The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-10-13 00:00:00

TOWN COUNCIL MEETING.

A meeting of the Town r,ouneil was held on Monday
morning, under the presidency d the Mayor (J. Tigard,
Lag). (There were also present—Aldermen Ele.t.
Howard, and Ma:ledge, and Councillors Thomas, Buck,
G. Eliot, E. Reunion, Brown, Pothecary, Venue,
}Liberia, Webb, Commine, and Bette.

•reourrxnt OF 'CAW atermiraw.
Alderman IL 14. Howard was re-appointed for Way-
mouth Ward, and Aldemum 'Wedge for ',Lacombe
Regis Ward.

Till LIII.BOAT 'SLIPWAY.

The MAYOR said ha had received a communication
from Mr. Cheeseman, asking permission of the Council
for the National Life•boat Institution to erect • slipway
for the new lifc•boat which would shortly arrive at
Weymouth.
After a short iliscussion, leave was granted for the
couirnittee to 'Enke • slipway from Hope quay, at the
nominal rent of 6d. per annum.

DILAPIDATION OF TON WEST QUAY.

The next notice on the paper ww to take into eon.
sideration the state of the Wed Quay, and the drainage
through the saute,

Mr. I'OTHZCAET said slate the late heavy gales and
hign tides the West Quay was in is moat unsatisfactory
state, and utile...owe piles were driven down the whole
portion near "-hese the Channel Maud, steamers stop
would bulge out. the quay bad already sunk several
inches, arid he would suggest, for the porpose of saving
• great expense, that tile part of the quay should be
satutfactorale piled. If the corporation neglected
doing the repairs, the whole lot would COMO dews.
Near the hank house. where the Weymouth and Port.
heed steamers were moored, the high tide had soaked
poles out of the qm.y sufficiently large for • poison to
, get into,and the quay bad sunk more than two feet below
the level of the tramway. Ile hoped the council would
not delay doing the necessary repain,butset to work mei
do what was required. If they had power to make the
railway authonties pay for the neeessary repair., they
ought to do so at once. He was astounded when he
heard the corporation had given up poesesaion of the
quay for the tramway, but if he had belonged to the
Corporation at that time he would have taken care that
it should not have been given up for Lathing. Ile
certainly believed that their harbour master did not pay
sufficient attention to the quay, or he would have
reported in present bad state. After alluding to the
backwater and the bad drainage, he left the matter is
the hands of the menet!,

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Tho MAYOR iaquirthl what balance they hid on the
harbour. fund.

Mr. P.rrace. Anr, in reforring to the item, aaid they
had £l9l 3s. M.

The MATOII then read a letter from Mr. Budd, the
Channel Island Steam Packet Company's agent, coin.
plaining of the want of proper protection to the emu-
pany's steamers, through the rottennessof the piles.
Mr. WILIM said the 'form Council had nothiug to du
with the piles which were more than six feet above the
level of the Quay as they were formerly placed in their
position by the London and South Western ltailersiy
Company for the Siuthampton steamers, at their own
expanse, and now the Channel Island steamers were
nisking us of them.

In reply toe question, Mr. STU/GALL, the Town Clerk,
said the Corporation would not allow strangers to drive
in piles. The coif °leach pile would be about k 5 or
Mr. Ilowiw remrplained of the way the Council bad
gone to work in the ijuay matter. They had gone into
matters that ought net to go before the public and he
proposed 'That a committee be formed emending of
the present Harbour Finance Committee, with the
addition of Mr. YotheauT, who with the assist:woe of
the surveyor, will report what repairs to the Quays of
the Harbour are necessary to be done, and the probable
expense of the mune, and that one member should form
a quorum.

After some other remark. from Mr. HOWL6D and lfr.
Poniscanv, the T.Ali CLIME said the corporation
formerly held the power over the Quay which by gross
negligence they bad now lust. After the Act of Parlia-
ment was obtained to construct the prewnt tramway
they ought never to have allowed that power to have
gone out of their bands._

The resclutteu et Mr. Ll°wain was put by the chair-
man and curled.