The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-08-18 00:00:00

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SALLSBURY TOWN COUNCIL

The quarterly meeting of the Council was held at
the Council Honse on Tbur:Alay, the Mayor (J.
Esq.) in the chair, and those present Were:
Councillors Ottaway, Eldridge, Aylward, Fawcett,
Prangley, Terrill, Woodlands, and Whitlock. The
meeting was appointed for eleven o'clock, but it was
more than an hour before a sufficient number had
assembled to form • quorum.
The Council proceeded at ODCO to let the Market
Tolls for the ensuing year. There wee only ooe
tender, Mr. Joha Cal/away, on behalf of the market
company, for LSO, the same amount as last year.
This provoked • discussion, Mr. Terrill wishing to
know whether the .f4O in arrears had been paid. On
being answered in the negative, he said the matter
in his opinion ought to be looked into. Another
year the company might offer only £7O, and if the
Board did not press for the payment of the addi-
tional £3O, so as to bring the amount up to the £lOO
specified in the Company's Act of Parliament. the
ratepayers would be the losers of the money. If the
company only offered £5O, the Council would be
bound to accept the money.
The Mayo& said they might take the tolls
into their own hands; but Mr. Woodlands thought
it would be an unprofitable transaction, and, there-
fore, it would be bed to have them put up by
tender.

Mr. TERRILL said the company only tendered
£6O, in order to escape the payment of the re-
maining £2O.
PRAM:MIT inquired whether he was one of
the shareholders.

-Mr. fan--ii-i-.Creplied in the negative. He should
not have spoken if be were so. The mut-
peaty having agreed by their Aet to make up
£lOO a-year, he did not see why they should be let
off.

Mr. Wooptstriai said there WWI an understaad•
ing that the directors should not be pressed for
petulant at present.
The Msvon remarked that the clause to which
Mr. Terrill had alluded was inserted in the
Company's Act, to protect the town from the
contingency of the removal of the standings from
the market place. Those stalls had, however,
Mover been removed, and the tolls always being let
by tender there was no reason to suppose that they
did not fetch what they were worth. There was no
doubt that the antacid bad a legal claim upon gm
company, but the question was, whether under the
circumstances they would macros it.
Mr. 1,4 OODLANDII was of opinion that the tolls were
oat worth the money at which they were now Ist.
They would not he worth tlio if kept in hand by the
Council. They might have a legal claim bat he did
not think it ought to be enforced, unless it was
shown that the market oompany were making money
out of the market. The market-boues had proved a
very great accommodation to the city, and he
thought it would be very ungraotoea to compel the
company to pay the arrows sow due.—After SOON
further discomion Mr. Calloway'e tender was
aerdemitiovar, who was ill attradasos, rid

it had teen suggested by Mr. Crewe and other
dealers that a toll of Id. each should be imposed for
oxen, so that parties might be able to secure apace;
this was now difficult, especially at the lam
Christmas market. The tolls at present received
were not sufficient to pay a man for his attendanoe.
—Afters few observations the matter was referred to
the Market Committee for consideration.
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The Tows CLEKK applied for an order for the
payment of £l4l lc 2d., due 21st of June last for
maintenance of the pauper lunatics of the city at the
County Lunatic Asylum. The requisite order was
given.
The Tows CLUIC reported that there was a
balance due to the treasurer of £lO5 be. 9d.

A return to the Lords of the Treasury of
of criminal prosecutions for the past half.year,
amounting to .Cll2 4s. 6d. was produced, and certi-
fied by the CounciL
The report of the Watch Committee was read. It
recommended that the salary of Mr. Superinten-
dent Caldow, of the city police force, should be is-
creased £2O "year, subject to future revision, in the
event of the superintendent accepting other appoint.
manta. —The Council generally were in favour of the
recommendation of the committee, and on the motion
of Mr. Ottaway, seconded by Mr. Woodland', the
reed was unanimously adopted.
The TOWN CLIRK reported that the fees received
by the inspector of weight" and measures during
the past quarter had amounted to only 4. 70.
A letter was read by the TOWN CLIME, which had
been received from the Clerk of the Sherborne
Local Board of Health, soliciting the assistance of
the Council in the endeavour to procure additional
postal communication hetweenSahabury and Exeter.
The letter stated that a night mail would be of the
greatest importance, and it was understood that
there was every disposition on the part of the
South-Western authorities to entertain the proposi-
tion.

The Council generally considered that as regards
postal arrangements, Salisbury had nothing to com-
plain, but they were of opinion that a night mail
would be of considerable importance. It was
ultimately decided that the Mayor should communi-
cate with Mr. Scott on the subject.
The Sustitrolt, (Mr. Bothams) presented plans
for the proposed pavement from the Fish-Market to
Endless-street, as well as for a re-arrangement of the
railings in front of the Council-house, and new
paving around the Herbert Statue—The Council
concurred in the proposition, but the consideration
of the matter WY adjourned to the next meeting.
The Council then formed themselves into a meet-
ing of the