The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-07-10 00:00:00

Do Est *ire.

DORSET MIDSUMMER SESSIONS.

The Midetuniner SeNSiOlll fur the county of Dorset
were commenced en Tiseaday nat. at the County Nell,
Ilercheiner, oaten the county beanie.' Was pruceeded
with. 'flit ful.owdig ungisi.rates ern :—The
I:er. 11. F. Yeatiu.in C. Percto,r, Willett
Adye, U. 11. Bingham, It. J. Lkserchier, T. 1.1..11ua cr,
T, J. LiuHer, 11. L. C.nnundge, Ucarge Cartwngut,
F. heard tuctiulllell, George Churchill, W. T. Fee, W.
Eliot, John T. lalwasser, J. J. Farquharson, J. J. Far
yelieness, jun., John Fieyer, Ilebry Erman. tttttt Junta
thiedden' 11. C. (knells:is, J. thniery W. C. Lambert,
Cliar.ee Auguatua Asuoing. Joha Maneell, H. N. )lai-
dioton, Johu llewlem, H. I'. Ohodon, L. H. Smith, W.
H. Sully, It H. 0. Saadiehl. Lleurye Whiclo ~,,, Her.
bur{ Widunes, and H. S. Yeetutan, Lein. The Iterds.
Ausunt, C. W. Hingham' li. f. Bawer, 1.4. P. Cam-
bnde, C. J. Ulm W. J. itioisdden, J. F. kituds, W. N.
King, awl J. A Templar.
itkruKT OF TIM VISITING JUSTICES.
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Mr. I'ositt7ii.;;- brought up the Report ut this Coin-
rritdee. Toe quarterly erecting of the Viaitiug Juatices
was held at the prison on Friday, June 2.lth. Toe
prison Vag iaxpvCred and found in good order. Toe
number ul proemerslii curitody was 131•61,1, ; females.
; total, 116. la the inbrinarica--inales 6. Fur trial
at theme nessions—in custmly, males, 11 ; females, 4.
tin bail—nudes, 10; 1; total, 26. For trial at
the Slimmer A.ote.- -males, 5, Lituales, 1. On hail-
I ; total, 6. The number of prisoners committed
during the *piaster was 172 ; the ourreaponihng quarter
tag year, ; increase this quarter, 48. Of tin.
nuns-our II natal ;almoners intuit not be ineluded as
county commitments. Daily aierage this quarter,
121 ; lemaies, ; ditto curreapouding quarter last year
males, 82 ; females, 12; increase., 39, which is pertly,
but not tamely accounted for, by the naval column-
moils. thia quarter were ; the
curtespooding quarter last year, 33; increase, 16. The
pne., of bread this quarter had been ljd. per lb., being
1.1. per tb wore thee last year. The average pram oi
wheat this quarter had been Ell 16e. 84. per load ;
• ditto currespoudinj quarter hest year, Ell. Tue oat
of waintenario: per heed bad been 2.. 3d. ; salaries,
2.. iLI. ; ditto lighting, &c., 10d. • clothitig, bedding,
5e., 101. ' • heal W4ealy cost per bed, 6s. &I. The oust
per head the mule euarter hot year was Ba. &I. Con-
tract. Med eittereel into for the supply of the priauti
for the enstung• six months, at au increase on the pre-
,bi,h:4; twit 'ear. Ti.,, Governor reported favourably of
the cuucluct ot the Vararall otheers of the prism UI their
weal Jupartuiente.
Mr. Kdall ell moved that the Report be received and
Adapted, and that um Visiting Justees be appointed.—
The (Ion:Lot sa.d that if any new magietride came
to r side hi the ueighbourhout it we. usual to add his
to the committee, and the name of Mr. Bully was
added accuelingly.--Mr. 11. WILLIalla gave notice ,hot
lie would move, at the neat Semmes, that Rule 147,
which states that the surgeon appointed toi he gaol shell
ait Is: more roan 40 year. re age, he reseui...d. ile
thought tat toe matter ought to be left to the discre-
lieu of the ida,.ntratee (or the tium being.
litiluolts AND MUILDINUa.
Mr, Oitalms presented the Report of this Committee.
Of the Use lindgms in the Witrehani division, which the
turopike uustees have heretofore repaired, and now
mri.b to throw the expenses on the County—the Coin-
make bin lag fully considered the report of the Clerk
id the Peace, Jo nut consider it expedieut to recommend
to the Court to enter these bridges on the comity hat.
At the Easter lessions • report war nude to the Court,
hit no orders were tatted. The bills due were—Lhiob
house, Ell ls. 2.1. ; gaol, 138 se. ; Hall, 1:46 51. 3d. •
Ceuniy Home, El Ca, and the advertisement of works
be the I :sandy and in progress £373 19a. 24.
total, edi mt, which sum the Committee recommended
the Auction of the Coml.—TlM Report of the Clerk of
the Peace, in reference to the same subject, was aa
follows -In compliance wth the order of the Juatiees
at the Laskr titiarter Sessions, I have examined the
fire bridg..* mentioned in the report of the Bridge and
Bidding teuinottee, and have obtained information as
to the comity's liability or non-liability to repair them.
The first we in.pected was the bridge at Montan, near
the rock aml Bottle mu. It is, as it Was afterwards
deeribed to be by the surveyor of the Wareham
tionpike nada, simply a barrelled drain under the
turnpike road, of about 4 feet diameter. The day being
ettreinely set, and it having rained through the
previous algid, a considerable stream was running
through the arch,. but I was informed that in the
mot mr time the water-course is usually dry. It has
beim erected about :11 years, and no notice having beer
gittu at Dia time to the county surveyor of its intended
construction, the county, unquestionably, is not bound
to adopt it. &mensal bridge is carried over the mill-
dam at the northern entrance to Curfe Castle, upon •
doable arch, probeitly with, a view to the better working
4th., mall. The three other bridges. viz., Little Bridge,
a *bort tli.tance below the mill. ritoborough bridge, and
the bridge at the foot of Kingston Hill are all very
otot!l, bud Very nuuichu resemble the barrelled drain
ticar the Cork mu Bottle inn. They all, as well as
Borehill bridge, have water continually running under
thew, and they are all of earlier date than 1803. Thu
Wareliaw Turnpike Commissioners have hitherto
repaired them, as well as the roe& over, and at both
IIPIA of them. Whether the County is liable to be
e Llled upon to repair them, depends upon whether they
cab (Ally he calk.' bridges, and upon the construction to
Ise put mein the 43rd Geo. 3, asp. 59. Having
been inforieed by the clerks of the Wareham trustees
that the county eueld be called upon also to repair
Stroud*. broke, I examined it and found it to be similar

in point i 4 si.:e.to the bridge at the foot of Kingaton
lull mid iituborough bridge, but barrelled. I also 'war-
t anc4 a was of tattier date than Iti(4l.—The CH AllufiAN
sai4 that as according to the 43rd Geo. 3, cap. 29. sfl
WA:et built for the mccomodation of the public prior
to 1•4 meat he repaired by the county, but that those
built time that period niust have been erected in a
suhataiitial manner, and the work carried out to the
sato:action of the county yor. Of course under
these orcusittances notice must be given to the Sur-
veyor. With regard to the bridge, which
Lad been built since 1403, no notice had been given as
required, and consequently the county had nothing to
do cult it. Of the others, the question was whether
they were bridges for the convenience of the public,
who would ilane to wade through a river if they were
out erected, or whether they were culverts to carry off the
wstsr to preterve the road. After the reports just
read, he should suppose they were mere culverts and
not bridges, awl tin rotors he would recommend the

Court to take no notice of the application of the
truatees to repair. II thelatter commenced proceedings,
It +mold be wen time to take action. The reports were
then received and adopted.
Count,* LeXATIC ASTI.VW.

Mr. FUDYEK presented the Report of the Visiting
Justices. Toe expenditure for the preeent quarter wee
£l.l 3$ 5.1. 11., amount to be received from iiarties
at the rate of 7s. per week, is £1,135 IBs. 44., leaving a
deficiency I the quarter of LI Is.. it. The rate we*
ordered to be at Is. • week. The balance in the con-
tingent fund IA £594 14*. 41. ; in the eluritj fund.
£.442 17a. ltd.; (roan account, £l9 ii.. Od.
ltini were owing to the amount of £lBB en. 3d. The
following tenders had been taken ;—Mr. Look, meat per
'eat. I'3 To. ; Mr. Amity, bread c 4.1. the 41b. loaf ; Mr.
Luke °Pores, cheese, per cwt., El 18e.; Coal Company,
Voilletel coals, ter ton., 1:1 4.. 64.; ditto Ratline& per
ton., Inc fah 1 ile number of patients in the asylum
the 31at March, wao 78 males, 112 (cumin ; total 171;
committed aince. 2 is. lea, 11 fetnalea; total 13. There
have deal since I female ; sent to Fiaherton, $ females,
and discharged. 3 males end 4 females ; remening in the
oisylion, 77 nodes and 1M females, total 167. Theo:umber
of patient. at Fosherton in M troll wras 24 insles and 44
; admitted sin,e. 3 Male. 10111 10 females ; died.
3 males •n.l 1 female ; the number in the bone is-28
in•les and 53 females, total 81. One Quarter's super-
aeoluatimi was ordered to he laid to the Rev. Idacre
Clemeham, amounting to Di fis. 8.1. The trust created
hy the lite Mr. Blown of £4.500 3 per cent consols for
the benefit ,of the asylum,being vacant by the death of the
Li. Earl of Ilcheater, the late Sir J. W. Smith. Bart.,
and the late Janice Frampton. Eel., on the resignation
of Lord Portman, the surviving trustee, the vacancies
OCI:14411111,4 were filled up by the appointnient of
Lord loglic, the Hon. W. H. R. Portman, Mr. Sheridan,
mei Mr. Frampton. It was ordered that the stork stand-
ing 111 the name 111 the same trustees, to the credit of the
contitipmt (noel ahould ho trapsferred in the loonies hut
mentioned. The Rev. Mr. Rey had been requested to '
emotive his services as chaplain till seine pernianent
appointment may be made. In reply to the advertise.
melds inserttol by order of the committee of visitors,
I molere hate been received for building the new aaylum
from 9 building firma. Some eorresimudence has taken
!dice lictereen the Visiting J ustices, thearehitect, and the
t oar, iea whose tenders • ere the lowest in amount. The
re-nut is that an agreement has been made with Meurs.
Eaton, of Whelcorne.teereetthenour building, to contain
einpatieuts, mid for the sum of F 36,000, •nd &contract in
preparation to this effect. The contract will not in.
chide the engineering, estimated at £2,000, or the water
supply, which 'nay cost front £6OO toile*. A contract
lip leen eight by the clerk of the peace con behalf of the
county will. Mr. Michael Miller, for the 'purchase of
5.1, acre*, 3 perchea, 13/ jades of laud, for the suon of
£5.575.—Mr. Fhoyee then moved, on the part of the
Coo 1111 l ittee of Visitors of the Asylum, " That the awn of
1:36,1101, reoluired for laying the purchase money for 56
acre. nf land or thersabouts, situate in the parish of
Clianninster, and also for paying and defraying the '
noon and expellee, attending the purchase of the said
Lod, mid of building thereon anew Pauper Lunatic
Asclum, and furnidong the same, be borrowed ; and
that the repayment of such sum, with its accruing it,-
hi-coat, be secured loy a mortgage of the rates to be made
f, r the county, under the Act loala and 17th Vie., cap 97,
or my other Act or Acts affecting the seine." Loot
P. 11711101 had On A previous occasion referred to the
deoraboloy of coneerong the asylum into one, for per.
sons above !wooer lunatics. If each • proposition was
cartied mot, the contemplated provision for 309 pauper
patients stroold he sufficient. The drincipal would be
liquialooted by yew ly inatalineets of £1,200, bye farthing
'de ler annum, the whole to be paid in thirty years.
The comity asylum, at the expiratiou of that period,
•.rallol he free from debt, hut with this great distiucCoo,
that whereee if they had gone on Recording to the pre.
sent system, prying Dr. Finch the necessarily large
amount which would yearly increase, on the contrary
the county womb, have an ample asylum, mid be free
(NOM debt. —The Ike. J .A.TlttreLA It hoped no delay would
t ike place in carrying out Lord Portman.* recommenda-
tion in building up the wings, as the work could be done
at considerable lesa oust than it could beefier they were
reofed in. The 101 XX, at considerable length, ad-
dressed the Court in favour of the report and resolu-
tion, which were adopted unanimously.
FINANCII CuMMITTIM.
.114. FARQUR %110107( prevented the report of the Finance
olomittee. The Clerk of the Peace stated that hawing
aseerteaned the fact that • vacancy had occurred in the
otlice of chaplaw of the gaol, he had taken the mea-
sure required by the 18th see. of the rules and standing
orders 14 the 'maim., and had canoed the notices to
inserted in the nut. paper& That in cousequenoe ci
!fie notices oupl elvertiseauenta he had received the fol
I,?wing spodicationa with testimonials, •is.—the
r Mock, the Rte. L. Paige, the Rev. B. Lucas
Watson, and the Rev. R. E. Hoppet. The commttee
rallug that Wu lte•. F. 0. Motile and the Rev. it.
Luc. Wanton were the only eandodates present, accord-
ingly proc,-cle.l to examine their testimounsts, and to
140 such questions to each of them so to their age and
qualificalions, wo required by the 19th 11110. The reolies
6.114 all favourable, and the teetiouonials in the opinion
tics a'aimmddied Maciently 'Misfeasor, to justify them

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