, 1885-02-25

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sion to-day would beg TO state that in the
Colonial Council of st. Thomas and ST.
John this Draft had been sent TO a Com
mittee if no objections be made here, he
intended not to close the 1st discussion on
the Draft in this Council before the mat
ter had passed End discussion in the Coun-
Gil of st. Thomas.
2nd Member for Christiansted (Lemming)
in referring to his remarks on this matter
in the Councils last meeting, would beg to
propose to the Government hat the Go
vernment would postpone this 1st discus
sion, until it be known what result the
matter gets in the Committee of the Colo
NAL Council of st. Thomas, and until it
can be seen what that Council itself means
to do in the matter. It would not be ne
cpsSary for him to advance further argu-
ment in this respect it is easy to see that,
as already previously shown by him, 1T
would be useless for us here to take all
The trouble in examining and discussing
this Draft, if it is to be thrown out in the
ST. Thomas Council. In case the Govern
ment does not adopt the measure suggest
ed, he intended to submit another proposal
to the Council.
End Member for Christiansted's Country
District (JamieSOn) could agree that it
would be recOmmendable to leave his
matter until it had been discussed in the
other Council, with which We have the
Draft in common; still, there is one point
in that respect which he would like should
also be considered, namely this, that were
we now to postpone this matter entirely,
waiting on st. Thomas, it might get the
appearance as it re were looking to st.
Thomas for guidance in the affair; and if
it should become so, that i'll st. Thomas
nothing at all be done in the matter, we
would have to follow the same course,
This did not appear to him to be quite de-
sirable; still, he had no objections to the
pOStpOnement in itself.
2nd Member for Christiansted (Lemming)
said The honorable Member who had just
spoken had not perhaps read the remarks
he (Lemming) had made in the last meet
ing, when the honorable Member was
absent; but he had then pointed out that
the present draft is for an ordinance in
common with st. Thomas, that on a former
occasion we had Il draft in common with
st. Thomas, viz. regarding fees to lawyers
for public suits; that this draft had been
sitted, discussed and ultimately adopted by
this Council that this draft was thrown
out in st. Thomas. To a repetition Of this
we ought not to be exposed, and that so
much The less as, judging from the discus
si0nS that have already taken place III St.
Thomas Council, there did not appear any
likelihood of a practical result in the mat
ter. There must never be any appearances
as if we here in this Council were looking
to st. lhOmas for guidance i'll the present
matter, as our Council counts among its
members a larger number of parties pos
sessing thorough knowledge of law mat
tiers than that of St. Thomas.
3rd Member for Christiansted (WGSSGrd(
would point out that the reason why we
should not proceed further in the discus
sion in the matter is simply this, that the
Draft has been introduced first IN the 20.
loniaI Council of st. Thomas, and it is OF
course more convenient for us 10 wait until
the matter progresses in that Council.
The GOUernmentSecretary said that the
Council of st. Thomas might on their part
wish to learn the views of the Council of
st. Croix in the matter; and it certainly
did not appear to him to be necessary, as
stated by the honorable Chairman, to
postpone the LIST discussion here until the
Draft had been to End discussion in st.
Thomas. He would beg to state on behalf
of the Government that he was sure that
Government did not wish to interfere Ill
this respect, but would leave it to the
Council to decide what further steps they
would find proper to take in the matter.
End Member for ChriStiansted (Lemmang)
after the statement now given on behalf
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