The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-04-25 00:00:00

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The Rev. J. Lg. Weiusga pr. posed "That, with a view
to the augmentation of pir r B n-ficm, legialatiom is
desirable, In order ta extend fetcher the principle of (amen
Anne's Bounty, and to levy a percentage of £2 Mr cent.
on Benefices idiom net income exceeds .t. 300 per annum.
and whose pnoulstion I. lee. than 600." There .11If• in
this Diocese 500 !trios. of between .ClOO and .C-00 each
per annum.. inrour , bile In the whole n( Ragland and
Wales there IV•TO 4 thil moment 4.000 livings the
reninneration of win in inc./MOS and stipends was hardly

.C9OO &yew.
Ti. Rev. Holt A. G. DOUGLAS moved as an amendment
That any legillatlo3 would be undesirable which imp 41114
upon a portkm of tee church duties incumbent upon the
Can n Horn irrox advocated the levying of four recent.
upon tlo.e ovincs whose nett income was over £5OO. and
one per cent upon living. whore nett income was between
moo and .C. 500. This would, he said, he two per cent. all
round. Thm graduated sods he regarded as very desirably,
and be moved an amendm •nt c • .rdinelr.—(Ttlis amend-
Carint Io lot, only two v.tiug in favour of it.)
kr..7. 141,11131. M.P. as a layman. sp asing to the
original merlon. sell he should feels great delicacy in vot-
ing on the queetion.
The lIISHOP expressed the opinion that the whole
question wee iallPrectinaWe. end on a division none voted
for the it.,. Lee Warner's motion.
Trnurs.

A motion, was suhinitted by Kr. J. N. Paton,—"That I
in the opinion of Ws Synod the present rrectios of the
Payment of tithes by the occupiers of lend I. contrary to
the intention of the Tithe Commutation Act, • source of
injustice to the clergy, and • grievance to tenant-tar men ;
conducive to ill-feeling between incumbente and their
Parishioners, and detrimental to the highest interests of
the Church: and that petitions be presented to both
Houses of Parliament praying that. In any amendment of
low relating to tithes, it be reeds illegal forth. landowner
to contract himself out of the obligation Intended by the
Tithe CMDMlltatiOn Act. He contended that under the
present system the clergy suffered • grave injustice. The
1... the clergy were brousht into monsters transaotions
with their parishioners the better in his (14. Parlanis)
opinion It would be (Heed, beer.r
Mr. R. If. Wunois senrinded the motion.
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Mr FLOYER. M.P., said that be re uenthend the difficul-
ties and troubles which had existed. bat they eels all, he
bebeved, newly lowed &.47. (Hear. h.w.) if. nettle of
. cordial feeling now existing between the clevey and the
orolpion of lama, to which foiling in his own noighbonr•
hood be bore testth ,ny. He questioned whether it would
bat,, the beuetit of the country to make the cheap pee-
wee&
The motoon, however, wee ultimately carried.

VAGIL•NCT.

The Row. F. E. HvTcNE.aOe moved on the presentation
of the roport ~f ho e immittoe-"That the rommittse be
loeteiteted to powder the subject of Charity Orgrnisation,
with the view of framing suggrotions for Perochial Ammo
ristiona, to he formed for the discouragement of mendi-
cant., sod the hatter mite tif the deerrving poor."
Th.. DRAM eee.aded the nrAhMl, which was carried.
Amo g the other motioes theme on Crtheriral
Reform. In iotity, the Nogi,et of IR ily Rootlets, the New
inest,in Code. Marriage vita a D awed Wiles Slater,
and the Jews.