, 1881-05-25
P zoe E N is
OF THE
g 0WUQA4 90W
or SIR GNOILa
Conclusion Of the Meeting Of 10TH Nay 1881.

OOtSt~oCUV " WV ~"NV"S AA4
The Acting President begged to inform
:. the Council that according to information
received from Colonel Arendrup, His Ex-
cellency intended to come to this Island on
Wednesday next at what time ON Wed
nesday, His Excellency had not exactly
stated; therefore he, (the acting President)
had to day sent q telegram to enquire
further. His Excellency had expressed
his desire to come over and to make him
self acquainted with the Island, and it
seems that his Excellency was in good
health
The second item IN the Order of Day
was then taken up viz.
9, Question of resignation OF 3rd Member
forFrederikstedfs untryDlstIict(SkeOch.)
The Chairman stated that in a letter to
him dated 3oth March last Mr., Skeoch had
notified, that in consequence of his time
being so continually occupied in the vaTl-
GUS branches of his business, he begged
leave to resign his seat as Member of the
Colonial Council.
No one requested the word on the mat
ter. The Council consented with 6 votes
against l Zone Member not vOting) to the
withdrawal of Mr.. Skeoch as Member of
the council.
The Chnnansna further stated that after
the Order Of Day had been sent out, he
had received a letter from Ist Member for
Christiansted Country District CHattensen)
informing him of his intention to leave the
Island with the next Steamer on a trip to
Europe for s or Z III nths.
AS the matter was not on the order OF
day theCouncil consented unanimously with
S votes that the matter should come under
discussion in this meeting.
The Council then OrOc1ndo0 to
Question Of resignation of LIST Member
for ChristianSted's Country District (Hat-
t~enSen).
2nd Member for Frederiksted (Brown)
said that according to general usage OF the
Council it might be advisable to await the
expiration of the prescribed period OF 4
months, to see if the member were really alb
sent from theIsland for that period ,as very
often persons alter their mind and return
from a trip sooner than originally intended.
The Chairman stated that the enact
ment on this head in : "a of the Colonial
Law might be interpreted two ways:
either so, that in the event of a member
mott ying his intention to be absent from
the Island for a longer period than 4
months, the Council should await the ex-
piration of that period to see if the men,
Der did not return, before deciding the
question of withdrawal or else, that
when a member announces his intention to
be absent over a months, the question OF
withdrawal shall at once come on and be
decided the latter Interpretation was
more natural, as the Council might other
wise have seats vacant for a long time,
before steps to have them filed could be
taken. He would, however, leave the mat
ter to the Council,-It had not always been
the practice,a IA stated by the honorable End
member for Frederiksted [Brownl to wait
for the expiration of the term; in the late
instance of Mr.. FL. [, Petersen it was, to
name a case, not so.
LIST Member for Christiansted W;llardl
said that in 2 or 3 instances of the kind
that had occurred during the time he has
been in the Council, it had been the Gus.
tom, as far as his memory served him, to
accept the resignation whenever q member
atonce reports his intention to be away for
more than 4 months. And it would GER
tainly always be better to have vacancies
among the Councils Members filed at once
rather than have them open for such .
length of time.
The Chairman: pointed ont, that