, 1873-01-04
ST. gB0OX AVIS

would Del Just as well to have a clause in heR Regulations to te eMctbs alluded to by the honorable
Member. But if thatw een atualf for Governor Billie it vas on thee other hand wise of him with
clause of that nature To make anew law fixing the position of both parties planters and bOur
say we have hkena all Matters and things under considerations according to the several re-
qurements and ayee embodied ter result thereof in heseR Regulations but at the mt time to say
they are not selRd,a alter I'VE years. eW whole IS to be tkenu under consideration gain and changed
again, would certainly not be wise 1t would nave very injurious fleet on all parties to hear that
the Law is only temporary, aferw had discussed it here at length and aferH had been passed
That the one now proposed is according to thee xgmcf of the lines a fair settlement fte posi-
not such sit would be fte community had grown up in naturdd state and lift weno thtnded
fora state of change Many say, the pe0pom enotfe8; he always az ves wall but dOnti mp; aL
part Of Government and the planters there is decided wish toahtt the Regulations according hte
times As the honorable Member hIn@f@y& the disposition in dealing with this maurb de-
rent to what it was formerly the r%utd heC Commissions abWrS Showed good will and rmdmes
to meet the changes needed Iheh honorable Member thinks that tmght take "a years more
come OohHc changes that may beormy notba BUTT would be far wwe in lis effects for the
planter, but ref for the aboMer, We we're nov tO&y, after 5 ya%we are get other Reu,
htCn8 There canfGTcny be doubt that after the passing of this law, doing away with an
unahevbyf xl meo wages ALI that had beer. essentially Objectionable in the old Regulations
will have been removed Whatever remains is moro a protection for the Iburer than. the
planter and he could not sew what more could be objected against except it be the yearly contract
itself HI did mot exactly know the IDEAS Of he honorable Member and the Mioiy on that head
but tt too universally admitted that the yearly Cmuac is the great thing on which all parties
exception depend And as he md stated previously, if We have yearly contracts, we unjust
pr Planters could also havoc complained Of their hands being tied in aboure engagements but
they had submitted the necessity ofhayng one general rule in those and other repcs butheh
sure that tec could least all be any complaint against the Regnatonss being to the prejudice
ofhc aboure& They certainly do require the care of Government; planters might tae CARGO
themselves. There them, in his cUWicioAn nothing in H@eR Regulations to hold gu. an express
popct of a nrrc change; but fcncmStanc@Shoud Notwithstanding take Scha turn as to
require a change it is certain that the Government Wilt take the matte in and-
2d Member 6rC nisinsel (Ham4: Haparol to him that the present Regulations are
as pO5&ivea SHE mtuUtsof the Islam deserve and allow; in fact We may say, tya are too
puriye at least in ne respect The Commission says only Sugar. shtaa are to take their la
lead to- great deal Of people being engaged for agricultural purposes without contracts There
a number of Stock Estates IN the Ismdo owned b.. the pwpit0~ of Sugar Esahs-ho does not
say that these parties will do So, bth na,h they like take BO of abouesw without yearly
cntac on their stock cIrc,f md then employ Them opportunity offers on teS Sugar Estates
And how would it bepsabe for eP oteO control planters who would do that? And might that
not lead to what the law aims at ppVenuAgf-ue could not see how that could be LEFT open.
The old Regulations comprise ALL landed properties, 8Cvkfahst o;b out for these after The law
WILDE alb IMcl when the new Regulation. are passed. To ohm it would seem best to adopt a
stating that Stock Estates are also REQUIRED to make yearly contracts for atour
sion has thought of its we can see it from the Report; but still the question is left open.
Stock Estates might draw away from the Sugar Estates dmhlo 1.-THE amount OfhbOu they require,
from the fear fnN getting hnd%H they have btWth them on ether terms than yearly contracts.
Those people whom they cnnt give work will run to town anil cause great deal oftoubo
- (Io be continued