, 1872-05-25

neuC ana lRaC OF the community as II inc
same question could not be put, and per-
haps with greater fears, to the same class
of men in reference to the plan favoured in
the Governments Remarks.-His Excellen-
cy dwelt, and from the very abridged Report
we are able to offer the Public, it would seem
he was ably assisted by Mr.. Rosenstand,-
on the question if the cases between en-
ployer and labourer were to be exempted
from treatment by the Policemasters this
was another argumentum ad "planterum."
ButthOse cases have, in so far as they have
hitherto rested with the PolicemasteT as
such and been under his decision, almost
always been decided by the Policeassistant
and with q P~olicemaster for the whole Is
land, these cases could continue to be treat
ed In the same way. The cases that have
been decided by the Police Court, as such
will have to be referred to the Police-Judge,
who will be the same as the Town Judge.
AS soon as the Inspector through the As
slstantS finds q case merlting a decision be-
yond his control or authority, he will send
it at once to the Judge, who will pass sem
tence. And every planter is aware that
many, many of the cases he brings before
the Court are already treated in this way,
so he will be losing no time, nor will he be
requiring q larger to be paid out Of his
0WU pocket. Such cases are now, contrary
to the first principles of judicature, treated
as public criminal cases, instead of being
dealt with as civil private suits between
man and man they will no doubt con-
tlnue to be so treated, and the Public must
provide a Prosecutor and observation-disclosures
for the rest useless formalities. Many are
the labour-caSes, and Observation-Disclosures
that have to be referred after POtjcemGSter-
investigation to the ordinary TOUn-Court.
We hold with the planters that their in
terests will not be exposed in any way, but
rather a thousand times better served by
one Police-Inspector. We would still hold
on to one Town-Judge, as originally pre-
scrlbed in 1856 but rather than seeing
the Inspector lost, re would go 10 for two
Judges, although there is not sufficient oc-
cupatiOn for them.-His EXcellencV said
the arrangements of 1862 were only tenn
porarily made, not preparatory but
whether this be SO, or not,-the difference
is a mere hair-breadth,-has no earthly i'm
port in a practical sense, and His Excellen-
cy deals mostly in practical not abstract
matters. Neither the one nor the other
of these adjectives would render it impera-
lively necessary to take the organisation
which so many condemned before, and now
more than ever.-His Excellency said it
was impossible for one man to do the In
spector's duties but why so We hear it
uncontradictedly asserted, that one Police
master says he has nothing to do in his dis
trict; another Policemaster acts now both
in Christiansted and in the Centerdistrict >
what does this argue 7-His Excellency
said, with one Policemaster too much
would have to be left to subordinates 5
but We contend that that will be not so
much as now, when the Policeassistants
have on very many occasions to sit in an
informal manner IN Court and decide very
many cases; the duties of the Police will
in q certain sense be less, and the authori-
ty of the Police Assistants will be regula-
ted by Instructions, to be given by the
Legislature. His ExceIlency shews up
the amount of fees collected at the Judge
Office III Christiansted in order to prove
that there is nc press of business in that
Office ; but His Excellency forgot the large
number of beneffciate and criminal cases,
in which no fees are collected at all events
His Excellency's quotation would at best