, 1875-02-10
PROCEEDINGS
or THE
COLONIAL COUNCIL
FOR sc. GR0fS.
900

(Conclusion Of the Meeting of 25th january.
9Th Cfownmpmber (Jar8) thought that the
circumstance that only two Members had
hitherto expressed themselves on the matter
indicated The little interest the matter possess
Is. The question is now, if after the COun-
Gil have been occupied with the matter for
some time, VI should expose ourselves to have
it brought in again with those Regulations; or
whether, after adopting the Draft proposed
by the Committee, such Regulations are to bo
left to the administration He would beg to
say il would be a great advantage if this were
TO be so Regulations can never be so exhaus-
tive in their contents as to exclude all doubts
the Policemasters in each town might apply
them differently, and applications could be
made TO the Presidency, who would then de-
eide; whereas. if the Regulations were given
by the Council aud the Administration, the
Presidency would not take upon itself to decide
the question before referring it to the Council,
80 that tile Council might be having the regu-
%lalious very frequently brought in. Already
Members seem 50 tired Of the case, that there
could scarcely :be any desire to sec 1t figuring
here again. The most of the questions arising
will be quite petty, so triaing that they might
not even merit theSdecision Of the Presidency,
but could be settled by the P~olicemaster for
instance, here in Christiansted, the stand Of
public ~job-carts. He thought tnat there is no
principle or interest here at stake calling for
the action of the Colonial Council, and We
could rest quite sure that the Superior Autho-
rity in all its branches is so liberal and humane
that nothing would be done by those regulations
to interfere with the p%orter5' rights. There
fore he could not agree TO the first amend
ment from the 1st Member for Frederiksted.
while he would be willing to vote for the
second, although he would still rather see the
whole clause struck out. He had always held
that The decision to be given in such cases
should be by the Police Master as Judge, SO
that the transactions in the case be entered
in the protocol, and if the parties feel them
selves a%grieved, they could take q copy
and ommenc further steps; but from this
they would be debarred if the decision were
to be final, from which there was no judicial
apppal. Ifan amendment to erase that clause
of s 3 be introduced, he would vote for it.
lst Member for Frederiksted (Sarau0J could
not acknowledge, that the circumstance that
Regulations were passed by the Colonial OOun-
ell before being issued by the Administration,
would make it necessary TO call on the COun-
Gil for explanations Of the Regulations in cases
of doubt in such cases it would be exactly
as II 1t were d LdWI INC qutStIoH Wuulu' 6OColu-
inc to its nature, have to be decided either by
the courts or by the superior authority.
5th Crownmemher (Jars) further explained
his former remarks it has been already OBJ
served by the Committee how difficult or
rather impossible it is to obtain a proper deini-
ton of what porter work is this could not be
defined in the regulations neither. II, now,
the Presidency give the regulations, the
P~olicemasters can refer to the Presi-
dency who can decide on the questions
arising; this the Presidency could not
do, if the regulations had been passed
by the Council; this latter would have to be
asked before the Presidency could decide one
way or other.
4th Member for Frederiksted's Country Dis
trict II. Farrelly) said that by degrees the
term "porter," which in times previous had
not much Specification, has assumed more ex-
tensive Importance, as porters had gone in tn