The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-02-23 00:00:00

WILTS A DJOUKNED- BESS- lONS.

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These adjourned Epiphany Sessions were held on
Timsday. at Devises, Sir John Awdry, Knight., in the
*heir, and there were present the Marlins of
Lansdowne, lbe Right lion. fiotherno &toped., M.P.,
Sir John Weald. Bart., George Matthaei. H. G.
Lu410w,.1. Locke, J. Ravenhill. R. P. Ling, T. Fraser
Gross, F. A. Locke, R. L. Lopes, 8. B. Brooke, 8. (1.
*wary, J. Heaney, D. 8. Standen, J. Davi., F. K
Fowl*, G. Alexander, K D. B. Harcourt, J. Id. W.
Heater, I). Amber, R. P. Nisbet, W. Wyndham, W.
B. Seagrum, W. Stanoombe. Reim, Major Prover,
Captain Wyndham, Revs. D. Wilkinson A. Sue* J.
H. Gale, 0.?. Lowther, and E. B. Haien, Ike.
The Rev. John WILKINSON put In a long report from
the Ilibtla Stores Committee, the drat rvooniniendatioe
of which had reference to a notation of Cal 17s. for
certain works which the committee had ordered to be
dose to the Militia Stones order to prevent dry rot,
which bad been discovered en the joint. of the orderly
rooms in Use main builthog stores.. well aa for certain
improvements in the cottage, for the accommodation of
the non -0010 miseioned °Moen. The latter was
£18.3 175., and the former C 49. The committee did not
ask for any rote,, power WAS given them at the last
seistionx and these paragraphs were confirnial without
diatrunioe. _

th-e—second claire the committee stated that It
might be nermary to remind the Court that the county
had undertaken to provide acconimmlation for the staff
at the stipulated rent of £5 prr rot on the outlay, to
be paid by the Forrament. &fore commencing the
works they inquired of the War Otlles whet evidsoos
tbe governinaat would require of tn. aatiataelery amt.
Oration of the building.. Tin answer was that the
certilleate of the Lord-Lieutenant of the county, the
honorary eolonel, and the oolocielocunatandant of Um
regiment, would be taken as • proof that all the require-
ment+ had been complied with. That eertideeta was
obtained ; bat siner thst time, owing to the death of the
Marquis of lAnadowne, the Leint•Liecutenancy had
shaaged hands, and Lord A ilesbery, in the rewrite of
his dieseetiou, now declined to give the gertificar
each cottage err provided with three bedrooms. A
plan had been received from Meer. Meanings and Hill,
if Bath, tbe carrying out of which would be attended
with an outlay of 1.020. Since then another plan had
been °impeded by a member of the committee, and had
now bar matured by Um arehitecar, under whir it
wan propood to Great three additirel cottage., and by
making other oertain doors, and certain staircases, they
would be able to obtain the necessary accomalodatinn at
an eapeire of WOO. This plan they reocuansended to
the adoption of the Court.
Mr. It. P. Llmu mid thst having beard • • good deal
rant these cottage. be visited them the ether shy, and
took the trouble to reert•ia what costs had been in-
curred. The boa. gentlrinan described the situation of
the cottages, and mid the., appeared to haws been •
war of responsibility or control in the currying out if
the works, including the expeediture now recommended,
together with MIA for tr purrs* of Um plot of
ground in frost of the adjutant's hoar, and thus the
cottages would have cost nearly £250 sash. Looking at
the amount of money still required to be laid out upon
rem to make the.. decently habitable, be thought the
cowry bad better seU real, and return to the old plan
of lodging atomism by tbe government. A gentleman
sow-a-days did not raid storages with two rooms but
three, and he asked why the cant, should do that
whisk •pi irate gentimaan woad sot do. The emerge
of the cottages was irmalleient, and we. rammed
underground with ordinary molded pipes. The son-
sequence was that matter percolated into the wella sad
interfered with the purity of the water. He moved as
an anasadmeat to the proposition of Mr. Wilkinson that
the paragraph ia the report be strum* out, sad that In
li.. thereof the forages be sold, and that we return to
the lodging alloware goveraineaL
This mot having bra sroaded, the Chairman was
about to per the propcuition, when
istarra_pt4d, and said he wished to
mainsWlN observatioes. n• MO proposed for the
plot of load in frost of the adjutant's house Lad
nothing to do with the garlic°. T6B sominittes re.
commesded its probate in order that • shank might
be reeled by voluntary contribatioas for the assomino.
dries of the regiment. With regard to the twinges
Mr. Long mar be labouring wader • wrong im-
preemie& He bad game over tins Agars very calefully,
and loud that the ger ap to Christmas last had
bra £llO Is. sera It was very true that they bad
east mere them was ialwaiNkrt but the q••••ia• no to who
we. to blame would come on prisestly.—ks to gelling
rasa he eashesmt at or time his own opinion was In
favour of sash • proposal. The objections, however,
was that they Gould not possibly obtain any other cite
equally ravenhent The site was iminadrusly opposite
the stores, which waa for the good order and
discipline of the staff. As to tile sum received from the
°overcrowd. it would certainly not amount quite to
Ave per gent; but, looking et theoosaty expenditure in
general. he did not think.,., if it waa less it would be
a very bad iavestaire The motion that that part of
the report waa then pot and carried.