, 1881-05-25

right out stated MS INTENTION to resign,
still it seemed but evident from the con.
tents of the letter that he intended to do
SO.
End Member for C~hrlstiansted's Country
District (C0ulterl thought that the law as
well as practice, in at least most cases,
would lead to the acceptance of a with
drawal at once the Council is really at
times placed in an awkward position when
seats are left open, awaiting the return OF
absent mem bers, and when some OF the
other members are absent at q meeting,
which has even at times occasiOned Difficult
ties in getting a quorum.
End Member for Frederiksted {B~ropn)en-
quired what would be the result If aMember
who stated he would be absent for 4 months
should return for instance after 2 months
absence.
The Chairman replied that if no new
election had taken place to ill the scat, or
If the Council had not by 81 vote decided
to await his return, then a Member in the
case named by the honorable Members
would still have the right to his seat in
the Council; otherwise such q Member
could not take his seat after being absent
from the Island.
On the question being put to vote, the
Council decided unanimously with Z votes
Il member not voting to consider Mr..
Hattensen as having retired from the
Colonial Council.
The next item on the Order Of Day was
the Election of members for the several
Communal Commissions.
The Chairman called attention to the
nOn-appiOntment of three Commentary
and the absence in this meeting Of several
other members Of the Council in cOnSe-
quence of the rainy weather and said it
had from those reasons been suggested to
him, if the election of Members for those
Commits ions might not be postponed to
the next meeting of the Council.
The acting President stated that it would
take at least 6 weeks before the Crown
members could be appointed Crown
members are to be appointed by His
Majesty, unless the Governor should find
particular cause to elect them on His
Majesty's behalf, the authority for which
is given by the general Instructions for
the Governor. The acting President
believed that the Governor had now sub
United the appointments to be made His
Majesty, as he had had no particular cause
to appoint them. But it might be that
His E1cellency after reflection might de-
eide to make the appointments Still, the
representation for the appointments, must.
no doubt, have been forwarded to
Copenhagen already by this mail, hence
~ IIlEnU NC NlIlICNIU lOI kuC Wv IIlOI
to make o change. Therefore we might
have to wait 8 weeks before he appoint.
ment of Crownmembers could reach us,
during which time there would be NO
ordinary meetings of the Council while
he had hoped to have the Draft of the
Budget ready to be submitted to the Coun
Gil before that period. He would then
prefer seeing the Members of the Commis-
sions appointed, rather than waiting on
the appointment of the Crownmembers.
The Chairman, said that it the Draft of the
Budget should be ready before, it could
be submitted the Council in an extra
ordinary meeting; by that time the appoint
ment of trownmemberS might still have
taken place, although the presence OF the
CrownmemberS is not required for the COun-
Gil IN order to discuss the Budget bnt he
would OF course leave it to the Members to
decide in the matter.
After some further remarks from several
Members, The Council agreed unanimously
with 3 votes to postpone the appointment
of Members for the CommunalCommiSSions.
The next item was: Election of
members to revise st. Croix Communal
Accounts for lS66-67.
The Chairman said that copies of the
said accounts had been ultimately received
from the Presidency, aad the Council had in
It's meeting of3lstMarch agreed to postpone
electing members to revise the accounts,
as the new general elections for half of
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