Dover corporation

The borough of Dover, which owns civic property, confirms the port-reeve's election, audits the public quay account and keeps the borough minutes. It enforces weights-and-measures by-laws on victuallers after two failed attempts to regulate lodging and victualling prices.

The borough corporation of Dover, which paves, licenses public houses at an annual session, levies the rate, lets the mission its building, and holds quarantine powers jointly with the customs house.

Named with it

• Lady Mayor Eleanor Marsh · mayor
• Town Clerk Hester Appledore · keeps the licensing book

Ties

• confirms and audits the Port-reeve of Dover
• its borough keeps a room at the back of the Dover Quay Office for bodies awaiting inquest
• raised refused passengers with the Dover packet service owners
• receives the Blanchefleur harbour commissioner
• shares quarantine powers with the customs house
• lets the quay mission its building
• directs the Dover watch

In the chronicle

• 4466 · The Dover licensing decision of 4466

At the table

For centuries an oil payment has stood in its books each winter for the head of the eastern quay, and in those years when the coroner sat most often it doubles; no one has ever compared these entries with the quay office's. Once, and only once, do its minutes note that the quay extension 'was done without disturbance'. The sexton is paid from its accounts for the 'Night Attendance'. In print Lady Mayor Marsh has raised the unentered sailings, and the pilots' fund's shares in the packets, and been answered by nobody; with the packet owners the corporation has four times taken up the stranding of refused passengers, and had nothing for it. The Blanchefleur commissioner it receives on matters of form. Sixty-one houses hold its licence, though nearer a hundred sell drink. From the uncounted it looks away, saying it has no provision for the foreign poor. Trouble from outside that the quarter cannot manage brings a summons for hired hands.