, 1889-03-16

Gil. if there should De no COMMITTEES
The Sanitary Department shows $l'olO
more than last year, which Is owing 10
the fact that the Hospital Commission in
Erederiksted has asked for about $1,000
more than last year for procuring lnvento"
~ and Cor hospital expenses. For the Leper'
ASYLUM at Richmond there are $3.50 more
than exactly necessary for the present
number of patients, as experiences mas
shown that the expenses are Oh the increase,
although it ia not possible to say now eX.
actly what will be required. with regarn
to the Building Expenses, they are $l,oOO
less than last year among new Dulldlug
expenses is the sum requisite to rebuild
the Barracks at Kingshil for use as a
Country School, as the number OF children
at Fricdensteld is larger than can oe &C
c0mmoAaieA there. The Pension EXpen'
SEES. are, as mentioned lefore increased with
the amounts of pension Tor Captain f'Oye,
Reverend Feilherg and GOvernmentS-secre-
tary Van Brake. With these remarks he
wonld now beg to recommend the Budget
to the Council
2nd Member for FredeTikSted (BrOa1n)
said. that as this Draft of Budget could
scarcely give rise to any lengthy dlScuSslon'
hp would take this early opportunity to
make = short remark and enquiry. AS one
of the members elected to assist IN the
Tax Commission for West End he had ire
oupntly of late been asked TO explain why
the taxes on properties III that town had
been augmented of late and as IN the
Commission itself nothing had lranSplred
or had been stated to account for such rise
Of taxation, he would beg, if not putting
His. Excpllency too much out OF the way, to
ask what is the cause utthe increase at taxes
on tow properties in FrederikSted com.
pared with immediately preceding yeArs1
THE Governor SAID, the Council VIII be
aware, that ut late years Il resurvey OF the
properties in Frederiksted has been made,
.the result was that a certain nulnoer OF
proper les we're found not charged or paying
what they should do in taxes according 10
INV. If any increase has been made, 1t
must be owing to that fact but he was
not aware Of there being an increase To any
considerable amount.
3rd Member for Christianeted (StGkemGnH)
would, with regard to that question, beg
10 say that he WAS not averse to paying
taxes, but for the last two years taxes
have been colIecttd,-at least il is so in
Cbristiansted but he did not know
if it is the case also IN FrederikSted, ON
Stables and Carriage Houses, which pre-.
viOusIy were not assessed for tax
whether this is right OF wrong, is per-
haps not the right place here 10 discuss.
But he could not help remarking that on
comparing the Tax Ordinance OF 1892 for
Denmark with the Tax Ordinance of same
year for the Colonies, he could not See that
it was right to charge taxes Oh those out
buildings. In the Ordinance for the
Mothprcountry it is expressly stated that
such parts of buildings as are used for
Storpkteping, Storage, Dwelling house etc,
are liable to the tax, but not Horse Sta
bles and Carriage Houses ; the wording
is similar in the Ordinance for the West
indies, but the exemptions are not ex-
pressly mentioned but he fancied that
the buildings in question cannot come III
undAr the enactments0 tthe law itself. AS far
as himself is concerned, the new practice
entailed an additional tax of about %
yearly and although he would not say
that the taxation ia over burthenSome, still
everybody would like 10 pay as little al
possible.
E The. Governor replied chat be was not
aware. of any new rules being followed in
that respect, aud he had not been aware OF
there vet being any reason for increase here
in Christiansted when the survey was not
vet completed as for Frederiksted the
cause has already been explained. But it
was to be supposed that the Public would
have profted by the exhibition of the Tax
Lists before final assessment, and would
have come forward with any remarks they
had to make which wOuld have been taken