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

At the table

Its books record oil paid for the head of the eastern quay every winter for centuries, doubled in the years the coroner sat oftenest; the entries were never connected with the quay office's. Its minutes note once that the quay extension 'was done without disturbance'. Lady Mayor Marsh has raised unentered sailings and the pilots' fund's packet shares in print without answer; the corporation has raised stranded refused passengers with the packet owners four times without result. It receives the Blanchefleur commissioner on formal matters. Licenses sixty-one houses while nearer a hundred sell drink. Looks away from the uncounted and says it has no provision for the foreign poor. Its accounts pay the sexton for the 'Night Attendance'. Sends for hired hands when the quarter cannot handle trouble from outside.