, 1880-05-15
held, as there was no business hefom i.
O~.A~ N@~~4 O0

AAO IA wv WV AAOVAxCu Lna -
ceipt of a communication from the p,nM
dency, dated 18th November last vss s'
according to which the Presidencr IN
acceptedan offersmade bysMr. Junah%..a
for the purveyancc to the garrison :
Frederiksted. The letter was laid on tn
Councils table. The Chairman GALA
attention to tie fact, that sRs lonHysTs
Colonial Council had existed, and also
conformity with the provisions ssof.gK.
Colonial Law. the. acceptance of offers fr
such co~ntractsshad always 1been submit@
to the Council this instance is q deviation
from the usual proceedings, and he could
not make the Communication to the UoOS.
Gil withbtutl at the same time making n.
3seryation, in order thatits not lorna
precedent, that BY a mere, communicate
to the Council of a contract Tor pubic
service, the. rules established by the Cob.
NAL Law and long practice should be con.
sidered fulfilled. 10 49, -'sL.a4
Further, a letter from the Presidency
dated 18th. January last according t0which
His Majesty had on the 18th October last
year. sanctioned the Ordinances adopted
by the Council on the 8th September lat
year regulating the relations between
Masters and Servants in the Danih
Westindia Islands, and concerning peml.
ties for vagrancy and begging.
The acting Chairman next drew The
attention of the President to the fact, a9
the Council had not as yet received as
Communal Accounts for 1861, onk
absence of which he had commentda
the time the Accounts for 1S77-78m
forwarded to the Council; furtherm@M
Extracts of the yearly Communal u
counts. which according to the ColmA
Law should be published i'll print, had hot
been published. The Council had recGyA
no communication of the last Budget hS.
ing been sanctioned, although it must
have been by this, nor had it, as far as he
was aware, been published.-Ihe Council
had not this year been requested to appoint
Members for the Commission to fix the
Tariff for Export Duty; sugars have been
exported, and they could not have hspem
exported without the means OF ler.hg
the duty: consequently two gentlemen must
have been nominated to act as members i
the Commission, but the Council ha0 not
appointed any.
The acting Chairman faNther notified
that he had caused the usual resume Oh
the Councils business in the past year 10
be drawn up, and it was iald on the .OOun'
cil's table the contents are as follows:
i. The last Session, 1880, OF the COLONIAL
Council was opened on the 18TH May
1879: the Ordinary Meetings were nxed
for 7th July, 9Th September, 10Th Noven'
Der. 1879, 9th January and Sth Msrta
1880; for the meeting on the otn Mslyn'
there was nc business on the Oraer oi VIC
Day; the ordinary Meetings liked lor ia
July 1879 and 9th January 1850 'nad Den
postponed, but as there was no Dus,a ss
for transaction the meetings were not ne,a'
Besides the Ordinary Meetings, Inc
Council held 4 Extraordinary Mee'1s'
lin 1S74-75, 1U meetings, loIo.ao, ~
E. 1S76-77, Ia; 1S77.7S, Z; 1S7S-1S, y!
making in all Z meetings for the wao,s
session nS74.75, is; 1S75-76, II; lo.o.1',
IL; 1S77.7S, u and 1S7S-79, IA ,meeungs'
In regard to the Members of the oounsa
besides the change of Members aiter ~.
general elections in April last, the ls|
Member for Frederiksted Town (Moorel Ia I,
resigned his seat in consequence VI W
departure from the Island.
- OF cases in the Colonial COuncll: I'M.
Is still standing over from 1S72-I3: ~ J.
Draft of a new Colonial Law from io'Sr n
The Draft of Ordinance (intr0duceu !
Fleming) concerning the Establishment =.
a C%onstabulary Force in the Country !
tricts of st. Croix,-1st discussion Ian r.
poned; the Draft in Committee, >, ls 4.
pointed Goth May 1S79;-from loIo,ssn
Provisional Ordinance of oath Docs~ i
1873 concerning facilities to own0'S p;d
buildings etc. destroyed in the nv :.
1878. which was Observation-Disclosures y
L. fN-...v - IL OGt1, Nov IHIS.