, 1872-05-18

CETN 1T IICUNIIh0ICU bUUUIN IUV 10 ICoS IUNII
$4,000 give the Officers 10 the Customhouse
and in the Treasury good salaries. In regard
to the proposal of Latimer to do away with Let
tercarriers, better do away with the Post Office
altogether; better then let the letters be distri-
buted as in former days: the letter bag opened
under some gallery, and The letters called out
there; some little street-boy could get hold Of
your letter, aud bring ii to you, if be likes. The
Postofice expenses are already entirely too
Scanty the Postmaster in Christiansted has not
even got a candle-Stick, but has to use "a bottle
to fix his light to read by laughter ]-As re-
CARDS the horses in the Forts, some will have
TO be sold, and some more ponies bought.
Faber in reply to Raupach about the question
of 3 Poljcemasters or l PoIicem4sler beng left
TO Lawyers, observed that in the Committee
there we're 9 able legal men their opinions
were opposed to each other, and there is very
often great difference Of opinion among such
men, even outside the Council many are
against 8 Pulicmasters, and he had heard a Po-
iccmaster himself c~ompllin that be had nothing
10 do. Anthon said the Council could not be
prepared to-day to give an opinion on the ques-
ton, which it was hearing to-day for the first
time, and it appears improper in the Committee
to have introduced he matter under the Budget.
The Inspector of Buildings does his duty, all the
public Buildings are kept in good order where
that is not the case, it is because the Council
refuses 10 grant the money As for the Gus.
tomhou>es, 2 Tide WaIors in Christiansted viii
be quite insufficient, in fact it would b impossi-
be 10 have lhe work done by only 2 il the
CoUnci pr Ter this number, be would prefer 10
have Mihtary. But at the same time it would
certainty never d to reduce the number of comp
trollers. RoSenaamd il reference to Sarauw
about j; b.. ING I'll to the Government to bring
- % N ,f -" O.J;nu~.o ;P j. liz. ~, tbn Iu1i-
ciarY Department, said that The Governm ut had
explainedl it, pan, hadexplained why it has posted
those item. S, as they are in the Budget. Bat
the Committee has offered no Daft, which lie
still cont nds it ought to have done, therefore be
had reserved his vute in the 9 tmmltte and will
do SO now again. There is no other point where
the Couuoij should bs more careful TO avoid
committing itself, as this one. AS long as the
vitAiti, Of the plan have not been stated, as
loug as i; is uncertain whether the cases be-
tween mas er and hbouror are to be removed
from theis wJnted tribunal, the Policecourts, aud
transferred 10 another one, TO be kept only on
certain fixed days, with all the formalitIes Of
lawyer pleas and the like, ii il impossible fot
him to state his position TO the matter. And
even aftor Sarauw..s explanation to-day, he !s es
far off as befolo from the real meaning, aud
behind those little words cat all events"
may bS uluucu d EOU0 0G0A' uo "Abto
to see defined, is what the Judge is to do and
what III, Policemaster. .Foyrely said he had
in the Committee pu' the QUESTION to Rosrn-
stand what are the functions of a Judge and Of
q Poliremaster, and Rosenstandh had replied be did
not exaotly know (Rosenstand | beg PARDON
never said that)-Hs, FarreIly'-, reason for re-
commencing ] Prlicemaster, was because the
P~olicemasleTs now have nothing to do. And
again it IS a g.ne al complaint now, that
there is one law administered in Christiansted,
another in Frederiksted, AID yet another at
Klng,hill He and colleagues sought informa-
ton on the subject in the Committee, becanso
they where no lawyers but planters now first
they begin to hear some little explanation. AS
regards the lncome-Tax it will be again the
planter who will b. the suff .rer The merchant
viii clap the tax on the price of his articles,
and the planter buying from him will ply the
tax a ruinous business Rosrnstand said he
had answered Farre,ly to his question in the
Committee, that the duties of tia tw' Off 'ialS
was just what be wanted to know IF rely |
got the impression that you knew very we'll out
would not lell )-(LaughterJ If Ros-nstand
hid been able to fnd it out himself, he
would not have wi,hdeld his kaow edge
from aFarrelly. However, those duties
could be defined now. Lattmer stated the
reasons that had led the Majority to recommued