, 1885-02-28

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the towns, as a Burgher Brief should be
required and the same tag be PAID to the
Colonial Treasury as is paid by the retail
ers in the towns; unless the shop be kept
by the estate owner himself, then only
half the fees should be paid without taking
out a Burgher Brief When therefore Co
vernment in s / of the Draft made a provi-
sion that merchants and retailers in the
towns may obtain licenses to open shops
in the country, then, this is principally
calculated for the protection OF traders III
town; but it has also another object, viz:
10 meet q wish that had been expressed
here in the Council, that, as the Trade-Or-
dinance of 1853 does not ALLOW trade OF
any kind to be carried on i'll the country
by residents Of the towns, it should be
made possible for them to establish shops
at convenient places in the country, and
it was then particularly mentioned III the
clause that Kingshill would be a suitable
place, whenever a Police Station was re-
established there, as it was highly desira-
bic and also could be expected that a vii
Iage would grow up in the neighbourhood
Of such a shop thereby affOrding to plant
ers in the middle of the country an OppOr-
tunity to get hands in busy m for es-
tate work, similar to what is the case now
with estates near the towns. But Govern
ment thought that only traders in town
should be granted the privilege of eStab-
fishing such shops; and when it is added
that III those shops also liquors may be
sold, it must not be overlooked that it is
said "under the same restrictions as in
the townS"; and in This respect it must he
noticed that in the Draft regulating the
Sale Of Rum and Spiritu0nS Liquors, which
is submitted to the Council simultaneously
with this present Draft, the sale of liquors
by others than the licensed RumShopkeep-
erS is limited to 5 gallons at one time
hence traders in town cannot sell liquor
by the glass, nor will they be at liberty to
60 50 in the country. In the same Draft
about the sale Of liquors the penalties for
tranSgreSSiOns are fixed at high fines, the
half Of which goes to the inf1rmer. 1t had
also been proposed that one or more licen-
SEES to establish Rum Shops i'll The country
may be given according to Il more particu-
lar decision of the Government but such
would as a matter of course not be granted
except on the particularly expressed wish
of the representa- ives of the community.
3rl Mrmbet for ChristianSted WaSSardl
would, in ref renee to the question about
the selling OF liquor, beg to remark that it
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fishing a shop in the country is not allowed
to sell less than 5 gallons of rum, bat still
the clause in this Draft would he very Ob-
Fashionable, the more 50 just now when we
have before us Il proposal to have a limit
of 33 gallons tixeI for the sale Of rum by
the manufacturers; it seems inconsistent
at The same time to establish a right for
others to sell rum in the country by 3
gallons. He would add that it is nos so
much the rule itself contained in s that
is objectionable, but the aliases that must
necessarily follow from it. With regard
10 the remarks of His H0nOr the Govern
ment 'Secrefary about the Commission hav
ing recommended the same fees to be paid
as in the towns for establishing a shop.
from which it is argued that the Commits
sion meant that a large trade would be car
ried on III the country; there he would re-
peat that the Commission, as particularly re-
marked in the Report, has chiefly intended
to legalize the present state of things in
this respect, namely the furnishing of pro-
visions to labOurerS almost in the manner
as now done, and to the same extent and
in so far as it is proposed that the permits
sion from the Superior Authority to carry
on these sales to estate labourers, should
be taxed with the same fee as that paid for
retail trade in the towns, this was of course
intended as Il protection of the rights Of
the towns. But he (WaSSard) had as a Mi
nOrity in the Commission disagreed in that
point; he had held the view that there