The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-02-05 00:00:00

WORKING MEN'S INSTITUTE.

A special general meeting of the members of this
Institute was hold at the society's reading room on
Thursday evening last, for the purpose of receiving
the auditors' statement, and of passing the annual
rep,rt. The president, Mr. Bawler, occupied the
chair. .

The report of the auditors, after stating that they
had CI:111111VA the hooks, set roan the necessity that
existed for better accommodation for the lihrerYi
which they conceived should be placed in the reading.
room. They also recommended that another daily
paver should he taken in.
After some of the propositions contained in this
report huh been fully disciesseil. the chairman read
the Minuend statement, % hhth showed thatit he society's
receipts for the ytar inlin,ainoinitAol tikr,9 3s. I I id.
and that aftei all cRIICLINeI had Won veld, a respecta.
tile balance still reuiainint in thu bawls of the tree.
MIMI%

Mr. llswt.ait then read tho following statement,
hying
rh, S,xll, Aniimul Report qf (he &Outer Workixy

Inai4 f ale,

Since the publication of the last Report. the scene of
the society.* ops•r•tiona lisa bes D telllOlllSl from the old
premises in Kok ‘‘'eNt•otrevt,to a voisinloslioUs house in
By thia change the "'inmates) it. etiabied
to slinoultc• that they ',miscall en ezedletit hi,,sit lug
Maim, scarcely ihreritir to cite tit the mum slid too
good Chula Room* for conunittee and educational
purposes.
In Hut of convenience, the situation is vastly amis.
rior to their loot. wlitint, for the sake of heidth, they
cannot be too thankful ; atol they feel it would be tenths-
newt on their part, did they not express their grateful
•ense of the kind efforts Miele by If. C. Stunt, Esq.,
both in the alteration of the itrs Mises to meet the wishes
of the Society,os well as hy pecuniary aid, to render
themas eunifortulde on
The commute.: !loved,iii ndeed eliweleil, that 'lie
imprioreil the society woUlit ill iii•turially
t„ tm t, 'luber of its members oat ill ttliA, though
there has been a alight mend.', they Ivies/ not been nti
cot ii en wars hiltleilbst, WI. tether this seises
froin the aluere•t ilevotsil to the Viii,,, set Movement,
~n from a less worthy cause, they are unable to any,
hub hope the former.
WI. n it is reitietiilisrod that an additional eapenae
toe, 'warily int tiriail on the rt m . ot' of the lii•titt,.
lion, it is a a disfuction that a lialance, however trifling.
is Ili the hands of the Treasuier. The mini of
~3 IL,. nil. remains Is the is lon of the Wise itiomd
and the 1i inainder th•t el the Genend Fund,
it, tho whole E 4 3s. lid.
Fewer lecture. than 'tonal have been delivered this
year, aid the C Atee deem it itiezpulietit to increase
their moniker to soy considerable esta:rit, so long as
thee are not aelf-supportitig.
To each of the ileiohers of Parliament for the
Borough, for their liberal aasiataiire, and to the
11,,, say Mend,, rs of the Socnty, they test kArtlllY
iitlcr their gr..tetul acknowleogineuts.
To the Eoitorm who have kindly placed their valued
!vipers on the Socirty'a and to Ulnae gentlemen
who have favoured the Inatitute with periodicals, they
are deeply indebted.
The ciasscs of the Institute continue, evening iifter
evening, to carry on *ill utly,liut surely, their important
work ; tlli 111041. from ll their moseleas action, little is
1,, ti of them beyond the Walls of the dasa risiina, it is
right that the friend, and aupoorieis if the tiiiCiety
should know, that consilerahly noire than 200 evenings
Imre 'wen spelit iii titudy during the year. snit that
; moue it the students time hardly missed a single iippor-
! tonity of being present.
, The prizoa ree-ivao last year, at a tflt'etikt of the
Asso.d..te.l.ltiatitutem Dor,..et and NriurrArt. eThics
that such iittriolaliCe is IllOt ill CAM ;nut Of/ 011111114 re
totider their best thanks to the several 'reacher* of the
°leases, by whose untiring and gratuitous services
these rewards were obtained.

The rerort liavit,g been moved and eecon,led, Nras
carried unat•itnously.
A discition n nes Afterwards entered nit" re-
t I 0
pap( rn
iwy fl the
thwg
5h..111,1 Atleet,d, other 3 Wray in favollr of
a
the gi4,,vlard. maitttr. however. MI 'wing put
to the vote, nNI decided in faarour of the T. few-eph.
Aft,r fiart-!ier Inisiuesa of minor importance
the meeting sepnrwt•xi,
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DORCHESTER TOWN COUNCIL.

A meeting of the Council WU held on Monday.
Present thy Mas or ; A I,lrulat, Maalichl ; l'mn•
eillors Herein:di, Frond. Bishop, Bennett, Calpin,
Lock, Aldridge, and Stanton.
The Cl.l+.lqC having read the minute of the last
meeting, a license uas bettitta to authorise Mr.
Edward Ingram to assign to Mr. Henry Lock a por-
tion of the premises in the Nortli.eqiiare. hitherto
held by the late Mr. B. Harvey under the council.
The report of the Finance Committee was read,
and Mr. lf• LP IN proposed that ill (lain c all the
small lines awl quit rents should be published in
detail. It well Involve but a small addlithoial
expenditure for printing ; and in his opitlion,it was a
matter of considerable imp.rtance. The other mew-
present agn,sl with NI r. refereoce to
the matter, and an order was ae,s,rdiligly mad, Oat
the urhy tatement of accounts should be SO