, 1865-03-21

JcSSlOn. members CdlduW anu 4
lam absent. The following cases refer
ed.
Petitions from theL. Councils officials
relative to their eventual position at the
approaching dissolution Of the Burgher
Council, as follows:
From the Secretary
To
The Honorable
The Burghcr Council,
II beg leave most respectfully to submit to
the consideration of the Honorable Council,
that upon the approaching dissolution Of
your Honorable Body, l shall be deprived of
my situation.
AS under the present circumstances | feel,
that, in accordance with all precedent, l am
entitled to claim as my just due, an equita-
bic provision for the loss | am thus about to
sustain for services to the public, extending
over "a years, / most humbly and earnestly
solicit the Honorable Council to bring I'M
der the early consideration Of His EXcelIency
the Governor the hardship of my case, hav-
inc a family to support and without any other
occupation whereby [ can obtain a living,
and to request, if possible, that employment
may be provided for me in the future leglSla-
tive Council or otherwise, as may seem best
to His ExceIlency, and most humbly solicit,
that if such application fail of success, that
Your Honorable Board will be pleased, pre-
yious to it's dissolution, to assign to your
petitioner such an amount of pension, charge
able on the Municipal funds Of the Island, as
you may deem adequate to my long and
faithful services.
respectfully.
~(signed) JACOB MULLER
From the Treasurer:
To
The Honorable Burgher Council
of ST. Croix,
al the undersigned, Treasurer to the Hon
orablo Burgher Council. beg leave to lay the
following statement before your Honorable
Board
AS the Burgher Council in accordance
with the Colonial Law will cease to exist on
or after the LIST April next, l claim the right
in accordance with usage and precedent to
have determined by your Honorable Board,
what amount of pension I shall receive when
ever from either want Of employment, old
age, or other causes, / may stand IN need OF
it.
Imost humbly request, that this question
be decided by your Honorable Board, since
tho Pension Law only provides for royalty
appointed officials, and [ consider that your
decision in this respect must be as binding
on the future Colonial Treasury as any other
decision regarding salaries, pensions, and
other outlays, which your Honorable Board
have already made, and which will be con-
tinued in force by that Treasury.
In the hope that your Honorable Board
may take some action in this matter and Sc
cure to me what in justice l have a right to
expect, I beg leave to subscribe myself,
most respectfully,
(signed) n. IWERSEN."
st. Croix goth February 1865.
No, 81.
Resolved to lay the case before His Excel
lency the Governor, accompanied with the fol-
lowing letter -
'1The Council, while forwarding the enclos-
ed petitions from their Secretary and Book
keeper and Treasurer, regret that the time
for the dissolution of their Board is so far ad-
vanced without having, by correspondence be-
tween the Government and the Council,
come to any final decision in regard to the
future of their Officials
The Council cannot refrain from express
ing their opinion, that their Secretary and
Bookkeeper as we'll as their Treasurer, not