, 1882-01-21

4uc 1DONdI OIuILdICG vi OJu OeDD6IIlUC1
1858, concerning trades and professions in
the Danish West India Islands, shall be
understood in such wise, that in future it
shall be permitted to each estate to estab-
fish a shop, with same privileges as enjoy
ed by shops in town, spirits or s%pirituous
liquors excepted.
Such trade annOt be carried on, unless
the respective shop proprietor has obtain
ed a Burgher Brief as Retailer in the
Country Districts.
1he rules prescribed by the Ordi-
nance of 9th September 1853 in order
to obtain Burgher Briefs in general, and
the general qualifications required by the
said Ordinance for parties seeking Burgher
Briefs, shall i'll every respect apply to the
Burgher Brief mentioned here within.
A Burgher Brief as Retailer in the
Country Districts gives the right Of retail
ing on one estate only and only from one
place on the estate. Every change by
the removal OF the Owner from one Estate
to another, shall, previous to the removal,
be notified at the respective Police Office.
The right accorded to resident estate
labourers by S 8 Of the Ordinance Of 9th
September 1853, to sell by retail to the
other labOurerS certain articles of prOYi-
Sions, shall cease.
3.
For a Burgher Brief as Retailer in the
Country Districts there shall be paid, on
the re 4pt Cf the grant,a fee to the Coloni-
90. -4taSUry Of seven Dollars, and two So 100
Dollars for stamped paper. Besides that
fee, there shall be paid by every such
Retailer an annual tax to the Colonial
Treasury Of forty five Dollars, which tax
shall be col, ected at the end of every
quarter, with one quarter Of the annual
sum. For having a Burgher Brief noted
at the Police Office there shall bee paid a
fee Of one Dollar. No consideration or
deduction for fees paid on any previous
occasion for a burgher brief for trade in
town, shall be admitted lsee S 3 Of Ordi-
nance 9th September 1859
T..
The penalties prescribed in the Ordi-
nance Of 9th September 1903, and the
mole .. prosecution therein established
for eases OF tranS@reSSiOn, shall in every
respect apply to the Burgher Brief here
within mentioned.
MOTIVES.
Ever since the Emancipation of the slaves in
this island it has been the undisturbed and
u%ndiSputed practice of Estates owners or
managers to keep a supply, larger or small
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provision sc. for sale to iabourerS on
the Estates for daily conSum ption, besides
the articles given as allowance in part
payment Of their wages. After the change
effected in 1879 in the existing labOur
relations, by which the diSpenSation Of
such allowance as part-payment ceased,
the necessity is much more urgent to
provide some place on the Estates, where
the lab0urers may supply themselves with
the articles of daily SuStenanCe. and not
be compelled to resort to the towns for
that purpO e, whereby much valuable
labour is lost, and northumberland affo. ded
them to spend their earnings in drinking
and revealing, rather than on food. But
it would seem that the aforementioned
natural, and now more than ever neceSSa-
ry mode of supplying the requirements of
the labOurerS on Estates, is about to be
stopped, as being inconsistent with the
Law. In view, however of the imperative
call for, and the immense benefit of such
shops on estates, and in order TO legalize
such traffic, the present Draft of Ordinance
is introduced. 1t proposes to make the
keeping Of shops on estates permissible
on G nditiOn that the party obtains a bur-
CHER brief as retailer, as is required in the
towns, and pays an annual tax; the
amount of this tax is fixed at the sum
paid for a burgher brief as retailer viz.
$40, and when it be remembered that the
provision traffic on Estates is lucrative, it
does not seem unreasonable to impose this
tax, by which, moreover, the Colonial
Treasury would be benefited. 1t has been