The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-03-05 00:00:00

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A eomroortiottiou Was rad from tbe Toon Calmed
of brio...ter, inviting( the Council to petition Nalientent
against the emismeot of public builemes hoed for
charitable end °to., rp wee to pene•Mal icioth retee

Alderman C Kinn proposed "that in the opinion of
this Council It is fair and right that all pnbild ProPertiell
of what n.tore or kind soarer should bear their due pro-
portion of all parochial and Iciest rates, arta that •
petition be prepared for presentation to the
House of Commons to this sent, and that the
b.soneh members be request d to aupport its prayer."
He pointed out that public buildings were for the
benefit of the whole crominonity, and not specially for
the inhab.tants of the perish in whieb they stood, and
St mien they should be rated and the expenses met by
the whole of the parishes. A ems in Illustration had
remedy come before the Dosimeter Highway Board.
T a essivict prison at Portland paid nothing to the
rates, but lie authorities I ad ieoentlr called on the
Highway Board to lay out POO or 4250 in making.
road to the pri.on. Happily, he found out it was
simply an occupation road, and they destined to do it.
lines the game with all other public buildings. If the
Altire•hall happened to be alongside the Gould-hall, St.
Peter's pariah smile' be oppreamel with public budding',
• bieh were for the beoegt of the *how ...unity.
Mr. DX's serionded the motimi H. obeerved that
the question of the rating of tbie public Imil.lings in
Dorebeeter was in +bo's'n)e for the present, the Aimee
mesh Ca.,mittoe b.ujug oithdrawn from the appeal.
Ile had thought it probable thst a propodtion would
hare ben made to petition Parliament that buildings
nest for ehentsbin purpose should be exampled from
rating, and ha came there intending in such cam to
make a 'Dolton similar to that mad. by Alderman
Coombe. Taking the exemption, in the limited sense
in which they existed in Dorohmter, there was properly
to the extent of one-eight of the whole rateable values
•xemptad, under the Act of Elisabeth by the Intense-
t tion of the judges of that Ain, and by Other Parlimi
memory exemptions. By the judge's decision all Crown
property was sampled in eoneequenee of not being
inserted In the original Act. and Crown property Ism
construed to be el that need for the a wernment of tl •
sointry. So that is this town me bad the bar, aa,.
the gaol, and the polies aims exempted as Crown
property, and the militia barrsoks were •xemptad from
ratting tinder a special tat. Within the Dorchester
Union there was another large property free from
maissment. except for the vale. of the land on which it
stood, by Act of Parliament,neme'y,t he Lanstis Asyltims.
The exemptions attended to oue-sighth of the pro-
perty in the borough; if it were not for them, our
borough and poortrates together would be Is. In the
pound leas than they are now. If they looked at the
.objeet in a general swore, and went batik to the Ail of
11.ssliwth ,b-y would Ind that the exemptions bad been
extended SOO or 400 per idol; so thet if the property
originally contemplated to be rated by that AM mute
rated, we should only have to pay about lid. lb the
pound instead of between 2i. and 3.1. By Klisabeth's
Act, the overseen were inetructed to nits every in-
inhabitant, person, vicar and other, and the micepiers
of house and lands n their several parishes. Soon after
the won/ of that Act the Indices decided that "every
' inhabitant, persOM vicar, and other" meant these In.
habitants only whet had visible property and moaned
the rating to those having atoalt.ltt.trade. The mum.
pianos w.s that two persons living aid- by side. one
hing in busies*n and bowleg iitoAdn•trmle, •nd the
other a professional man, thosgh both squally eutionsful,
only he who had stock-in trade was rated. He biok it that
the propern legilly ehanteable to the poor-rate under
the oneliel Ant would be the same as all the property
eharged at the present time. An ineime.tar of one
penny In the pound now raised £1.950.000, while eix-
pens. in the pound would produn nearly £8.000.000
and be opal dent to pay all the poordstee of the muntry.
But now, I.nded property only contributed to the poor-
rates, ait it was very hard upon landowners and be
hoped that; if thie question WM brought before the
legislature they would endeavour to abolish eeemptions
of that Lind, and ton every deseription of property, so
that every person might pay according to his means.
Kr. Lock concluded by seconding the proposition of
Mr. Coombe to petition parliament against all
exemptions.
Tim motion was submitted, and carried unanimously.
Itselrfioll Of not IMOLAI VOLONTIZIL

A communication was road from Lord Bury, chairman
of the oononitte• of volunteers, or stranding the re.
motion of the Maims volootwers in Jul: wag—Alder.
men COOKIIII siemens.' hie disapproval of 'hi whok
poise., Es boogie no way useful to the voluntsism—it
neither essistad them in thrir doll nor prnmeted their
rflosisney in any way. U. thnasht that thom who we,.
entartalowl in Relvium loss summer 'gonad Ise et the
expense of entertaining the Belgian volunteers when
they vilified London—(hsar, boss). The =Ufa than
dropped.