, 1873-03-05

Thirteen dollars annually will give an assis-
lance of % cents weekly.
If against this whole adjustment it should be
objected, that it lab0urs under the same I'M
certainty In regard to the limits or extent Of
the support the respective Estates shall be
bound to provide together with The Public, and
that it may BE- a matter of doubt if the Estate
can take any la6our from the individual So pro-
vided for, who, allowing he be really unfit for
employment, may in most cases be able to do
something or other on the Estate having some
worth (See 5 16 Of the Draft of 1852 we can
only say, that we have not found sufficient cause
to enter into any further definition of those
points, which ought better to be left to general
practice to devclopo and then afterwards, if ne
cessary, fixed definitely. The supervision from
the Poor-C commissions will at ali events afford
sufficient protection against advantages on the
part of the Estates.
1t has always been attended with some hest
fancy to enforce rigilly the obligation for
children to take their inf,m parents with them
when removing from an Estate or to make other
provision for them it would in most cases prove
TO be too great a draw bact on a young and in
d~ustrious labourer, endeavoring to get along.
Notwithstanding the Governments Resolution
Of oath August l849 prescrlbe8 that every
child shall contribute to the support Of their
parents when left behind on the Estate, still the
proprietors have had to suffer them to remove
uutil it comes to the last one, on whom then,
the obligation in that respect could not be in
forced strenuously. But, however leuinntly
applied by the Magistrates, The stipulation Las
to a very great extent favoured the abovemon-
toned arrangements for invalids. 1t is the in
tention that the Public shall rake over the
obligations in that respect hitherto resting on
The children this obligation has therefore only
been maintained in reference to the invalids
treated of in the first part Of 5 II, in reference
to whom the old cnactments are on the whole
to be applicable.
The concluding clause will serve to promote
The marriage relations
ad 5 10.
The provisions in the Ordinance Of 22ud Fe-
bruary 1855 concerning medical attendance
have been SO applied that every sugar-estate
have had a physician permanently employed to
attend he abourers, and in the weekly wages Of
the labourers have been deducted the 8 cents
mentioned in the Ordinance as their contribution
towards the expense for the physician and for
medicine if he labourer had no wages to re-
ceive, because he had not been to work, no cou-
tribution has been collected from him, and la
bourers Of the 3rd class have paid nothing.
Immigrants have free medical attendance, agree
able to Ordinance of 20d 0 tober 1862 s..
Partly in view Of the difference thus e5tab-
lished between native Iabourers and immigrants,
in every other respect more especially situated,
which difference has on Estates with many i'm
migrants become very marked, the idea Of
altogether exemptiug the labourcrs from paying
contribution to the physician was broachcd by
one of the 9 Planters in the Commission Coul-
ter and found ready support from ali the other
Members, except Sarauw. l. was also stated
that there were Estates on which it has al
ready been adopted not to collect any contri-
button from the labourer.
The Commission has not intended by this
proposal to %forcsta'l any other adjustment of
the medical attendance on the Island, which
the Government may have in contemplation,
whether it be on the basis of the plan already
brought forward, or in any other manner. Our
purpose has been TO obtain for the labourers a
benefit, which will especially be TO the good Of
such of them that are most regular in attend
ance to work.
ITO be continued.