, 1889-07-13
end Discussion on Budget 1889, 9O.)

End Discussion on BuQSet ISS9-9O)
3rd Member for ChriStiansted (StaEemann)
would call attention to the state Of the
streets IN this town. Formerly the streets
were always kept in proper order, by the
prisoners alone, now they are put to other
work. and although sums Of money are
granted for repairs, yet the st reefs are in Il
state worse than ever before. Whether the
control be placed under d Commission or
rests with the POlicemaster, there should I've
q rigid examination as to how the prisoners
are used, and ii they be properly employed
the streets would be better repaired and he
kept in good order
2nd Member for FrpderikSted (BrOWn)
noticed that prisoners are frequently used
for other purposes even outside the town,
f. !. their labOur is calculated on when,
building the SchOolhuusp at KingShill
now, if their labour can be spared without
additional expense elsewhere, there could
certainly b. no Objection but at the same
time he must say that when taxpayers see
1850 expended for keeping the streets of
the towns III order, certainly they have
a right to expect that the streets are in
as rood order IN can br obtained but it
appears that a great deal more could be
done in that respect than is being d0au
here IN Basin.
3r,l Member for Frrderikstcd Couu-
try District (HeVitt): As regards His
Excrllency's suggestion that the Counril
could revise the accounts for the work ut
This here bridge, he would say that is not
the point; for what means does this
Council possess to control the details, HE
specifications We have seen larg, sums
of money spent already ON this work ON
previous occasions; it must have been
supposed at the tine, that the method fol.
lowed was the right one, and the expenses
calculated must have been looked upon as
"cheap,' else the Government would not
have proposed; so we must suppose but
here the same work appears again with
still more and still more safe assurances
that this is the proper way and this is the
cheapest way. This is very unsatisfactory,
and the replies given by His Excellency
are not satisfactory. The Building In
spectOr is paid by the Public, and it is ex-
pccted that he shall judge of the work and
make a fair estimate and he it is who is
responsible for the details, he must super
intend not the Council but he cannO do
the work himself and besides control.
The Governor said he WIS sorry the
honOurable Member could not approve of
the way i'll which this work has been lone
and is to he done he can only repeat, that
the work is done as we'll and cheaply us it
possibly can. As regards he observations
from 3rl Member for ChriStianSted TStake-
mannl that taxpayers have the right to see
the repairs of the streets performed by the
prisoners, he would beg to state, that
some time ago the Budget Committee di-
rected the attention of Government to the
question of the prisoners being so employed
that their labour could pay the expenses
for maintaining them, and since that time
the Government has given the Council
statements yearly shelving how the prison.
ers have been employed and what returns
could he considered equivalent to the work
performed. He could not agree that the tax
payers of the towns have the right to nave
the prisoners solely employed in. street
repairs; the prisoners are from the whole
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