The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-08-23 00:00:00

ELANDFORD.

Totes Cooncu.—The usual quarterly meeting of
the Coma was held on Tuesday last. '1 here were
present the Mayor (Mr. H. Dtuden), Alderman A. S.
/dodge', and F. T. Johns; Councillors T. H. 11.aggig_
S. Abbott, E. B. Smith, H. Gill, J. J. Hall, 3. I:
Barnes, C. Pond, J. Bali, R. 'tyres, and E. A. Smith
(town Clark). Tim following memorial was signed by
the members of the Council :
"A memorial from Blandtord to the Clarity Commis.
omens, humbly praying that the Milton Abbas Gram.
mar School may, by their sanction, be reopened."
"My Lords and itilieutlemen„—Toe parties who have
signed this memorial, and they fully represent the
general feeling of the inhabitant, , of the town and neigh-
bourhood of Btandford on the subject, beg most respect•
fully to lay before the Comonsismers. of your honourable
Board the desirability of their perorating the re- •pairing
of the Milton Abbas Grimmer Sobodi. Biandlord. The
said scnool has been closed for several years, mind the re.
opening is considered neceseary, as, apart from the
National CL4.11"11, there is no other school in
the town of Blsodford, sad in consequence the
inhabitants are compelled to send their sit, to
• distance to be eddiated. The, buildings lately ociupied
by the said school are well adapted for the porpose, and
under the able management of the late principal, the
Rey. James Penny, now rector of Tarrant Rushton, it
was held in repute, and your memorialide Wiese that
a like future is open to the school, should the prayer of
this petition be granted.— We are, my Lord and Gentle-
men, your most obedient and hr ruble servants, H. burden,
Mayor' T. H. Bennett, Magistrate of Borough; C. H.
Fynes-Clinton, Rector of iiiandford ; Edwin A. Smith,
Town Clerk ; Members of the Corporation leer
Bennett Swath, Charles Pond, Robert Eyers, Gill,
James J. Bail, J. J. Barnes, James Ball, Francis T. Johns
(Alderman), Spence Abbott."
The half.yearly statement of moneys received and
expended on amount of the brirougb from September
29th, 1880, to March 25th, 1881, was brought forward
by the Mayor. It showed receipt. amounting to
£1.39 12s. 7d., and disbursements (including a balance
of £244 13m. sid. due to the treasurer at the commence.
went of the half.year) amounting to £240 2s. 7d., of
which £9l 81, was on the police account, leaving
a balance due to the treasurer of £.do3 ie. 2d.
The Mayor said at their last meeting the neoesaity
of asking a room at the north end of the
Corn Exchange as a retiring room was brought for.
ward. such a room was very ba ly wanted. Plana
had been prepared by Mr. C. Hunt, which were ,aid
before the Council, and the estimated cost was about
£25. Mr. It. Lyres said before this alteration was
made it would be as well to consider whether there
was any likelihood the alteration of the whole build.
lag of the Corn Exchange, with a differently con.
smarted roof, would be made. He thought it would
be as well to know the expense of the whole, and then
probably U the building was enlarged, in order to take
In some of the hround at the back, there would be no
need of the proposed alteration. As he understood,
the cost of altering the roof was estimate at £lOO.
If there was an idea of a thorough alteration of the
building he should be for deferring the leaser work.
Mr. C. Pond said, with the tremendous balance agaiost
the treasurer, he feared it was not of any use to bring
such • subject forward, but he believed if the roof was
not altered and seen to it would be unsafe should
there be another such a fall of snow as last winter.
But if the improvements and alterations ref.rred to by
Mr. Byers were carried out it would met, he supp..sed,
£5OO. After some farther discussion, Mr. E. B. Smith
proposed, and Mr. S. Abbott seconded, " That certain
alteration* and improvements be made to the north
end of the Corn Exchange according to plans prep ,red
by Mr. C. Hunt, such alterations not to eximed 1.30.
this was carried. It was also resolved, on the pro-
positon of Alderman Hodges, that Mr. E. A. Smith's
account be paid.