, 1876-03-04

'GSo ~ was put 80 Vob6 AuQ 6eloVSeU WILL Az
votes against /.
The sub.amendmeut No 2 ad amendment
No IS was adopted unanimously with ii votes
unanimously with IL votes.
The 9 SO amended was adopted with 10
votes against /.
The Chaiynsa~ then placed { 9 now 10 With
amendment Ne. 10 and che sub'&mendment No.3
under discussion.
The PresidewG: This amendment had also
been originally introduced by the Committee in
St. Thomas. There is q circumstance which
had called fer it there. which is not existing here;
all fnes inflicted by the Police Courts go to tho
police fund and if at the end of g quarter any
balance should be in the fund, it is in st. Croix
paid into the Colonial Treasury; but in St..
Thomas it is the practice that amounts paid in
shat manner from the policefund 60 to the poor
fuud this ID the cause Why this amendment Is
introduced, SO that the fines may IN st. Thomas
aocrus direct to the Colonial Treasury. In
reality, as far as St. Oroix is concerned, it will
make no difference whether it stands the
Colonial Treasury or not, as IN either case the
amounts would go to this Treasury. The
. honorable Chairman proposes & subamend-
ment oonfning the clause expressly to
St. Thomas aud St. Johns be could have
no objections to it; for US, it will make no
difference.
The CAaiyvsan had introduced bis sub
amendment because the Ordinance organizing
the Police-C Courts of 1882 presoribes that all
Gnes inflicted by the POlioeoourts shall &C.
crue to the P0lioefund, wherefore also in sever
I'll Instances the wording of other Drafts has
in this Council been altered just the opposite
Way so as to bring them in keeping with that
Ordinance it would give unnecessary trou-
BILE to the Policemasters, if this principle was
broken, and they had to keep and send Ia
double accounts.
No one further requested the word.
The Sub-amendment No. 3 to amendment
No. 10 vas adopted unanimously with ii votes.
and the amendment SO altered likewise
adopted unanimously with IL votes.
TOT 10. now s ii, there was no amendment 1t
raised no discussion aud was adopted taoitly as
II.
The Chairman placed 5 II now IL with
amendments 90 & 81 under discussion.
The Chairman In explanation OF his amendment
No. 90 could refer to the former discussions,
especially to the remarks that had then fallen
from the End CrOwnmember, who clearly Shew-
ed up the difficulties attending the carrying out
of the control by the School commission in refer
qnce to the large number Of children attending
no HB0ONi,d uu WIZ OAuuUb " OlOhHuh w
owing to absence of sufficient school-roOm,
az also in reference to those children who attend
no public school, s. long as compulsory school
attendance is not carried out. And after the
honorable Crownmember had introduced his
amendment sub No. 81, be, the Chairmans
had had a conference with him and had arrived
at the understanding to propose No 20. He
confessed that be did not like this amendment,
but not the honorable Members either still
hs preferred his own. No 90, for according to
the other one, only { 3 of the ordinance would
be singled out and not put in force before COM
pulsory ool.attendance, while the rest OF the
ordinance should be in operation, whereas No.
90 leaves it to the Government to decide when
it 10 possible to bring the whole ordinance iDtO
force, and we know the Government will not
exact impossibiIities. He would have wished
il had not been necessary to adopt any OF the
two amendments, but be could see no other
way of getting out of the dilemma than by that
proposed In No 20.
and Crownmember (WlIemOes) would ask If
the amendment altering the term of compulsory
vaccination from 6 to l year, which had been
adopted by the Council, had not materially
altered this question, since after that some
other Authority must be set to control the
vaccination Of children from that age, so that
the action of the School Commissions will not
be required, since the control must
at Q much earlier period from that in which the
Commissions could have exercised 1t. But. any
how, be would withdraw the amendment
No. 81 In favour Of Nc. 20.
The PresidenE was, IS previously stated,