The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-07-10 00:00:00

00UNTT POUCr.

The committee, in eompliance with the letter receimod
from the secretary of Smie, recommended an inermee
of pay to the eoenty oonstahulary as follows :—One
shad superintendent, or d puty aid( constable.
CI sc. 100. additional per year; three Ist clam roper.
intewtents. £l7 7.. 6d ; three 2nd class, £421 Be. 91. ;
fear 5.8 clam, 1:64 Is. Bd.; iii lei ohm sergeoets,
1180 19t. ; six 2nd clam £33 lii. 6d.; thirty•six lot
clam cossatablea, CM 12s. ; thirty.six Ted class, £ll7 ;
!ad tlier.eitcht 3rd class. ClO7 Bd., making a gross
innassasolEsno Ga. Ild. per ammo. Of this so m, how.
ever, Brittiort agreed to pay CM Is. 6c1., and Lymat
Regis flO 84. per year additional. The committee
having had notice that the Dorchester police station
was about to be assented to the relief of the poor and
tar other purpones, asked for instructions as to appealing
swamis say such asesestoest, it being doubtful whether
ft WILI not to be considered as Onversmout property,
wig if so, not rateab.e. The receipts for the quarter
hod been, with • balance n.
84,935 7. gd. ; sod the expenditure, 131,107 13.. 91.,
leaving a balsam in band of £1.027 14a. 3d. The
estimated expenditure for the tartest qm,ter
£1,138 13., 3& The euperannation fund now asmooted
t £3.846 18e. Id. Moak, to whisk had to be added
8142 Ils. 94. received from the men during the past ,
gamier ; 23 7s 6d. bad been received for damping
wekbte and measures Maris; the quitter; CI
In 1n..; and the cost of the inspectors bad bees
23 12a. 91., leaving a balance in favokr of the county of
RI 21. 191.
Respecting the peoposed rating of Dorchester police
elation. the Cht•Mßati euggrated that be Amid 000-
mooted' with the Reerstary of Ittels, asking whether
or not sea a Indians wee liable to be rated. The
Overt eeleened.

TN %NUM Or PARISHES.

On the motion of Mr. J. OURDIIT it was agreed to
iranat•r for pollee ',topes.' the p.rishea of Wamniook
and Chaedsrearh, in the Bridport divi.iun, to Chard
ditisior, Somer.. t.

CHIXP CONITABLZ.S IMPORT.

The chief comnahl. reported that diving the pair 190
persona had Moo taken Into cmtody by the of
which 70 had hen dvel.srced, 102 summarily dnmmed
of. and Id comuntret for hid. Thoe showed • drer.....e
In the quarter of Olin the number apprehen 'ed. and of
00 1. am@ sommarily d.sposed of by the magistrafes.
The number of perverts anmmone4 by the toti r had
been 236. hreledina 62 infolinattous against peison• f..r
Infileglng tie (utile plaeue regulations, of click 51
had been mainfainad. The county was now free from
the cattle pinto.
ralTLIt PLAOUt Oiflil

The committee reported that they were appointed by
the Court an the 28th of April last, on which day the
,tile plague broke out et Pordington, het they were
unable to set until the 3rd of NA', the anthorii ha of the
borough not h.viog ii the requisite entire. On
th it der the committee declared that the pariahs, of
Fordington, Holy Bt. Peter's. an I AU Saints,
I torcheeter, and two terms at Bra•ford and Blinder' an
" isdeehd place,' and at the mme time ordered lone
*ma belonging ti It,. B. Laver, of froplingtou, the
reniaining Purtiim of his herd ad 18. which Lad beam
oreeionaly attacked, to be deatroyerl. On the 2nd of
June the diseine broke out in two distinct places in
the mtriali of Wyk* Regis. Two 'lowa belonging to Mr.
Tomas+ Lure. of the Royal Hotel, Weymouth, k. pile
• farmyard belonging to the Mesars. Gard. suffered from
the disease, when the committee ordered the slanghter
of the tog sows, and al., of the immediate slaughter of
any cattle of the Mawr'. Gard which 'night show
symptom+ of rinderpeat and having been in oontect
Mr. Lnoe's core. On the sense den they were biform, ri
that the remains of four fell-grown animals and a calf
bad been clandestinely buried at Barton. They were
eahumed and iosp toed by the veterinary snrgeon, and
found to have died of rinderpeirt, but as no other
animals were known to be ateeted, th • eommittee bad
no authority to proeleito Char.einster or any portion of
the parish. "an infested place." On the 26th May,
the committee met to consider the propriety of declaring
Chiokerell free from the cattle plague, hot aa leo
months is the shortest time .fter diocese has di.appeard
before removal is permitted by a store-stock heenae,
they decided to wait till the 2lith June. when they
again met and declared the perish of Chickerell free
from disease. The committee had also agreed to
declare the pariah', of Poptingtoe, Holy Trinity, St.
Peter, All Sainte, Dorchester, and the Iwo farms of
Besot 111.70 and Harris, fere front Thursday, the sth
fast. The value of rattle slaughtered by order of
the committee, was £lO2. one half of which they wouid,
at the ensuing sessions, recommend the Court to pay
the_proner elaimasio.

Mr. C. Wen% at the soggestios of the Chairman, said
the court was suers that the Order in Council required
that whoa a person removed steak, he must produce to
any constable &minding it both the license and the
certificate on which the Helena weafounded. It seemed
ta be the practice in SOON Of the neighbouring eouniies
—and they had two eases illustrating it at Bridport
!may minions yesterday, one in which beast, were
removed from Somerset, and the other from Devon—
for the magiitrates who gave the Itemises to withhold
the certificates on which they were granted, so that
when • former bringing stock along the road was saki d
be a cionstabls for his permits he produced only the
"license" and not the ' serial:ate. That was the
eaters of the two cases brought before the Bench et
Bridport on Monday, and an adjournment waa made in
order to gle. time for an inquiry.
The A N said the form of schedule given in the
Oder of Council wee in these words: I have satisfied
lapel( of the correctness of the deCoration annexed
hereto; therefore if • magistrate cut off half the schedule
it was an imperfect document, and it certainly did look
a little as if the clerks to the magistrates intended to be
*unmoved to produce the other port of the selmdeile,
and thereby muss • certain number of fees to be ',id.
He thought they might fairly meanie that the mail"-
train meld not have thought of it in that view. There
really was no cause why these men should baire been
summoned.

Yr. WILD stir' that in one ease the limns. and creel.
ficabe wrre two separate papers, snd the totter was kept
bask hy the masistratei elerk, but he met it to the
&filmiest to prodooe ; but is the other clue both forms
were on one paper, like the DO.V.t forms, and in that
instance the raagntrate out it off himself.

The CHAIRMAN said that in the latter cue he thought
tbry slight tyke the magistrate edited inadvertently,
but in the former they might fairly ask whether the
clerk was paid by salary or by fess. He mentiooed the
matter that it might go before the public. and the
magistrates would be aware that they had acted
wrnegly, . . . .

,
Ltrmatitse asked whether the jurisdiction of a
magistrate in the matter of the cattle plague extended
to the whole county, or was cenaniad to the dittriot in
which he sated.
The CHAINIIIAIf said it wiis limited to the division in
which the magistrate aided. His lordship then said
that • pvtition had been received front Mr. Laver, of
Fording-inn, .skit g for compensation for lasses by the
cattle plague, and he thousht tie safest course would
be to refer it to the Cattle Plague Committee.
The Court concurred.

The Rev. C. W. Bi 'WRAY sald the other day be saw
a declaration icrtvineed in court in which the magistrate
had made • declaratioe before himself, and signed it
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The edam( :He signed 111. the wrong pleat.
Mr. Bosom tit Oh. so ; I saw the words, "1, to
and no, having satialled myself that this declaration is
comet," se., nod then the °twilit** was sign. d by the
same magi•trate. I thought it utterly tabard ;be could
not tak- such a declaration in any other matter; and 1
should like to know the opinion of the Court on the
subject.
Mr. J. H. CALCHATT : It's like • man 121•17ying him-
self —( laugh ter).
The CHAIRMAN : He should not have done it ; but
you can't say be could not.
The Rev. O. V. (lARLAND called the attention of the
Court to the fitet that though some beasts had died of
the rinderpest at Cbarminster, under the Order in
Council there mu no power to desolate the place infected,
because there was no diem* existing at the tin* tie
eommittee met; end heasked whether it wasoot desirable
for the Court to make some oommanication with the
Privy Council in order that the anomaly might be ob-
viated in any future Order.
The Coatemadt said that be wag desired by the Court
at the last sessions to oomniunieate with Colonel Hark.
netts of the Privy Council office. He wrote and also
I went there, and saw Colonel Harkness. After explain.
int the matter in question to him, and several other
points whiels seemed to work badly, he was told that
hi. (the chairmen's) letter was amongst • beano( norma-
-1 ponds**, which he indicated. He inquired if the
Council would take any action upon it. The reply was, wehave not taken any yet.and I don't. think we shall; the time
is gone hy—llaughter). Then he asked, with respect to
the Clerk of the Peace sane. inning Vie union of boroughs
with the twenty, whether that could not be altered, for
a borough did not take action till it became infected,
when the union seemed rather hard upon the county.
Tie Clerk said, •' Oh, that was not likely to happen
again, and he did'nt think it likely they would alter the
Order"—(laughter). He (the chairman) took the liberty
of asking the Clerk if he would mention the matters
be had epoken of when the Privy Council met. The
Clerk replied "Well. I think epon the whole I would
rather not"—(loud laughter). He told the Clerk that
he wee very much obliged to hint, but that he should
not owns there egain—(hear. hear, and laughter).