, 1882-05-17

that the amount for Office expenses etc.
for the Judge & P~olicemaSter in Chris
tiansted includes "the keeping of horses
for policemen" while according to the
Money Bill under this item nothing at all
is included for that purpose, as the Bill
itself has placed the keeping of horses
under the item for Policemen" He
called attention to this in order that it
might be corrected.-Further, it will lie
seen that while for Christiansted the Draft
of Budget has this wording: UnderdOm-
mer, Skri,er Og PolitimeSter i Christian
Steds JuriSdilt on. the wording for Ere
deriksted is: "UnderdOmmeren. Skriver
Og POlitimesteren i FrederikstedS Juris-
dictiOn.' This should also be corrected.
In the Money Bill ". the amount for uni
forms for policemen is put down at
$583.60; correctly computed, the amount
would be S582.22: and in this connection
he would not fail calling attention to a
misprint in the English translation of the
remarks to this sub Item of the Bill, where
it is said "guilted buttons instead Of
"gilded buttonS."-With reference to the
Money Bill V. Customhouse, he would
point out, that the Danish text in No. >
has the word "Nattevagter'' instead of
"NattevRgtere' which was corrected
last wear. In the text of the Draft itself,
no reference is made, as in the other
instances done, to the Number OF the
Money Bill containing the grant for two
Assistants at FrederikSted'S CuStOmh0uSe.
In the Grant VII Pilot and Harbour
Department the Danish text says that the
amounts enumerated in the remarks ale
the same as have hitherto been expended
(''er hidtil anyendt); but this is a mis-
take, which Will be noticed on comparing
the remarks with the English translation,
and because what is intended to be cX-
pended disagrees with what formerly was
expended, and contains new items. AS
for No. 8 he would point out, that
there is no light at Frederikstort,
therefore thtre can be no expense for
that; the amount of $50 for that pur-
pose should be- struck ont, reducing h.
$50 sub Item 3 to ,95. The total sum Of
$2G40 (apart + ON those $50 has been
entered on the Budget by a miSprint with
S2640; when the 30 are deducted the
total would be 32G0j. With reference to
item c. 6, the Committee could not cODSl-
der that the arguments advanced Tor
allowing Sl5 pr. month or $3.50 p. a. for
assistance at the Post office. hold good
for Frederiksted's PoStotlice the greater
labour occaSioned by the Berner conyen-
ClOII COu4u OCfl4illg NOT NC bIouSut w
bear as far as Fr.deriksted is concerned,
since the wo k resulting therefrom falls
exclusively on he PoStotlice in Christian
sted and that i'll FrederikSted has no adj
dlti0nal labOur to discharge. Still the
Committee had made no remark on that
account, in view of the fact of the amount
for Office expenses at Frederiksted'S Gus
tOmh0uSe, being so much less than in
ChristianSted, and it is the same party
who in both places has the duties cf
Collector and Of Postmaster to discharge ,
The Committee therefore raised no 0Dje,-
tlOn against the $50 p. a. being passed.
The Committee would, however, beg to
call the attention of the Presidency to this,
that on this Budget there is no amount
entered for detraying postage for
heavy mail matters when conveyed in
other sailing vessels than the Govern
ment's packet schooner, while ON former
budgets there was always an amount,
generally SJ75, added for that purpose
to the total sum of the Money Bill if that
amount be added, the total under the
Post Department would be increased
from S2.36S to >2,543. AS regards G. 8.
Road Department, Streets ect. he would
point out, that item No. 2 for repairing
streets, wells, and bridges, in town is carri-
ed out with 1920; but from the remarks
to the lie n it will be seen that the amount
required for ChristianSted is 1920, for
Fr~ederlkSted S245, making in all $465
instead of 1920; hence the total amount Of
the grant will be $500, instead of 1924. The
Sanitary Department, Poor Department and
Prison Department are dealt with in a mea-