, 1867-09-24

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ance &c. to the Military at Frederiksted and
at Kingshill as we'll as of the military and
civil patients at the hospital, Frederiksted,
from the 1st January 1868.
This case was discussed with closed doors,
Rules of Business 5 7 the purveyance Will be
advertised for public competition.
q, The End discussion of the Budget for the
Municipality of st. Croix for 1s67-68.
The Governor stated, that in revising all the
Grants adopted by the Council it will be seen,
that the increase adopted in the several items
of the draft of the Budget is as follows ad D.
g: Judiciary and Police-D Department S1531,-
d. A: Customhouse Department SlO0,-D. 6:
Post Department SAD. IL: Sanitary De-
partment $257,-D. 13: Prison Department
$1s6,-and E: Buildings and other uncertain
expenses $295,-amounting t0$2373
the following reductions have been adopted:
ad D. 9: Road Department, Streets &c. $41,-
ID. 12: Poor Department $30O,-amounting to
$341, which sum deducted from the above
$2373, leaves a final increase of $2O32. The
total item of Expenditure in the draft OF the
Budget $3.50, 1928. II will thus be increased to
$19l,36O. II. The total item of Revenue in
the draft of the Budget $191,410, will under all
circumstances have to be increased by the sum
of $500 to be compounded by the Lutheran
Church, Christiansted, as stated in the remarks
to the Money Bill ad Item E, which sum will
be added to the Item of Revenue c.. 5: Various
Revenues; His Excellency also reserved his
right to bring in amendments for augmentlng
another Item, viz: the Absentee-Tax. Re
s~pecting the state of the Colonial Treasury
and the amount in hand, according to 5 81 of
the Colonial Law, the property of the State
TREASURY, he informed the Council, that the
State Treasury's Cash in the fort amounted on
the LIST April 1865 to $47,9s2, "a cents, of
which was RENTED in the financial year
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Cash transferred from the Landtreasury to the
Colonial Treasury amounted to $2l ,464. II,
to which has been added the Landtreasury's
claim on the Immigration-Fun amounting to
$7163. 81 cents, which has been paid into the
Colonial Treasury the total Cash transferred
from the Landtreasury amounts therefore to
S2S,62S. OS cts. The state of the Colonial
Treasury for the two last years depends conse-
ouently on the results of the Accounts for each
Of these years but as the final prospectus of
the Accounts even for the year 1906, on
account of the late closure of the Ledger, has
not yet been rendered, there is only the present
preliminary prospectus of the Colonial Treasu-
RVS Revenue and Expenditure for the said
wear, according to which the total Revenue
amounts to $19O,551 (amount calculated in
the Budget $l97, 1863, and the total Expendi-
ture to $179,527 (amount calculated in the Bud
get $l93, 167), shelving a balance of $11,024.
The Ledger for the financial year l666-67'is
not yet closed, therefore only a preliminary
prospectus can be obtained by the addition of
the accounts appearing in the Ledger; accord
ing to which the total Revenue has amount
ed to $1s9,223 Calculated in the Budget to
$197,66O) and the total Expenditure $179,559,
Calculated in the Budget to $193,213), show
ing a balance of 1864. It is probable, that
these figures in the final prospectus will be
somewhat changed but they will at any rate
enable the Council to form a somewhat reliable
Judgment of the state of the Colonial Treasury.
The original amount received from the Land
treasury $2s,62s. 0s, might therefore be con-
sidered increased by the balance of the two
previous years, about $4,000, without taking
into account the losses sustained by the Lund-
Hansen's Bills of Exchange, not yet calculated.
The Vice-Chairman fixed the next meeting
for Monday the 10th September, - O'Clock at
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