, 1867-01-08

garding the delivery of the pass to the Police
as an expedient one, whereby the owners of
estates may obtain information of the quantity
for which their managers had issued passes,
and thus control that too much cane juice is
not delivered.
End member for Christiansted's county dis
trict (Ratcliffe) approved of the expediency OF
the passes being produced at the Police Office
but thought, that they ought to be returned
to the party concerned so as to serve as a
legal voucher for the sale of the article, which
he was of the opinion may be arranged by a
provision directing the police to furnish the
pass with a stamp and returned to the party.
The Governor acknowledged, that returning
the pass furnished with a stamp or a certificate
would be of utility for the Police controlling
the sellers at the markets. The contents of
the passes would have to be noted at the Police
Office before returning them to the parties.
In conformity herewith he altered the following
words in the amendment No. 2 "dellvered"
and "deliver'' to "exhibited' and exhibit"
The lst member for Frederiksted's tow
(Sarauw) would vote against the amendment
No. l. The old ordinances only prescribed,
that sugar hogsheads should be branded be-
fore they left the estate. He acknowledged
that the amendment No. 2 was an improve
ment to the 2nd ) of the draft, but as he dis
approved of the principle in the 5, he would
desist voting on it.
The Chairman declared his dissatisfaction
with the whole draft as based on incorrect ac-
tual assertions with regard to the theft of the
cane-iuice, and besides quite impractical with
regard to carrying out provisions about passes.
The several items of detail that had been dis
cussed were quite immaterial to him, but he
would not allow the case to arrive at a final
decision without r~eserving the needtul on his
part. He referred to the views of the matter
formerly stated by him, at any rate to limit
the provision to stop the expectation of the
article, to be effected by the Authorities, but
not by a new law.
The End member for Christiansted's country
district (Ratclife) and the End member for
Frederiksted's country district (Knight) stated
their opinion regarding the necessity OF the
proposed measure in order to stop the great
abuses on foot, the latter repeating, that the
greater part of the caneiuice boiled down to
sugar cakes is stolen.
The 1st member for Frederiksted's town
(Sarauw) repeated, that the only practical
means Of stopping the existing evil would be
by a prohibition against the expectation OF
sugar cakes.
The Secretary (Pontavice) reported his
opinion formerly stated, that the provision
should be limited 10 the pF0nlDlCIOu VI We OK
p~ortation excepting in hogsheads or barrels
branded with tbs estates brand.
No member demanding the word, the Coun-
Gil proceeded to the voting as follows
The amendment No. l was adopted with II
votes against 3.
No. 2 with the amendment was adopted with
10 votes against 2.
No. 3 was adopted with Is votes against 1.
The ordinance with the amendments adopted
was adopted with IL votes against 3.
The lst member for Frederiksted's town
(Sarauw) reserved the minority's vote.
The Chairman postponed the discussion of
the remaining case on the order of the day for
the next ordinary meeting, and fixed a meeting
extra ordinem for Saturday the 22nd instant,
IL o'clock noon.
The meeting closed at 4 o'clock.