The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-02-20 00:00:00

Corrtspontinue.

" THE ALLOTMENT ACT."
Lain Xt. •
To Me Editor.

Sir,—lt is plaudits to kuow that your efforts to
enligoteu and benefit the people are being rewarded
by an increase of interest manife.ted by your readers
in these matters that ii tamely affect them.
The po v are often oomplainiue, not always without
cause, but there is • mo a 'scaliest way—to take the
privileges the law give; and mike a rigut woof them.
It is useleas to legidate. or papers to publish, if,
through iudifferenoe or fear, the p or themselves do
not use the oppoitimitiei as they arias for their wel-
fare. Let us hope this Interest will increase, and take
• practical form. Before I pas. on to the letter kf,
the chariCee in the village .f Leigh deserve • word.
There are three here; of two of them there is no
rivurn. Bridle's charity, value 25. This is for the
poor lo m ney. hire. Bmd, of Upwey, left money
that produced £ll6 .9 1., fr bread ;no return. There
wee alio an income of VS 10+., for relief of poor' from
par.sh laude; ne return. The people of Leigh should
look iu.to the mat sr._

Maiden Newton.—This village pommies two, or
rather did, f..r one la lost; the second is • rent charge
of £3 15i., sad I. given to the_po ir in money.
Mappowder.—No return. There used to be an
Income from land, left by the Earl of Beauchamp, and
given to the p or. Perhaps the Crows have carried
it away, a, it wee for the poor.
Muskier° 4.—By a will. proved in 1852, £5OO was
left' nu.account given.
Melbury Osmond.—This place ha, ffne charities,
with a t Id income of £26, disp cod of as follows :
Education, £l5 6s, ; in mousy for poor, £3.0 Si. ; in
bread, 9s.
!Alibi one St. An Inew.—liere are feur. Total
income, Ell la. 2 1. ; all parties have • picklog here.
E location, £1 11.. 21. ; minister. El ; church purpsees,
; in clothes to- poor. £6 10.. ; In money, El.
' Milton Aiibas has a largo income from laud, which
goes to support a 'chow at Blantiforil. £lB 12s. is
given to the Inmates of the Alarshonee, in clothes sod
money.
Minterne Magna,—There are three charities hers.
Income, EV lib. Id. This is for the poor in clothes
and bread. There we-. soother given by Ms. Napier,
of the value of £lO per annum. NVllete is It?
Moreton.—Proziptiin'e charity consists of 651 scree
i 1 laud, rent of which, with interest from stock,
son runts to £146. Tom le used for the apprenticing
sod advancing of poor children. If this land could bs
brought un ter the Allotment Act it would be of double
use. There is a other small chummy fo: eiluoation.
Matoombe.—Tbis place I. wed off for and that
will come under the Act, and, if wisely laid out by
the trustees, and diligently cultivat sd by the poor, it
will be a greet ho in to all classes. "the All itment
Land" contains 141 acres, rent of which is 1:20, siren
In cash to the poor. Wyke'e charity has a rent charge
of £4 • this is also given in money. " Too leoffee's
land,r. 10 acres, with cottages sod workhouse; rent
£47 13s. 6d. This is given in money, si Matoombe
has 21 acres for the poor I, cultivate, and ao Inc mos
of £7l 13s. Cl, to be given in money. The farmers
should see this Le carried out, and poor rates may soon
bee thing of the poet.
Netherburr, with Bowood and the Chapelry of Ash,
has a total income trim charities of £223 2s, 4.1.
Lake's ch wily, of 13 acres of land, is the only oars
eff.ict.l by the Allotmeut Act. There is b imam 70
an 1 80 acre. of "tiler land, but the rent is for education.
The wh is account Is dispose 1 of as follows :—Edusa-
tion, £l3O 3 8 I.; eporenticing, £3l; minister
194. 21. ; bread, /cc., .C 33 9..61. ; in money, £2710..
Obonie.—Tbe t-dal biome here is £9 12s. 21. Of
this sum I:3 12.. 21. is givers to toe po is in money.
Okeford leitspaine.—The "Poor.' Land" consist'
of 31 acres; rent of same L 7. This. with 15s. from
another sown., makes a total of £7 1.55., given in
clothes and money.
Orchard (nast).—Tbe charity here called Poor's
money, amounia to £10; but the peril borrowed it,
and then clued to piy the interest, of coma* •
lawful thing to do. Parish morality, age Peal= xxxvii,
21 rem.
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