, 1872-03-20
OCEEDING
Of the Colonial Council for st. Croix.
Continuation of the Meeting of 4th March 1922

Continuation ofhe MeeHngd h March 18m)
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certain amount a@pmIAa~, without with certainty showing wno we az" to get the amount Of
oo shows. thai an average crop does not "1 the 10000 lo%ssd His Ese&m eyre nef%od
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'"s" sb MEMBER S%@' i $SS 6 %% 5 G%R%e@ 70 o % 0@9SDD DS 5Hs' l 4 D%5"s %eon 5iS%t the motion for .
End Member for r"a%h4d E5oJ said h" entirely om4v with the aa Member for Chris
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to understand both feelings better thar he do8n now. There may be disappointment and mlanho-
y because the crop hH year shorter than last yea, btn not bameH this fact navidbyn involves
ashoer income to TIL uNuy Hew would suggest to hose Members to gives some indication of
hem ens to remedy that He was always dad to hear the eTr@nn fpMo opinion ht he be-
Gem that ntee expressions of the Colonial Council, empowered h It's, here is something more
Mbee expresses hm feelings IL ted disappointment texpw&ed,h could add his own dsamont
mnt ats seeing no means indcamb them for eHerng Hef financial position He had undertaken
hheW, and had shwn tta rNiMn 0he administrations penss had been introduced on this
budget; amd he had shwn how $2lO 900 cmn future be saved and had stated that it will be
tn aim fhe Administration to achieve that, if be practicable Nov $R.O 600 out of $IS6OOO
about II pr Cto fhe cusomny yemy expenditure, must certainly count for something He
would be glad for advms how go further; butt until nov he had heard natng in that direction
honorable Member for hitMnsNds Country Districts idn had go sewn how the in
come to covert the expense can be p"cmed; why, h .ntnten eGovemaO had exactly been
to Smw how it cOd be procured andhe must cnhdy confess that his intention never vent in
aach oo other resmcesh than hose he lid state; he had pointed out how tM income wsh be pro-
cured by the axhnn moderated asst s. ndby enhancing tep production not to any unreasonable
extent but to limit which every where Use md be considered very low mdn fact would be
sdh Town asa bad crop. He discovered now, that he had not been. successful explaining what he
meant to Illustrate and in fctw when working With unknown figures it is not so easy to state ones
as:si "a .% 4 s to . :s I'D ; @: a as sa s:.s s a9' %As at. tss s sssaa sSs sen a the l gsisss u:
and as the Expo-Duy is tax assessed direct proportion to the production of the Island be
took that The t myn otbe as set down. frnish here mde rhem mere sake of calculation tits
mott he meamngt That dd duty must give that's SUN, butt ehd houghth tahrh having the amount Of
TIL other taxation c could me hat ia to bring mher t ahs in rahya tax that sums up the p-
duMn ofhe Island But he calculation had no bearing on the aMa menure-Thesa same honuw-
BILE Member had suggbedh the building operations involving the increase in the expenditure
could be deferred until we have te means of providing them but tep nth the Governor wold