, 1874-06-27

repairs to 1t could only be executed very late
in the financial year, therefore they could just
as we'll wait till the following year.
The President The whole amount is very
small, and the repairs are required in what
order the several repairs to public buildings
will be made, he could not exactly say.
End Crownmember WulemoesJ would re-
commend, that the amount at the SchoolhousO
in Christlansted, especially the repairs to the
Messengers House, should not be postponedlong
err they had been under consideration for many
years; every time the Commission has been called
on for is report, it has recommended the repairs
to be done. It's quite necessary that the Mes
senger should live there, as otherwise the
whole School Building after 3 o'clock Is with
out any sort Of inspection and it appeared to
him that when a Committee of SO many Mem
bers have SO often agreed to recommend the
work, there could scarcely be further necessity
to prove its necessity. AS regards the cutters
and the holes in the wall, they are intended for
leading off he water, as now, when it rains,
the whole yard is quite in a swamp. With re-
ference to the spouts, the Committee has not
examined whether they are in order or not but
it is 4 wonder that the Committee did not do
thai, instead of merely looking into the %cistern
and drawing o conclusion from that. If the
spouts hal been examined, they would have
been found to be not in good order, and that
they want repairs The Cistern in the School
Yard is, so to speak, the only public Cistern,
from which many families get water it would
be much felt il the Cistcrn were to get dry,
not to speak of how dreadful it would be if
there should occur any want Of water for the
use of the Children. 1t would be much better
and far wiser to repair the spouts now, and NOS
wait till the cistern gets out of order through the
badness Of the spouts.
The TooEoo01D said fhok fha viam the Com.
mittee chiefly held was owing to the uncertainty
of this whole building being required as a
School House, or not.
2nd Crownmember (WiUemoeS) did not think
tina. there had ever been any doubts as to that.
The President said that as long as a public
school is kept up here, it will be in that School
house. la regard to the repairs to the Messen-
gers House, w0eu they have been done, he will
be required to live there constantly, to which
effect clause will be embodied in the new
School Regulations. But we must provide q
suitable house.
1st Member for Frederiksted (SarauO) had
been a Member of the School Commission many
years, and he knows this Messengers H1use. II
is located in an entirely improper place how
ever much it be raised, the house will
be unhealthy and hot, it being just under
the large neighbouring house. 1t had often
been spoken of in the Commission to remove
the privies to the place where this house is,
and this latter to the opposite side of the yard,
but no definite proposal had ever been made.
4th Member for Christiansted's Country
District IT. FarrelIy) could as a Member of
the Prison Commission not recommend those
windows in the Sex House. He perfectly
agreed with thu Spokesman, that they would
be of no use whatever. And as long as the
windows as they are now have been considered
good for all this length of time, there can be
no use to have new ones. The people who are
in the Sick House are too much given rather
to keep out, than admit air.
End Member for Frederiksted (Fa6er) would
beg to make some remarks in reference to the
concluding observations from His Excellency
to which no reply has hitherto been made.
The intention OF the Committee was no doubt,
that certain small amounts should be at the
disposal of the o~ccupiers of public buildings,
so that they could always do whatever small
repairs are required as soon as they are needed.
As far as he had understood His Excellency
something similar vas formerly the case, and
even as high as $40 a month had been the
limits, but that this has since been changed.
He did not suppose that it was the Committees
intention that such a large amount should be fix
ed. But as things are regulated now, very often
the Schoolbouse and the Hospital are wanting