The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-01-11 00:00:00

EXPENDITURE.

Ily pay of Chief Constable and Force ... 1027 19 7
By horse money, one quarter ... 112 10 0
By xmitingent expense+ examined and
allowed by the Committee ... 210 410
By Treasurer's salary, one quarter, to
Christmas', 1850
By clerk's salary, one year and a quarter,
to ditto ... • . ... •• • • 5 0
y balance in Treasurer's hands... ... 142 17 10

2143 7 3
The expenditure or the ensuing quarter has been
eat;niAted as fulluws :
By Chief Coustabie and force 1740 9 7
Contingent Sheet 142 18 0
I)olan's bill for hats 41 2 6
Treasurer's salary . . ... 12 10 0
Clerk's salary 6 5 0

1983 5 1

The Superannuation Fund amounts to 1:1452 15. Id.
Stock ; to which will be added iltiO lOs. thl., received
from the men in the past quarter.
Your Cot ;;;;; ittee recommend that • rate or two ki.
things in the pound, amounting to £1,514 194. 21. be
granted at these &salons, to be p.sul one week before
the next Sessions.

A letter has been recceived from the Secretary of
State for the Home Department, saying that he had
certified to the lainla of the Treasury, that the polka
Force for the county had been inaintained in a state of
efficiency for the whole year ending at Slichaelmaa last :
but the proportional part of the expense of the force,
payable by the Government for the past year, has nut
yet been received.
. .

Yl,lll. UolllllllitiVe are glad to it,-to that the police
force continue., to be conducted to their sAtidaction.

As to Weights and Measures—Your Committee —also
as a Committee of Weights and Measures have to report
thst tue Chief Constable has communicated with the
police soperintesidents as Inspectors Of Weights and
Measures, awl that the sum of £73 12s. has been paid
into the haunts of the County Treasurer, and the ex-
penses incorred, amounting to em 7s. 44., leave a
balance in favour of the county of .1.:33 13s. MM.
Your Ceminittee, upon the representation of the
Chief Constable, recommend that the inspectors he
allowed the suni of live shilling per day, when absent
froni houie on the days appointed for stamping and
adjusting weights, to cover the expenses of themselves
and horse ; and also the sum of fourpence per hour
when out for a day's inspection.
Your Committee also recommend to the Court that
Ahhobibury and Portland be added to the list of market
towns, and other places already appointed within the
Dorchester division, where the Inspector for the S
district is directed to attend for the purpose of compa-
ring and stamping weights and measures.
The CHAIKMAN, at the request id Mr. Frampton,
explained the nature of the title to the site of the lock-
up at Stuniiinater, and, after the opinion of counsel,
thought there could be no objection to that offered by
Lord Rivera.

Mr. FRAMPTON then moved the adoption of the report,
which was agreed to.

THE riBCOND COURT.
The CHAIM' AN said he VIVI cloredingly sorry to
announce that his excellent friend and coadjuter, Mr.
Porcher, the deputy chairman. WaN so seriously unwell
that ho was not able to attend these sessions ; and he
was more the Court would join with hhu in expressing
their sympathy and regret. It was now necess.sry they
should appoint a magistrate to occupy his place in the
second court.

Mr. Goittiox proposed that Mr. Farrer should take
the second chair temporarily, until Mr. Porcher's re-
covery. which was agreed to.
At the suggestion of the Chairman, the names of Mr.
flayly and Mr. Herbert Willimns were also ad.le I. as a
commitkv to assist in the administration of justice in
the second court.
cum, CONSTABLE'M RFPoIIT.
Mr. Frooks, Chork of the Peace. read the following
report, which was submitted by Colonel Cot, Chief
Constable

In compliance with the instructions lamed by her
Majesty's Secretary of State, I have the honour to lay
before you a return of the number and distribution, of
the police force of this county, together with returns of
the state of crime during the part quarter. These
returns chew the number of persons apprehended by the
constabulary, the nature of the charges against them,
and the manner in which the cases have been disposed
of; by which it appears that 211 persons have been
taken into custody, 62 discharged, 36 have been com-
mitted fur trial, and 113 summarily disposed of. A
return is also enclosed, *hewing the number of persons
who have been summoned during the name period,
amounting to 486. I have likewise to lay before you •
petition from the inhabitants of the villages of l'unck-
noWle and Swyre, praying that those places may be
transferred to the Bridport division, for the purpose of
inspection of weights and measures. I cannot, how-
ever, recommend to the Court this arrangement ; but as
great inconvenience is caused to the petitioners, from
having to come to Dorchester, upwards of twelve mil.,
to have their weights adjusted, I would suggest that
the village of Abliotsbury be added to those already
named, where the Superintendent of that division is
directed to attend for the purpose of comparing and
stamping weights, and I would also recommend that
Portland be added to the list. An application has been
inade to tue by the ratepayers of the towns of Gilling-
ham and Bockhorn Weston, in the Shaftesbury divisiou,
that an additional constable be stationed at each of those
places, for the purpose of affording then* protection
during the tunic the railway works may be iu progress
there, which employ upwardaid 500 labourers. As there
appeared to me an iminaliate necessity for this, in con-
sequence of a workman having been killed in one of the
frequent disturbances there, I have placed one of the
county force at the latter ',lace, awl I lieve XIV/ Inaile
an application to the railway authorities to be allowed
to rake two additional constables at their expense,
under the .tet 14 and 211.1 Vic.. cap. SO. Imm compliance
with the directions contained in the Order of Court. I
louse the honour of laying before you an abstract of the
account of the services perfornied by the constabulary,
in the inspection of weights and measures during the
past quarter, and to inform you that the sum of
£73 Is. 21. has been paid to the credit of the comity.