The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-01-12 00:00:00

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been 14 of Willa have bimn oommitlowl for mai, tab
ma "payload, and fa diaaharpd, TM number of
rereune o have been munmonpd from the let of °debar to
50th of Illovenber, amounts to SOO, During the pest quarter
awe have been 19 informations leld.agalnal beer end otsblie
',rue mto hove been —nw,..d.-4°.:4thrsmidi., of
which mm 11406 e. 6.. Ild hoo been invested, mending to the
direction. of the Court, and £066.. 7d from tha last quarter
I. now *the hood. of the aunty Measurer,
Should the Court same the proposal made by **Town
Connell of the borough of Bridport, to onsolldate their imila
fame with that of the county, I bog to sunset that the
Clark of the Pesos be Instructed to prepare a memorandum of
agreement, to be delivered to the Council of the Borough, in
ooMpltanoe with the 11th 1100., 3 and 4 %lc, asp. IS, and that
you will allow me to enlist three find-clue and two second.
clam oonstoblen, to aro, out thin trangement.
An spoliation also from the Conn:Mtge of the Ratepayers
of the Borough of Wareham has been made to me for the
Superintendent of that divielon to be allowed to lot so
Inspector of Nuisance., which I beg to lay before you.
I am anxious to bring to the notloe of thin Court the deer-
ability of altering, in sane degree, the present Magbstorial
!Minions of Dorchester and Corms The former comprises 09
parishes, the latter 90. The duties therefore of the superin-
tending officers are most disproportionate to mach other; and,
an it will assist sum very much In our police dale., I would
respectfully suggest that the parishes of Chilfrome, Melbury,
Sampford, and Evershot. being eonniderably nearer the town
of Ceme, where Petty Sessions are held, Mould be trannferred
to that divinion, and that the parbh of Rampisham should be
attached to the division of Dridport. An the police-stations at
pennant in um for the oonntabulary are perfectly inadequate
for the purpose required by a recent statute (the Criminal
Justios Act), which empower. magistrates to remand prisoners
to the cells fore period of a fortnight or three weal', they
would not, lam satisfied, on inspection, be approved by the
Secretary of State.
In oonsequenoe of the suggentions of the committee for
building of police stations not having been assented to by the
Court, I have to request, an absolutely neoemary for the pur-
poses of the constabulary, that I may be permitted at once to
hire a station in the town of Sherborne, and also to build •
lock-up attached to it, which I estimate will oat about ASO.

Mr, 10T, in the absence of Mr. Frampton, the
Chairman of the Police Committee, read that com-
mittee's quarterly report, to the following effect :
The motion made at the last &alone for the sum of Z 20,000
for pollee stations to be raised on the security of the police
noes and repaid by twenty yearly Instalments, having been
postponed, at the request of the Court, to these Sewdons, your
committee beg to bring again to the notice of the Court the
grunt inconvenienee experienced by the police force, as shown
In the chiefs constable, report, and to express their hope that
the required grant will be now made.
They especially call attention to the fact that no contract
has yet been entered into for any of the proposed cites, some of
whisk they fear may be lest to the county If not at once
secured.

-7The lock-up in Sherborne being in a very unsatisfactory
state and altogether very insufficient, the committee have felt
obliged to authorise the chief constable, subject to the opinion
of the Court, to hire some place in that town as a police
station and to expend • sure, not exceeding thirty pounds, in
providing temporarily, a proper and sufficient lock-up for the
Sherborne
The follevring proposal was made to the committee by the
Town Council of the borough of Bridport, via
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rut a potion force, coheiating of one sergeant and four
constable., shall be appointed for permanent writs within the
borough, subject to the control of the chief constable.
" That the expense of such police force shall be LE9O per
annum, to Include clothing and every extra.
" That the Town Council shall pay, by querterly or half-
yearly payments, to the county committee, the annual sum of
£2lB, and that the county committee shall receive from the
Lords Commitsdoners of /ler Majesty's Tressury the one-fourth
of the whole sum of LE9O, se the government allowance."
Your Comm!ttee recommend the Court to agree to the same,
provided the borough lock-ups and police Mations be at the
service of the county police, free of all met and expense; and
that the amointinent of the men shall rest with the chief con-
stable of the county.
The recommendation in the report of the chief constable as
to an alteration of the magister* division of Dorchester and
Ceres le, in the opinion of your WmMttio, undesirable, as As
Inconvenience of a new arrangement would snore than counter.