, 1867-01-29

plan OF manufacturing Tor expectation this inferior
andimpure sort of sugar of which the Sugar-Cakes
are made. The individual laborer who now re-
ceives the cane juice and sells the cakes, has
too few of them so as to admit of expectation
where should the purchasers, who buy them
from many different laborers from different
estates, get hogsheads &c. furnished with the
estates brand, and how should the c~ustomhOuse
officials act, if a hogshead &c. should be
brought there with the brand of different es-
tates? It will be seen, that the adopted draft
amounts to the same as a prohibition against
expectation, although we in reality object to any
such restriction of the natural right of dispOsing
of ones lawful property in the best market; we
consider such a prohibition as being not only
contrary to the first truths of national economy,
but also in opposition to that justice due to
each and every individual in the community
we prefer the form in which it was brought for
ward by the proposers, as where what is meant
is plainly stated.
We must also state our diSapproval
of the expedient used in the End 5 of the ordi-
nance to prevent or raise difficulties in the way
of the sale of the Sugar-Cakes in question by a
regulation about passes. Such an enactment
regarding an object so small, that it can be
carried by night and day in pockets, hats, We
hicles, hidden under fruit, vegetables or all
other things brought to town the towns be-
W OCILS oOOCoSIDAO Oh Oil oIuCop WltnOu
gates or excise Officers, would, in the case of an
increase of the POlice-force animated by a spe-
cial zeal for the matter, lead to intolerable in
conveniences, detention and investigation in the
streets and on the roads, and could moreover
be eluded with such facility, that the Police
and Police regulations would be exposed to
redicule.
Without such extraordinary e%xertions on the
part of the Police the measures would be in
significant. That the pass can not give the
least information as to the pith of the case,
viz, the manner in which the Sugar-Cake or
the canejuice boiled into sugar-cake has come
into the possession of the person, for which the
manager of the estate gives a pass as to the
legality of the possession, is evident.
The above contains briefly the essential con-
Siderations for our ~Objecting to the ordinance
during the discussions in the Council, and for
our embodying our objections in a minority
vote.
The undersigned, c.. Sarauw, does further
object to the indirect way by which it has been
attempted to introduce a new enactment con-
corning a matter not in connection with the
present. The first s of the draft contains a
clause in which it has been stated that sugar
cannot be exported except in casks marked
with the brand of the Estate. When during
the discussions in the Council it was stated, that
there did not exist a law to this effect, the
Governor cited the Governments Placard dated
2lst February 1850 but this Placard and the
later Placards dated 10th Mar1h 1889 and 9TH
March 1888, relative to the same matter, do not
contain any such prohibition the first named
Placard stated, that Planters defrauded the
royal Westindia and Guinea Company and
their other creditors by shipping their sugars
under false and wrong names, wherefore il
was ordered, that each planter should procure
n pOoNIr nnd that NO cIroa cha,l1 HA n-A4
from the Estates except in casks and barrels
branked with this mark in the presence of two
neighbours who were to give a certificate con-
corning the matter. These enactments were
repeated with more details and extended to
st. Thomas and st, John by the last mentioned
Placards after His Majesty had taken over the
Islands from the Company and assumed sundry
loans contracted by the planters but a prohi-
bition against exporting sugars otherwise than
in casks thus branded, these Government Pla-
cards do not contain and could not contain.
That the sugars of this Island for the greater