The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-12-05 00:00:00

To Ike Editor.

Sir,—l am somewhat surpri-e I that a Churohman,
and abet a Churchwar•len, should have made such a
cotument on what the Bishop sal I in his address to the
yoon4 penning whom he outfit nod, and that he should
have expected any Minister td the itate Church would
try to refute the teezhiog of the Bishop, or to speak
against any assertions male by him. It appears so me
so clearly set forth in the Book of Common Prayer
that it would to impossible to define it in any other
way, and you are, us doubt, aware that all Church of
England ministers are servants of the State, therefore
bound to I erform the duties laid down by the State,
and not only so, bat before they are granted tie privi-
lexe of becming so, they are required to take an oath,
that tasty believe in all 'h A is written in the Book of
Common Prayer. Therefore, to speak against the
Bishop, when he is only carrying out the duties laid
down for him in the Houk is somewhat the same as an
officer die. 'baying the nonmetals of hie surperior, an
you know the result of that. You may urge that Binh
I. not the teachin4 t,f the Word of 14.4. These doe-
trines are not found written there, but you must
remember that if any miniat-r offend &mine. the law
of the State Church, which is not ,tf an unusual
occurrence in the present day, he loin • 'me cases, smile
to account for eo,l"ing, but you never hear any accusa-
tion brought against him concerning the troths of
Mars Woca ; but it is the voice of the State Church,
or, in tither what is written in the Book 'f
Common Prayer, he is judged by; therefore it must
be the standard book of the *Ate Church.

Asiamsao.

THE ALLOTMENT ACE
To the &Nor.

Sir,—Knowing your paper is largely circulated
among the agricultural latourers of the c muty of
Dereet, I shouttlike, wila your kind permission, to call
the attention of the public, and especially the labourers,
who are most concerned, to a very important and
useful Act of Parliament. passed last Session, respect.
lag the use of charity lands, or lands left for the
Lien. fit of the poe!r. I ant the more anxious to do so
because the provisions of that Act may not be known
X. all the labourers, or if known they may not have
the c .urage to move in the :natter. There is noel for
ealing atte.dion to the subject, because Mods thus
let t are In. into C 11.1,4 rented by others than three for
wit .m they were lot ..pled, and often at • low fi4ure. But
if the poor man is able to secure a p'ot of land at all,
it is generally at a very high price.
There are village. where the poor man can never
rent land at lwe than 13, FAO, or even more pounds
per acre. farmer nays he can't live, and doubt.
lees the times are had, but if he, renting land at, nay,
201., Mt. or even 40e. per acre, can't make a do of it,
bow coo the poor man be benefited by land let to him
at eight or nine hundred per cent, more money.
Now, what this Act seeks to enforce is that lands
left for the poor to be hail to doles, money, or fuel,
shall be used by tbc labourers th-msehres, and at the
or.iinary I rice uf land in the parish. Th. is a wise
providon, and all intereeted in the matter should pay
attention thereto. Also trustees and managers have
need X. look about them, as an order from the Charity
Commiesioners or Connty Court Judge may reach
them, to set about business before they are ready. I
.hall, therefore, be obliged if you, air, will allow me
rs space for • few lette to set forth the provisions of
this Act, and also to point out coins of the parishes
in which charity lands are to be found. The Act is
called " The Allotm.nt Extension Act of 1882," and
the preamble seta forth the objects of the Bill in the..
wont. :—" And whereas it is expedient that having
regard to the present Poor Law, the benefits thereof
should be extended to all the irremoveable poor, and
that the same should he extended to all lands, whether
cultivated or uncultivated, held for the benefit of the
poor as herein .fter described, and that • summary
remedy should be afforded."
The section four says :—" All Trustees in whom
lands are vested, or by whom the some are bald or
managed for the benefit of the poor of any parish or
place in or adjoining to that in which such I.n to ars
situate, and whereof the rents or produce are distri-
buted in gifts of money. doles, fuel, clothiog, bread, or
other articles of nervesity, shall where such lands are
not utherwise used for the benefit of the parish in
which it is situate AA a recreation ground or otherwise,
for the enj.entient or general benefit of the inhabitants,
take proceedings subject AA hereinafter mentioned for
letting such lands in allotments to cottagers, labourers,
and other., and—

(I).—They shall sat apart for the purpose of this Act
such field or portion of the said lands as Is most suit.
able, ea regards distance and otherwise, for allotments,
by the schedule to tbi• Act, of the field or portion so
set apart, specifying the situation and extent thereof,
awl the rent per acre or rod, which they are ready to
accept for the same, when let in allotments. and the
times awl places at which applications fur allotments
ate to be made.

CI). —if an ;;;;plicatinns for an allotment are received
within the time fixed for the notice. the Trustees shall
forthwith pro-nd to obtain ponsession of the field or
portion set apart, or of so much thereof as is required
for the applications, and to fence the same (if
necessary), and to let the same in manner provided by
thin Act,

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- If the whole of the field or portion no set apart
in let in allotments, the Trustees shall proorel, as D.On
its they hale power so to do, to cot apart another field
or girt In id their lands for the purpose of this Act,
and give public notice thereof, as directed by this
section, and so on, until the whole of their lands am
let insallottuents, or no more applications are received
for ptiblic allotomatc."-1 anti dr. itc.,
Jasnca.