, 1870-05-27
PROCEEDINGS OF
THE
Colonial Council
FOR ST. CROIX.

D.. 2: Judiciary and e-Departmcnt.
The following amendments were entered
"a. The Governor: The amounts included under
No. 2 for Extra-Writing in the Judges office,
Cbristiansted, viz $40 p. m. or 1920 p. to
be reduced to IS p. m. or p. a, to ...,..SG0.
b. The Committee The amounts included uu-
der No. 2 stationery &c. in the Judges office
and the Police office, Christian8ted, viz. $83
for each, to be reduced for each to .....S62.
c The Governor The amount included under
No. 9 for Extra Writing in the Judges Office,
Fredoriksted, viz $15 p, m, or $751; p. a., to
be reduced to SIS p. m, or p. a.. 500.
d The Committee The amount included under
No. 2 for Extra riting-work in the Police
office, Frederiksted, viz. SIS p. M, or $3.50
P, a., to be reduced to SIS p. m or p. d. to $50.
q. The Bird cr~own-member (Raupach)
/. That the salary to the salaries Of clcrks
and extra-Writers be not Increased as thew
may earn by e~xtra-writing.
2. That the salary othe extra-writer in the Pc
lice-ofice, Frederikstcd, be reduced to the
half, say $40 p. m, as he may earn by
~eztra-writing. He ought not to be salaried
higher than one Of the policemen, because
the services performed by these are proper
tionatoly greater, being required night and
day.
8. That the salaries of the Police Assistants
be increased thus
The Assistant, Christiansted, annually at
least ..Sl,O60.
The Assistant, Frcderikstcd, annually at
least ...,....... ........S ,0S0.
The Assistant, KiDgShiL, annually at
least $500.
The Speaker Of the Committee Ratclife) OBJ
served, that the amendments of the Governor
had not been the subject of the Committee
discussions, and recommended those entered by
the Committee. He added, that the only in
crease he was willing to agree to was that to the
Police, and therefore did not object to the pro
posal of the 3rd crown-member respecting the
proposed salary to the Police Assistants.
The Governor said that the amendments pro
posed by him we're not only for the purpose of
attaining o saving in the expenses, but were all
so owing to the necessity Of following The same
principles in fixing the expenses under the diff
ferent branches of the Administration. AS a
consequence of the Committees proposals for
reductions in the amounts for ofice-expenses in
the Governments Secretary's Office, the Book
keepers and Treasurer's Office and the Custom
house in ChriStiansted, the opportunity which
some of the employees there have hitherto bad
to obtain a trifing compensation at the end of
the financial year for extra-Work performed by
them beyond the ordinary business-hOurs will
in future be excluded, but then the same thing
ought to be the case with the personnel in the
Judges Office. From the accounts sent in for
sums that are to be betrayed under the amount
at present granted for e~Xtra-writing work in
these offices, it has been noticed, that a portion
of the amounts are expended for remunerations
to persons permanently employed in the Office
the object of the amendments is therefore to
reduce the amounts to what is necessary in or
der to provide for the discharge of such extra
writing-work, to which other individuals than
those narmanantIv nmnInvad in the Office have