The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-05-14 00:00:00

YEOVIL TOWN COIJNCIL.

A roasting of the council of this borough took
=at the Council Chamber, on Monday week.
• The Mayor; Alderman Mayo; Councillors
Rodenk;m, Con Good, Coon, Raymond, Rawlins
Tucker, Wlialii, Peony, ail Hill,

The minutes of the last meeting having beta read,
A long discussion took place upon a communication
which had been received from the solicitors of the Rev.
Mr. Smith, which stated that the wall and poet+
which had been put up by the Council had not been
completed in a workmanlike manner, and they trusted
that an early opportunity would be tillten of inspecting
the works in company with their agent, Mr. Bore. The
letter concluded by stating that they hoped the council
would carry out their engagement with Mr. Smith, to
his saliafaction, so that any legal claim might be
avoided. _

The MATOR said the question turned upon whether the
work had been done in a proper manner. A great
many jobs, he said, had been done under the corpora-
tion which had not been very well performed.
The Tows CLERK said the original specification was
for some stone posts, but it was afterwards suggested
that iron pillars, with suitable gates, should be substi-
tuted, and the contractor agreed to find the pillars
without additional coat.

It waa understood that the Council, without admitting
their liability, should endeavour to meet Mr. Smith's
views, and for this purpose the Surveyor wu directed
to examine the works in company with a person
authorised by Mr. Smith.

THE BOROUGH AND THE HIGHWAY RITE.
On the motion for passing the above rates, a some- I
what desultory conversation took place, in consequence
of some of the last year's rate not Loving yet been
gathered in, notwithstanding that a resolution had been
by the Finance Committee, calling upon the col-
lector give notice to defaulters requiring immediate
payment of their rates, and that if not paid at the ex-
piration of the notice, summonses would be taken out
against them. The committee proposed that • borough
rote of 6d. in the E should be levied, which would pro-
duce £32395. 74., and a highway rate of 4d. in thee,
which would yield EV/ 17s. 9d. The reason why the
rate had not been gathered in was that some parties had
dated that their property had been wrongly rated, and
therefore refused to pay the rate. The parties were
Messrs. Greenhorn, Lyon, Tucker, and Newman.
A Mamma thought that if poor people were sum-
moned to pay the rate, they ought to serve the others
the same way.
1 The MAYOR said that if the Council were to agree to
leave the matter in the hands of Mr. Poole, the eminent
surveyor, and to direct him to report upon the subject,
the matter would be settled in a few days, and accord-
ingly he asked Mr. Tucker whether he would be content
to abide by the decision of Mr. Poole, hut
Mr. Tuct an said he did not think Mr. Poole had
power to Liter the rate. Ile held that he was not rated
In comforrnity with the Act of Parliament.
Mr. BODENHAII moved, and Mr. Goon seconded, that
Mr. Poole be employed to make a report on the subject.
Mr. WHITBY moved, as an amendment, that two or
three gentlemen in the corporation, not personally
Interested in the matter, should be selected to examine
the question, and this basing been seconded, was carried.
The rates were then passed.