, 1867-08-09

deriksted S26, and for attendance to the
lamps $l2.
be ....... $4,000
The amendment No. | was adopted without
voting, the amendment No. 2 having been
adopted in the previous case the Grant with
the amount $500 posted in the amendment
No. 2 was adopted unanimously with IA
votes.
The discussion Of the Budget, entered on the
order of the day, was postponed according to
the proposal Of the Chairman, until all the
Grants have been adopted,
s, Resolution regarding the turtherancc OF an
Interpolation to His Excellency the Govern
or by the 2nd c~rown-member (Bie) the
contents as follows
"DoeS His EXcellency the Governor intend
LAYING before the Colonial Council a new Ofdl-
nance for the salaries of the civil officials in the
Island of St. CroiX p
The Council having, without voting, consent
ed to the furtherance Of the Interpolation, the
End c~rown-member stated, that he had been led
to bring in the Interpolation by the draft OF an
ordinance accompanying the report OF the
committee on the draft OF am ordinance INTRO
duced bv the Ist member for FrederikstedS
town (Sarauw) for separating the Police-Juris-
dictions &c, say the Committees suggestion,
that the future salary for the offices of the
judge and the Policcmaster ought to Ommenc
with $500 p. a. and every 9Th year be aug
mpnted with $500 until the salary arrived at
the amount of $24O1, which view OF the case
he considered acceded to by His EXcellency
the Governor. Should such II change be intro
duced for the judicial officials, it should also be
established for other civil officials, as ne saw
no particular reason why any distinction should
be made. He considered it a very hard case
for the civil officials and that not we'll founded,
if 80 essential q change III the economical
position of the officials should take place with
out this important question in its full extent
heinz brolght in for the discussion Of the
Council. He would not enter upon the
further details of the seeming dissimilarity
between q reduction in the condition OF
the civil officials in juxta position to the addi-
tions to the former pay of the military officials
not LONG ago introduced, and that even at a
neriod when it was we'll known, that all neces-
saries of life have risen at least 25 to SO pct.
more than formerly. He did not object to the
principle {. salarying the officials to a certain
extent in proportion to their term OF service,
nav he even considered it beneficial and just;
but he thought, that equity warranted, that the
present salaries be retained as a Medium, so
that what an official received less by the change
during his first years Of service he ought to
gain during the latter, and if 80 years be con-
sidered the duration of an officials term of
service, he ought to be enabled to gain during
the last Is years of his term of service the amount
he had received less during the last 10 years.
This rule would be not only just but benefcial. as
the official at an advanced age will have IN
creased expenses for the education of children
&c, besides it being an advantage to the
Colonial Treasury, because the diminution OF
the salaries during the first years service
would be certain, whereas the subsequent
augmentation would not always occur.
The Governor replied, that it was his inten-
ton to frame a draft of an ordinance for the