, 1889-10-30

NC ludl Ill6 EADClIS6S OH t-Ao mlulcfB1t
items appear to be ever increasing, but t4s
Council will be able % put a sUgJ 10 tina.
Ill fact there will be this great difference
under the new arrangement, that tbs
Council must take care to nave The axDen.
Ses to balance with the Revenue and that
the Council will have the power to achieve
THAT. he would not now enter further
upon the remarks that had been made
cohcernIng ) 2, but merely say. that tho
Items that have beol spoken Of ~ not
being expressly mentioned in the Bill Of
Law are III the Draft Of the Expenses. and
those matters will certainly bo under the
power OF the Council of course, it is nor
possible to enunerdte every possible thilt
in the Bill of Law.
3rl Molnber fnr C1ristiausted (Stasem Ntu
sad, when His EGcelleucy seemed to
suppose that 1t would be easy enough to fix
the Expenses according to the Revenue,
he would beg to differ; those items have
Increased and will increase beyond the COZ.
troll OF the Council or the Government: for
instance, we can not allow the poor to
StarVe and thu number of those needing
Aelp Is increasing beyond all control, tho
same will be the case with the Sanitary
Department take again the Schools. will
1t be possible to reduce ANYTHING there
Some other items might be reduced some
what, but viii 1t be- advisable The COW
sequence will be, that, to get a balance,
we must impose new taxes to avoid hav-
ing a deficit we must then also put the
Revenue ut the lowest and the EXPENSES
ut the highest figures. But after all, We
must depend on the leuiency of the Home
Government in this matter. We must con-
slider seriously before we mere ase taxation,
as properties are already Overtaxed. Ii it
IS TO be so that the Diet can pass laws for
us, which we have refused, we would
certainly be no better off than before.
The Municipality will scarcely have any
entire power even in its own municipal
affairs If "a school be refused or measures
under the Quarantine Department be re-
fused, the Diet and Home Government
can nevertheless do what has been mega
lived here.
The GOcernor: It is impossible to know
beforehand what might take place but We
must not build SO much on what dangers
the future might Shew, but keep 10 what
experience shews, aud here we know thai
the Diet has had the power, but it has
never abused it.
At the suggestion of several Members
it was put to vote if the further discus
Sions should continue to-day or not they
were 10 votes for, and 5 against.
NO one else requested the word further;
the question of referring the Draft to a
Committee of Z Members was put to
vote ; there were 10 for and 6 against.
After a respite the Council proceeded
to vote for Members of the Committee.
Elected were: Hewitt with IA, Raphael
with IA, Stakemanl with Ii, Wilson
with Ii, Andersen with 10, Petersen
with 8 votes; Brown, Lemming and
Russell, had each Z votes by a new
free election Creagh was elected with s
votes.
2nd Member for Ohristiansted (Lemming
left the Assembly.
y Letter from Government dated 10
November 1889 No. 1889 concerning the
form to be used in applications for pay
mentS from the ImmigratiOnfuud towards
the expenses incurred for Introducing
labourers from foreign Westindia L,l4IlS.
The letter reads as follows;
The Government
of the Danish Westindia Islands,
st. CrOix, 1st October 1889.
No. 1897.
Of late there has been fOrwar Il to the
Government several Lists of immigrants
introduced into this island from lhe British
Islands, accompanied with the request for
the usual repayment of the ( of the expen-
seS incurred for introducing the immigrant,
under the Ordinance of 18th February
1878.
In those LISTS Or StatamaDts tha avnan.