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

balm. the expense whle.h It hes been euggeeted might be
saved.
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Upon the reprimentatAon of the chief constable that the
superintendent of the Illandford division had been appointed
by the magistrates of that division inspector of lodginghousea,
also, that the mtepayers of Wareham are desirous of appoint,-
log the superintendent to he inspector of nuisances undo. the
Health of Towns Act, your committee beg to ask the opinion
of the Court upon both these cases, as they consider it unde-
sirable to employ the men for such purposes, as it appears from
the 10th is.ction. chap. 90, fed and 3rd Viet., that constables
cannot be appointed. to thenothces.

1;-conseq. -.14n0s of complaints toads by the men, and eon-
firmed by the chief constable, that the hats issued were of an
inferior quality, application um made to Messrs. Dolan (con-
tractors), who bare sent down • fresh .upply at bait price.
The Treao.irer's sec tint for the past quarter has been ex-
tunined by the committee, and found correct ; and the follow-
ing is • statement of the receipts and expenditure for the
quarter :
Receipts. E a. d.
October 20, 1857, to balance in Treasurer's hands 335 18 9
To Three-fm-thing Rate at the October Session.. • 2,273 0 3
Ralf Year's Payment from the Borough of Shaf-
tesbury, due let November, 1867 . 60 0 0
Casual Receipts for lodgings, the., from ihe men 71 1 1
Repayment of advance for purchase of horses, ..
:—Poles, £5; Wstts, ; Everitt, £6 .. 15 0 0

42745 C I

Expenditure.
September 29th to Deoember 25th, 1857.
£ ..d.
Pay of Chief Constable and Forme 1,538 8 8
Superintendents' one-quarterr Horse Money .. 112 10 0
Contingent Sheet, audited and allowed at the Let
&salons '— . . 147 0 BSuperintendent Everitt towards low of his bone 60 0
Expenses of Committees by Mr. Coomb's Bill, s•
their clerk, audited and allowed at the last
7211 8
Treasurer's Salary one you. and a quarter fe
Christmas, 1857 62 10 0
Balance in the Treasurer's hands 807 9 f

L 2,745 6 1

Your committee have estimated the expenditure for the
ensuing quarter as follows:
Pay, Chief Constable and Form e 2,180 16 10
Contingencies 260 0 0

£2,380 18 1

The Snperannustion Fund ammmte to £520 4e. stock, to
which will be added the dividends now due on that Rom, tti-
gether with SOP to. 74., received from the men in the past
quarter.
The was of £4l ea. 3d., from the township mid pariah of
Sherborne, duofor the services of the county police force dur-
ing their first quarter, end for which application wee made
by the chief constable, has not yet being received by the
treasurer.

The conmilttee have great pleasure in reporting that • letter
has been received from the Home Office by the Clerk of the
Peace, stating that Sir George Grey had the satisfaction of
certifying to the Lorde of the Treasury that the pollee ,tiad
been maintained in • state of efaciency, W point of number.
and discipline, in terms of if sec, Nand SO Vice, ch. 943.
The committee have, therefore, to a& for. rate of one half-
penny in the pound, amounting tc. the SUM of £1,616 W. 104.
for the expeneee of the police force, to be raid at the lima
sessions. Trusting that the own of 41,49 Ws. 11d., being
one.fourth the coot of the ray and clothing of the police force
for the first year, will be raid to the Treasurer before that
. • . ,

—The—committee have the satisfaction of stating that the total
erpense of the constabulary form from its commencement,
which they originally estimated would amount to a rate et ,-Syd.
in the pound, or to the suns of. 810,608 16s. 106„, has, only,
amounted to £0,2130 17s. Id., shoring a saving qu the estimate
, of 81,447 18a ld., or nearly ins rate of a half-penny hi the
pound.
Mr. Eliot, in conclusion, moved the reception of the
report.
Mr. J Goonnert enid the bad state of the Sherhornif
lock-up demanded inimediate attention.
Lord Porrrittir knew Mist the Sherhorne lock-up was
insufficient, but that at Blandford was equally hettiMe.
Recently he had been obliged to remand • prisoner
under peculiar circumstances for two weeks, and so had.
was the Blandford accommodation that the second week
the prisoner had to be put under the charge of a special
oonstable. He thought, therefore, if a smell sum moon
at once be spent at &forborne, Blandford must also have
a trifle laid out upon it, but he deprecated the step as
waste pending the more complete reform proposed.