, 1885-04-25

DlNltlCi tHcFbbCl UbHSOt bO ut16C IFOm Lu6
last honorable Member in his views on
this matter. If the repairs and making Of
the general highways were done at the ex-
ppnse of the Public from the general funds,
The natter would be otherwise; but the re-
pairs of those highways are made by and
at The expense of private parties, hence he
could not see why others should not do the
same, why the repairs OF streets and the
cleaning of streets should not be done by
the -hOuse-OwnerS III town, and the public
funds not used for this purpose, if it be
little or much he could see no cause for q
difference. But az long as it is exacted
that the public highways i'll the country
are t. be kept up by private parties, the
same should be done in town. He would
repeat that it must soon come to that, in
the face of the constant and increasing de-
foits of the Budgets, when we have to be
asking for help elsewhere, while some who
could pay this portion of the public expen.
ditnre here are exempted. de did not OBJ
jpct so very much against the road work
drvOlving on estates, but he did think
it wrong that one part of the community
shall pay, and the other not, for the same
enjoyment; when we have to look to others
to pay for us, and expect that the tax-pay.
erS of ID nmark shall come forward, then
every DOtlA SlOllO HIS NV (uVl1 NuCN'
2nd Member for Christiansted (Lemming)
said, that is the usual song oft the honOura-
hle Member each time we have the Bud.
get under discussion he (Lemming) was
only very sorry that the honorable Mem.
Der was not present this year when the
Budget was under discussion, when he
would have got the proper answer, aud
one hat would have settled any body else.
He (Lrmming) would, however, now again
repeat what has been Shewn on so many
previous instances, that eS~tate.0WnerS
have bought their Estates with % real
burthen or lien on them to perform the
road work allotted to them according to
Law; the estates have been bought with
that understanding. as u sort OF mortgage
or you may say an annuity, to that effect !;
but when estates are bought with that
understanding, then the owners should
not grumble afterwards to pay, aS 1t ia all
honest debt no owner can afterwal DIS
come forward and say, others, particularly
house owners in town, must bear the same
burthen, simply because these properties
have NOT been bought with such burthtn;
II. for instance an estate owes $2OO0, the
owner cannot come TO q HORSEPOWER III
town and say because | w hat amount
on my estate, you too must owe something,
piltI we ma DPCOAllt tUldI' SACCuI ulhS W
the general laws -houSe-ownerS have the
obligation to clean their yards aud a certain
part IF the ST eets (FortOgrnel; the Public
must keep the streets as such clean it
would be tantam0unt to an invasion of the
right of property to exact more. Estate
Owners have also a duty, namely to keep
their own premises clean and to repair the
roads as such and as already stated, there
should be no grumbling at that, particular.
ly az it is after all nothing very great.
He hoped now that he had been explicit
enough in replying to the honorable
Member. With regard to the keeping Of
swine, he could not help saying that it is u
curious thing that in the Regulations for
the Country District, s 4, it is forbidden to
keep swine in the nrighbonrhood of any
house or in the estates villages, but in the
Regulations for the Towns it is SAID that it
is allowed to keep swine; this ISL plainly
speaking the case, for if swine are to be
kept with the consent of the Board, that
consent will not be withheld. The reason
why swine should not be kept is because
it is unpleasant and unhealthy; If it Is
TO hidden in the manner stated III the
country with a limited number Of people on
the estates, it ought to be- so much the
more so in town, with a population so
much larger and denser, and particularly
when, as is the case, the animals are chiefly
kept in Il part of the town, where the IN
habitants and the premises themselves are