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sergeant of police resident in the district, and also to club 

 rooms. A flight of stone stairs at the west end leads to the 

 Public Rooms, which are used for magistrates' meetings, 

 sittings of the County Court, lectures, concerts, bazaars, 

 &c. &c. Another staircase takes us to the reading room, 

 which is well supplied with books, newspapers, maps, and 

 other requisites. One of the rooms is devoted to a museum 

 of stuffed birds and other objects in natural history, presented 

 to the town by the late Charles Prideaux, Esq., and intended 

 as the nucleus of a larger collection as other donors come 

 forward. 



The Petty Sessions, which were formerly held at Morley, 

 were discontinued there in or about the year 1858, and are 

 now held in the Town Hall, Kingsbridge, and the adjourned 

 meetings take place at Totnes instead of Kingsbridge. There 

 are meetings of magistrates held alternately at Kingsbridge 

 and Totnes, monthly; at the Public Rooms, Kingsbridge, and 

 the Guildhall, Totnes. 



The names of the present magistrates (1874) are — 



Sir H. P. Seale, Bart, Mount Boon, Dartmouth j 



J. Allen, Esq., Coleridge House, Stokenham ; 



A. B. E. Holdsworth, Esq., Widdicombe, Stokenham ; 



R. Dueant, Esq., Sharpham, Totnes ; 



M. Fortescue, Esq., Weston House, Totnes ; 



H. L. Toll, Esq., Street Gate, Blackauton j 



Capt. A. Eidgway, Shipley, Blackauton ; 



A. Champernowne, Esq., Dartington House, Totnes ; 



E. H. Watson, Esq., Dorsley, Totnes ; 



C. S. Hawkins, Esq., Triton Lodge, Plympton ; 



A. F. Holdsworth, Esq., Widdicombe, Stokenham ; 



S. E. Cary, Esq., Follaton, Totnes j 



Com. T. S. Twysden, E.N., Charleton; 



T. King, Esq., Manor House, North Huish; 



Major-General Birdwood, Woodcot, Salcombe ; 



W. Cubitt, Esq., Fallapit, East Allington. 



Magistrates' Clerk— Thojias Wyse Weymouth. 



