The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-07-26 00:00:00

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POt THS WHIZ MIMS THOISSAT THS SSTH AMT. 1881.
DST'. WOK W•TSIL HALT IBS LOW • Arsain•rr now
342 'owl 6.12 a.m. 7 12 a.m..
Friday 1 3.40 p.m.. 6.40 p.m 740 p.m.
Saturday 4. 8 a in. 6. 8 a.m. 8 g nm
4.36 p.m. 636 36 p.m
Sunday 5. 2a in 7 ..m 9 2 am.
6.30 7.30 p.m 930 pm
Monday .1 b6B a.m I 758 am
636 p.m , 8.76 p.m 10 26 pin.l
• 6.64 a.m. 054 a.ra• 10.54 .m t
7.22 p.m. 912 p.m. 41.21 pm
7.46 a.m ; 9.46 a m.;11.46
810 p.m. 0.,0 p.m 1110 •
TburiosT $34 nun 10 34 a.na 1234 iii..
86$ p.m 10681 p.m 1858 am.

1.40 p. In. 21
2. 8 a.m. 03
2 36 p.m M
3.2 ain 26
330 p.m. 14,
3 58 a m.
4% p.m. 1.5,
4.54 a.m. ,1
5.27 p m A
5.44 am 27
6.10 p.m 47
6 34 24
6.56 pas 3
7 22 • u 6

Tuesday i
Wedosday {

THE FRANCHISE.
To the Editor.

Sir. —A matter of considerable importance in me.
nection with the Parliamentary and Municipal lerso•
chime has just arisen, in cinsequenro of • Ontalnuirica.
tire haying been made by the Home Secretary to
parochial overseen. Sir W. Harcourt has called
attenti in to the Act of 1878, by which it appears that
"the term dwelii• g-house shall include any part of a
house where that part it separately occupied as a
dwelling." The same extension is given to the terms
"Shop." " Warehoua. " " Cvunting house," or othrr
"Building." The peps:rate occupation had heretofore
been defined to be complete separation—people osing
the tame stairs were not in eel sesta occupation. But
the clause to which the Home Secretary now calls
attention (and which rhould have come into operation
In 1879) says "that where an occupier is entitled to
the sole and exclusive use of any part of the house, it
shall not be deemed to be occupied otherwise than
separately by reason, only thaS the occupier is entitled
to the joint use of soma other part." This seems to
point to the conclusion that whiled a house is let out
to amoral families—a tradesman in the shop, a clerk
and his family on the first fib r, and a workman
upstairs —it shall be regarded as so many separate
houses, even though they use stairs, passage, and
ctior. in common, and the occupiers shall be enterqd
on the electoral register by the overseers. II this
Interpretation of the clause be the correct one, it will
hate the effect of bringing a large number of names
on future register,. The clerk to the St. Petters.
vestry says that this new definition will bring 10,000
new names on the register In that perish aloes. Not-
withstanding the importance of this map, I find,
noon careful enquiry, that no oommunication of the
kind referred to has been received by any overseer is
the parish of Weymouth, Meloombe, or Wylie Ikea
(although the lists have to he made out on or before
the last day day of July), si that whatever/ L sin,
aln might have resulted to the political parties in Ow
Borough under the new conditions, no blame
attached to the overseer,, whose attention Lao is t hoen
called to the anbject. It may not, however he out of
platys to remind your readere,who are entitled t a rive.
that if their names do not appear on the Net now abor.t
to be published by the overwiess' they may claim .ye
or haloes the 25th day of August next, and / *WI he
eto give any information to such pers:ins, earl istialrup forms of claim on receiving the neceosary
information.