, 1882-05-17
P R @ c. E E D N GS
OF THE
COUNCIL
FOR ST. CROIX.
Continuation Of Meeting Of 8th Nay 1892
OF THE

(2Rd Discussion on DTNyt Of Budget J0r
1882-83)
Bird Member for Christiansted (LemminG
as Speaker Of the Committee introduced
the Report, and said, before entering on
the verbal remarks which he might find
necessary to add to what is stated in The
Report, he would beg on behalf OF the
Committee and subcommittee to state
that they had by tie Authorities been
furnished with all the information ana
calculations that were required, ana that
the Authorities III the conferences when
the Committee had had with them had
ct-)Derated cordially, and had given the
assurance that under no Item OF the bud
get would there be expended more than
what is absolutely necessary; he Therefore
begged to tender the Committees thanks
to the Authorities, and to ask Lis Honour
the acting President to accept the same.
He would then proceed with the remarks
and would firstly add, that the committee
had said nothing in the report concerning
the estimated Revenues under this u
Get. There is, however, III item Z, Stamp
paper Dues, under Indirect Taxation, a
mistake. as according to the average or
the last 3 years revenue IN the table
attached to the Remarks, the amount
NOLlI DC GD.ZOUs IliDbCdO VI UO5 bVO3 NS ~
the Draft. The Committee considers, fur
thermore, that the items of revenue No.
8-13. Indirect Taxation, are entered with
a sum all in all $4,000 higher than under
the circumstance can be expected; still,
the Committee had not found it necessary
to recommend any alteration in that re-
spcct as the item Export duty, which is
put down at $50. 900, can be expected VIII
Weld a much larger sun this year. When
in the remarks to this item it is stated
that those $50 600 export duty are based
on a calculation of a crop OF 10000 hogs
heads, this must mean, since the export
duty is 5 D. CT. of the value, Q crop OF
10000 h~ogsheads a $50 pr. ~hogshead, /
other words, this must be a f~actOry-hogs-
head, as otherwise a hOgshead OF sugar,
with corresponding molaSses ana rum
must be leckoned at 800 pr. hOgShead, or
a planter-hOgShead, n from this view
the crop of $1,000 hhds. might be consider
ed as representing export duty to a sum Oh
$45, 600. He hoped and believed, however,
that planters and others who knew any
thing of the crop, will agree that this year
the crop will exceed 10000 planter-hogS.
heads. On account of this expected
increased export duty and even after the
less revenue under items 7-12, there
might be reckoned on a Budget Revenue
C. $4,000 higher than estimated, namely,
if we go out from the view of crop OF
10000 planter hogsheads. At the same
time he would now call attention to some
other points in the Revenue Side. Ths
total sun of A. Direct Taxes is IN the
Draft put down at S4S,6 600, while properly
added up, the total Is 1880; the total
amount of B is put down at S113,oOO; cor
rectly added, it would be s113,S5O; under
C the total is carried out with S4,oOO;
while it can only be s4,779. The Total
Revenue would then be $167,179 instead
of s167 200. In next passing over to the
Expenditure, he would on the first point,
CT, the Bookkeeper's salary, refer to the
contents of the report:-As regards the
item CO, judiciary & Police Department,
he would beg to point out, that the Danish