, 1867-01-15

Johns to express their sympathy with the in
habitantS of st. Thomas in consequence of the
e~pidemics raging there, especially Cholera and
Yellow fever.
OF the members the list member for Frede-
riksted's town (Sarauw) was absent in cOnse-
quence of press of business.
The minutes Of the last meeting were read,
whereupon the Chairman caused the following
draft of the address to be read.
''The Colonial Council for st. Croix has in
its meeting of the 18th instant unanimously
formed the resolution of conveying to the
community of st. Thomas their deep sense of
the calamity with which that Island is visited
at the present time.
In now carrying out this resolution we beg
to say, that we fulfill a wish, which is shared
by all the inhabitants of our Island. The
Council was moved to that resolution not sole
ly by general human sympathy with an extra
ordinary misfortune, nor by the proximity of
the two Islands but there exists a close
relationship between the three sister-Islands
and especially between st. Thomas and St.
Crolx, which in a particular degree calls upon
us to present this address to the Colonial
Council for st. Thomas and ST. Johns.
Almost from their very coming into existence
as ciYiliSed communities the Islands have lived
and fiourished under the same mild government
and the same just laws. During a long part
of that time they have together enjoyed an
extraordinary degree of material prosperity.
and although that prosperity as far as st.
Croix is concerned has been much lessened by
the force Of circumstances, it always gives us
pleasure to witness the continuance and extern
sion of the ommerc and shipping of St. Tho
mas, and we look upon every symptom of APP
prehensiOn of its dlminutiOn as an evil that also
concerns us. AT the same time taking into
consideration the many ties of commercial in
t%erests, personal acquaintance and family con-
nections which bind the inhabitants of the one
Island to those Of the other, and recalling to
memory the readiness with which the inhabi-
tants ofSt. Thomas have come to our aid in every
case of misfortune that has befallen st. Croix,-
among which We will only refer to the distur-
Dances in 1913, and the fire in the town of
Christiansted in the beginning of the present
year,-it would be unnatural not to be deeply
moved by the loss of hundreds of lives, the
stagnation Of business, and the scarcity of some
of the necesSaries of life that is experienced in
st. Thomas consequent upon the ravages of
three e|pideniCs at the same time, and it be-
comes the duty of this Council to give utter
ance to those feelings Of sympathy and grateful
remembrance.
Whether under the protection of the Almighty
the measures by which it is endeavoured TO save
this Island from the contagion of Cholera will
prove successful, no one can say, but we beg
to assure the inhabitants of st. Thomas of our
most anxious wish, Independently of our own
fate, that the diseases which have for some
time ragged there, may now have reached their
term, and that redoubled life and activity in
the different branches Of business may follow
upon the present temporary depression"
The address was unanimously adopted by
the Council, and the Chairman requested to
have it forwarded.
The Chairman fixed the next meeting for
the ordinary day of meeting Monday the 9TH of
January 1867 and the order of the day
l, I'd discussion of the Provisional Law of
goth February 1866 containing additional
clauses to the Ordinance of goth January
l649 concerning the relations between the
proprietors of landed estates and the rural
population in st Croix.
amendments to be forwarded up to Sd
January 1867, 2 o'clock noon)