The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-01-12 00:00:00

Violist Nein*.

DORBNr aPutarrr SESSIONS.

Th. Gamsloll besisess was Irsossotol at the Shire.
ban, on Torrisy. Tbe Lord Postman prodded, and
Yore Toe a ammo= &Mondani, of magistrates.

COMITY P 111•05.
Male prieoners In melody 75 and females 9, total 84,
being tint smallest number at this mama for the last 10
arLRe-commitments this quarter 55, same gamier
ttyear 40. Diebursements C 791 7s. 9d., mute quarter
last year £749 15a. 10d. Maintenance cost per head
this quarter 7s lid., same quarter last year is. 4d.
The chaplain was residing at Weymouth, without
making say applienion to the Visiting Justices. This
wee ocetrazy to the standing orders wtioh said the
**dais should reside as near the prison es possible.
He now applied to the court for permission to continue
st Weymouth • short time, ea he is in treaty for a home
In Doroltedec. The Visiting Justices hops he will
complete his arrangements as soon as mible, ashiis
highly deebiMe
The C saidthatb the first e should bs seer
quesfion we. whether
tin °earl would give the chaplain loamof abeenee—for
II was that in point of fast—until his arrangemente
were oompiele for getting a house in Damneder.
The Rev. B. L Waring assured the Cant he had no
Weenies of acting disrespeettully to 5579115• and wee
about to explain the circumstances of his removal to
Weymouth, when he wee stopped hy_the chairman, and
asked what time he required. M. Watson said in three
mouths If he maid not gel I hams for himself and
family, he would undertake to rondo here himself.
kLeave of absence for three mouths was grunted.

BALMS AND SITILDIIIOB.

rue exposes of the querMr were £3OO. The rent of
the County Hoses was reduced from fora guineas to
three guineas per_ week while occupied by the Colonel
of the Dorset KUM&

ii; —caiiamix remarked that Le found then were
59 or 00 bridges, sod their maintenance only met the
°aunty Mt a year.

TIM MITLUIIII.

The balms, led quarter was £1273 3d., du•
from Onions at Li. per day, £144.3 Ss. IL. due from
non-pauper sad oat-county patients £789 12a total,
£r3408 112. 4d. Quarter's expenditure cum lie. 44.;
be/anee, £1402 16s. Amount to be carried to sarplas
aceoant £531 li. 108. A gratsitl of £5O wee ordered
to be paid to the medical superintendent in considere-
d the large amount of addlnal work thrown upon
him by the great increase to she number of the out.
noun., patients. Tbe bread mamma for the ensuing
quarter was at did. per 4111. loaf, by Yr. J. Drake.
The annual report *Med out that 900 Ls about the
normal 'iambus. of *suety pauper patients. The
number in the asylum, December 31, 1868, was 147
maim, and 154 females ; of out-county pauper patient;
78 males and 78 females ; of non-pauper patients, 9
melee and 7 females: total 234 males, 229 female,. The
maintenance rate has stood at is. per day throughout
the year. The health of the patient. has been very
good throughout the year. There were 23 deaths upon
an average cumber of 472 inmates—about 5 per sent
—the ordiwyf average mortality in empty asylums
being at lomat 10 per cent., 30 disobarm of which
27 had recovered and 3 were relieved. The
mortgage debt upon the county rates of £41,000
had been redwood at Miohaelmaa last by tba sum
of E 8,833 6a. 84., leaving due £22,168 13a. 43. Mr.
Moyer moved the adoption of these reports, and called
attention to the healthiness of the asylums, the low
death rate, and the gratifying per-centage of curse
affected.

The Earl of !MAST= Boar mid It was • matter oI tho
very hiebort gratification to him that the county
lunatic asylum stood in such a very high position among
the asylums of the country. Re could assure the court
that at their Board (that of the Royal Commissioners in
Lunacy)they considered the Dorset asylum was among
the very beet in the whole of England. The number of
cures effected here la no doubt very considerably
advanced by the system adopted, end by the admirable
conduct of the medical superintendent (Dr. Byrne.). fie
thee urged the importance of Innatior being treated at
an early deg. of the disorder, and concluded by saying
the Dorset inaticatlon deserved all the approbation it
had received.

The reports were adopted.
IFISASCII.
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The balance brat quarts— r --eras £ll5Bl Os. Bd., and
reseipts msde the total fund £4,002 12s. Si. Expen-
diture £3,411 Os. 91., Isaving present balance,
£1,571 12s. 4.1. A rate of one penny in the pound was
recommended. Attention wassailed to ths irregularity
in the tronsatiation by the magistrtSes' clerks of the
monthly and quarterly returns a fines and penalties,
and of convictions. They advised that these should be
required regularly in future, and that they should also
Lave the romans for the remissions of fees.
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The Rev. J. H. Attertin made an inquiry as to the
appropriatilon of the fines for drunkenness, which he
understood were formerly given to the churchwardens
for the poor.
This was explained to be done under the Act of
James I.• under the new Act such portion as the
magistrates thought At was given tote. Pollee Super-
annuation Fund, and him lordehin strongly recom-
mended as much being given to that fund as could be
done fairly, as ultimately that fund will have to be
supplied out of the county rate.
?OWL
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The Portland poliee-sisiii;;—had been completed, and
they recommended the balance of 1:240 be paid to Mr.
Gregory. kteceipte, Including • balance of £774 04.5 d.,
were 1:3,568 12s. 7/1., expenditure E. 1,472 3s. 54., leaving
boluses of £96 fis. 26. Estimate for next quarter
£3,257 18a, mid • rate of three-farthings in the pound
was recommended. The superannuation fund amounts
to 13,309 ldo. 31., to alibis £55 13e. 24. from the men
laid quarter must be added. Dr. T. Fielding was re-
commended to be medical offiorr for Milborne St.
Andrew police. A gratuity of £174 was reeommended
to third-class Superintendent George Baynton (Wim.
bore.), who had served in the force 127 w., and wee
—wlncol.ide trout fstliag Itestio. nape. Daynton
Lad applied that half his 15 yam' service in the Metro.
politan force should be reckoned as service In the
Dorset Conetabulary, but the committee considered
they had no power to reckon it
The Rev. CARR J. WAN spoke In terms of high
praise of the services of Sept. Boynton, and was very
desirous that he should be granted • pension, or at
reed the full gratuity which might be given to • bit-
elms superintendent. He elm wished that decision be
deferred until the Secretary of State's opinion could be
obtained as to the legality of reckoning Mr. Ilayaton's
services in the metropolitan foree.
The Cuxissan said the leas they considered personal
merit ID the case, the more likely were they to entire at
a ',wooer conclusion. lie pointed out that under the
Polio* Aot, Supt. Saynton's 'onion in the metropolitan
force Gould not be eonsidered, and said that postponing
decision would be subjecting themselves to the laugh of
the Secretary of State.

The Rev.. C. J. GLTN still eontended Mr. Bsynton
wee entitled to. gratuity as a lirst-elass superintendent.
Mr. FAMES said he had been reduoed to third-elass,
and It Irma in that position his claim came before the
committee.

-11-17.7.4-i—rg maid he never accepted the grade of third-
*leas, but resigned ma firbt.claes superintendent. He
:noted that the grataity be 4:190, a first-dam sapertn•
Cendont's allowance, instead of 1:174.

This wee not aosonded, and the
the oommittee was adopted.

Cull.,

Attention wan called to the serious increase in the
number of vagrante relieved as camels, the number
being no law than 3906, or more than double the number
of Isst year. The great proportion of persons who
applied for a night's lodging were professional themes,
and were not really persons in search of work. With
reference to the former report of &Adult" in the
weight of bread delivered to the poor as out-door relief,
the Chief Constable reported that the thwid had again
been weighed during the past week. There was in most
of the unions a great improvement, but in many cams
a great deficiency still existed. 22 loaves were 90
ounces 3 drams under weight, and in one Instance these
wag a deficiency of 71 0110001 on the 41b. loaf!
It was agreed that the lineation of the Boards of
Guardians should be directed to the facts reported
respecting the short weight of bread.