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President mentioned as being in the Treasury
III ready cash is the balance remaining after
deducting whatever monies belong to the
diff rent funds, especially if the balance OF
the S28O00 subsidy is deducted, OR not?
The President There are but very little
means in cash belonging to those Funds, and
they have been deducted from the total sum
in hands, leaving then $4,000. Whatever wss
remaining of the subsidy has been expended
together with the Treasury's other means, tor
assisting planters.
1t Member for Christiansted (LsmmingI
begged the President to lay the financial state
ments on the Councils table, so that Members
could acquaint themselves Herewith.
The President promised that he would put
she statement on the table.
1st Member for Frederiksted's Country
District (F7emtng) agreed with the President
in a good many of the remarks he had made
to-dry, aud be was pleased to see the Budget
showing for the next year an overbalance OF
income he hoped the figures would prove all
safe and shew a reality. AS regards the crop
taken off in IS73-74 he himself had been at
a loss to understand how it could have given
that export-duty aud import-duty but, any
how, if we got the same prices this year, the
crop would be equal to the two last crops
taken together. Last year We had barely 5000
hog4heads; the year before about 5000 from
what he knows and sees Of the country now.
he believed this crop would be equal II not
overstep those two years together; but
then comes the great filling off in prices.
When l>t Member for Frederiksted seemed to
be opposed to a Committee on the Draft, hes
Fleming, would say that this Budget should
certainly receive the same consideration and
Investigation as the previous ones, therefore
it should be referred to a Committee.
4th Member for Christiansted's Country Dis
trict IT. Far,eI1y) thought that it would
be well to let the matter go to a
Committee, where the items and postnngs
will all be considered coolly and calmly;
as it is now, many Members have not
even had time to read the Draft through
in fact, the manner in which the copies are
made, namely in TYPOGRAPHY, makes it difficult
to get through the large quantity of reading
matter. It would therefore be better if the
Drafts of Budgets were hereafter to be print
ed. And again, the Draft should be submitted
in time. Members had had now but 10-1l days
to read this one, and just at a time when every
body is busily occupied with daily work; he
for one had not had time to get through more
than the half.
2nd Member for Christiansted (Hanson)t
A Committee could not get through with the
work before the time Wnen nalI Oh Cu6 Oouhol
Members are to retire; among those retiring
might be Members of the Committee.
3rd Member for Frederiksted's Country Dis
trict tLatimer), 1t would be very desirable to
have a Committee, at all events on the Money
Bill for Building Expenses. Former Committees
have always been able to shew savings in the
Estimate. Then there is the item for remuner"
alton to the Sanitary Company; on that mat.
ter a Committee ought certainly to report
and Members will be more ready and competent
to deal with it in a Committee than in the
Council. If a Committee be appointed, ne
would, however, beg the Council not to slece
him as Member.
The Chairman would advise TO postpone dis
c~ussions on the appointment of a Commlttee
until the real discussions are closed Members
will afterwards have ample opportunity 70
discuss thai point.
The President had in regard to the copies
of the Budget previously arrived at the same
result as 4th Memberfor Ohristianste ds Coun'
try District that it would be preferable TO have
them printed, instead of Autographed. LIZ 10
difficult now to get even the different columns
to correspond; the whole work Tnigp also %
completed in a much shorter time wnen oons
in the printing Office, instead of by the military,
who have other duties to atteno " as.sao
same time. He had also found the shemarke
to be more lengthy than necessary ) they msgns
have been necessary some years ago. OUT not
now: the historical statement OF the origin
of the ravanua. which Is now in d stereotype