, 1874-06-17

thing, and it would not be possible by law to
forbid people to cut down their own trees.
There are certainly in Denmark laws to pre-
vent irregular telling of trees in the forests
here we have no forests and it would
be useless TO try it here How is it
possible by legislative power to prevent a man
who has a tree grown up in a cane pi5ce from
cutting it down ; The farthest you could go
would be to give legislative enactments about
the trees along the roadside, where Legislature
would not be encroaching on the private rights.
His Excellency had spoken Of a Commission
on a Draft Of Regulations concerning also this
lastmenti0ned object bit he, the Speaker,
would beg to so a little farther back in time,
and call to mind the Commission that was
appointed, he believed in 1872, to take under
consideration what notifications are required
in the Road Ordinance of 1919, which no longer
answers to the times; this Commission has
long ago rendered its Report, wherein it is
recommended that all trees within a space of
10 feet alongside the public road must never
be cut down by any one except the Road-Oh-
Gals. liz had not heard anything Of what has
come CIT Of that if that proposal be acted
upon, it would be sufficient to prevent the pre-
sent telling of trees on the roadside. He did
not believe that at present any law exists to
prevent parties Telling such trees, just as we'll
as on their properties. He would beg to ask
His Exeellency what has become Of that Draft
of a new Road Ordinance.
Sd Member for Flederiksted's Country Dis
trict (Latimer) If the laws are not stringent
enough to prevent individuals from coming on
another persons property and destroying the
trees, they should be made more stringent.
From what he had heard from other Members
during the recess to-day, he should think that
this grant of $500 is generally considered pre-
mature but he would suggest to the honora-
BILE mover, that he would at some future time
put in a proposal showing how the amount IS to
be used, and containing something more defined
than the present amendment.
2nd Member for Ohristiansted (HanS0n)
could not join tie last honorable Member IN bis
views, and he (Hanson) could not see what
should prevent the Council to appoint a Com
mittce to come to a decision as to how the
amount is to be expended. There are, for in
stance, many ways of planting trees, and many
kinds of trees to follow the best method of
planting and to select the most useful tree,
both as to shade and value, would be an object
to have decided. And those $500 may be used
accordingly, when that and other points have
been settled. Some time ago we read 10 the
local Newspaper an article on the plant com
monty called ''Dividivi"; this plant grows in
South America and affords an article of export.
Our cor non Cassia if better cared would prove
a valuable tree All such questions could be
better discussed in a Committee,
3rd Member for Chri5tiansted's Country Dis
trict (C0aitey) had the impression, that the
honorable Chairman had brought in the propos-
al merely to open a discussion on the matter
of tree planting. These $500 are Of no infu-
ence to promote the planting Or to prevent tho
destruction of trees. But he thought it should
be the duty of Government to make regulations
for protecting trees. It is no. the planters but
the l|abourers who destroy trees what planters
want is proper protection for when you COM
plain at the Policeofices Of trees having been
destroyed by the labourers, you get no %satlsfac-
ton. And many a time the proprietor plants
the one day, and the following day a labourer
cuts down. He would recommend that the pre-
sent proposal be deferred, and that we meet at
some future day, and consider what is to be
done, and any time a Money Bill could be
brought in for those $500, or any other sum
that may be requisite. To provide some means
of protection, is the first thing for now it may
be said, if a planter plants 10 trees the one
week, the S are sure to be destroyed the follow
ing week.
End Crownmember PERCY thought, in re-
ference to what the 5th Crownmember (Jurs)
had said, that there is no law in existence here
to hinder trees being cut down on the road side