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

Soniereftoliire.

SOMERSET COUNTY EXPENDITURE.
At the Midtpdpmer Quartet fiessions for 8 meted, com-
mended at T•ontou ors Tibiae, taw report of the
002008 001011 12•124 am aimed some time ego to in Abe
into the county expenditure, and which was
brought about hy the trenchantly...l...of "X XA. wa.
read. The eolondttes enter rather folly into the
nnestion of the messy of the eltrk of the ptace, which
I. Axed it £l.BOO per annum, and thry Admit that with-
out explanation tie amount appears wiry jOrgea bat
they state that in 1852 the fees and emoluments wee
commuted for that eery, and they go into hens to
*how tbs die the dminetion of the fees to which Um
elerk of she pease we entitled, and which are now
erred to the eredd of the *nutty, the actual stun be
now receives for work don. for the °Peaty, personal.,
am-dusts to only awed 8488. The *Amy at promos
paid, the son.asittee aonsider. most be iegaided se a
meted interest, and that an alteration anneal now be
equitably made- but they tosonawrend that on any
future appointtent ti.a melee should be reeonsidersel.
With regard to the printing and •IsartiviAl lleivestai
the committee have found them considerably in stoma
of other °aunties, viz , £622, quint ens in Devon,
1.164 I. Norfolk, and 063 in Northunibrrla. d, led
Obey rewarnmenti that Is future this kind of work
should be done by anitrvet whom practicable.
The gaol socommodstion of the county clainucl the
committees attention, end they are of opinion that the
accommodation for prisoner. oast be trovided at a
ishesper rate in on. gaol than by maintaining, as at
present, two esehiliebmatita, but they do Dot eater
me the question of the eligibility of lb. existing
ptiens, or suggest which should be abolished. They
show, hairiest, that Um total average met of melt
primner for 11166 (deducting the Middlesex prisoners,
imir head, to has, been—at Taunton according to Mr.
, Oakley's report, £26 18.. 2/4.. at Sh2pton, wow ling to
'Mr. Carter's report, 1.21 6s. 941, a difference of
• Its. Si, as 'sanest Taunton Neither prison could
, efforal aeromnindation fox 280 premiere, the maximum
number required, but in both there we ample loom for
I enlargement. In °unclosing the committee request to
soy that they do mot weeder they should be instiller:
to holding out to the otiose the ProcP-ct of bting
to COOOO any nowsidetsble Immediate reduction in the
twenty expenditure. a. reduction may certainly be
made in the el.ries of erten offloads of tht emote
when new •ppointioents take place, as at mould b. bell
tenecourry and unjust that their s -Ivies shield he as
MA as are those auditors Who have received museum.
&sten for long and sMoient services. Some saving, it
is hoped, may he made in the charges for advertlainit
I and printing, shbough the probable inereme in the
numb-, of county 11.1.011 must enlarste tie
. . It is manifod that a very lisa•y toe ars fexpeoi•
areas frorn the maintaining:. of two large Driaon sMaUuth •
meet.. Toe neighbouring county of Wilts has, very
nociently, determan d on abolishing me • f its preons,
but the magistrate hove maintained four courts where
sodas and sessions may be told. Should this come
determine on following a woad. Doane—lnt stall con.
Waving, as the ease might be, to bold the maims and
Sienna, as metal at We ls or Tendon—. considerable
saving might hetjtisly bt tfEoled without producing
She insonvenienee that might be felt by many p•trson•
giving in the more pope ems psi t of the Gomm ;—but
in doing sway with eider pnen it mint be borne in
el id that compensation mast. in equity. be gives to
that staff which would be dismissed. In the matter of
elite. the emornittee state that, compared with Devon.
Gloucester, and Wilts. Spawnss stand. third as to total
forte of polies, escood as to the extent of ar-a sod
population, and third as to area, amid last as to 'etiola-
tion ellotted to each constable. The total asiaries
(without allowance., soap' aa to chief eon-tables) are
as follows :—Devon, £17.978 9.. 101., Glootesier,
£l6lBl ile. IL, Som.ret, £16,634 45., sad Walt.,
£12,169 14s. 4d. The dot, Mg of the Somerset force
I, less by 3s. 78. than la Devoe, by Es. than in
Gloucester, and by Is. Si. th. 2 in Wilts. Diseuesioa
oa that report was deferred till the Illohaeleas sessions.