The City of Enfield South Australia 1853 - 1953

end a "fair and equitable assessment was made". The council, at a meeting immediately after, decided to return the shilling rate which had been eolleetecl and to hold its hand on a rate until a new council had been elected the next year. The ratepayers" poll for that purpose took place at the North I lotel, EnHeld, and after three new members had been returned a satisfactor\ rate was struck. In later years many of the pioneers of the district, or their descendants, ser\ed the district on the council. John Ragless, junior, was the second chairman; Charles F. Folland was a member for several years and was chairman in 1864. His son, of the same initials, also served a term and was chairman in 1908-04. Mr. G. W.Sudholz was first chairman of the district council of Yatala South when the original area was divided. Mr. Thomas Turner, who took o\-er the village smithy from Emanuel Young, was a member of the original Yatala council for several years and was chairman in 1867-68, the last vcar before the division. His grandson, present owner and occupant of the smithy, per petuated the family association with local governing affairs and is a member of the present Enfield City Council. Another interesting member, in 1862, was William Ridley, then a resident of the district. He, according to pretty well substantiated reports, helped his brother John materially in the construction of the Ridley reaper. During these early years, the Council received substantial subsidies from the C-o^ernment on rates collected, and with other general revenue, a fairly large amount was ax-ailable for expenditure on works. Fees from the licensing of Public Houses, which at this time numbered approximatelv twentv-three. dog licence fees, and revenue from Public Pounds, comprised the principal items of general revenue. In 1855. on a petition of 101 ratepayers in the Walkerville area to the Colonial Secretary, sections 475 and 476, embracins 120 acres and rvith a population ol bettveen 500 and 600, were severed from the Yatala Council and const,tmed the District Council of Walkerville. On its proclamation on July 5, 1855, Walkerville ended its a.ssociation with Enlield. Meanwhile, Enfield itself was contins on. In August, 1852 the Colonial Secretary pissed on to the Lieutenant-Governor a recommendation of the Postmaster C.eneral that the petition of the residents of the "village of Enfield and its \icmitv that Mr. William Godson hn w-rn . i • li ^ ouson ne accepted as a suitable pcr.son to poge eigliteeii •I \

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