, 1889-10-30

come III duU no WOulAI uOG NOI0 AOI
transferring claims that are good for
nothing.
End Crownmember andersen said, the
honorable Member who spoke lastly
(Stakemann) had made mention of an
Ordinance, which has lately been rejected
by the Council, namely the Ordinance on
Corpse Inspection, which the honorable
Member thinks could not under the new
system be laid again before the Colonial
Council but there he (Andersen) diSa-
greed; the matter of Corpse Inspection
is clearly one belonging under the SAM.
taly Department and hence it will be
within the resort of the Colonial Council.
But there is another objection he (Audersen)
had to 5 2; it is, namely, not clear from
the wording, if only those affairs that are
expressly mentioned there are to be com.
munal affairs if it were meant SO, that
would not be right for then the Council
could for Instance have nothing to do with
IN alters concerning taxation, no right to
discuss the ~advisability EOf new X or
the abolition of old ones and again the
Colonial Council ought not to be deOarred
fr9m legiSlatlng Oh certain matters con-
nected with the Council itself; and several
other minor matters, which might however
come under discussion later in the Com
mittee. The principal thing is that the
Colonial Council can enter upon the new
state of things with confidence of a balance
between Revenue and Expenditure. It is
true that the Statement of the distribution
of Revenue and Expenditure, Voucher No.
!, Is not quite satisfactory, as It Shews
a deficit OF $4,000, and the houOurable
Bird Member tor ChristianSted (Stakemann)
has pointed out that the deficit may i'll all
likelihood he larger but still, he did not
x]A.V.oir nf thn uNu,n (NOuarn V1apt3s, ljhn-
.rdlitS towards the COLONY in this mat
teE; the Home Government has all
along Shewn liberality i'll pecuniary mat
tiers towards the colony, that We may hope
that they will slew the SAME also in future.
1t will now be the duty of the eventual
committee to report on the measure aud
to point out what the Community mostly
desires; he would only here mention one
item, which has been transferred to the
Municipal Budget, viz. the Export Duty
tor a small community like this it is not
at all well to have All item of revenue of SO
varying and fluctuating nature this item
has been as high as 245 900 aud below
100000 it the Home Government, instead
of that item of revenue would let us have
another item of more staple nature, that
would be gratefully accepted. 1t is of
course, with regret that individuals as we'll
as communities see restrictions made i'll
their authority; but, We all know, that
political independence can only exist along
with financial Independence for the last
90 years We have not had this latter. Still,
he did not despair, that the COMMITTEES,
after meeting with His EXcellency, will
ultimately be able to propose such changes
i'll the Bill as shall meet the approval of
the Home Government and tue Diet.
End Member for Christian Sted (Lemming)
would beg to make a few remarks, more
i'll general than in a special respect, resefv-
ing further remarks for a later period. He
would then beg to note and to accentuare
a few remarks from His ExcelIency the
Governor ON behalf of the Ministry. His
Elk |:olieacf ) aid the first and; primary aim
is to put the Municipal Treasury, here and
in st. Thomas, in such Il financial position
that lt may make bD Ii en- / meet, and
further to relieve Us and Sc. Thomas from
the financial bdrthen now weighing so
heavily on us and we were finally inform
Ell that it is the intention to endeAvOr to
relieve this community of the guarantee for
the Central Factory aud to settle with the
Shareholders. But at the same time it
must be noticed, that when We are thus
placed in a proper financial position, it is
then TO be q final position; we can not
hencefOrth expect the State Treasury to
come forward when we have insufficient
means for our expenses; we must then
stand on our own legs ;-dud as this is the