The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-07-09 00:00:00

DORBIST COUNTY EXPENDITURK

The propoeal to expend £1.,000 roPoinnli and
fareielung the Warty Homo, elicited the tril.iwing
protest from tho Dorchester Board of Guardians :--
0 To Her lf Veetie's !region of he Peace for the Comets
of 11iquei. in Qrsrfer StNiONJ astvabled, Dor.
dueler. Alp 24, 1,47.
"The Board of Guardians of the Dorchester Unaos
having liens aches of motion by W. P. Okeden, Esq.,
to be *ought forward at your Ressions, in which it is
=4"slto one thousand pounds to the repairing
funt ishuig of the County HOU., beg to proteei
againot Inch an outlay from the county funds at the
prat time.
w• bog to remind you of the enormous sums ez.
Ponded during the past few yearksmounting to between
sixty and wevasty &outland pounds, derived from the
ecrepini of Lad and other property, and we respect-
fully submit that the time is fully come for the strictest
00300rny and retrenchment, and that the intended
outlay is excessive, if not uncalled for.
" Signed by ardor and,n behalf of the
.Board,

" Dated, Board-room, Dorchester Union,
Jane 47, 1887."
This proem* waa forwarded by post to the Moir.
mall 01 the Wert, but by omit mischance it was
tail sasmigst other documsois end not observed till
aftrr the °ours had adjourn. d. Th. Lord ?ortolan
referred to the matter is these words, in his sharp
le the pawl jar/.s Wsdaeaday .-
1 arp sorty to say, that by Ems Lades:hum—a mis-
altsitesthisot—•os mosWwtonh ought to have bum
Dagar• Cbut as ThisolY did &A ME MT

hands till the Court had adjourned. It was a
memorial from tlic Guardians of the l'nion at Dor-
chester; but it was a pure piece dt uri•chance that the
letter was laid among a heap of others, sal was not
doic,verei until it was too late to being r before tb•
Court But I can say this --the Court tork the as oe
pains in investigating the case as if it had receive I the
memorial. We were quits alive to the bjection of in
anY way augmenting the county rate expenditure
beyond what w • absolutely necessary. Now the case
applies part cula ly to the County House. The judges
at the last assizes spoke strongly upon the subject, and,
the death of Mr. Patch has obliged the itridga and
sodding Committee to look into the state of the
buiiding with some care, and their report was to this
effect that nothing could born re filthy or more unfit f w
thcaocommalation of the Judges and those who go with
them, than that house ; and I only hope that the
Under-Sheriff will communicate to the Iligh•Sheriff
for the purposed informing the Judges that the Court
has desired to do all that can be done to make it tidy
and clean on the prealit occasion, and, that for the
future, when the proper repairs have been made, and
some few alterations, to make the rooms more fit for
the accommodation of the judges, we shall hope to he
spared the presentment which it certainly might
have been almoet the duty of the Judges to make
against the present accommodation afforded them in
Dorchester. On looking into the matter we And that
by ree lying 'lOO • year from the treseury, as also the
rent of the house, and other payments which will be
made by those who use the house, we believe the
county will be no loser at all, but that lifter a very
few yous the sum necessary to be spent at present
will be completely recouped. I have gone into this
matter at length because I wish the Board of Guardians
to know it was a mere mischance, and not by one
'slightest neglect on the part of the officers of the Court
that the memorial was not read in the manner in which
they wished it to be.

But, although the Don't's/der Board of iluardiana
failed to have their m morial read before the
Court, they may be sure this intimation that they
are narrowly watching thy expenditure of the
county, will bare a b.neileial effect.