, 1874-12-12

OF THE
COLONIAL COUNCIL
FOR ST. CROIX.

MONDAY 10th November 1874, II O'Clock
noon, the Colonial Council held an ExtraOrdi-
nary NJ citing.
The Members were pres ent with exception
of 3rd Crownmember (Percy) who had an
nounced his inability to attend from i%ndisposl-
ton, and 3rd Member for Frederiksteds Coun-
try DISTRICT (EUiott}.
The Minutes of the last meeting were
read.
The Chairman called att ntion to the
fact, that of the 8 Members absent last
meeting, only 2 had given reasons for their
non-attendanoe and reminded the Members
of 3 Is of the Rules of Business providing
that no Member can without good and suffi-
oient cause absent himself from the meetings
of the Council, and must inform the Chairman
of the Cause of his absence.
The Council then proceeded to the Order
OF the Day.
/, Election Of Members for the Committee
on the Draft of Ordiaance concerning al
~teratiou of s 8 Of Ordinance of 25th May
1872 concerning the organization OF the
Military Force in ST. Croix.
The Chairman vacated the Chair to the
Vice Chairman.
The result of the vote was that Ia tickets
we're handed in, of which Rosenstand received
IL, Fleming IL, Latimer 10, Coulter s votes;
Il. Farrelly and Hanson had each 6 votes;
a new vote was consequently taken, the
result of which was that Of Is tickets handed
in II. Farrelly and Hanson received each
7 votes ticket not valid "a new tied
election was then held Is tickets We're
handed in. and Hanson was elected with 9
votes (T Farrelly had y.
The Chairman resumed the OMAR.
2, Discussion on Letter from the Presidency
concerning exchange of a piece of the 50
called Lagoon Lands in Freder .ksted for
a piece of Land of Estate La Grange.
The letter from the Presidency reads
as follows -
The PRESIDENCY
FOR ST. CRoIx,
4TH NOvBR, 1874.
The Colonial Council will be aware, that
complaints have for very many years been
made in behalf Of the Episcopal and Roman
Catholic Churches at Frederiksted, that the
Gravedigger o" the Dan sh Lutheran COngrega-
tions collects a fee Of s to l6 dollars for
every interment that takes place on the Burial
Grounds attached to the respective Churches
and which are claimed to be the exclusive
properties of these latter.
In consequence hereof a Commission as
early as 1852 was appointed for the purpose
or investigating WneLuoE CH6 Sdlu DU'l"
Grounds are really the property of the respec-
tive Congregations, or whether they must be
considered as being for general use; and the
Government at the time held this view, that
if the Burial Grounds in question are really the
property of the respective Churches or Con-
gregatiOns, then the said fees to the Lutheran
Gravedigger could not with justice be exacted.
The said Commission consisted OF two
Jurists, viz. Judge Sarauw and Lawyer He'll
buth, besides the then Lutheran Clergyman
and the two Lutheran Church Wardens in
Frederiksted; they rendered their report on
the 9TH Of October 1854, wherein 1t IS stated
as being satisfactorily established that the
Episcopal Grave Yard is the special property
of that Congregation, and in, regard to the
Romano Catholic Graveyard it is stated that
even if no real proofs to the same effect exist
in reference thereto, still there was a probabll'
What the same is the case also there.
The Commission at the same time stated
that the demand advanced by the Episcopal