The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-12-31 00:00:00

VICSTRY !ELECTING.

On Thursday turning, at eleven o'alook. a vestry
resting was held in the parish church, for the purpose
of insuring and paring the airounte, and also to ehlei
two ebarelursaisas for the opening year. The Rev.
David Hogarth presided, and erupt those present
were Newt W. Gibbs, IL Peron 6.1.400, A. Seriven,
B. atone, J. Te•ie, J. Ste.., It. Banith, It. Bad. Flew,
B. Perri, C. Hine, B. White, O. Contbos, S. Pearce,
IL Pewee. W. Puree, R. actives, B. H. Hine, J.
Puree, and B !derives.
The Chairman hewing read Cr scoosets for the put
Mr. A. Bcriven wasted to know why the church
recants shrill be defrayed by the trustees out of tbe
grant money, If the expenses of the dissenters were
sot? _ .

The Chairman : The one is lend and the other would
not be.

Mr. A. Swim : Thou I shall ovum. it.
Yr. B. Cosies enquired what Messrs. Reynold's hill
was for?

The ebeirmo : It is for vine for the Sacrament.
Mr. A. &viten thought it wee. nay they were obliged
to send to Weymouth for wine. Was it because there
woe none in the island of Poi dead

Tbe Chaireun pleaded custom.
Mr. R. &rims wasted to know why no part of the
pant money wee given to dissenters ?
The Chain's' said the question bed bees raised For
his own part he was in f f giving mosey to the
*bevel.; but lir. Hine and Capts'n Manning thought it
would be Illegal to do as. They applied to the Oms-
misaimiers of Teed' and Forest; end their reply .011
firmed this °pink's. The church was gab& property,
whilst the awls were priests' propetty.
Mr. A. Sative• : Tbia &arab is also private property.
Mr. R. &rims end they wanted anew harmonium or
organ to the Ave lie anaemia& and was It not right
that they should YON C3O or £4O anal thereat mosey
' towards It?

The Chairman : So far as I ate personally ectseerned
I will give you. eontribottoo towards it—(hear, hear).
Mr. A. &riven : Doss not the money properly belong
to the ialtsbiteets, sag are not two-thirds of the people
dissesters ?

—Th7,--61;:irman : That I. whet I rid to the trustees.

Mr. B. Lane said why the chapels did not get aay
podia' of the grant money wan beftuse the chapels
were private property.
Mr. W. Gibbs said the Aural% had had LIDO leet year.
Mr. A. &river said be would more that the bills be
sot paid out of the grant money.
The Chairman reminded the speaker that that was
not the question; they had top... the bills, or lisalluw
them if incorrect.
Mr. A. %rhea said the churchwardens should know
about the Irl*
Mr. B. What mowed that the bills be passed.
. . . .

The beim sesooded,
The Chairmen said the qesstion vu how should they
be peid
Mr. C. Lino proceed!, that the trustees be requested
to pay these bills from Her Majesty's grant money.
Mr. B. Pause seconded.
Mr. A. Seri..n moved as an lussendment that the
bills be not paid out of the grant money.
Mr. R. Pearce seconded.
Mr. C. Lane inquired whether this resolution or
amendment would at all effect the trosteee

We understood the Chairman to reply in the
"Kt motion mid amendment were the, put, when
13 Toted for the amendment and 11 for the monition.

Conaiderahle uproar then took place respecting th•
°minting. Each party averred that they were •mtoriona.
Mr. R. Lane said that be had font votes and the chair.
man bed iii, besides • coating one. A long dieeusaion,
In which each individual took the opportonity of talking
atone and the aame time, then ensued, at the end of
which the Chairman conceded the point and allowed th•
amendment to be carried.

Mr. K. Poem : Tb• bills are nearly all paid now.
Mr. B. FLO IF raid he did not oppose the bills being
paid; but he did not like the principle on which they
were paid.
Mr. A. &riven said it wee a robbery to the reit of
the inhabitants. . .

lit. It.. Pewee: Whose Atwell is this?
Mr. A. &liven ia private property.

Mr. R. Naval : It is Patthe ptop;rty:
Mt. A. Knives :
.It is given by private iodditals.
. .

Ur. 8.. Potreo : If the psyme-i't of these bills doss
not tams out of • priests fund it most cams out of s
rats.

Mr. A. SOAVOL objected to the sweepiog, lighting.
and phyla, the organ a the skunk being defrayed out
of the grant money.
Mr. J. Pearce said that heirs a young man he was
not perhaps weU up to pariah glair'. He wmhed to ask
how church expenses were paid in towns when they
had no grant money? . . . . .

The Chairman : By • rate lev;ed on the inhabitants.

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Mr. J. Pears.: Then why not have the same here
The Chairman: The vestry at the tome thought it
best to have the bills paid out of a private fund. The
trustees acquit-veld in the proposal, and have advanced
the money required for the past 20 UWI. If levied by
• rate the rate would be a very small one, and would
diva considerable unpleasantness to ; it would
te..e. Wouraat re*s for the to pay, end on
these ground. the vestry thought it better to ask the
troatee. to pay the hills.
Mr. J. Pearl» said that in reply he begged to date
that a great deal of dissatiafaction arose oat of the
present system. The rising generation were not to be
'gulled" as their forefathers had been. The majority
of this vestry had voted against the trustees paying the
bill; and now it remained to see what the Trustees
would do in the matter- (uproar).
The Chairman : You say there exist. great dissatislao-
tion smonpt the inhabitants. If the inhabitant, had
been here they might have expressed their diaeatisfee-
Con ; hot when th,re are only 12 person present to
express their diseontent, it reminds me of the three
tailors of Tooley-street, who heeded • petition' We,
the people of Hagland"—Qaughter).
Mr. J. Pearce said be did not notic, the Insinuation.
The amendment Idel been carried by • majority, and
therefore what they had expressed was the wish of the
vestry.
The Chairman: I did not know you were a tailor—
(laughter). I therefore beg to apologise. I mistook
you for your brother. What I meant to show was
that • small number of persons could not be said to
represent the inhabitant. of Portland. This I illuatrated
by the anecdote of the three tailors. How do you
wish the money to he raised, gentlemen?
Hr. G. Pears.: As it has always been raised.
Mr. Cox : Some persons bele have not voted legally
—(uproar).
Mr. W. Gibbs was willing to leave the matter In the
hands of the inhabitant; for them to decide whether
• rate should be made or not. With a small majority
of tee or six this question had been carried for the past
twenty years.
Mr. B. Lano said the present amendment was not
really °dried. . .

An uproar ensued, daring which there were frequent
cries for the production of the rate book.
The Chairman said that what vu carried to.day wee
earned by the vestry, not by the inhabitaota Tbe
recommendation of the vestry wield be to the
Trustees.

-Or::TlPeeree.esid it amounted to the same thing..

Yr. B. Contben confirmed what the obairman had
Ni; but they had it in their power to demand a
poll—feriae of "the amendment hi carried," and
oesfssion)
The Chairman i The amendment I believe to be
serried, therefore I enter it. .

An angry dissuasion senses the table ensuing,
Mr. W. Gibbs mid he had not seen anything at Local
Board meetinp to equal this.
The Chairman: Let it not be said the vestry is like
• inter garden. Only be quiet and everyone shall have
lair play.
Mr. W. Gibbs if we have no respect for coo...lves,
let no have some respect for our clergyman.
Mr. B. Combat inquired whether the seat committee
appointed last year bad done anything.
The Chairman replied in the negative.

mom,

maers. R7i;;;o7 if.—Pearen were
proposed end lecooded. Herm B. Lano and E. Prams,
were re.eleeted, the voting being—K Peeress, 16, B.
Lano, 13, W. Pewee, 12.
The conaladed the beelines.
POOLE.

' PuriWs TsII Poom—About • fortnight ago It wee
negeoled by a member of the Mechanics' Institute that
an effort might be mad* by that institution to provide
• good Christmas dinner for every person in the town
dostitato of the means of obtaining oat. An organisa-
tion followed, which led to a truly gratifying result,
and tho committee woo in • position on Christmas'.live
to render amaistane, to 120 fomiliss, numbering about
450 proms, and this bounty was not only distributed
over • broad area, but was very effective, consisting of
from 316. to 101bs, of boa, according 1,, the miss of the
family, which was accompanied with a boll-pound of
suet, bib of fruit, • small begot tour, one loaf of bread,
and a Imilf-nallosi potatoes to Email families, and double
ouantitiee of each °lsere it was large. Tho distributioa
worn effector' with Um greatem regularity and without
the slightest oonfositio. The redness tt bvonibi Oak
tickets to the tows libromy-rocen and the mord orders
for the provisions, whisk were dihrtbated upstart.
Over £ll3 was collectod for Ibis truly gratifying dis-
tribution, and the committee have the ea Oaf aohonof
'lading that through this instrumentality • Imo
number of deserving people were feasted, who would
otherwise have goo* aliment anneals= cm Christmas-
Oar. The total saioast of meat divan away was about
6400 m, blether with three maks of potatoes, 150Ibs at
fruit, and 50 half -Wires of glOare