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be calculated.
The Contract entered into lctwe,n the
Presidency and Mr. j. G. Rippcrgcr from
the Ist of July this year concerning the
supplies to the Garrison at Fr- derik>ted aud
kmgshill etc ttipulates that the contract can
only be anrulled from either of the contract.
ing parties af;tr 6 months previous notice,
TO expire On the 1T of July or lst Of January.
But in case the g%ar!is0n be removed from
Frederiks,ed aud kingthiII by the 1st Of
January next year, or leiorc tie stipulated
term Of notice can have expired, the Con-
tractor must be considered as having Il claim
to be compensated for he cessation OF his
contract before the time agreed on, and with
due consideration to tn: deprivation of earn
ipgs and to the direct loss, which win be an
unavoidable result Of the annulment Of The
contract scarcely one year after it was made,
and before the contractor could have had an
opportunity Of getting in the considerable
outlaysb be las had for the first arrangements
Tor carrying OF the busine IS.
The Presidency ia, how yer, uaablo to
maxi a final proposal now for a sum for a
compromise with the PuIveyor, as the necessa-
iy deliberations with bin have been hindered
ly his illness and subs quent trip to ST, Tho.
mas but the Presidency will bring forward
a proposal to that effect during the discussions
10 the Council q this Bill.
The Governor in introducing this Draft
would first have to make som general remarks
on a question that had lately been under dis
cuss;on here 10 the Council "a far as regards
the remodelling of the administration and
taxation and retrenchment of expenses Of the
public Treasury. He had of course heard
Of that question before he came here. and he
had heard of it after his arrival here
but he must confess that for the greater part
he had not been able to understand properly
how the views advanced are to be understood,
and he, for his part, had never received any
suggestion from any patty, in such a way as to
he able to submit a proposal based thereon.
1t had been remarked during the discussions
in the last meetings of the Council concerning
the proposal for an address, that it might be
considered a kind Of %incourte y to the Govern
ment to address the Government in general
terms on tn matter Of reductions and r~eorEani-
s%Qtions. He would never consider it any
incour;esy, but on the contrary very desirable,
that an address was forwarded from the C0un.
Gil +. the Government, provided O4ly it con-
tained special points where the Government
could find an opinion expressed or q proposal
advanced to guide tie Goyernm mt. This,
however, he had neither now nor before been
able to find 10 the discussions eut rtlined here.
He would call attention to the fact, that the
first time We find the question of alterations
in the public administrative offices raised was
in 1867, when the 1st Member for Frederiksted
(Sarauw) proposed to form 2 Jurisdictions
in the Island, with a Polioemaster in each
the result of the discussions was that the
Offices of Judge and Recorder at Frederiksted
which up to then has been united with the Office
of Policemaster, was separated from that
Office, and a special Policemaster-Ofi flee
established, which occasioned an increase
of expenditure for the salary to the Police
master. This was however only a tenn
porary measure, and the question of re-uniting
the two Offices in one person, as at Christian.
sted, is therefore kept open. The next time
the question of reductions etc. arose was through
the report of Commission which the late Gov
ernor Birch had appointed to propose what re-
ductions could be made in the public expendi-
ture, and what simplifcations could be efeetedin
the administrative branches. The Commission
came to the result to recommend to endeavour
to rid the Colonial Treasury of the expense for