The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-09-25 00:00:00

TOWN MIRK'S REPORT.
We ymouth Charities.

September 10th, 1883.

In accordance with the directiou of the committee I
held on the 7th of May last, I have carefully g .ne
Into the subject of the curiae. of the town, and have
taken great pains to ascertain the facts, and here-
under appears my report thereon. The source of
information that I have had access to is necessarily
limited, and a great amount of time has been spent on
the same. As the Corporation are not the Charity
Trustee* of the town, therefore all informat.on has
had mainly to be obtained from other than the
C irporetion records, and most be received on that
understanding. / think it my duty, however, to draw
the attmtion of the Corporation to the foot that the
expense entailed on the town by these researches is
one beyond their actual duty, as the Charity Coto.
minimises are the authority to whom any neglect or
default in charity administration should be reported,
and it ls clearly not within the duty of the Corpora.
tion to undertake the supervision of the work that was
removed from their bands so many years ago.
Jonathan Taylor's Charity, created by will of
teetator, bearing date 24th August, 1753. At the
present time there is the sum of £225 3.. 31. invested
in the name of the Borough Ereamerer, the aversze
income of which is 08 12.. 44., awl be paid to Mr.
Henry Gibbs, the schoolmaster of Holy Trinity
Netiousl Schools, who was appointed an instructor in
the '& seen of ostrigetion, on ler the terms of the win
of the testator, Jonathan Taylor, on the 23rd March,
1865. At the present time there are no boys under-
going the navigation tuition, as the following scholars
—Henry Ashley, Robert /ionic., Ralph Tracey,
Frank Ferry, and Thomas Symens—have at the
recent summer vacati so left the school. The nomin-
ation of the boys for the education, is aecordance with
the trusts of the original will, rests with the Meyer,
Aldermen, Ministers, and Churchwarden" of Way.
moth, and an application has now been mode by the
s hoelmaster (3rd July, 1883), for such nominations to
be c sutpleted, although no trace can be found for
many years of such direction of the will having been
..bserved hitherto. The last psyment by the Treasurer
to Mr. Gibbs was made in May, 1883.
Jonathan Elwar I. Charity, create 1 by deed.
' dated 13th January, 1716 The proper, y emulate of
lend in the parish of Weymouth, and known as
Belfield-terrace, at present leased under two leases,
dated respectively 19th Deeernlxr, 1833, and 9th July,
1e34 for the several terms of 99 years. at the ground
rent of £5 lle. and 23 5.., payable as follows :—Mr.
3
Sym^nde, E 5 .. ; Mrs. Gillien,ham, A its.; executors
of Admiral Payne, El; earl the assentors of Captain
B 'ad, el. William Bewley fnenaerly paid the sum
of el 10. annually ; hot on his death a portien of the
lan I oc• tildes' by him carnet into the hands of Mr. W.
Symonds. who pays • rental of El 31, annually, and
the remainder was aorinired hy the railway company.
The compensation p.id by the railway company
amount-d to the sum .4 £132, which is now inverted
in new three per cent. coneols, and is I,lr the value of
£l4l 11.. 1.1., the income of which is psid half-y-arly
on the affidavit of the rector of Wyke Regis, and is,
together with the rent, receivel annually, paid to the
four wilows who revile at the Almshouses. The
app mum mt of the widows rests in the Town Council
,4 the borough, and partly with the rector of Wyke
Regis. The present occupants are Mr. Doherty, Mrs,
Dowell, Mr.. Rests, an.l Mrs. Worry.
Bernard Mitchell's' Charity, created by will,
dated 22n I March, 1646, prayed in the Prerogative
Court of Canterbury, 25th May, 1617. The efts
therein cont .ined were charged upon the King's Head
Inn, in the Mark t-plaws, at Mecombe Reels, the
owners of which at the present time are Sir Frederic
J. W. Johnstone ail th trustees of the Wesleyan
Chapel, WIIO psy the f II wing puma in accordance
with the terms of the in tips proportion abewn :
—Churchwardens .4 Wsr. hem paid 13.. 41. by Sir
Frederic john.te..., end G . 81. by trustee.; church-
wardens of Bririp.rt, Wimborne, Milborne St.
Andrew, Beres It-gis, and Abbot.bury, ditto; the
churchwardens of Fleet an I Langton Herring, 84. 111.
and 4s. 51, The xes o sal is distributed by the rector
of Wyke Regis. The amount varies, with the prise of
c ed. The accounts are sent t Sir Fre %etc John.
stone's agent ; one.third is, or shonld he, paid by the
trustees of the Wesleyan Cuspel. The payment of
El 13.. 41. to overseers of Weymouth is not male, bat
Sir Frederic Johnstone, who has been communicated
with, has repli,l as follows :

" tenni in. 5411 fir.ototobw.l*“.
" DIMT 8 F.—W. ytton'h C0...11,-11r. Mingle bur
forwarded 1.14 • c k.. 7 of y .ur lett Ft • him ou tbe 21st ult. I
be b•poy t g •• y u. r,m.ggy inforioation
j y peers- SirFedpr,c J Juistone's solicitor, but I
b&-dly feel jtvlifk I in noJertaltios upon =Precool ctorp,
sues. stel by • teratal of Po o'd bob of 1831„ • long and
tedious searob for soresibiog whisa, if it bai spy solid
(=soda*" you are able t 9 dissever as well as 1. 1 Win