, 1870-12-09
OF
THE
Colonial Council
FOR ST. CROIX.

lonial Councils proceedings of the 2lst Novbr.
1870 runs as follows:
The Undersigned Committee appointed by the
Colonial Council to report on the following
drafts of ordinances:
1, relative to the Measurement of Ships,
9, relative to the Registration of Ships,
3, relative to the Import Duty on Ships, Boats
and other Crafts,
in the Danish Westindia Islands, begs leave to
state the results of our proceedings.
The Committee can on the whole recommend
the drafts for the adoption of the Colonial Coun-
Gil. The purport of the drafts of ordinances,
as stated in the motives, we recommend for adj
option for st. CroiX, and the manner in which
it is rendered obtainable by the drafts I'VE con-
slider on the whole to be we'll chosen and suited
to the existing relations. The Committee has,
however, found cause to offer some remarks to
several items, as follows:
|. ad the draft of ordinance relative to the
Measurement of Ships in the Danish West
india Islands.
adj Is. AS all the drafts are intended for
adoption for all the Danish Westindia Islands,
we have considered it advisable to obtain the
most possible harmony in the treatment of the
drafts in this Island and in st. Thomas. The
Committee being aware, that at the 2nd discus
sion of the present draft in the Colonial Council
for st. Thomas and st. Johns it was presumed,
that an enactment according to which the fee
for the measurement is to be paid into the Co.
lOnial Treasury might intend, that the fee is to
be paid direct into the Colonial Treasury and
not to the OustomhouSe, and as it has been
agreed upon in the 1st part of the S to substitute
the word "CustOms'-A authorities" instead of
Colonial Treasury" we have recommended
fhe alteration.
T a6 S "a. The Committee recommends for
the Councils adoption the Governors amend
ment, according to which the ordinance will be
put into force two months after having been
confirmed by His Majesty.
26. At the 2nd discussion of the draft in
the Colonial Council for St. Thomas and st.
Johns the Bird section of this 5 viz: ain both
these cases the fees for measurement shall be
charged as stipulated in 5 Is for Measurement"
has been altered thus
"In both these ca18 the fees for Measure
ment shall be charged as stipulated in s IS
for Measurement; still those vessels at pre-
sent owned in St. Thomas, shall be measured
and new measured briefs be given them free
Of charge, in consideration of the high mea-
surement fee of the As cts. pr. commercial
last already paid by them"
AS far as We could learn the discussion goes to
show, that this exemption from paying the mea-
surement-fee has been considered a just claim
on the part of the ship-owners, it having been
observed, that they have already paid the high
measurement eB As cts. pr, commercially last j;
but as the measurement, according to the ex-
listing regulations, only lasts for vessels of oak
for a term of ten years, for vessels of fir or other
light material for 8 years, after the lapse of
which period they are to be re-measured and
pay a new fee for the measurement, say "a cts.
pr. commentaries, and as the measurement
stipulated in s &c of the present draft is only
compulsory in case the.old measure-briefs have
run out, which also according to the existing