The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-01-09 00:00:00

THS OGUITT.RATI BAWL

Lord Poeneret then mid it was his ditty, as chairmen
of the tounty-rate athethient ocumaties, to lay before
the Court the bailie epos which they had agnied,
gad he thought it very desireble that he should
In • very few words state to the county the
mode in which they had prepared it. In the ant plaai
he mut remind the court that for the first time they
bad had the great and invaluable unistauce in the w.rk
of the local meseement coremitioe of oath union in the
county. Hitherto the county rate easeasmeet
mitt.. led bon obliged to get the bed inkresetion
I they weld from the property the returns and the
pthabied vesithiesta, and so make the meaty rata es
well ae they weld. The last basis the so made in
1861, and Ito for had been aosepted by the aunty the
aa big exesilleat predegessor (the I.te Bev. H. P.
Yeateme) wee aoseetomed to say, 'lt meet be perfect
MOMS It WY D..t appealed weal." He ithe (h•it'
man) wits ae active party in forming that rate, and be
knew it could not be so good al to deserve an pram of
that hied, bet it au rather the oosesquisos of the for.
heathen of one perish with another that no expen-
sive god troublesome appeals were made. It
would be thounieg too much to may that
the comity rate made ender awe chenmathote
wag fair and than. In regard to the premiss bath they
had the benedt of tbe work of the Union aeseessent
Committees. Is remising the retails made by the
Union AilleStabeat CoMmittilt• they found that the nee
anneal value for the parochial aNewsseet varied so
meat in It, proportions throughout the °aunty that it
WM quit. impossible for them to hope for • fair and
equal bade for • toenty rate on the net solemn of the
Mike AJONSINSIIII. They then examined with thre
She pore estimate column, and found the epergne's-
lion betimes the miens unions in that column so moth
seeress that thy'' Nosthed it as the be for their
report. They knew from their own local ktherledp—
there bang on the lanissittee magistrates from every
division—that the relative proportioss between the
mese total of the several unions were not seeli as they 1
could thetas the amity to adopt, therefore they !
employed two of the melt eminent practical surveyors
they were able to °them, the under the advice for the
moat part of the Union Assessment Committees they
iteleeted • perish in each union to he valued. 1 hey
bwa with the assumption that each obeli union was
fair within itself, because they took tor granted that
the Agmessient Cheamittoes hut caraelly 'maned
their own static thessonenta and made them fair, parish
by parish. They than found that two unions in the
gouty had methated their gross solemn so nearly
In amordance with the value • plated upon the
selected parish in every anion by tic, velure
that they were gambled to take those two
anew as something like • standard for the
..at end west of the county. They than aseerteioed
that the other unions bore to those anions *Nato leo-
portions, thou.:hug to the eaten' opinion, and those
pawpaws's they aided to the unions slat required
addition, and having tithe that they &mimed and be.
laud tha those ooleines were on the gross eoliths as
few towards each other as it wag possible for than with
the present stale of their information to make these
To farm their not solemn they made certain abateeeeta
from the grwe estimate ethane sepplemenbed in the
way he had described, In seise ewes the abatement
beim/ 3 per coat. sad in others 8 per cent. To birth.,
complete the proportionate table they mode urban &i-
-dealism varying as the ease required from I to 20 per
ogee —313 per cent being Is the 011•• of dilapidated
house, and 6 per cent. in the sue of lead and farms in
=Thai they had arrived at the bens which he
ore the court. They had wintered it with the
Property tax in many division., and found upon the I
whole that it wee as war an approxintukie as
they believed to be jut and fair proportionate
value of the aura anew of tee assay. He inked
the Coma to adopt Net basis upon that nadengendieg,
hat be won bound to state that in his owe privete
epithet there were dirioreputhes encinga the sentral
unties, but that those diserepandee would be get right
In the coarse of the year, bemuse the owning into
operates of the new net would iodate the several
perishes in ea& anon to look more carefully into the
relative proportions which they ease thareed, and as
they were bound to nears to theatesty rate committee
on the let of December in each year an the venetian
they made duds( the year, the scanty rate committee
would be able to correct their basis, sad he trusted that
if the Court was good aweigh to arimpt the tads now
before them, that la they.. 1887 'bow minor alterations,
which time end farther ievethigation 'gabled them to
make, would put the aunty rate epos such • basis that
they might fairly macerate, ethos some great change
occurred in the next News or tan ware such awe
would be permanently aosethed. Eie alight inform some
of the perigee Julies. that the ant county rate altered
by the Cowl was made in 1770 or 1780, mad when they
changed that *or 35 years ago, they found the path
of Marline Illardiall rated Ithrber than Weymouth and
Meleombe Regis, sod some little sericeltural parishes
were assessed higher than the borough of Lyme Regis,
which showed how pallet some men were, and the
difficulty that thee existed in making just county rates
compared with the primal time, when they knew that
with the experiences of this year they would be \1b149 to
earns* the little dhicrepaseke obeli occurred I. the
present bads. He believed the Court mi_ht safely
adopt this bads am one to work upon, someone( it
free tine to time as they thought requisite. I/ the
Court should desire at all to knew aaything as
to the figures of the lannisee, he weld tell tom.
bet he "'abed to give them this grarnieg let them not
put together whole twang sad unitive them
with whole nukes, without Orst of on patting together
the state of all the paddles within inch union ; bacenee,
if they took Shaftesbury *ad Weymouth, or, he shoulo
my, any two thew, they would and, perhaps, a difkaana
raw of Increase in one than in the other. If they
looked at thy one anon they might fed no marked
lumen in the value of the property then es impend
with 185= in another there might be such an
0001111110011 in the vale, of the property in par-
' asides parishes, that the value of the anon wae largely
ingrained, and it was made to appear al if it had been
augmented)) sr 30 per cent., awl wisher only 5 per
cane It bad been eoespiained that the charges of the
or two parables to the comity rate bad been very meth
diminished, and the other day at the heeling of appeals
at ith„„eyere, it we objected that they had retied some
parishes and dirainiehed others. But it was answered,
no injustice has been dose, teethes grime the union
11•1111•DIDelli committee alaMiS4lll one of your parithes
they found that it had bees charged for 500 three that
did not exist in the pariah, width was not di, oared
by them till they elute to sift the matter again for •
new ateeement ; therefore it must WA be galled injustiee
and neglest on our part, tboagh it wee Jujubes done in
1861—from the eommittee's ithorathe of the acreage of
the parb.h. There happened to be two or three parishes
In this anion where similar mistakes occurred,
sod Medford Unice was another wherein it happened.
That denaripau of disceepuoica most away. be taken
into acthent when they looked at kerss of this kind,
and the Court would be phased to bear in mind that
Lb. bee wee laid upon the table not to be sanctioned
at the present smeloss, but to give the Court time to
ontaider the whole question, and at the Beater Seesioes
• regular motion would be made that it be the herds
upon which the precept for the meaty rate would be
breed. The emereittee had worked very assideonely,
and their dicer. Mr. Edward., had been, as in 1861,
pert etly invaluable. (Applause.)
Mr. H. C. ChJODDUi said the Weymouth, Dorchester,
Sberborse, and Oath maths had all taken the property
tan es the bastedf their easessments, deducting 3or 4
pm that, but he believed that the other union. had
labia no basis at all. Per blaillo.lll, Braminster Uoioe
wan aniseed to the want, ride in 1851 at £66,279,
which was £ll,OOO over d
titeroPerty return.. The
unsay rate committee new eased it to 031,037, '
and be treated that In going over the other anima '
they would take the property tar, not as • bees, buss.
an element in their caceleaths, breathe, if it were not
done, *me Woes that bad takes the property tee a. •
basis would be pat is aa unfair podition. He only
asked that is justice to Weymouth union, which be
knew was aseseeth the highest of all the anima Fle
did not oldest to that buses. he hour that in Portland
and Kiikomee Recie pe.therty had very mach increased;
but, ae Weymouth anion wa. rated ao high he tbeeght
It a right to eat that the property tan should be ea
element I. their ealealatimm.
The Ceerestast laid they used the property tax as a
ebb*, and 1504 as an element. They found that the
Preemie taz varied greatly it, detail It was Leaded
co the area in some teeth and in others wag retained
epos sore rents, which could not be sakes as an
estimate of the vane of property. In natty parishes
they found the rents were exceedingly low for pesetas
reasons, such ea friendthip between landlords and their
tweets, which made tits property tax no far orkerion
for other parishes when meto were high. Per the par.
poem a userbanag the relative values, they did their
beet to tret real value to pith the,., He taught thou
inies yeeNey In he. Goo's lame, which probably
had ael ormissel Is kith The *eagle; ammetzte was
formed apse while the was
formed epos anions, and game TredGeodebs bad
lebos that tate hi.ealesdatioe el the wishes which
beloved to the di.laion heretofore sad were now
alleged in salmis, lart had sot arrived at the exist
keno wpm which he formed his caleeletions. lfro
Good/lee had said that Besadumer sales was law as
eseitheed with that of Weymouth. In the existies
eansty rate, Belducal
.divithas thintaised whet vas new
in Amberdrer, Beawdsieter, mid (Rend sakes, sod
Deroboteor leviers oiespelied 081 old& eres esee Is