, 1885-12-19
Dealing G
St. ThOnld

EN- 19Dr DECEMBER 1885. UNr 1O1
Translation.
Christian Henrik Arendrup,
Governor Of the Danish West India Islands,
Colonel,
Knight Commander Of Daancbrog and Dannebrogsmand,
N7AKE KNOWN: On the most submissive repre.
iIIl Sentation Of the Ministry of Finances His Majesty
the hng has been most graciously pleased by Resolu-
ton OF 2nd November Il. 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.
cnSsion in the Colonial Council for St. Croix on the
18th September a c.
An annual subsidy of 81 100000 from the Colonial Treasury
fist. CIoix shall be secured to the West India y Panama Tele-
rom lE i III ~ l l1nnS" 70 d pri T Oh . years 10 be- reasoned e
Dy me om[pn4lyy in Geographic communication with St. Thomas
ana the other Vest Indian Islands as well as with America and
Europe, on conditions approved OF by Government.
l4r Sad subsidy i to be paid every half year with half the
# the above mentioned telegraphic communication should
suffer any important break or interruption, which lasts without
ln!teraiNson for Z months, the subsidy shall cease until commu-
nicdtion is again established
The granting Of the annual subsidy is besides under the con
Vernmrnt IN st. CloiX every day and also publishes at the Tele-
6 usual news hom ~ E a" ana tG f"'' Upi 1T STAT States oo w S%I as thu
market reports OF Colonial products and exchanges in New York
and London.
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The Company shall be bound to allow and to facilitate as
much as possible, outside the hours during which its stations in
ChrlstidrStcd and St Thomas are kept open, the electric signal
communication between the fort in st. Thomas and the fort in
ChrislianStcd, which has been established by the Government
through the means Of the Companys cable.
The Company Shall I've bound, when required by the Co
vrrnment, to take over and work the land telegraph line between
ChriStiaDSted 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 Frederiksted,
or entirely, so that the Company provides operators for both
stations.
No loss must be entaled on the Company by this arrange.
mcnt the receipts from the working, which shall continue to bo
collected according to the rules fixed by the Government, shall
be used for covering he 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. CrCX and the Company, i'll 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.
The Company is entitled to continue to have a place for its
Telegraph station in ChrStianstcd 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 and the Seal of Government.
G.. FL. ARENDRUP.
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