The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-01-07 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH TOWN COUNCIL.

A meeting of the Council was held on the 30th alt.
The members present were: the Mayor; Aldermen
Bower and Devenish ; Councillors W. Thomas.
Drew, Frampton, Roberta, Harper, Ayles, Maun-
ders, Hibbs, R. Thomas, Thompson, Bessant, and
Upjohn. _

bTANDING ORDERS.—The CLERK read the standing
orders of the Council, and the MAYOR. said they
would endeavour to confine themselves to the strict
letter of those orders—one of which, it will be re-
membered is, that only one person shall speak at
the sanis time, and that no member shall
address the meeting more than once, except
the mover of • resolution, who shall
have the power to reply. The standing orders,
however, seem in a fair way to be regarded in pretty
much the same manner, under the presidency ef
Mr. Hare, as under his predecessors. On the very
first subject brought before then after the reading
of the standing orders, the members lapsed into
their original method of &nog things, viz.,—cross-
firing—two or three together as they sat on their
seats, and reducing their "debate," to a mere "table
talk."

HARBOUR Dusa.—The first business of the Council
was to take into consideration • letter received from
Mr. Vertne for a reduction of the harbour dues, for
a quantity of apples that he had had landed at this
port.—Mr. Daew thought that a penny • bushel
was excessively high, and said he had no doubt that
when the toile were last revised, the circumstance
must have escaped them. He thought that the item
should be reduced.- -The MAYOR thought the whole
should undergo a revision.—Mr. R. Tliostss be-
lieved the harbour dues on many articles might be
greatly increased with advantage to the harbour
fund& —Filially, it was agreed that the revision of
the dues, as suggested by the Mayor, should take
Owe at some future period, and that in the mean-
time Mr. Vertue be requested to pay the amount
charged to him.
THE PORTLAND RAlLWAY.—Alderman DILVENISH
rose to move that Council support the Great Western
Railway Company's scheme for the extension of
their railway from Weymouth to Portland, as this
scheme also embraced a scheme for carrying out a
tramroad to the harbour in connection with the
railway. He stated that the staple trade of Wey-
mouth—the coal trade—had been greatly injured
since the establishment of a railroad, in consequence
of there being no tramroad between the harbour and
the terminus, while at Poole a tramway from the
railway had been made. A private Act had been
obtained for a tramway at the time the Bill for the
making of the railway was obtai•ed, but, unfortu-
nately, the railway was eight years in completion, and
the time for the tramway to be completed was live
years. The consequence was that the time allowed by
law for the making of the tramway, when the railway
was completed, had expired. There was a scheme
of railway extension which now embraced also the
tramway to the harbour so much desired, and he
consequently begged to move that the Ccuncil
support its passing into law. Mr. Taotirsos
seconded the propoeition.—Mr. DREW quite agreed.
that a tramway from the harbour to the railway was
desirable, and he would be happy to support any
scheme confined only to this object, but when
sonnacted with this salmis, that of making a
railway to Portland was connected, h*