, 1885-12-12
II. HdnScheU,
Translation.
Christian Henrik Arendrup.
Governor of the Danish West India Islands,

Knight Commander of Dannebrog and Dannebroqsmand.
MAKE KNOWN: On the most submissive repre-
LJ] s~entation of the Ministry of Fin nces His Majesty
the King has been most graciously pleased by Resolu-
ton Of End November a. c. to sanction the following
ordinance concerning a subsidy from the Colonial
Treasury Of st. CrOiX to the West India & Panama
Telegraph Company Limited etc, passed at third dis.
cusson in the Colonial Council for ST. Croix on the
7th September a. c.
An annual subsidy of 100000 from the Colonial Treasury
of st. Croix shall be secured to the West India s Panama Tele.
graph Company Limited for a period of ) years, to be reckoned
from the 1t Of January 1885, as long as st. Croix shall be kept
by he company in Geographic communication with ST. Thomas
and the other West Indian Islands as well as with America and
Europe, on conditions approved of by Government.
The said subsidy is to be paid every half year with half the
annual amount.
If the above mentioned telegraphic communication should
internissIon tor . months, the subsidy shall cease until commu-
nication is again established.
The granting of the annual subsidy is besides under the con.
dition that the Company, without compensation, sends the Go.
vernment in ST. Croix every day and also publishes at the TrIr-
graph Office for the public in general a despatch containing the
usual new Lom nWoP0 "" Io O''e' states ~ vel az the
market reports OF Colonial products and exchanges i'll New York
and London.
The Company shall be bound to allow and to facilitate as
much as possible, outside the hours during which its stations in
communication between the fort in St. Thomas and the fort in
Chrstansted, which has been established by the Government
through the means OF the Company's cable.
The Company shall he bound, when required by the Co
vernment, to take over and work the landsteIegraph line between
ChrStiansted and FrederkSted with stations in the two towns.
which is at present worked by the public, either in part so that
the Company provides operators for the station in ChristianSted
while the Government provides for the station in Frederksted,
or entirely, so that the Company provides operators for both
stations.
No loss must be entailed on the Company by this arrange.
ment the receiptS from the working, which shall continue to DO
collected according to the rules fixed ny the Government, shall
be used for covering the costs of maintaining the telegraph line.
Should they prove insufficient, the deficit shall be covered by
the Colonial Treasury.
Any surplus that may arise shall be divided between the
Colonial Treasury of st. CrClX and the Company, in case the
latter has only provided operators for one STATION, if on the other
hand the Company has provided both stations with operators it
shall receive the whole surplus.
The Company is moreover to give the public, as tar as posi-
BILE, its technical assistance in maintaining the said telegraph
line.
6.
The Company is entitled to continue to have a place for it's
Telegraph station III ChriSIianstcd granted free of charge by the
public.
To which all concerned have to conform.
The Government of the Danish West India Islands,
ST Thomas, the 9th December 1885.
Under my hand ana the Seal of Government.
c.. II. ARENDRUP.