The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-04-09 00:00:00

Local ailb Islrict Dcbls.

DORSET COUNTY kLIENDLY sOCIETY.

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•• . .v.rpb.st it regret, who reads the
✓ tables and MI r!,e greet benefit, offered.
& • ,ca• sae does uo.. more t! an eettoterbalasee
She to's. • from whelever Varioosetiens
were ru., le for " populariatn,"„the County Soml,sy, k•ff
She f ,0111,.1.11 all&tent sccretary (Mr.B. swish
WC. tee slew of 'time' Wes the stewardi to get new
tu.tub,ra. offered a prig, of £2 Li the one who shall
bring in to moet during the next year. Who will win
Mt lbs meeting was prewled over by J. Player, EGO,
M.P., and there were present- W. Blnshaus,
the hou..ray searetary, atone I Oman on behalf of
society few rearm pest have been oordially reoogaised,
Mr. 0.11. Davis, amistant secretary, and Mr. E.
•Dvdr, I,er. Prebendary N. Bond, Itev. Prebendary G. L.
Nods. ker. Prebendary Talbot Baker, Rev. Reginald
&MIA, RI)., May. M. J. ..reen, }ID., R. Pearoe, Req.,
Ic, la'tt P titter. Nag. Ii I luCia bit! E. 1.. Kindaraley,
J. E Hodges, h.l .C. W. Dell, Esq., Mr. 3.
Pltelp. and Mr. Is. Tucker. stewards of Dorchester
branch, Mr. Js.. Anderson, Mr. Galata, Mr. Yuma',
Mt. Thou.' Foam, steward of the Oamington and
tkotton branch, Mr. ,Ino. rook.. Mr. J. Lake, Mr. T.
Barret% Ives Conitenay steward, Mr. J. Roe. Code
Coale .t 'ward, Mr. GIRO', steward of the Tinclet3o
branch, Mr. H. Pittield, lr, 11. Comer, Mr. Brown,
Mr. E. Tooke'', ka.
'The ountx•x called ;on the hon. seo.gto read the
annual fe t. . . .

The liev. C. W. lintau•at said be had mach
Is reading the 254/t annual report of the Dorset pies'.?.reni
S wit') f.,r the year 1871
" Ti..• i.umber of member. on the books at the aloes
r ea.—moles, , f,mslea, 171; makings
total . 471 i, befog a oeoreaeo of 9 males and 10
female., total 19. ebeoe tie lase year'. return. Fourteen
endownients, amounting to £156 3 . have been paid
off, and 1.4 i has been paid on 13 deathi. Contribution*
of members, 1870, 12,1,1e,8 6.. 6•11.; ditto, 1871,
113 3s. ltd.—decrees*, £9 17s. 2141. Honorary sub.
sc.ipt out. Din, £228 To ; ditto, 1870, £214 3a—being
an Morena, in the year 1871 of £l4 4.. Capital in the
year IA7I. £11,27710. sgri.; ditto, 1870, £10,902 9s.
Increase in 1871, 074 Its. 811. Wok pay has Isom
allowed to 738 make for 0.082 weeks and 5 day.
amounting to 01,141 3.. *l.; ant he 36 females for 543
weeks and 4 deys, amountese to 1:128 13e—making
total period of stases' 0218 week and 2 days. and Me
total amount £1269 15.. 41., being • degrees of sick.
noes, ita compered with the year 1870, .1 327 weeks sad
1 day, and • kes amount of sick pay by 83.41 4.. 10td
he gunman of resalts le al follows :—Deoreess in the
number of member', 19 ; degrease of mambos' email.
buttons, £0 17s, 2jdv imamse of honorary members'
saleseriptions, £l4 is.; increase ofeepit 1, £37411.. 91d.;
decrease of dolt pay, 00645. 1011. • and also • decree's
Ire the period el debases of 327 weeks 1 'lay. On the
whole wettest thaellie above figures will not be deemed
altogether unastisfactory, the principal subject of
regret whin they present being the decreee in the
number of mentbers—a point, however, which has been
always liable lo deetatiout, add whites may very pro-
bably right itself soother year. In spit) of t'Lie earnest
representatioas of the desiattet.Seerstaty there is coo
branch (Bridehead) which has made no return
In Cone to be laeleded in the annual statement,
and this might have corrected the alight deflat-
e nay observable in the amount of members'
contributions. We cannot too anxiously impress upon
te steearde the importunes, of regularity in trims.
mining their seeseutte, without which the general view
of our sondinon meet be nerommily imperfect, and the
labour at the adios considerably increased. Up to •
few days shim we bad hoped to titre had th• pest
advent:tr.' of meeting this year at St. Dikes, under
the pl....Lulea°, of our noble patron,the Lord-Ltentenant,
whose very mine, in connection with Christian
tbrophy, is indeed a titrer of strength; but omen.
trollabl.) otrattostutima Laving, as you are already
aware, occurred to prevent that beanie' from earrying
out their kind Intention of receiving on, no better
coarse appeared to be open than that which has been
adopted of mitten yen together to a badness omens.
at Dorchester to-lay. The balence-sheet again forcibly
remiuds us that certain branches in which haaardom
occupations are most common int Let a heavy and die-
proportionate burden upon our haaaoM. The Langtoa
Matravers lama haa set au examte, whisk deserves
to be imitated, of lessening that urelen by • epeeist
collection to old of the feeds, made after • lea meeting
hold under the sunder of the liar. E. Fianna' Trotrean,
the honorary steward. Mane proposition.. level ring •
lose or greater •Itaration of the rulee, are pretty 044-
sia..tly suggested to no ; but, happily perhaps, such
eltemeions, 'teleran t our oonstitudoe, are not easily
made • and it may be well Low to await the emporia of
the Royal Commission or Fully Societies (the Arse
of wbich has only je.t le • u issuel aud ham not yob
reached us) Wore atteu.pteig any general revision of
the rides. The. decrease of etch pay and of the period
of sickness, as well as the mere are of our capital by
Ito goodly sum of £371 11, 9.1(1., are topics of grMid.
cation. e. dodge for • Lew enrolment card has been
premised, in amordanoe will the wab expressed et the
bat annual meeting, and will be for the meeting to
grammer on the prepritt of adopting it, and upon
what con .itiotts."

I. row '.r,g that if, rope.. be ived nod ado{t3d,
net prieted and airouleed ea ranee, the Rev. U. W.
!vents said he wened to make on, or two observa-
tions a. to had generally deue on ooch ooCkudOnli in peat
len". Ern of ell L. "roan just numeric on ties feat
of their meeting without on, el %bet "pump and air-
eutristanee " they had tee.n anent ,n.ed t,, haring none
of the baleen and mud* or the,, erns.. when new
senutimee e essidercd 3., ..tiractiva in • society like
this ; het he trintei ti, alio•ldnet suffer on accoant
of it. They would sell..r that tley to • certain extern
be not bating the honour and ploasere of seeing the
eel of Sea:lnbar, in the chair; for though he would
not for ont moment don; that Hr. Moyer was an
exoeileet rant:tuts for Lie lordaLip, yet ea Lord
Licat.nant end • wan Ter: will known for the exceed-
legly acti, part be took ii. teat and kindred institu-
tions, be eeeild as Mr. Flcy.r had exproesed in sprirat.
ktter to himself, give • " fillip" to the solely by
preeding at their ausenereeiy. Dor/ever, the einem.
@tenon is Lice nosed the ebandonment of the festival
ware unavoidable. They • caved an eneedingly kind
levenieu from the et. Uilea's branch, which was
se: *cid eel; a fow days since (on the 27th), he
gotnuotriruin .ILx. Harkness In whin he said: I
bees it wet not be a serhal leceinveelenee to your
nominee, bet our **mantes bare determined they
cannot bold the universe-7 meeting at Si. Guess as
proposed. No branch has accepted our invitation.
feted of my daaghten is dangerotuly ill, and I and my
family are in the deepoit anxiety and trouble". lle
felt sure Is thread be upheld by them In having acted
at thou spin that letter. lie felt it was utterly im-
peuitile, under suit eirenastances, to press their going
to Si. Gila's, and nothing seemed to remain bat to
Intl them together for a business meeting; Led this
was precisely in noordanee with the rein, though
many of teeir members Jilted te meet with that pomp
and cireumanace to which he had referred. 34111,
their meeting would be e perfectly good general meet-
Leg, though they bed nothing to est, nothing to drink,
no banners, and no inesia—(lenghter). With referees,
to tee general betas of the report, he would my a
word as to the dunes@ of members. Since he had bees in
the room Mr.Dnis bed anionuted tohlei in some menus
for the deficience by telling him that 58 members had
left them from the Portland breech—they had emi-
petrel, and that *ply covered the diereses
which "resod, 11, It would not break hisillarttlt
he didn't think It weak' be regretted by any one elm,
II all the .swinthers of the Partisal neon were to
follow the wimple of the other 58, and emigrate in a
bodya-(lenithest). He del not wish to soy ooe word
ef the gentlemen ad Poetised seminal their general
ehereeter— (hear, hear)— he merely meant so far as they
were connected with this society, for it did not get
that advantage from anion with Portland which wee
obtained from many other branches. (Rev. iteginald
▪ Owing to their risk.?) lie presumed so. They
bad paid to Portland something like CHO more than
they bed received, lead this was not an exesptional
year, and there was a pretty sonnet drain on the
deuces of the society analog more menially from
Portland to might say then any other brunt. With
regard te the branch mentioned (Bridehad) which had
defeulted in making rcturna he thought perhaps the
little remark men in the report would be enough to
bring It to reason, and he hoped they should sot have
to oomplain of that or an; other bran& in fatere for
scenting to send in the anneal return for something
Ova throe months after the time it ought to have been
received, It wee mentioned in tee report that at
Ludt*/ Mansura whin, woe one of those branches
where, owing he presumed to the fast of tin, members
chiefly following the hasardoins occupation of quarrel-
lug—yes,he dense:, bat he ineast qurrying, sad stone
work in its various branches, there was a considerable
deficiency ea& yeen--PG Mr. Davie told him ; and they
had to thank the honorary steward end members of the
the Langton branch for making the effort they had
Cele to deliver the society from the incubus which fell
upon it in memoriam* of the dettoienclesiof the bruin.
Teo sum they received from Lustre, which waa
obtained at a public tea meeting, represented pretty
nenly the inersued amount of their honorary rubor:rip-
lion. during the past year. With regard to the propo-
sition as to the Lineation of the rules, Mr. Davis arid
himself eed tho trustees not unfree uently received little
addrtsw• of one sort or another r,prsting them to
mole: feet and alter the rale, as f.i,t possible here
mei there. Within the led few dAys they bed received
▪ 1.-tt,r from lb. Dorchester bianc!i, and oertsicly the
topics referred to in it iscll .isscrsod ooasideration.
noielation was slgtrll by to steward, and he
wintc t Mr. Das* insytor, ''At our last ineetiog on
Ft. 26, it was propane by thu committee that I
I' Lead tattend the annul meeting to get role N?. 2
• t • od, as 'bat persons shenki be I.ltul:tod from lr to
1•.• dOol Of Tel OS new: it wee quite certain that any
o eee.,, after ri could be no col to the society ;
eel to add in rue 28 (referring to the etratensteues
not r which sick-pay shall le espied) 'or be iztoxl-
see, ' Ito believed there was 'owe special reason for
the. I Ater .uggeitios. 'Will you get the sanction at
the e;tnanal bogy r He sheuiht it well t call the .
etneten I the DOraberter hrinch and others to the I
hot that the ruin were net so steely' altered as some
Ihnumed.lt essmeatloued In the report that' happily,
perhaps, such elesealleaa, according to our enn stetion,
are not really mod.; and it required much more
Melia, thou lb. Dorehester steward seem to think need
be given. 1.1 would be utterly fatal to as entreaties%
like that without notice to make any alteration in the
tales o it owed nitrite done et a speatal general meet.
lee, ani then by the votes of • lute number of mem•
ben. Geflaialle both the poien referred to by the
Dorchester steward seemed netters well worthy of
Ileneeleration, and if they rime to any revirdon he
thought It ereald be very wee Its. they should be con.
tele,,e, With mud to the Royal Ocesinianion on
eeiertely Sentias mentioned Le bed not y.t seen tent
report, end Le suet °onus be had not watched their
peuedues very leansurly; but he oceild sot help new,
int tut (Atoned on it there would be legislation in
Sounestion with Madly euneties and nubs in meeyj.
affecting this sod sLur hirtileatiens ; sad peeksge is
"mad sot be oda al lies to ago say tory somoive

wiratic,,,, till they knew peeel..lv what the Government I
were going to do. He thought it might very possibly end
In Government swallowing up, or trying to do an, their
aseistent eeceetery Mr. Davis in tenureetion with the
rrlendlt Acedeey es they had already tried to' chew
h.m up —(laughter)—is coaneetion with the liavlngs
II oak. With regard t.) Lb.. enrolment said—or he
I. adly knew what to call it—they were epecnaily
oh .red, end L. tn,ught on the reposition of a
leeward pnsent (hi,. Hare, y) who w.. cry cornect
ant perrevering Meet it —to eadetvmr to obtain •
belt,r esuolusent card, for it was scl their present
oeriitiente WSJ not able to come into competition with
other seeittles—eneh as too Fore,ters and Oldlellows,
who were suppeeed to steal away this society'. mem-
bers by their attractive certificates: 10 they were
charged to obtain • design for a new one for the Oeunty
Sanely. and hi now exhibited one to than. its
thought Mr. Harvey would like a little brighter odour,
and so should he. The design RIM 0001-d from the
ori..,lnal card .1. at {n, d by their do,, geed founder Mr.
Percher, and it certainly was much more attractive-
looking than the little card which eornetimes he eon
leased it tired his hand • little to sign when there were
503 no 600 to be done In the coulee of a meeting. if
they approved of the new certificate it migit be
obtained, but at some cioneiderable oust. The design
maid be paid flf at any mte supposing they refused it;
but if they accepted it the plate would be 17 inches by
12, there would be five workings required for the
various cohere, and the price of the first thou..ed
would be 120, and of the second £l6, so if they had I
2,000 the cost would be £36, making the charge for
, each certificate something like 4d. Would the mem-
bers be willing to pay 4.1 for them for he hardly
i thought they shouli be lit/titled In taking ee large •
sem so £36 out of the funds unless there wee some hope
' of getting the money book again. Ile left it for obi
oonsideration of the meeting.
Mr. Heaver said he thought the members would
rather pay • shilling for • good certificate: the one
shown looked rather poor, and warmly up to the
Foresters. Oddfellows, or Patriot,.
Mr. Prigonam said be must leave it entirely to the
meeting—be had little or no feeling about it. Ili did
sot know that he had 'any more to say exeepe
very heartily to move that the report be resolved and
adopted, and printed and circulated as ususl—(bcar,
hear.)

—fir Rev. Prebendary Boiro seconded the adoption of
the report, and said that in the face of whet the secre-
tary rad stated, be felt unwilling to my uything on •
subject he come there brim full of. He felt that their
existing concoction with such branches as Portland.
Langton, and Swam(' worn doing a great deal of mis-
chief to the society. Their mond' were piloted and
eiroulated amongst the members, and they sew that
such branches took out mote Um they paid, and It
...at on year direr year—they had net sonsinlitted
anything I. ocie year since the formation of the perfi-
dies+ branch, and U that nomineg now what wool,* be
the ease by and bye? for every sestet, depeaded on the
adiniesion of young blood deb year, end if young rose
seeing the drain emed by WOO bombes were led to
join the Foresters or Oddrellows, of muse the Musty
Roddy mot feel the leak of ; end, In judos to
those who were to ems after theen—thengh it might
be many yeas, before It wee felt—end would inherit
SOO woeb ,bethought they markt to take semestspe
=higher rats of inordes es these pastlouler
where the members were esjs
Um ln daag.roas
teethe, and where the wags. were is eigri.
collard parishes, so that they were be pay bl&iir
ostribeVons lie felt It his duty to urge this as a
Uinta* of the moiety, asd he remembered that two or
of
thriltlears before his death Mr. Porch., spoke very
(cell yon this aubjed—he said the embers these
braze es were always getting their bosom broken OW
their deters pinned, end making demob. on the
society. After what Mr. Bingham hat said about the
Royal Commission on Friendly Mosidies ha rather
hesitated, but he lateoded proposing the appointment
of a somailttee to consider how the diSoulties he had
referred to with regard to several of the brandies could
be obviated, and to report to another a
Probeadae7 BASIS suggest 4 H = be lees
Invidious as aphid those partioulse parishes U Metaled
at issesedig the rale of insarenee they bed • separate
table for oddest% for there seemed to arise a class of
Mims from mddents which were quite MAIM front
bodily debases or constitutional inannity.
Yr. !Urn said there certainly would be on. advan-
tage In the souse—it would obviate the diffienity which
would 'deer, as Mr. Bingham suggested, in that all the
members of these petit:oder bromine might tot stand
on the sem footing. Superb:lg there were agricultural
labourer. in the bundle., it would be rather hard on
them to be 'Merged • higher rate became they lived in
the same pariah as those following other occupations
That must be ooluddered if any different scale of pay.
meat. be thought necessary. With regard to the
Portland branch, where the,, members were more
numerous than in any other pert of the sountry, one
mild not help feeling radio glad that the Meats of
the society should be so largely fell aa they are In
Portland. His good friend Mr. Mashed, who was a
kind of Chanoellor of the lizoldepusr es well OA filling
other cads which waned to unite In him, naturally
' looked at the darmess--the money coming
Bingham, "It'. the Imam rang our—laughtee).
There was the other side of the amino—the money
that west out; but they amid not help feellag
the modety warn doing a vast mond of good to
those men who belonged to it, and that its haneda
had been felt perhaps nowhere more then la
Portland. Certainly Portland was deserving of all
their sympathy at the puma moment; for now, and
for mese little time past, the doe trade had fsllea
very lee short of what it wee some years ego, and there-
fore die didloulties they bed had be nand against had
been Very great. 11, ahohli be hulloed perhaps to
support t' ' !•. It ~h.rn, and r-eoreruen t that
at Port moo t se) u:d it.tt.t., the t.aatoplo of Langton,
and make • eyecial collection it porrible for the 'minty ;
and he would have recommended that more Anne, M
he !Rd not feel at the prepaid moment there was sen-
'Adorable depression in threeps trade, sod therefore
ant they, were not In a non to do so mash es
they would perhaps be 7 in do. Mr. Bond ore-
pow..t. commove, and UN Worthe Is a very goon way of
looking into this matter. At the same %Imo no
oppor-
tunity was so good as when the members met together
to diem' metiers which effected every one; sad If
they doll the opinions of them who came to meet-
ings like he wished there were 131010 present
—lt mild greatly assist any eomeddes il they knew
what the mob= thought of eay shops In the rides
In regard to partiraler trades or compatiosa, or
He bmsd they should get the opinion' of
the members, 'sneakily of the sotuel beneficiary mem•
hers, because their opinions alter all were the mod
Important—they were the most intereated, mob
Interested se they all were, and anything they said was
worthy of their most attentive onsideration. Ho
hoped this subject started in the report 'tad dwelt on
by Mr. Bond would lead soma of the Melt members
or stewards to sire the meeting their opinions, Manse
the stewards knew so well she desonsteseme of the
members and the working of the rules. With Mende
to the enrolment tisk, t he did ad think it would be
desirable to have it too embossed It had beet
suggested it was not quite so hardseene as the
sertidostes of some other moieties; but whim they mine
to matters of Mate it wee always very diMeelt be agree.
The 1100. MOSIOWO47 had done isis beet to let • deign
which would be emeptable to the met* gesseally, sad
It seemed to him to be a very geed ewe.
,Mr Pausal suggested the breech stewards should be
linked to give their opiates of it.

Kr. HAIM said be *emelt the ineenhen would
hays the old nerd in prelerenwm—(lseghter).
Mr. PLOT= said well that was •greed straightforward
opinion at any rote. As to the Royal Commission, he
wee sorry he had not got the report, and although it
had been presented to PerLamaist he did not think it
wee yet in the hands of mexabers. Re thought one
reason for not preceeding with • elhesige el the raise
that day was they did not know mall whet might be
done by the authority of the law bulb. balevldt3
weld not themselves make any allenitiles
aotiesi—that was arseordiag to the rules be thought—
(Mr. Davis: Yea). At the same time be thumb{ the
which bad been made very good, and no
eleolirrea secretary would maks • note of them that
when they came to conaid.ir any alterations they might
be dismissed. It wool' be eery inoonvenient to snake
frequent alterations of the roles, as it was essential the
printed copy should be the cermet one, for it led to an-
pleauntnem and misunderstanding if • rule wee aliseed
and did not get into simulation, but was noted
If changes were neseseary let leeward. and member.
make all the suggestions they had to offer that thornier
might be revised owe for all, sad the satiety have •
more oompkrke set of rules than they had eves at the
present time.
Prebendary BOND thought it desirable In all
parishes where the stone trade prevailed, that Acne
corkers should be on one footing and agricultural
labourers on another—that every one when enrolled
should be tit rl :a a stone Malin, guarder, or agri-
cultural labourer. and pay acoordiugly, beans. although
Portland was the principal stone working district, In
the parish of Langton there vain considerable quantity
of cultivated land and many labourers, and it would be
very hard on them, as the Chairman said, to snake the
latter psy a higher rate becense they 11•111 i in the same
parish as stone worker,. Ile did not know how they
scold manage about insuring against acroidents, for when
an sadden' happened it was too lete—they oonli not
then call one mu for extra eentribations.
Prebendary HUE= admitted the Miceli/.
Mr. DAVIS thought enrolment according to their
°mama on the bet plea.
Mr. PIAIICIL approved the proposal for • committee,
which he thought should not he too numerous. Besides
Vl^ grind conel4cration arising from hazardous emPicrY.
nicr.t.,, at tl acod of Oda year wool I be their quilt-
Oncnaial_wriud, and they must go before the &Avery
ae,aiu. They mut ba prepared with their tables at
the end of Dooemb,r, 1872, the whole stole of the
s, ditty you'd be eousldored, and they must submit to
t o opinion of the actuary upon It In altering the
rules he thought e sweeping ohmage would be best so ea
i Meth Ili, cot off the old ru'ee from the new. lie
epe 1 - ' di..4ventaze to the
sc. ty ~! . . g quell 0 o,lizitti. I cri to same t-visis
so sgrieultural labourers, and thought it a very import-
ant question for the committee. lie mid should they
Int-e it to dr. litughtm to appoint the sommittee ?
Tie srerelary said ho would rather not do It,
an

Mr. FLOTER said if they did not appoint then, when
opai,l they, for when should they meet again?
Mr. BMICSAM Uhl they wore bound to appoint a
C0.,-,,it•re of tro.tos and a committee to demist Mile
treet-ee ; would It not be well to leave it to them t.
s point a sub-committee?
Mr. PIAICI remarked that the haeorea7 eubserip-
tins at present were supposed to meet all the expenses
of carrying on the society, although they had maresly
done so, and he suggested they should raise a special
fond to meet the expenses cionneeted with an alteration
e the rules end for the valuation of the moiety. an
thought It moat important that t'aey sboull get a (rat
rate actuary, who would go thoroughly into all the
details, th.t it might be shown so elearly that the
somety was on a salmi basis that It mould nut be open
to 'Aril or sampleion—(hear, hear).
Ile rant; ,r 1 for tho adoption of the report was thee
pot and en-ri,d unsnimooai.
Mr. II illeST said some Pears ape the stewards met at
Bleadford, tondos Iron all parts at comidarldde
enema, when they dimmed the rules sad mat la a
mamba of ealyttedeas to the eemialaaheseretory : be
thought the same would do sow.
BINGHAM mail (hey had than all lab sal be
prodang these.
Kr. RallThr matins' WI Mod

been meted road upon, and be did not think mach
alteration neseseary.
Mr. Flares mid from time to time little things ,
sppesred—for insta•co the suggestions of the Dorchester
de weed.
Mr. Meows said many of the suggestions whisk
wore formerly in•de ha ken in 't by an " interprisa•
of the salting 110 A.. Same of the ero,asals
tn..y did not think it eomply ado , and MOW.
they did. lilt tit •t paper 11. Vi available 4ill. nut if
they had a soti•loeruit, c t ocean; no the It ahouid
be laid restore then.. .lint one Wt4,l 1/1.11 fetttCOS to
the second austestian mute by to "torch.- t -r rtewarl.
He Gold net trip ',bap. it 'egg
rather out of 04'4 to ay no then —i hat if the trustees
had to consider ti.e 'dab rule for the purpose of inter.
pasting it, they would say (hero wee no neesoity for
adding the words seg.tested or he bend intazientel,"
as it sessesd to him tint if a time were toned intoxicate:l
ha " wilfully ch I tyed liii recovery." end et elm
the operation of that mule. lie ar.„-.led to Mr. Macey
It say if he wool I not atop a man's des pay if be found
him drunk in the street?
Mr. ILUIVEY raid they bed never had a near of that
description, bat had st,pped • man's sick p-ty for
entering a pubito•hoose.
Mr. PULLI'd 11. i I the OILD srudod to was remising
sick pay, anti did now: 110 was found drank In the
atreet,and a polio-teal took him to the lock-up. They had
• eommittee meetiog to try the euse, but could not find
out be went into • pub!,c-hourri or • bee-shop. ills
statement was that lie went to • private house and was
given some gin, and wilt a he gst Into the open Air it
took effect on him—(l.ughter). As no one had leen
hint go into • public-house they thought they amid do
, nothing in it.
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--illW:itsoinaz Surra said the rule would seam to
&dealt of a doubt. _ __ _ _

-11-.;.-6:41.-ii6" Glum : The trustees have a power
of la
Krb.B=Taid they referred the ore to the some'
Mr. lima, saki, beams prepared to move the appoint-
mint of • eanunittee each is Mr. Bond had proposed,
and be agreed with what bed been said on Vie subjmt.
H. wished to call attention to mis 19, and to say be
held that • an paying for sick pay of say 7s. • week
was entitled under the terma of that rule when he
bosoms dimbled from work by the hsfirmities of old
age to be placed in the same ',mike's as the men pay.
lag • mush higher rate to moire himself when so d
(Kr. Bloghere ; We
wondered it most isequitable. He had two men for
whom he oontribeted for sick pay of 7e. a week, and
one for aa alonity also. For t o sick pay it wal about '
3d. • week, and for the annuity 91 cute.; butts all
probability those two men, being very much exposed
to the weether, and not careful as to clothing, and
from various canoes they all knew of, would berores
after 88 disabled from work from the infirmities of old
riga, sad get squid coy under the miss, although for
pester contribution had been paid. He
✓el: mash
sted that the s4osmllitoe should consider whether
Use rules were equit this In that resseet. Thee anotbee
point was as to the Interpretation of the bye-law
=to the admire:a of families of benefit members
vs medical atesnianse. As he reed them, and
sacediantalae would, ° member
have hie wife and afamt
by the asedkel °Seer on the payment, semi.
I.dbsleg made. He was sexless to know .bat wee
the peadise In this reaped in We different branches.
Is the breath with which be was connected • men who
bed worked for him may years bad been a member
of the soidety for 11 year. sad had meived any
=Tafrom It therefore be wee a good wembor,
iled to all the sonaideralion the mho afforded.
His wife was • most exteellent woman (though teat had
nolidag le do with it), and reading these rul OMB day
Mrs be was himself. be said to that member Why
doyen pay these dealer's bill yearly for your wife, when.
being • member of the Coenty Dinh, you ma have her
Weeded by the moiled °Meer on paying 3e. • year I
He went he the secretary of tbe brush and paid the
3a., whisk wee duly handed to the doet sr. In the
sumo of the year the woman berme ill—at he ad-
mitted she bad dons on previous ommions—and when
the duke same to attend her his Int words were "1
underseseeisa. have paid 31. to the 'entity club, but
I'm not to attend you on any such terms as
those." sours, the women soul i do no other than
say "Very well," and at the end of the year she
remind • bill for Ci 17.. Sd. welsh she felt herself
boned to pay.
Mr. FILSON inquired whether her husband had paid
the 3.. yearly ever sines he had been • member : he
aught that was point.
Mr. BIILL said no and the rules did not, ae he thoulak
require it. He told the woman to resin the charge
and the matter was subraitteal to Kr. Davis, and Is
reply be wrote that the letter had been submitted to
the trustees and they were of opinics that tee &dais-
ies of the family of • Masai member to resolve
mediael attendance meld not be made without oon-
ferrring with the medical ofliser of the breath, Now
be (Mr. Bellimid that was not • far intorprotaidon of
the bye-law. Members were to be examined and re-
jected or admitted emordingly ; but he bold that U •
man was ones admitted as the ruled now stood, he was
**titled to have his family attended on the term" set
dawn in the rules. He grille admitted there might be
eanething to be said on the part of the medieeloMeers;
bat he I the point ought to be considered, aad
be the propositket for • eanunittee.
The Bev. O. NI Bun. tun said that some time ago
the quetlem Kr. Bell bad bast mooted dame before them
in the basun of which be was steward, and he reunited
with the medicel attendut upon it. Ile put the
quilted to him (Kr. Bingham) whether it wa"
imperative that be should take in the wife end family
of • bandit reeneser oe those terms. He (Kr. Bieglism)
sell yew deeldsely, and hold, don Its being done. He
hut not got with him t re ~se terms in ic,ich the
medical committee accept. I the terms of the moiety,
but he knew there was • peat deal of diseesdem on Me
subplot, and math diteilty Is seeds( to an acreage-
monk but metalaly his andemiluding then was sod
now le that:Gra seseeding to these oandlUom is
bound to the •41
modem mem no= properly and pays the
sum for their . only thing to be
proper sum
the other ride wee that if they pressed the
me▪
tier too hard on their medical men they would dy
away from them.
Mr. Pialel said he was under the Impression that
a member must make the eagasenent when he
entered the sosiety and pay from the
Mr. BINOSAII mid • man might havebse=ltUdren
after joiniag the sedely.
Mr. Thou= observed he might not even have a
wife to make the stipulation for when he joined.
Kr. Brimfull said it woe perfectly certain that at
the foundation of the sanely the undesetaadiog was
that • lomat member might at any time (sib's wife
end haegy admitted to medical attendee*, ; and the
bye laws stowed it tfor they speetAed the time of year
when he was to asks the payments, end said that they
might he admitts4 at any time at the year provided
that as warantara of • family is *dually Ul at the time
edglag. He did not think there mull! be the least
&WOK They had sated under them bye laws
from that thne to title, and he was euviased no mimes
bad my right to refuse to attend the family of • benefit
member. He mired the plewards is to their pesetiee.
Mr. !wan mid they had no families attended laths
Derehester branch.
Mrs DAM mid there were a number In the &dipole
breach: the money was merely taken by the moiety
and headed to the surgeoc.
Me 1101 said that their original medical °floor at
Wareham had • club of hie own by welsh he attended
families if merkleg rasa for 24. 61. • year, ands large
member belonged to it. But they never Understood it
wan sompelsory on the slob tarpon. On one musket
the seediest eller received 3• for attending • member's
wife, but he subsequently returned it saying he took It
by laadverlease.
Mt. FLOM: Then he rejected that park of the rules
allegetker
Mrs MI: Not molar. but be claimed to have •
voles in the adransion of wives and families, so as to
mortify as to their health.
Mr. finellUlaD (Gillingham), said he believed he was
one of the oldest Aeis in the aunt", and he was
appointed oltairmea of the committees that met at
fillsedford some years ago. lie ooneurred as to the
(Diary of frequent alterations of the rules, or • strike
of the medical Ahem. He wished to ask those pre-
med who recollected the formation of the society to
weeder whether it had answered the expectations of he
original promoters fully, and If not why not, and
whored. the muse of its partial failum—be didn't say
its positive failure, mutated. The Demi ninety was
founded la 1847 on the bean of the Into society esta-
blished In 1828, and he thought their rules and tables
were panty nearly adopted. In 1851 the Wilts society
re-modelled their rides assigning live reseone for so
doing: 1, Mal their then system failed to retain mem.
bws ; % the graduated soak of payment' was too in.
' trisste ; 3, there ci. not m &dent supervision over ink
members; 4, the ion of many good members through
temporary Inabillty to keep up their payments ; and 3,
the unequal of sickness In the differeat
brunches. He thought it would be worth while to
Inquire bow far these eirennostaness applied to the
Dorset sosiety, and how the alterations made by the
Wilts moiety had being found to work. They after 23
=l found it seemeary to remodel their rule', arid the
society had gone on with theirs for 24 or 25, end
be nought it was not inexpedient to have a complete
motile& The Wilts moiety had made the tables with
mutely payments and the ages west not year by year
but by fiver. He referred to the different inauniases
and • deposit enema the Wilts moiety has, and recom-
mended them for investigation by the sommittee. The
game complaint against the Dorset sulkily as eompared
with others was that the payments were high topsider-
lag that sone of it was spent in fun, as they said, and
they saw nothing for their coatritettiona but sick pay.
It was impossible for the stewards to prevent the in-
• of ask pay always, and the time of year and
smelt, of work made • great deal of diffusion Ho
thought if the committee wore to 6
from the stewards as to tbe altsratiou they
miget make a good job of the revision.
The Bev. C. W. Blitaltalt proposed the following
oominittes of trustees' for the cowing year—the Ray.
Prebendary li. Bond, W. Eliot, Kel.. Ray.
' Bingham, J. Fioyer, Esq. M.P., and -M. Pearce, Km.,
and u a domain's to amnia thew—J. Pi Hodges, E,q.,
Bev. Prebeadary Baker, B. L. Kiridersley, Esq., Re,.
E. Haverhill J. li. Toes,, Seq.. C. W. Bell. Esq., sod
0. 14. Eliot, IN.
The Rev. Pretender, Nun seconded, and wu
tinviedt_ -

Prebendary BOND proposed that the joint
committee sow formed be swoiated with power to add
to their member to revise tb rides and tables of the
society, end to rsgcet to the oast annual meeting or to
soma general sessUng previously felled for that purpose.
Mr. BILL , sad it wee serried unaciatously.
Mx. norm proposed the next resolution. lie said
be bad bad the pleasure of takiag wens little part—
=time me eellve as be Melted it might hero been
11eselledlege of the misty, and he knew and
they an ionw how nub they were indebted to the
bosomy eseretary (ago. C. W. Blegkam) for the pains,
and eroabia, sad Ass be bad glove is the *orrice of the
whet/. 5.,.e ass they eould not part on that or
any other esmaiss of sterting of the society without
exPesdagoottoweemest acknowledgment/ t 3 their
seemliest h emetary for all be kuid done for
them ; sad be bagitZ the name of the society, if
they would allow appisue3)—that Yr. Bingham
weeld seeest theft *she for hie past esrvices and to
mead his. is be kiwi enough to matlaue t.s. for
smother year el lesel—(epplet Awl of the mune
thke—he lareishe II wee wed be reedetiellbsee Is owe
1111eidlie0.40 apron beps--ssi OM dm TM may