, 1874-03-04

The 1sC Member Tor FredeTlkSted, Sa-
rauw, said that his reasons for Directing to
s 9 were partly stated in the Report. He
would now briefly state that he is against
pressure being put on parents with
regard to where the children are to
be educated it is true that the
agreement can be altered but it is not
right to have an agreement that can be
made by law and then broken. And then
there may be no possibility Of getting
children: People get married on their
deathbed it would appear like a Joke
sometimes to demand a declaration Of the
faith the children were intended to be
brought up in. But, besides that, the )
binds the children to their parents own faith,
even if the should prefer another, and
no reason given for this, except to have a
particular place where you could after
wards look tor a baptismal certificate. ) 9
was of such a nature that fit remained
he could not vote for the Draft, although,
being on the whole an Improvement, he
would not vote against.
The President agreed with the remarks
of the Speaker of the Committee regard
ing the alterations in 5 ) 3 and 7. With
regard to the 3rd formal objection, viz.
about "the Judge of the Jurisdiction" he
did not think there was any necessity for
altering the original wording. He could
not agree with the Hon. 1st Member for
Frederiksted about 5 8, but comedies with
the majority. Laws are not made for ex-
ceptional but for general cases. The :
would prevent disputes. The agreement is
more easily arrived at before than after mar
riage. Disputes arising will have to be settled
by the authorities, which would be diff
cult when it was not previously fixed
where the children are to go. With re-
gard to the point that in the event of a
change when one of the parents is dead or
has become incapacitated, the Govern
ment's consent is requisite, there he differ
ed from the DRAFT. This was, however,
only his personal opinion, but he believed
there would be no difficulty on the part of
the Government or the Colonial Council
OF st. Thomas against emitting this clause
He would recommend it.
The Speaker said that his friend and
neighbour (Sarauw) had a habit of declar-
ing that he will not vote when he does not
get an Ordinance as he wishes it. This is
no doubt wrong. The object of the dis
c%ussions should be to try to reconcile views.
If every member would not vote because
his particular views were not met, there
would soon be no quorum. When a mem
Der fnds that the ordinance is otherwise
a great progress, he should take his defeat
calmly and vote for it even with the parts
Objectionable to him. By putting his
amendment the Hon member has sufi-
GENTLY shown that he does not approve of
certain parts, and he could now vote for the
Ordinance which he acknowledges to be an
improvement. Itwould be bad hole in the
Ordinance to leave out s 8. We should
not put off the improvement until we could
get a General Registering Board. There
is no pressure brought to bear against par
ties by the declaration, but it is necessary to
have a place where to look for q certificate.
The will be no burthen, but would in
practical life work we'll. We should not
make all kind of experiments with our
thoughts. There is nothing in the world
that cannot be turned into a joke. Now,
for instance, the marriage ritual read to
d man on his death-bed, could it not be
twisted into a bad joker
The first Member for Frederikste1,