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intermission for 6 months, the subsidy
shall cease until communication is again
established.
The granting of the annual subsidy is
besides under the condition, that the
Company, without compensation, sends the
Government in ST. Croix every day and
also publishes at the Telegraph Office for
the public in general, a despatch containing
the usual news from Europe and the
United States as we'll as the market reports
of Colonial products and exchanges i'll New
York and London.
The Company shall be bound, to allow
and TO facilitate IS much as possible
outside the hours during which it's stations
in ChristianSted and in st. Thomas are
kept open, the electric signal cOmmunlea-
ton between the Fort in st. Thomas and
the Fort in Christiansted, which has been
established by the Government through
the means of the Company's cable.
5.
The COMPANY shall be bound. when
required by The Government, to take over
and work the land-telegraph line between
Christianstpd and Frederiksted with sta
tionS III the two towns, which is at present
worked by the public, either i'll part, so that
the Company provides operators for the
station in ChriStiansted while the Govern
ment provides for the Station iii FrederIk
sted. or entirely, so that the Company
provides operators for both stations.
No loss must be entailed on the company
by this arrangement; the receipts from the
working, which shall continue to be col
lected according to the rules fixed by the
Government, shall be used for covering
the costs of maintaining the telegraph
line.
ANY surplus that may arise shall be
divided between the Colonial Treasury OF
st. Croix and the Company, III case the
latter has only provided operators for one
station, if or 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 far as possible, its technical
assistance in maintaining the said tele-
graph line.
The Company is entitled to continue to
have a place for its Telegraph station i'll
Christians ed granted free of charge by
the public.
REMARKS.
st. Croix has not hitherto paid any
subsidy to the West India & Panama
Telegraph Company, Limited while St.
Thomas, on the other hand, in accordance
with the Ordinance of 14th January 1876,
has paid a subsidy of $4,000 annually for
10 years. Virtually all the West Indian
colonies, which are included in the Com
pany'S telegraphic system. pay such a
subsidy, and it is only with the help of
these subsidies that the Company has been
able to keep the telegraphic communication
with the rest Of the world, which is so
necessary for the West Indies, open.
On account of the bad financial condition
of the municipality of St. Thomas, it has
been necessary, on the expiration OF the
Ordinance just named, to seek to have the
amount of the yearly subsidy, which it
must be acknowledged to be necessary to
pay the Company also i'll the future, consi-
derably reduced and there will therefore
be laid before the Colonial Council OF the
said municipality a draft of ordinance for
paying a subsidy for 5 years OF $4,000
only the Company, has, however, declared
that it will not be able to undertake
to maintain Geographic communication
between the Danish West India Islands
and the rest Of the world for IA less subsidy
than $4,000 yearly, and as it must be
acknowledged that the telegraphic com
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