The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-09-15 00:00:00

1:01111.AIST AOLISIT TIM TOLL COLLICION AND CLOD OD TO

KAMM
Mr T. S. Memo, auctioneer, attended before the Council end
'mud that since the 444 February be bad paid &V 170 hi
for toile end always by chigoe for the We It or month., but
this morning Mr Dyer refund to take • cheque and demanded
awls.
It ins asked he chum & topl tender. and the repl=
Mr GAVIN mid he Gimp. saki quit rents to the
cliegoe, end hoped the poundl would not maks any exam
The Council generally exclaimed " Ostiably not."
Mr 0 %fro continued that he thought the Mandl ought not
to be brought into odium by their °Mom, and that and. •
minima wee en eepersion on C man's reputation.
Mr Homes thought it should not have occurred.
Mr 110118111 : It would not bane beppored but that Dyer and
" this men" (pointing to Supt. . am against me.'
men' mid be weukl lOW BOON of my stock today if I did not
ley. I said to my clerk draw cheque for the Die tld due, and
he and Dyer too mid they wankel not take it.
Mr Salim mid he should like to ask the Council whet the
Superintendent had to do with It at all. He ounidered it no
more his duty to interfere than It was to take him from Ws
house to reel without authority. It ought to be thoroughly
Inv
Zireigrr squealed seewilng for Dyer.
Mr Omour thought Uie mein part the threat of misure.
Dr. Mamma said he undendood that Mr Morgan declined to
say unless the sum wee over Li, became b• always gave
cheques, and didn't went to draw one for lase than AL
as to the custom Mr Dyer said Vlt was over Li Mr
Morgan paid direct!), • be into him to go tomorrow morning
for bet week's tolb and todoes, Had received chigoes before
from Mr Morgan, the bet being for tie Id.
Mr Mama : He (the Superintendent) mid he'd summon me
too. . .

Mr Sum : hien? beard rich a thing In my life.
Mr OaLror : What enthortty ham the Superintendent to so
and make wadi a threat?

—Mr Hope- : I don't think that right at all.
Supt. 0011'11D aid UMW the bye-iaws be was appointed
Clerk of the Markets, and Mr Dyer applying to him went
Ile told Mr Morgan that he Ina liable to have bin stock seised
Ii be did not pay.
Mr Daum,: Did you tell tiim you should mug We Mock?
Tbe RCM. : No ; I told him tie was liable to it.
00WARD aid lent Saturday In Wag to the market, and
Mr Mama was miry abodes.
Tbe MATOIL could not undo:Mond wily the Collector should
be Do ebarp on Mr Morgan, when the others were allowed toga
on for swami weeka.
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i 7 1:;4171;1 thought then mute be something under
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Mr Gaurmi said the Council ought to SOB their oilcan con-
duct their business properly and not oestideely.
Mr WIZ= said he had known Kr M0.i.0 scene years, and
he woe • little hot-tempered. He thoeht they should hear
Mr Dyer's explanation.
Mr °Male considered the Council would not be doing their
duty unkss they Investigated the charge.
Mr Division said It was not • matter of business, but an
tonSiL

-lir-Hoes= laid Mr Moqun had always made his payment*
rezularly, and in onnelderaNe sums
MI Giunit and Mr &AD. suggeoted rehiring the gabled to
the General Purposes Committee
Mr Rim= : It waa very sharp practice; I should not like
It dlonc to myself.
Mr Davuleu : Not sharp practice; It It unbearable practlee.
It is • conepiracy against that man, absolutely, and nothing
short of it.
Dr. Atm/rose hoped It would not go forth that there .•• •
conspiracy by them two men against Mr Morgan.
Mr Denman : They are acting in concert, Egalnst him.
Dr. Athathent and Mr Buturrrt seconded, that
T.>) or he sent for proposed,
was canied
on his appearing, the Maven asked him about the refusal of
the cheque.
Mr DT= mid he called on Mr Morgan this morning to pay
the tolls for his last Wedneaday's sale ; but he said he should
not lay till it was neer CI, when he would glee a cheque.
Ile replied that the Treasurer required the money pad every
week.
In reply to an inquiry how the other •Ontioneeill paid, he
add Mr Enos on the Monday or Tuesday alter the sale, and
Mr Bgiqoune or I. deonthe =MO day orerfollowlq SeturdaYetkit;dand either
tdat Mr
Morganc always made his cheques payable to the order of Mr
Walton, and never In the ColleMor% name. at Mr Weston
refused to Mks the cheque today.
Mr 011.1.111: Did you threaten to thiamin?
Cbuacroa : No ; Mr Coward said he most.
Did he threaten to thiamin?
Yes, he did
Why did the Superintendent go up!
Ile volunteered to go
Supt. Cowitut mid the Collector asked him to go up with
. . .

Mr Hooess suggested the natter might be met by Mr
Morgan melting the cheques to the Collector; but Mr
Oman' objected to it, and pointed to the confirmation given to
Mr Margin's complaint Collector.
It then MOP out that the cheque was tendered to the
Treasurer by Mr. Morgan's clerk, heti.,
it
iilimon the collector's
refined to take • cheque unless made to himself.
Mr. Dumas did not believe Mr. =ton would refines Mr.
Morgan's chsqe bemuse made payable to his order, and
suggested the Tremors: abould be sent for.
1t.,. screed to.
fin Mr. Weston's arrival, the Mayor put the matter before
him and inked him what he knew about it.
Mr. Wserosi sad Mr. Dyer called on him with the Supt. of
Police to my Mr. Morgan refused to pay him tolls US the amount
was over flow that he could draw a cheque, m he did not
like to sire one fore smaller sum He told them he expected
payment of the tolls every week. A snout* or two aberrant"
Mr. Morgares clerk came amass with a cheque, but be told him
he Ina the treasurer and not the collector, and that the money
must piss through Dyer's hands, or bow were the two site of
*ecotone to be kept The collector received all, and headed
them to him In the lump. He believed Mr Morgan very
often made out the cheques in his (Kr. Weelica's) name.
Kr GAVIN : You did not refuse to receive the Masque became
of the.smallnees of the amount.
Mr. Weston: Notable of It; but be believed Mr. Nava
illd not ore to give. cheque for • anal amount. It seemed,
however, there had been • little feeling between Mr. Morgan
end the collector, owing to the onntplaint of the auctioneer
that there were not enough wreathe for the pro As for as
his (Mr. Weeton's) position was concerned, he mid he was
Treasurer end not Collector ; if he began receiving tolls
direct, be might have hi hell palled every quarter of an hour
to receive a penny toll on a basket.
Mr Omer" : You did not object to receive the cheque because
II was drawn In your noose?
Mr WOMON : Never, never. Cheques are very frequently
made out in my name, and I take them se on moth NW
Mr Waster, observed there seemed to he • little 111-lesllng
between Mr Morgan and the C0110:10f, and the Superintendent
went up to prevent a breach of the peace.
Mr Wants mid Rapt. Canard wen at hi Mace to get his
cheque for the pollee and to lay the fees for weights and
1001110/111. He happened to come In at the suns time as Mr
Dyer.
Mr °nava mid the Collector had represented that Mr
Weston refused to rewire the cheque bemuse it wss made out
In hi 00/011.
Mr Weems mid that was not right. He only refused to
receive payment of toile died instead of through the Collector.
- ifer east my, however, that when Dyer told hie Ir. Morgan
would not pay his basal! the amount woe enough for • cheque
cheque It
Inn he mu not hound to receive his at di, am
Viited(the Treasurer), and he Illustrated It by sa if he went
to thitTost Milos for en order In all prnbabiliq would not
take Ids cheque but require malt He had received
Mr. Morgans cheques made payable to himself, and oily
'squired to get them through the Collector.
Mr Dux mid Mr Megan never °lend Mot • clique at all.
Mr OalOM ramrod 10 the threat of esisure conlimed by Mr
Dyer se pieMliy es passlble;
But Mr DT= aew mkt he could net be smiths shout it In
"the pet " whether the Supt. mid be would ease or that it
was Sabha to be seised. He told Mr Morgan if he would make
eat • cheque In hls (Mr. Drat's) name be would take it.
Mr. °ALPO : That lee wow ate.
Mr DIVIWIIII mid • respectable eas:=Mr Morgan ought
net to be subject to such • unjustifiable basialt, and the Council
might to shield hint front inch petty conduct.
Mr Omani concurred, end urged the Council dorsi" take
action In the matter.
The explanation :4 Mr. Worm was deemed perfectly Netts
factory on to, es he wee concerned.
The subject dropped without any resolution, save that Mr.
MAIM gen notice for consaderbig at the next meeting the
advishility of letting the fain sod toile.
Several .ftundllors coottcrred in the desirability of Ws being
done.

FOILIfireTON
A reply had been received from lir Wilnishunt, of the Duchy
mike, to the memmial of the Town Council in mord to
Pordington Fick', stating that It would be submitted to
ii it.H. the Prince of Wales on the ant opportunity, but on a
meeting woe not likely to lake place for some Unto be thought
d desirable at out, to meratlre the idea that any Interference
with Poandbury and Maambury Rings had been contemplated,
and he expressed surprise that the Town Council timid have
thought those monuments of antiquity were not at. in the
hands of H. RH. and the Duch. Coancil. As much salmon-
ception mind to prertll on to the enclosure of the Reid be
=bt It right to say the plan provided for the reservation el
250 acres In convenient situations near the town to be IM
let building and for accommodation toirpos.. to them wow
occupying portions of the field end others, so that the
displacement if existing tenants was liked), to be very limited.
In another letter the receipt of the resolutions paesai at the
public meeting was formally acknowledged, with an intimation
that they would be Mid before the Prince of Wake.

Lii appketion woe made by 114 Walden for on extenelon of
jib .bop In the Market-boon, and be tiered to accept the
term hbe Council were Waling to canoe& ROOM thee ego but
he thee reamed
Gamed.
TRZ Inv nix nom
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Dr ALIPILIDIa esiceiiiany—Tetthia bees taken with regard
t" the &Noblemen et lased lor Dew fair Seed, is he under.
rtomi from one of the subMente this the priocipel Went (lir
tam) had not received notice hboself or Elm say to hls
sub-toosnle
The Nem tutdemetood from the Tom Clot that the Meats
eyelid an se out in the Sith September, and that them the fair
field cooed be proceeded with.

LOCAL Bow or Hum:
TM Town Owed of toresrdo ort so a Board of Hoolth.

00TrAGE GARDEN SHOW.

Th. twparces=dth annual exhibition in connection With
the . WermOuthopd
.Canle distrki eneociation
for the leaffrolaman a the labouring claim took pines last
mak" mg ghe Tows
_Asa The object, at the society cow
mew al industrial earatensi and nt the
Sere hi as exhibition of a two-fold character,
needimmagg Wee shows in the Council Chamber. and
en prawn and bread displayed is the old Cora
sway the weather was do sodsthere was
et tettoritt bon the med.
good imdmg of ambers the sMb at graham
were set ee golgtorisa.k 1114. moo f ouTorszt==s-
body owitlrs al last /gm lightgoe
peat