.
removed to another station. Mr. 'lowan'. ,
Capt. AVASELL, RE., said the first time he einie fo that the 11"1",,al Ceu'n-
Weymouth. he sew a bill of the Army Scripture Reader's the repairs of the stens 'eating .
Society an the walls, and the first time he spoke from a of the bridge to the Quay or
best mu,
n.psiri 1;.: -.,
. public platform it was on its belief. so that Weymouth with new steps, as they may thinkwould lie connected with the society in hi* mind. The coming to some arrangement with the railway coin,i ill)
amount collected at Weymouth compared very favourably for romponsation for the a...4e, done by their ~oryoott WM...
with other towns. .tt Portsinouthathere ere eight or nine to the bridge and aPportenaugeg. And if they ...
times, as many people yet he had seen that Weymouth The report alg"gta, tod witio damage to the rile-pier. the term of years an .
collected three or Ina times as touch; and the amount Th ti e URVKYOR oeing called in stated that a large Mr. WALKER, after teliti.,..„
represented a very large number of collections. There are quantity of stones bad been wathel from the aide of the Clerk. cud --then the borrowed uuo,.
now as many temptations besetting the soldiers as in pier in the late gale, suit thu reptirs, he thought, ought eventually to bo paid off out of the rates; ii ...
other years, and in consequent* of the short service to be done at once sufficienti, far the time, any failure it came to the Sante thing—an Increase of toe
',dew, more men are brought under the influence of the TheIIATOR said be had ',quested the suryeyor- as it rating—a borough rate in cage of failure.
army, and afforded to the society a larger field ter was a ease requiring inimedhite care—to attend to It; the Mr. Alderman HOWAIM said the state of things in the
missionary enterprise. Another reason for thought and oast would not be shove £9, and he hoped the Council present day was for Corporations to grant municipal
Interest on behalf of the soldiers is that these are tveablous would justify him in giving the artier at once. bonds, and we in Weymouth did not wish to be behind '

My. DEYrs?

tnnite, Eel on that the opinion wee :—" The scheme for
amalgamation would not he sanctioned without the con-
e., of the mirtgasmes and creditors under the several
trusti."
Mr. WICLSPORII AL. read the conclusi in of the opinion
skiniesniti°n ou
n n
ab
wl
e
se to
that the Corporate
m ply their way. and
as read by Mr. Councillor mot. The trusts were then in
atlivie,?i.t.l:iy ".
,enfet"tiih
rah
tutnc n te i'"
e utuade liable, for the purpose of securing
to the different people their trust money, not for the
purpose of paving ill the debt. to getting an Act of
Parboil...tit for the purpose of maiden. ..I bonds, th..y
would either pay olf tho whole of these trust monies. or
they ...LI be brought into hodgepodge, and itie whole
hpieght ou the Harbour anil the other Corporate
.1.4041 W ;LI Cr, '•'"11.1 lm • debt of £.10,01g) or £.10.000
iirmay ho weight upon the whole of the property•mmj.
weio,e, it ott they might at the close of
'sem{ 1410 e m sell the property._W the Town
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