The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-12-06 00:00:00

ADJOURNED QUARTER SESSIONS.

WITYOUTH BAOEWATIR BRIDOL

The adjourned Quarter Sessions for the county were
held at the Shirehall on Saturday last, when there were
present : —John Floyer, ESQ. (in the chair), Major.
General Henning, C.B. H. C. Gooddes. Esq., Colonel
Sereffield, W. M. Calcrift, Erg , J. W. T. Eyler, Esq.,
A. Clayton. Req., and A. Martin, Esq.
The Court having been opened, Mr. R. Douglas
Thornton, qualified as a magistrate. The Court having
resolved itself into • committee to oonsider the Back-
water Bridge, after which the Court being again open,
the following report was read:—
" At a owns' of the Bridges, Buildings. and Roads
Committee, bold at the County Hall, Dorchester. on the
Sot day of December, 1881—Present: John Flom, Esq..
M.P., lie. A. Clayton, Kr. .1. W. T. Tyler. Blink water
Bridge —Your committee have to report that the Queen's
Bench Division of the High Court of Justice have bother
enlarged the time for the county to show cause why •
fica should not be imposed until the first day of next
Hilary sitting., which will be held in January next year.
The Mayor of Weymouth has been in communication
with the Clerk el the Pesos in reference LI the improve-
ment scheme, and it appears probable that the scheme
will be token up, it having been stated that the Corpora-
tion will be willing to entertain the prop sal of bearing
the expellee of reclaiming the Backwater on the met side,
provided the landowners and others undertake to carry
out the works on the western side. The Corporation It%
however, unable at present to give • definite reply to the
scheme submitted to them by the county authority. In
wsesquenos of the action of the Weymoeth Corporation.
considerable correspondence has taken place with the
Harbour Deportment of the Board of Trade in reference
to the plans which the Court have approved for the repair
and alteration of the Bridge in the event of the improve-
ment scheme follies to obtain support, and extracts from
such correspondence are annexed. Your committee
recommend that the following undertaking be given by
the Court as suggested by the Board of trade—via, that
the Justices of the Peace of the county of Dorset do, and
they hereby undertake and agree to groat at any future
time, on the requirement of the Booed of Trade, per-
mission to the harbour authority for Weymouth to con-
struct, time, and maintain, at the sole expense of such
harbour authority,
_an opening span or spans for the
Weems of vessels through the said Backwater Bridge.—
ALSZIT CLAYTON.
The CHAIIIMAS moved that the report be received sad
adopted, which was carried. He also moved as •
substantive revolution the motion at the end .of the
report which wag carried unanimously. The Chair-
man remarked he rather doubted whether the county
would be able to proceed with the work even at the
next Sessions, inasmuch as there had been so many
disapp iintoventa and delays.
The CLUIC of the PFACS said they would know
before next needons whether the owners of land would
be prepared to make Be. embankment as suggested in
the report.
Mr. A. Manna thought Lord Ilabester, who is the
principal owner, would not hesitate to make the
embankment, se;ing what an advantage it would b.to
hisTgreoBl%
moos afterwards dissolved.