The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-10-14 00:00:00

DORORILSTIN TOWN COUNCIL

WaDriaPAT.— Primal ' The Mover (Mr, G. J. 0. Oregon),
Aldermen T. Coombs, .1. Gann, (.1 Cunne, n. Loek ;
Oeuncillors IC Burnett, Al tmeon, F. L Tuner, T. Beenott„
J. F. Hodges, with the Town Clerk (Mr. Oile. Symondej.—
The Mayor mentioned Um move stone than they hadin stock
me maned for the embalm of the footpaths on the Welholon
titan. and &Mod the mantes of the Mandl to It, bong
ardered.—Mr. Oelpln thought It should bs done through the
General Purges. Committee in the °Whelan way, and- that
the committee should be called together to give
no/ructionto the new Burveyor—Kr. Pbillippa.—frtew
m
remarked the Council had ordered the work to be carried on%
However. the matter me referred to the committee.— The
Polies Pay : The Watch Committee reported that In accordance
with the al& of the Council they had reconsidered tbe
queetion of the pay of the constable. with • new to meleallaUng
It to that of the- Weymouth police. Up to 1870 the estimate
of the con was uniform, but don the death of the lon
Superintendent. Mr Pinney, there hod been • gradwd
Inman. In 11170 they had one superintendent, one sonnet.
and fire men at It. 6d, at. total oat of Jet lb, which arm
r.e by • rate at 4d em £13.31& In 1871 they bed • super.
tmdent and I. men at 18, 61, at • total coot of £486 10a,
met be • rate of Od on £16,1136. In 1673 the total cost erse
14.16 It tot, met by. rote of Id om £17,0111, and they then
had ono constable at tle ild, two at We 6.1.1.0 at lb 61, and
one at 19.fd. 1. 1873 the total can was .49.14 ki, with •
64 rate on £17,012, and they bad two conetables at tls Od, two
at 20. 64, and two at lb 6d. Ihe committee recommended
that tram the let October the Ihmerintendent have LlOO al
year with LS for elothlett ; the Sommust £Ol 6. and clothing
at a net el 1.4 he 4d ; three Oret-elase coon...bias at 29. 6,4
two wood at Ill' On. third at 119. 61, with clothing
£2l lb. end Innitentals I%—lt was mid this would be an
addiUmal outlay upon the last cost of the police of
£33 9.,—Mr. Lode remedied that at the het meeting the 410a3-
wimp'. report, SW referred bank, me member ..r., the
polio, wen not pnid eufildently, mad eaLlin on
gthorn to scream,
—me Oalpira asked who moved that the report be referred
back!—The Mayor : It was you—Mr : Sot never with
a request to raise the pay.—Mr Lock add a manner remarked
that oaf polies werc not raid m they were In other town+, and
consequently they lost the beet man; and therefore the report
we. referred beck to the oanunittee te c -order bow they cold
prevent such elaanges.-10 reply to • question, Mr Symonds
s u the Watch Committee had to pay the police subject to the
approbation of the Councll.—Mr Rodeo. said lan year a CM.
etatale was added to the force, and he thought Captain With,
would not have toasted on It If there bed been property
put Wore tam that here there boil bele no eppreelable
them,, of population for the tut 20 yeara—Mr Coombs
undentood Capt.nin Willie's requirement was blued not only
on populaMia, but on the area to be mire/bd.—Mr Hodges:
That has been lint the !mar) low 30 yeart—Mr Coombs : We
have adopted thc extra man, to wa can't go into that question
now.— Mr Burnett m AM, and Mr Turner seconded the adop.
Om of the report.—Me Galina mid bet should have been glad if
soy other guntleman had taken up this question, because It
might alleta that he ma always fault-Boding on the matter of
finance :and bcaldes, It woo nut Vaaaaut to oppose the report
of com B mittee. ut he aboull 11co to not on what grounds
the prownt Prbliv.H wt. nob? They seemed to it.,, acted
ea the (chars/ statement that In other towns an Increase of
pay hot been demanded ; but ari far as he could undernand no
watch thing had occurred here, and thsy had to, dlfll,,lty lu
getting men. He hal taken the trouble to look into the
quiation fur some years book; and be fotual that Inlaid-S.
wham Mr. Volute) was superintendent, :aid hc hit aura that h.
had only to moth a his MUM) 10 call front mon
that thin tie Farm: was theroughle ellhelout: at ah Urns
they had tsr croodablec with Mr. Curtis no day ronagigg, thu
wages at all the men helm LI 16.. • week. to Iso,to under
the *ldeation oil Captain With. the torte was reorganised,
and Ilan the tivacrlutowleut Mel 490 a per. tan Sergeant
£32, and lour tucrtables Its a week. to 1091 the nigemigs
rey wa. t.•-tOOOOl to 21.., Lrd they bed miastab:,.. . at
13. That ...Minted 011 13:2 when an laterealog albtuaion
took pinny. and ()whin Aneyett Brown acted Him, • ...v.
fiaat •Dd the catetablea, with any vgtra map yetwlyay at
shnkli tan."... the enema to an as Inspector of KII;nuf(0,1
for LIP cxtra, for £14.3 2. tel, ai..l to inepect the might.. and
ce••., When the subj.ol. 1:46 allacumed tliej dein-
mined to lecup lea force Is their eon bends a. a Curporation ;
and he rupported that view. Hit fram that period the Counidt
seemed to think of nothing elm but increasing the aspen&
tare on the farce. On Feb. 26, 187!, lb. Watch Committee
proposed and carried, apparently without oppinitlon I.
crease the pay of tbe Superintendent 1114. t.r, lb. Li,
the report presented to the Sept. Connell It me propomd to
add another LliS, making hie misty 4100 • you, while the
wares of tbe men were unaltered. That report was referred

back on his monition, with a view toll. canuldanition of
the whole subject, noun It wee evident to every one shot..
eeonu the pey of the Superintendent wee Increased there
would be an spidicatiou for a ries m the men. and It would
be ono welch under the circumstances they could not Writ or '
In justice Mum Nose they hod. further report putting the.
Supaintendent's my at £lO3 nod the Sergeant at £72 70 ad •
Inc. ding clothing. with 23. 6.1, 11. arid 10. 61 for the con-
stable.. The eircum.tances tinder ehich the onwent Super-
los...lent was shoed at the end of 1871 shoukl be borne In
mut By the advertberecnt they offered ,COO • near. intlimt.
log that 1 he wore required to sot OP Inspector of Noisomee
he e•Lid reecho, rib extra. Two ymn ago the Superintendent
mo pied the sppentenent on the dist/. et understanding that
that should to 1.1. salary. Not long ago they Ineremed the
euperintendent by ch. then they made low Inspector with an
adolrloo of SIO, rod he held tea or three other little offices
eloch made up over JAW& year. And nor. further Increase
of ills pay of tho -red sem proposed. lot them col-Ider the
C.c.:moans-es ,4 the borough to 1002: and he appealed to any
rah:n.lll *Milne CO that period tkny could not psy rate.
o h locraloy better than pow I is 1622 they hal to
I.r .vi.le r. 121.1 (thee Ind no 001411011011 t isabotraiCt) from the
will rent pari.ha. %Idle lost aver the total aniount
.4415 174, and now ilo-y propoaed a further Worsen
f a 3000. fie that although the watch rate had
r., twined the saute in the pound for ..ome years, It non he
ressictubcrod (ho collation had been Increa.ol, asol the people
Lel actually to psy double what they formerly did. Thou let
than conthler the light Juliet of the 100110. her... compared
with pored, ti. place.. ethers there was • liability to disturb-
coo..: why, ilero, It might be eabl, Um police had • gentleman's
tooth. There was not Mug to cal for the serious Intervention
01 the police once &year. Dor:heater had been compared with
We) tooth, but in (ho latter town they frequently had drunken
.1 trouble...4:w sailors trent the Amt, nod the convict prime
at Portland fr,..uently brought grange people lute that
fon,:blenirhin441110011110•111111C• of wbkh the police *ecru called
on for greater exertiocs. (Yr. Hodges: We often get •
numb r ..f the eallora her.) The C ancil seemed to he
fo'lowlog (ho present lathier) of Incr.:ins; pay without con-
eldering whether IL was necowary or 0.1, He felt sure that In
• ut time it woull he found nocemary to atop. Cele.. they
not their locos against It there wee no meson ally In
three 3001* they should not add another 20 per cent.—Mr
!kneed romarkell that the trades gonetally were aelrane og
w Hoyn thought the Intone t of the ratepayers
should be moldered m well al the comforts of the polln.
Hitherto thy had bad no difficulty in genius conatahles; If
tl..y were unable to complete the force eltlynot an &Instal It
ito,;llt I.e proper to com Mer the subject, but •henever they
hat a "coney they always bad two Or three apoltants; and,
see:. g that orong w.vrldng men In the country only got 14s a
et Is. he thought there wee no likelihood of their felling
to get mod Own they offered 21a. This Council mu.t soon
tole into their embus coneldoration Low then additional
exper..es werc to be mot. They moiled at him. and he
o *orry to sty that many gentle/min around that table
thought it a groat bugbear his conVnually spcaltlag on this
q•icetlon LI Sumo. But he was quite ems that If they went
they hod done f ,r tho last few scam • Bittern Ban
Le ISM. iral..ll. Were they pored to ene ,untor It? Ile
coo prepared to show them that root the different account,
th, y had now running on •ithout taking any pale. whtlever
t • mina them, or to ropey the loans they had °speeded.
they mu.% eventually have. Borough Bate ; and he oallat on
them, In tho Interests of the ra'epayers, to look the
qua. ion fairly in the face, mod In regent to the Kamm pro-
posal ask themeeireo—Wat then any necenty to glee the
increase of pay recommended ; and, if uot, why dhl they
dolt? Ile pronged snot. ittnenincut that the report be re-
ferred back to the conmitte with an Intimation that thean.e
slier the proposed increase uncalled far.—Mr.
wooded the smoothen if. did so from • feeling that
there wag really no mod of this Increase in the pay of the
Their uttlee was Winn • sinecure as Inc as the
borough in concerned, and be felt be should not be doing his
slaty unless be oppowd an advance on their present w•Lon.
The only hope, however, he had in the matter was that sooner
or later the borough might be 000nected with the county for
police purpoleS, for he was tired of lunar the quince of
app doting and dismisilng nannies 63 often brought before
tiona.—Mr Coombe said be should like baton any rote was
given to Caution than %Non one thing. Both Mr Emma end
Mr thlpin remarked on the light duties of our poises. It was
lucky for them that was the cum And lithe nabilatunent
of an efficient police forte acted as each • deterrent to dles
order and crime that they had nothing to do, that was exactly
the remit they desired; and keeping an efficient forte was
I. maintain the Name Immunity from public oliehalle.
But be not bellows they had goo* I h 3 Mott economical and
the most prudent &inadvisable way to provide for the watch-
ing of the town, and be ehould vote for the asnendment.-11k
Lock mid be did not feel disposed to vote either way. On tho
sconion be certainly felt,, • member of the Watch com-
mittee that they were somewhat nabbed by hit-log trt
report sent task to them for renasideratlon • tor be
their rgoonunendsthe on the former oceanic was • proper
one, en, to Inereem the Superintendent's nary and let -the
wain ef the polio* eontinuo as before The Suparintennt
was led to believe by wowed member.= his election
that he w ban the appointment of Impector of Naleacen
11. thought the Superintendent should bays £lOO • year, and
was not too highly paid at that sena It must be hone In
mind that the county Separintesdents ',unpaid much better,
sod it they upend to get• =lin= mut pay properly/
me 111401 01 the num had from Use to thee
—at the beginnlngh,:-.=.4 lost year they were raised on or two
shilling., and he t before the report was referred beck
their wogs. were eu t ; but after the wrong szeneslons
of opinion by the Council that it was neoeemzy to Was the
pay of the men-04 Osiptn: Saw membere • scapiescod
in the amended report of the conanalttes, though had any 000
objected Le the liners be should hate voted against it, ..he
couniend the Wheel &Irony given auffident. But all the
other members of the committee thought ethernet, part/.
cuter!: otter the report bad been referred hack to them. So
for as the report wow concerned, ae • member of the o
mitts. be did not kel Justified le oppming it, zed as to the
amendment he did not think the Superintendent too highly
path s& 4100 • year.—TlN Mayor said be wished to keep down
the unman m muth as any one, but be felt that what work
they had to do should be done efficiently. Mr Gann mid they
had err difficulty In getting zoo.; bet then It must be remem-
bered that now, as mon an men had learned their duty they
Litill.othar forces were there was higher pay, in that ours
simply a training kbooL Ile thought there Were
only two alternatives open to them sant to join the county
for police purpnes or to increase the pay. U they withed to
do the farrow he did net seriously object ; at the eons time,
if they could maintain an Indignant tone and keep the
rate In their own hands el. ell t additional cost, be thought
It would be the better plan.— Curiae thought It • great
pity that ae •000 they get • reed Mao be woe
Wduced to leave by bettor noes nowhere. Ile believed
they could afford to pay the polies as well on at Weymouth.
• man now could net keep houae at the mow expense
so be could 20 years ago—they all felt that--owing to the In-
crease to the price of meat, e oda and every other nQ=d r
—Mr. Bennett observed that labourers wage. were r•ri;
proportion.—Mr. Burnett remarked that sit Weymouth they
hod a force of 18 or 10 men, and when the feet we. there they
had pickets of eviction to help them—Mr. Hodges add he had
been trying to arrive et no actual inmost recommended.
Hefted the Id clam comtahles nes raised 2i., the tad clam
6d. loud the 3rd clam I. It, did not wick to discuss the
qWettOn of increased mica. and pronto, of nth, they all felt
them perm:many and he believed all who eat at that table
wished to save the ratepayer• money, while baring due regard
to efficiency. Let them torsider how the iiinsomd cost of the
toot arose. There was nearly £llO • year through the deter-
nitoation to appoint another constable ; then the Superintend-
aid'. envy had Leto made op to Lao ris spired £BO
Or.,;trally ; showing that the luorgan sou due to other camas
than the proemial to-dsy. The nonce recommended to the
comanles was not These questions could not be
sibausoid now as they could two yeen ego; and Is teemed to
km that there mu not much to find fault with In the recom-
mended.. of the committee when they rementborod what was
being done In other towns. He Ina disposed to support the
committee's rocsmmendatloa —Mr. Timer, aa one of the
numb. no of the committee, who recammenviel the Incrame,
polutid out that at Bradford mono. joining the forts got tit
• neck, after one year 24a. and after three bows 261. Theo
there was a merit clans at 235. They had every other Sunday
off duty, onto week's holiday • nar. With such Illdhaehallate
they would not be able to hoops young tuna worth enythin,
tittle. they raised the ny, but would become, as had hose said,
a more training echool for other borough..—Me. Etn•arl A
very honourable position—Me Turner raid be synod to save
the pockets of the rateuyers as moth as anybody, but •tolng
the high prices poor ae well rich had to pay he thought they
would not be doing anything out of the wee In making the
proposed increase.-11r Lunen mid the Watch Committed
fully dinned the wape of the polio. at Weymouth, Bland.
ford. Itridport, and Poole before mating their amended reports
It nu all very will to go Ink to ledl-7., but they might se
well turn to the Una of the old watchmen. They must go
with the time Men had Increased sibensee, and mud hare
lucroued pay, and I/ they could not get it here they would go
to places whore it we. offered. At Wei mouth be did not
believe the police had more to do than here. If they wanted
good men they must pay them; for he Olden Ilk. the mos of
Dorcheater bring • mummy for other town. —Mr. Callan re.
mulled Mr Bureett said they mast be guided by other town.,
and menUoned Blandford. Would he tell thorn the pay ef
the Blimdford polimi Why, the Sdperintendent there had
only a evince • week. and the consublos •Blaadford
would be • nursery for Dortheater, sod there would be no
difficulty In supplying tlais " populous" town. Then B;Lidrel
we. mention& HO tome of the 001.111•11 there ono
that they had to pay LICA for the police, and win ••• the
answer f It was replied Bridport Is doubly as aoll served as
Dorcheeter for half the money it vets the county town, The
committee appealed to what noishboming towns were payt
but did not give Ileum, and be Ina *Wired to tell them.—
Burnett laid at Blandford the county police did part of
the work.—Mr Hodges mid • kir comparbou could old; he
made by taking the payment& per head for the different tines
of constable.. Re thought It would be Mood the county polioe
mould be paid about what woe now reeommended bore.—For
the amendment there voted Mr Oalpin, Mr Snot, and Yr
Coocob• ; all the other. except Mr Lock voted for the report.
end they being in the majority, Mr. Leck was added to
ppleaea-11 report of Use Finance Committee woo read, and
It was found there is at prweent a deficiency of £337 11e., but
It was said there was renew to came In at Iflcluelmaa—Mt
Cialplo reminded the Muni] that the loan of £2 POO for the
New Corn exchange which was to be reMd In ton yams had
not bean hewn"! a farthing, and If the Lord, of the heady,
Liked they could force them to Ilquidato that kens
There was alio £OOO borrowed on account of the Wallin=
Field gnat., mad no attempt made to provide for It.
He recuarkesl on the importance of members andalelng
from" little crotchets,- and hinted that he hewn' the expenne
of the svalkekeeper woe likely to be put on the borough funds.
—Mr Hodges mid were it net for unusual payments Oak
ordipuy egfemeee Istleht be fatly met by their Inane Ile
mw by it.. Trreurer's etaament toil lint year £370 was
quern,' by epecial outlay, There was /SOO oe account of
the proceedings in reforest, to the toll qoesUma (which bad
omit £4OO altoMber). £lOO on account of the Corn Bachman,
and £lOO hod been laid out on the 'vette —Fir Turin thought
Mr Cialpin's obaerratloa about expendeture ceased by certain
members on " coitchets " calculate I to lead astray. As one of
the lance committee be said they bad gone carefully through
the accounts, and there wag nothing had but whet was
nemagary to carry en the work of the borough.—Mr Oalpin
mid they Jed managed to pay whet wag pressing, but man no
prorlatoo for liquidating loana—Mr Hodge. mid he Mould
be gin io wee • inking food, but at proeent they had nth
Inn rums to meet,—The Mayor mid thee had been peculiar
circumstantial the last three or four yearn; but be believed
that In • few year. they would not only get out of debt but be
Ude to form • reserve fund to yay off the Cerra Sulangs
debt.—Mr Oalptn mid be had heard the statement that In a
few years they woold be le • bottle position very often—
they were glean congratulming tsslves on being
able to do something at a future period, but in the
meantime toy uonUnued to epeoi more than they
recelead.—Recrmifon Reale —A memorial we. read froma
number of the inhabitant., including all this clergy and minho
ten of the town, asking the Couocil for the us, either
gratultonely orb, payment, of the lunar put of the old Corn
Exchange, now dleuved, m a recreation room for the Inhabit,
..ta, the el/eateries thinking it would be Um inseam at doing
much gocd directly and indirectly in the lode. —The Town
Clerk cold this was the part of the old Coma which
they had long contemplated snaking Surveyor's o It
was a question whether tha lament chamber gave room
Onullirb, Led Mr. l'hilllpps montloned to him • few days ago
that three win a water-cloet opening into hie room which
woe very off ermine—Mr. Coombe ...Id the permanent occupa-
tion of the Macu seemed contampand, and it we. a fle•Stin•
whether they could grant it without kilartorlng with the
general plumes to which the hall tenoned from time to tines.
—Br Curtin thought it • cony desirable object to anoourage.
—Mr Owing laid en did ho ; but be wade:need they con-
tamping,: amongst the annisomenta cards, nod tbat he should
Le opined to in swear way.—The Town Clark And they
Coombe mid he'd rother not have
that; but, few years ago when there My SO mock pillaging
by bop, old roomy declared It some from kall ‘oing to •
o Wisothop to play bagatelle awl loosing money which they
mole in lone by petty thotts.—Mr Galpin mid It no. not •
subject that coital le &gall/hod and thrown aside In • inummL
It 14•4 •II obj.ct which muryoue omit fthl to ho de...nod a
L 1.0, c•fropl oat, nod iso 515005,414 day emu bound to treat
• 08,8• OW .1 that act with some degreo of motet. He
sow:sod It should Le referred to the tomcod Former One.
untie, who should most some 4 the leaden In Use movement,
and ao-ertsiu details of On NU proposed, mid report to the
nool Council linntlllo.-11, Coombs tahl be shout I like the
ttounco chamber an • Janke I. r ',Adige( Led retention —Mr ,
Laali : Is thts applica f o continuoo, use l—Mr Coombe
Yes. end Umt is tosi difficulty. Calpiu premed and Kr
Curt, seonniod it reference to the onmithea—Mr
}kin ark sari mien 1/10 COTII liln.Lingt should ho used
ler a ball I—Mr Lek mid lid obottitt be more Inchl6.l
to iota an sumer at ...net., that they ala not feel Justlaed
io lettino out any put of tha hall In that way. It
O Old too oivino op their con rol 0,0 the (Join, lie
did not tondo It a purpose It wlll.-to (ho 1,511 remold be
, applied --Mr Comuto thought Lb. y diouhl not at en. put an
exiloguisher on it. It •as • very
ohm op the room for any dedrabls thMg to hen,
though he did not think they cool
such continuous purpose. Anil 11 A had one part, fl. might
ink for another. Uowevor, he would not oleo on lumen
declining, but would rather hate an Interrleer with the
promoters end And out what they proposed ord anther their

°blest (meld be neel.-11r Look said d sae tbe f ISliog of
im ammo e• hod no oblealleel--nr Nsdal. fgooffirked lb"
Me Miele of ta• old Oors ambience see granted to the
stints-1r Oomelis mid that In'. diluent; they were
brought into the town, and It wart • 1000111 henegt to the
(immunity thet they &Quid have • place to go 10,—Kr
node.: If Morchater had • reading-room like they have at
Weymouth (bete might be ease good In It —The matter mem
than referred to the committee.—let Neetreiber —Aldermen
Con.. as. •ppoined to act •• returning °Ricer at the
municipal election, the Mayer heih s. one of the outgoing
COUncillors.— An appllmtion from Mr Welleprlng for tho
removal of two dead trees In • dangerous poeitlon In Oolllton
Welt,, sae referred to the committee. Siwad the question el
the repair. neoresary the Sonora'. cottage end tile plaablog
of tin hedge—Dortheater Unien.—The Beard of duardlans
applied for the term, on they would supply the work-
flow,* with water, and Mr te-ok urged they were entitled to
coneeleration m the aterworke had tapped the w ,rkhotme
ImPfilv.—Mr Hodges rein/al:eel en the dedrattillty of careteUy
Inquiring into the en tot till, 11 o'er, WWI 11 'awe anirellsig
the toren, of the rewtor eupply. Thin am deemed important,
and the eutlect we, ',tem Ito the connuitten—Mr. Aldridge
au present at the latter part ,(the mooting.

CIiARSONSTER.
tarn= TRANKsaiviriu.—On Tuesday the members
of the United liettiodPit Freo o:lurch in this village, as haft
been their cutout for the put few years, held &Mimics-
giving 'eyries in the chapel. Tea was provided at ball-
pest five o'clock, and at that time a comfortable little
party had assembled, althooeb set to nUakerOUs AO bad
been expected, many, no doubt, having been kept away
by the heavy showers that fell at an early part of the
day. The chapel was mods quite gay for the occasion,
evergreens, Amen, las., being tastefully distributed, sod
eking courses of coloured paper bung across the room,
So
that the pulpit, walls, Au., pretested quite a fettles
&erecter. On either Me of the pulpit were placed
bunches of wheat ; and immediately above it a loaf of
bread, surrounded with Irayse, and surmounted with
therein, gave orb:fens, of the nature of the proceedings.
The decorations were the work of Mr. 4, Cooper, Jan..
cud to him prelim is due for his skilful labours. At
seven ceolock there was a nubile meeting, over which
Mr. S. Cooper prodded. Speeches wre mode by Yr.
G. lila', Yr. Bayne, cud the Rev. B. Glazehrook.