The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-12-09 00:00:00

Inferences width I venture to think !my be drawn there-
from

It amulet for a moment be said that the proposal removal
I. ID any wire a DOW Wilef.lB, conehlermg that 10f nearly JO
year. it has bowl &glutted end hotrod with varying chances of
radiation. So early as the year let:, a rensoal wee contem-
plated and four db. In Vortlington field, distinct from the
presenter..und ,wcre *elected aft r conside rabic diseussionof their
relative advantaged, awl It Is &subtler within the recollection
of many of the Council that during the Maytwalty .4 the Ire
Mr. Meielleld, 1857-8, the propreal animal a somewhat
tangible shape. The four ellen referred to w,-110. 1, the
piece of land on the north .4 the Itridlort road now pertly
oampied by the Militia barracks, but whleh was given
r. 2
because the Duchy office loaded ..n retaining the
frontage; No 2, the south end of Mill-way adjoining the (treat
Wedeln, railway and the rood to the Union llama, which was
afterwards diecovered to be unlit ; No. 3, hempen hum. ; and
No. 4, the iiieee of land behind and now partly occupied
by the County Pollee .talon, the kit of which woe abandoned
on amount of the reprmentrions then made that It would be
rwlitlind for • addcmidsted oommunication betwoen the two
railway stations. Thiough Mr Manfield's Internet and exertions,
mane of the then mat fulluenUal meters:n.4 the Council of the
Duchy .4 Cornwall were inducal to Manuel the 1101a(lI1 Keep
site, on a to be able to judge front a personal Inspection of It.
suitability and Importance on a fair alai market place when,
es watt then hoped, the matter would tvcoe before the Duchy
Council in •dodulte form. The reeonis .4 the &amnions of
your Conned on the subject shew that upon the general
goalie. there was no differrnee f .140100, DWI that the
scheme would have been °wrist' out If the ileggan Neap Me
could have boon obtained and means lad been sealable. On
that account, therefore, It is scarcely necomary to do more than
ref e to the annexed copies of resolutions on the eubject.
About 10 yearn ego, however, looking forward to the time
when in the ordinary mune of things the interest .4 the
. Orwell in the present ground would determine, it wee felt that
If what every one considered the beet alto could not be lad, It
wait Important to acute endue immanent interest in the
present 4
th
one, and In the year 1861 term. were propnral and
th Upoll for e grant of a lame .e present ('aim D air round
Flabout AI porches at IL., south end adjoining (ho Urea
earn Inn) for a term of 00 year. at a yearly rent of Cl 4
. during the life of Mr. TOOZC, (Dipo.ll which the Coundre
, Interest was (hen, and le now, dependrnt) end of £3l dewing
. the remainder of term, and upon an outlay In buildings
thereon by the Council of alum of not lae than £3OO.
It nay be irked, jeurhate why this arrangement was never
completed and I think, madding from my official knowledge
on the eubject. I may add that on account of it. low situation
and the Imposaibility of earning t4I the accumulation of wart
which found it. way there by I.,,ravitation, the Council felt that
the place woo not the mat addible, and so hesitated to under-
take the responsibility.
Several modilleations of the plans and euggeetione for
Improving and Merman:le the area 4 the present ground
laterally were made and considered, but none of them could be
found to remove the difficulties and objections to It which had
always existed. end still exist.
The daily diminution of the Gametes Interest In the present
Er:a, sa well se the altered mode of dealing with Ills Royal
wl the Phnom of Wake' Fonlingtoo Feriae, again
attracted the attention of ,the Dimwit to &imam Snap, and in
1870, communication were reopbried with the Duchy Office,
which resulted in a proymeal to grant a lease of a portion of
that dte for 90 Team term on payment of a One .4 LIAO, with
a yearly rent of LEO, or an alternative One of E. 200, with a
Fairly real of £lO, and an expenditure in building!. and faxing
of each a large sum of money as was felt to be altogether
prohibitory, WIWI If It had not been stipulated in addition, that
you
,ahould buy up and extinguieh, for the benefit of the
the outetanding internam and common
rights in and over the part of Sewn limp which wee not
Intended to be leased, se well se in and over the pert prepared
bah.. leased to the OcianciL

Hatters @gang rested until the autumn of 11172 when hi
despair of being able to obtain. hese of Bowan llnap at all
II was deemed trVive to m • coplebon the pro-
less. of 1 and lotion was made to the Duch,
OMNI with that ob The result ens an intimation of the
°pinkie of the Council of Ilia }loyal Ili/Mims that Beggars
hasp was after all the preferable site for a Pair and Market
Uneend, but that If you had Omni deckled In favour of the
Pretillat trolled the lease would be granted se had been pro-
r. As co a nsequence the whole matter vs.arain gone
t7d and many cocurnunicabons passed on the • leek the
I Isthmian.. result of which Ina on emelt on the part of the
Duchy Council to grant • lease of tba Beggary heap for 90
years, in exchange for your interest in the prment alt., sub,s
to yearly rent of Llf during Kr. Toone'. lite and LSO a
oily he the remainder of the tenet, without the
' say foe whatever : and to take upon themselves payment
' and eael of the h piker. Botuadary Wall, two very
items in the estimate of cost, and in the way of the Wmtusit
al the enamel entertained by you for eo many yeara I believe
• I am eopsiag your opinion in eating that this proposal of
Ills loyal lilgimem the Princes Conned is • most generous
one, and that you woukl have tailed in your duty to the
Borough if you had hesitated in gratefully theeptiog it, and
rerliv4 to carry It out.
It may be warmly necessary to 'wrest the Wean.
tags and conveniences of Beggars Kama as • Fair and Yorke*
Oreund over the present ooe it may be important that I
should your &mention to the comparative arms of the
two sites The area proposed to be included in the Isms of
DM was within • few 'aerobe*, at newt la Sr. 27p., whilst
the arm on Beggars limp, proposed to be leased, is ea Ir.
Vit, with eithetaimially the woe reservations of Amami Beata
The permanent buildings, and other tillage reemmary for ren-
dering either site permanendy suitable, would be almost, if
not entirety, the mune, whilst the mate of the Duchy Council
to take upon thermal, ine the erection .4 one of the must im-
portant Boundary Walls on Beggars Km'. is • very importsult
reduction in the Item of fencing, and one which alone would
Induce • decision in It. favour, even if any doubt, actual or
conearative, had ever been entertaiued on the whit... 4.
The memorial addremed to you by certain ratepayers of the
Borough, mid which hae lately born under your ornsideration,
seems to be based on the asnunielon that the present fair mid
market ground is suitable, and adequate, for all ,
and that the prepuce removal of the Fairs aml els will
takes considerable amount of businoss any from the town,
but I can namely think that the memorialles witht have hien
aware, and I have god reason for believing that many were
not aware, that the tenure of the prieent fair and market
Pow.' is Pre...lone ea it is, and that if or Toot° were
removed by death, you woukl Lave no Fair or Market Uround I
whatever, and I am hardly believe either, when the fact becomes I
known, that thy one will doubt that the beau uivni which
Beggars Kum, ran be acquirod are not only most generous on
the tart .4 Uls Royal High:wee, the Prince of Wake, but also
or more aelianlous to the roe, in point .4 future income
nun wits than win upon which the invent bite could be
retained.

The objeetion based on the minimal bee of holiness trout
the town fl-Clll.l fo. MO 1190 to have bell, 111}Cua without Coll.
'toleration, end WWI all entire forgetfulness ,t 1 lost experience.
It is only thecessary for tne to remind to .to who are 41
smough to reconuct the you. 1534, (when the cattle and sheep
markets anti fairs were removed from the streets to the present
ground) that a similar objection was male by • numerous
eection if the inbabitnnte, but the enteric:lth. of ont, if year.
has sheen that the markets for all Aber purist.* hare
practicully remained the same, and been in 110 way attractal
to the walks, or other parte adjacent to the NVI,III, market
growul, and that the frequenters of the markets have not MINI
and gene without anon-inn the town, and to circulating money;
and it is ecareefy reasonable to apprehend • differtht result se
I consequence of the contennplatel further removal to
Bonnier* Komi', Notting that portions of the pruned ground are
equally distant from the business centre of the town and
equally near the railway statioth.
1 trust I utay be neatened for venturing to suggest, on this
pert of the ratepayers memorial, that the miticipated injury,
arising from • lime of trade, may be egectually guerded spinet
by the edoption of rules and bye-laws for the regulation of the
mar•cte generally, no well lie for fixing the time by which the
cattle market shall clime, \MI an prevent the sacrifice of the no
toms important market for corn, upon the injury to an I inter-
ference with which strong, representations have, on repeated
mansions, iteen made to you by corn merchaute and others
Interments' in the corn and other treats.
In all the beet markets of !mutual, regulations of thin kind
exiet, and if euch r, gulationa were adopted here, and (ho cattle
Wes ware closed at such • 1i..... would prevent their
Interfering with the corn market persons woukl return to the
town, ineteel of staying as they frequently now of neoessity do
,the cattle ado up to the moment of dell:Whine by the rail-
way traits, .04 11 mew tome that the adventsge f all Massa
would be bem mound by providing and firing the most con-
venient times and places for transacting all the ordinary
business of a lair sir market, without seerifthing or seem damaging
one inland for the very doubtful bank el thother.

G. 811101114,
Town Clair.

Dorchester, November 9:24.1n 11111,
The Town Clerk added that was the result of 'he investigation
he had wade, ity way of appendix he had extra-tad • number
of resolutions fr.'sn the minutes of the Council. Ile found
lbw e. long ago on ha, on the 14 October, the molter was
dientmed, and the opinion was eel:nosed—from which Yr.
Davaninh end Mr. Wallis alone deeented—in favour of iho
Dellgnrs linen site of the four thee Wore them Eleven were
preeent at tha meeting. Mr. Andrew' moved, and Mr.
Ualsin eentided, the resolution In favour of Beggar.
Knap site. The an: nehmen In favour of the Bridport
reed site won moved by Mr. Devenleh, end seconded
by Mr. Wall's ; and they only voted for It. At that time
the milli. barracks bed not been erected, and the Duchy
!milted on retaining the frooE !against the bridport not
The same question tame up at the Council meeting on
December in, 1333, at which Irma nurneroue attendance.
It we. icsolved Ulm osumunkation bs °posed with the
Duchy Mace to ascertain eel:wheel& PrinwisCouncil positively
refused to dispose of inggers Keep site. Us opinion of
dealere and sgrlculturieta as well no the Council haring been
Strongly expressed in favour of such site ; end if they did
refuse whether they sUll objected to include the frontage In
the Brldport flood die. Twelve me:whereof the Council assented
to that resolution- In January, IMS, Use mow question warn
Ware the Council, who still urged the granting of Baggers
Loop and sellout masons why they could not semis the alto
whore the county police station now inultis. Upon thm, during
Mr. Combs's 'mayoralty, they were townlomus. On the eth
I:overshoe, DAT, when Sr. Maniad was elected Mayor, It me
moved by Mr. Andrew. and wended by 11r. tkoenb., that the
Council mensorialise the Duchy in order to obtain by purchase
Num' [nap, and the shah Council be I committee to
prepere such memorial sod take further steps for that object.
The rnersorW was pieg.ernd by the whole Owned In cum
Inlttee, end srm 1.1.1 before the Connell at a meeting on 12th
February, leds, and was unanitnously anlopted on the motion
of Mr. ifoelgen, seconded by Mr Andrewn It was resolved that
the msmoeinl he presented by a deputation of the Town
Cuenca, easelsting of Use Mayor, and Messrs. Comte and
Andmwe. However, the Duchy Council inUmated that they
'mad not receive a deputation On feth April, laden the cor-
respondence with the lAichy °Woe was laid before the tnuticil,
and 1i... remised to inform the Duchy Council that In Um:
opinion of UM Council the Wridport reed eke wee unsuitable,
and all novae:Mono moon be suspended ITbo memorial
referral to am produced, and the draft copy, which several
members oleterval was In Mr. Androvis liandwnting. A
inetourial fr no the 0.311 merchante not others agelmt the
sacrifice of the Corn Merlon through the late time of hokilft
the malls markets, we. sin presontoel, sod the Town Clerk
obwried they Were all fnaoolle.r with the, feeling of duo.,
attending this Corn Exchange on that subject j nose wan ea
lb. (kW/ about It.

In reply to lb litnson. the Taws Citric iald the expo-se el
the leurang elope ittad for by th• Unby U. the p•• eat field
Into. Beppu% Fin p na. eubetaailath tee .11010 two .0, ho•
that the Duchy had ur.dertaken to build the northern
boandary.

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As to • statement that the Connell contemplated Tending
£lOOO and bulldog an hotel, the Town Cleft said it wee •
Wilful iliimargefern, and must have been made fit • purpo.e.
Inquiry wa• Mule al In the value of the p.,licy ou Mr.
Too. '. end It was said to amount nog to lib ot ill9o.
)Ir. 11 ices said in Ike mensormi he fount Ibis paragraph—
.' That the t roomed removal of tbe lair trued will Inevltalily
take • c ntoolerabis amount of bi,leses. Irian the town, an I
that the expense of purchasing and Aline it up 1.1.1 largely
Increase the tales of the town which already overburden the
rate mem " At any time he phould rem ire with the greate,d
a reetnerlal from his townsm-n, end humbly
ur too his duty- in guarding agelnal •nr
expenditure: at tee mme time he Meat ask the ralep•yere
net to tabs • clew of the tam • bleb their intent one .14 lot
Just fy. Me had had a good deal to do with the negoUatione
repenting • new fair posed, but he never yet bard or
u that what. they contemplated could be amounted
sertliT the netemeity of • rate The CJormil heat maple means to
metk• the hurler and ecquire • new piece of ground ;
and the eAvantage that would be gained by the town its the
transaction wae far beyond the expectations of any one.
IN tenni were meet favourable. The Duchy grented them
a large piece of ground of the best romible deanriptios, where
they cookl concentrate the markets elol hare of the town,
without One of any kind, and WWI only • unall rental while
the cost of fencing it would not be greater than that of the
less faroun Wu ground, and which they wood be bound to
knee If the Irmo ••• senors& 8., that as to the expense of
fencing the two albeit was the aunt, While at Beggs rs. Kosp
they got mech greater secommodimion. Ho thought the new
grimed would Lend to nuke Wattmeter • still mere Important
apiculture! Mbar., and that would be for the general good of
the Weal. If the Coon Ii bad to make an outlay it must be
remembered they sete..utd • proven, and created • reeenu
At the learnl tame the revenue of the borough was double
what it •as • few years ago, and with careful management they
would be able to meet the outlay required, cod the Inhabitant*
would hav, money's wort bloc it. They hail built atom Exchange ,
Mn. bet Masse, and Towiclinli, gial the public teal never been
culled on for a single rate for them. Ile thought it slain of
them was still some tubhc spirit in the town, mid that if it
wera backed up by udicious admis intration of revesine, it
weight be of groat mad besiedlt.
The Mason referred to the suggestion tunde goose algae ego of
enlarging the precut fair
In reply to Mr. Turner, the Tows Cultic all if the tingle
life on • hieh the fair field to held ein,pped, they would have to
utake what tonne they could with the Duchy, or they might
be turned out at once.

Mr. Coons, propowd the following resolution
That the Count-11 hatiog heard reed, and hating fully
cawalderid the report prepared by tba Town Clark aa ta the
bletgri rad Pripot yi tin I* (mod coif**, agree

with and adopt mch report, and consides that the manorial
M... 4.1 k. thsto on the eubject had been prepared with
imperfect knowledge 14 the actual position of the Council In
regent ni the istwent Into ground, inennuch as to insure the
occupation .4 (hot *ite for the 11n, the town. after the single
111. on which it is held shall drop, en outlay will be required
hilly equal to that neceemry to render the beggars Knap suit-
able, losdcing thendore at the absolute necessity for 1,7"4*
Mg • most thomughly C,MIW.PIii.III fair ifnutini. t. fact
that the Ikmars' KIIM, site gives them the enjoyment of
elortints of four in.,. .4 ground for this purpose inatoad
being rearicted to less than two acmo in the present ground. It
the opinion .4 the Council that the ontitY require] by tin
terms of the Dutity Itram• will be eubetantially the same which-
ever la retained, end that In agreeing with the l'ouncil of
lilt if. th. Prin.; .1 Wok., for the Ileggwrs. 111e7
have beet columned the welfare and prosperity of the town, as
well es the Nat and nest comomind way .4 the
efficiency and high character of the l,urcholor markets."
Altlenuar I,oox acomiled.
Ahlerumn %Ll'.n raid the motion did not meet the allege-
thin that the trede of the town would IPC injured ; be did not
tunlendand why the memorialiste thought 0,, and suggested
meth nig a deputation on the subject
The Tows (lime said their experience of 40 Seidl wail au
Ammer to that, from
Mr. o.4unx eupported the proposition, and remarked that
for WITO Ylorll the Council had been Lotions to get ell the
inarktta at one ;dace, hut had been linable to do that ls•.-ause
the existing market ground was felt not to give much good
accommodation as the], I Itlght to, horn.
Mr. nowt remarked on the necessity of regulations its to
the time of timing the market,

-11; resolution Wa arried n7rri. die.
Asasinss proposed, and Mr litoticsrr irecmsled, thst a
ropy of the report and the resolution be forwarded to the
memorialists.
Murk.' new. die.

IJOCIL RAID OF iitALTTI.

The Surse)or Kt...fetal a report 01 I the nonsumption
water, and the ast .1 vomping. Ile entiniated the total cost
CIO 11. 3d. • week, or about CS..U.. • )or; but Mr. Iludget mkt
their istimitte for the yenrnCo ea alone woe MOO.— It wee
referral to the General Purpatts t3onosilltee
Eatlmate• for rates were a.loptud at follows No. 1. bre
lighting, rid ;No 2, (..1. Ma)out loam., lid. ; No. 3, for
Ibleruit on Paring Connolationere bond., lid.

SAFITAIIII MEDICAL (Amite:
The 11ATOR 11c,AmmunicatIon had been received Iran the
Ini Government inquiring the steps they had taken
In regard to the appointment ul • Sanitary Mull& °Meer
A. in his dutice It Ira. said tlO7 consisted in whiting Lhe
Sanitary Authority in any muntion at:cling health ; and
the tender had to make an annual tabulatud return MI to
mortality and sickness to the Government department.
Alderman etAMINI sugirAwkd thm the =did ,liirers should
be trill by • small retainer, and • ode of tom for actual work
done. _ . .

Dr. Aid:mines observed that In the Dorchester Union the
nudimi officers ?tad been appointed with an addition of 15 pet
cent to their salarief, and he thought that was the met
ceononiltsd and Wean ..ous arrangtment ; for the Union
mailed olficers, In the boehooge of their dull., were fully
conter.ant with all the neemary facie, which it wuukl be
difficult for a special officer to obtain, Lakin. Involving con-
current Jurisdiction t• o officers In the cane 01 the borough
it happened that the Union medical orbiters were both in the
Council, in , Mr. F:inson, for the town parishie, and himself
having Fortilitrion, and they could not hold any office of pr.At
under it : but leo convinced wee he (Dr. A.Mridge) of the
advantage to be rained by appointing the Union medical
officent, that be would do the wort in hie Weida se goalie/7
igtioct gratultosely, and so save the borough the extra espouse
that trouhlotherwi.. int,hcat. _

Home further conversation took place and the further con-
sideration of the nibleet out deferred.