The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-02-19 00:00:00

TOWN COUNCIL DIMING.

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A meeting el the corporation wag held at the Guild-
h4l. on Monday. Present: The Mayor (J. lizard,
Itsghl. Aldermen Rare, Eliot, Howard, Ayling, Coen.
teflon &sward, Thomas. Back, Potheeery, Robert..
84.0 an, Webb, lb las, Drew, Moron, Columnar, and
Marling.

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The first business was to receive • letter from the
Gas Company asking for the Corporation to pans •
resolutinn to the egret that they had not been misled
in the Ilion laid before them.—Mr. Thomas produced a
',lan of the proposed ps work; pointing out the source
of the objection rained by Mr. Burdon against the Wey-
mouth Gas Consumers' Bill before the parliamentary
committee of the House of Commons, awl proposed the
following resolution: "This Conned, as owners of the
land thereat to be takes out of the Beak water by the
Consemers' Gas Carop,ny, have not been in any
manner misled by the plans and are well aware that
the land so proposed to be bless Is that eolourod pink
on Its plane deposited by the said asmothy, and none
nther."—Mr. Howard thought that if Mr. Burden bed
taken an objection. which had been esil.d "captions,"
, the conned Amid in the fees of the siontrath, and the
r resolution pasted, remain neutral. He moved the fol-
lowing amendment, "That having ia view the isontract
existing between the Corporation and William W.
Wurdon , lter , reply be sent to the one received from
the Gas Company that this Corporation do not seerde
to the request therein made, but will remain neutral in
the parliamentary prom/dings, that are now thins pro.
seethed by them."--Mr. Webb seconded Mr. Thomas's
resolution and considered that the town had been
insulted and badly treated by Mr. Bordes.—The Town
Clerk said th. resolution could be legally pat, and that
though there might be • question as to the streets
being broken op. there was none as to the Council deal•
kg with the backwater, as to the site for the gas works.
—Mr. Thomas said Mr. Bordon had thrried out his
proposition and was he entitled to any protection,
•thing that be hid broken his promise and not serried
out hie word sa • gentleman? Was • man like that—who
had treated there with eientamely and eoakmpt, who
had behaved to them as if they were children—entitled
to any eonsideration at their bands I—Mr. Potheeary
mid he had no interest one way or the other lath.
matter, but in the fees of that 000trael they mast be
careful not to plaos themselves In juxtaposition with
Wr. Rardon, The various breeches in the contrast by
Mr. Marion he took It had been coadoned, so that the
contract was in its entirety.—Tite Mayor said the
default in non-lighting bad from time to time been made
1. to Mr. Burdon.—Mr. Thomas shareable proposition so
es to meet the legal view of the aura —Mr. Howard pro-
posed an amendment, Mr. Ayliog escaladed, and Mr.
Ruling supported the latter, observing that seeing that
the barge amount of money be had expended in making
the tunnel under th• Backwater should make them
I pause ere they committed themselves to a wares which
would work an injustice to Mr. Burden —The Mayor
, said if they knew as moth of Mr. Banton as be did
during the lad twelve months, be wthld, he believed,
, have but little oonsideragon at their banda.—The
amendment and resolution were then put, six hands being
Iheld up for the amendment, eight for the resolution,
and two remained nostril The atholation was there-
fore declared earned.

PORTLAND RAILWAT.

The Mayor thought if Jim insetted tie same of Mr.
Edward Hyde as an umpire in the disputed claims, and
the vsluer in the undisputed elaiww,the badness in respect
to this matter mlght be facilitated, and in • few weeks
settled. —Mr. Potheoary should like to have • het of the
business to be tnossacted in referenee to those elates.
He was in ignorance as to the property to be embraaed
in the question.—The soceptitnee of Mr. Hyde wen
timed to.