The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-10-11 00:00:00

pointment:
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The Damn-Tows CLERIC replied it Wu the
;•uneil erho
apPo.nted, but the MaYur 00 old appoint
Deputy; an even the appoiotmeat of the Deputy
must bo approved by the Council.
As the senior Alderman is generally annotated. Mr.
Alderman Curme visa elected ; but is he was absent,
and in the event of Mr. Curme declining to serve, it
was agreed to appoint Mr. Alderman Gilpin.

Mtst

YR. Inga ANI) Till NAHUM.
The repalt of the General Purposes Committee
relative to a portion of Mr. Dyer's rent being re-
mitted, in respect to his lows sustained by the rising
of th, markets under the Contagious Disea•es
Animals Act, Was read. The commilaser after careful
consideration, recommended that Mr. Dyer be plaid
£2O.

Bmixerr : I thotight it was agreed to allow him
qoarter.
Mr. A. Lock replied the committee went carefully
into the matter, there WM • little division of opinion,
and ultimately it w•is unanimou-ly rewolved that £2O
would met the case. Mr, B. Hunt had proposed
that £24 be paid, and Mr. A. Pope, to meet the
matter, recommended £2O. Mr. Hunt acquiesced and
it was carried unan•moue:y.
Mr. Hunox : Is it admitted he sustained such a
?
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Mr. Huwr raid Mr. Dyer had showed from re-
t,ims from the auctioneers, Mr. Enaor and Mr.
Symonds, that he hal sustained a low of £lO from
ea h.

Mr. A. Meg said It WU from all the austioneers,
Mr. Doke. Mr. T. Buser, Mr. G. &moor, and Mr.
Symonds, th.t thi4 love was sustained, and about a
In irth from priva a persons. The loss for no mouth
was £lO, and he calculated the same for mother
month. The losses from private per,ons he had not
reckoned at all, but Mr. Hunt estimated it at about
£4.

EMBON : It ia a very reasonable way of putting
Ultimately on the motion of Mr. A. LOct, seconded
by Mr. H. Durden, the recommendation of the Com•
mittee top iy the MO was adopted.

PAYMILNT or BILId.

Half-yearly bill. to the amount of £l2O 18i. 10d. on
acanunt 4 the Town Council, and LW 7.. 3d. on
ace net of the Watch Committee, were pained, and
ordered to be paid.

TUB INSPWTOR OP NLIELANOZIS' =PORT.
Mr. W. Chick presented his report es to various
nuisances, and an orJer to abate in each awe wee
made.

MI SOIOOOH 1011,1110111 OMOM

The Borough Surveyor having submitted a plan for
providing out of the room at the back of his present
office • private office for his own use, he had been
instructed to prepare and submit for the consideration
of the Council at this meeting an estimate and plan
for partitioning off • eta:dent spice in the present
office in order to effect what be desired without interfer-
ing with the room behind, which ii at present con-
stantly used by the hall-keeper.
The matter was left to the General Purposes Com-
mittee.
71111 DIALEAGE Q 1711112101.
The following letter had been received by the Town
Clerk from the Local Government Board I—
" Local Government Bawd, Whitehall. SW., 19. h 93p-
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timber, 1881.
"Sir, —I am directed by the Local Government Board to
seknowledp the reoeipt of your letter of the 13th indent
relative (oth. question of toe towers's and dispotat of the
sewage of the b.routh of Dorchester. The Board directs
me to loam that it there is likely to be any dculty in
obtaining the lend referrred loin your letter by agreement
It may be desirable for the Town Cloonan to gin. notice
of their intention to apply for • provisional order toenable
them to pat In foree the powers of the Lends Clauses Con-
solidation Acts with respect to the purchase and taking of
leads otherwise than by agreement. A copy of instructions
ae to applications for provielonal orders is encloeed.—l am,
Sir. your obedient servant, V. F. Itorron, Assistant-
secretary. To G. Symonds, Zsq., Town Clerk, Dor-
chester.'

With reference t t this letter, the General Purposes
Committee asked that full authority may be given to
them by the Council to take all the neceesary pre-
liminary steps for putting in force such powers, shoul
the committee consider it necessary or ~deniable to
adopt them.
The Dreirry-Towil CLILIM said the notices must be
given in November or December at the latest_
On th• motitm of Mr. Antrim Locc. it was agreed
to give the committee the required Authority.

IHPHOVAD LIGHT AT THS POITT-OITIOIL
A proposal has been received from the Dorchester
Gas Company for the supply of a greatly.imp•ored
light to be placed at the Poet-office at a cost of DI &-
year inst It,' of LI 1155., the amount paid for the lamp
at present there, and the oommittee recommended
that, in cousiderstioo of the islcueose superiority of
the light to be obtained, such proposal be &w anted to.
The MAYOR remarked at the laudii g stage, at Wey-
mouth, there was a sery fine light, and it was proposed
to put a similar I ght at the P st-office if the tows
would pay the extra El foi. a-year. As soon as the
business of the Post-office Me/ over, it coal I be turn, d
down to the same light as the other lamps.
Mr. ARTHUR Loci: If we pay the extra money,
need it be turned off at all?

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The MAYOR: We cou'd keep the light till eleven
o'clock. - - - - •

-MI:TGALPIS : Our present lamps are 16-candle light,
but this one will be a 60-candle light.
The Council generally were in favour of the improve-
ment, and on the motion of Mi. AITHOU Luce., it Was
agree to accept the proposal.
Mr. Loci: The Wesleyan Chapel prop'. might,
perhaps, pay eqmethine towards it; it will be a great
advantage to them. (Laughter.)