The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-03-13 00:00:00

7EI NMULZT AID FAIR TOLL/.

The meeting wee thee resolved into a apeekil tnestieg
et dm Town Oottecil to °Deader what steps should be
taken ea to the collection el the market sad fair lolls.
The Maros .aid he bad received fourteen gt
tione for the (Ake owned by the death of Kr
Moore, junior. Ile eaneated that the questa= be
diagnosed than,and that another re•eriag be held to
tea to a ds.Mo. an the subject.
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Mr. H. N. Cos proposed that the meeket sad fair
tolle siscialsi be Ist from Lerly.day nest, by public on..
petition for • year, is the isisi 111 k, as turnpike Win
are usually let. He proposed that they should be let to
the best bldda. who should pay roe month is advises,
and and asSolnt seeurity for the payment eseelarly at
the beginning of *very mouth. He said that at mend
there were so means of clucking the colleen/4% He did
not Olen to intimate in the least that these who had
baleen/ bold the ogles bad sot bees hoseek but they
might got • diseased eollestor, mid there would be so
check whatever on him; bet, if the tolls were rested,
the penn doing is would have • stake in them, and
woeld see they were thoroughly collected. H. believed
that many of this tolls bad frequently Dot been collected
hitherto. He wished to know what Ibis the tolls had
hitherto produced.
The Tows Cues reed • statement Ishii he
had bad snowed of the amount of the toile
received for the last ten years, from 1856 to 1886.
by which appeared that is 1856 they antountsd is
rsoos 151., mid bad gradually fallea off magi is 1866
they *sly amounted to £lB3 7s. 9d.
114. 001 remarked 814 was a fall of more than 1:60,
and he thointin it would be worth their trying if they
weld pot get more by latthag it.. by public is.
Es. They were let is at Dorohester, Weymouth and
Chard. and it wee the usual mato= He thought also
there should be a board allied on the Market Hones
stating whet the tolls were. He had newer arm a
table of them himself, and doubted If maey of the
Otintseil lame what they vies .

--Mr. .7111-11;0-1D ea tie. aboret 93 or St years NO they
mere revised sad s list of them pabpeltml.
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Ti;bloof tie tong ma.tbes Proda?od.

Mr. Iluirmiec seconded Kr. Coes nodes.

Kr. -W
PTIWIIO-11T-Sta-01 that the seeress asomott of
tbe tolls for the last tee years was £233 6.64. cadb.
bed sees lit aWm book that they were formerly ESA
so that skewed am improvement. It wee mid that as
each was not received from tie hoteliers se formerlr,
the lower market home bang seldom used by them now
oar during
It appeared, however that the artillery paid £lO
per year for the lower market home, which Kr. B.
..e.iter thought stray be redwood as pert of the toll&
. . . .

Mr. SWAIN mid the artillery on/y wanted it in the
evening.
Yr. H. N. Cox mid it would be better g used so •
vegetoele market by tikes persons Eo now oeimpied
the pavement of tits streets, but it was said thet *ere
min not enough since for them ; it was not so a sob as
they now osnipted.
It appears that the tolls had been let in 1843 by
tender for • twelvemonth for £230. to • person who
agreed to pay a month in advance, and give security,
, bat the money had not been paid, and times cresset did
not know how it was the seeurities bed not been ealled
on to pay the deficiency. They had not been let by
tender gam.

Mr. JIITTOBD wished to state that be remembered
that most of the geatlemea who ',roomed the letting
the tolls at that time were the most eager afterwards to
go book to the old system, ow aeocutat of the boort-
beraiagt sod Foes that took vlaes between the
lame mid the who paid the toils. Es, however,
abould wish tba tried agate.
Mr. Brnistßoas thought that if they did it to other
plasm without heartbarelap they could here alto.

Mr. & Brarttnee wished -to irn-ow if Um toll collector
would be reeponeible for the gas used by the batidniti
Mr. Lisa raid esetalely not ; let the gas onapany
look after their own interest..(Lasghter.)
Mr. Owl's raotioa was then weed to ZDAlliraOat
and it was doodad that the toile should he pat up to
let on Wednesday, tae Ylet Marsh, to the best
U. Toms Clerk to etre immediate moths' to that aged'.