, 1889-12-25

necessary to be relieved of some other
items, if the Municipal Chest is to be sure
of being able to meet the expenses of tho
Municipality, more especially when it DO
remembered, that the expenses under
just those very items, which have. been
put on that Chest, must from their nature
and force of circumstances be- on the in
crease year by year, fl. the Poor and the
Sanitary Department, as already partly
stated in the Report, where he would beg :
to correct a misprint in the English YER.
sion, column 3, where "Military Depart
ment" is placed instead of "Sanitary
Department." With these few remarks,
he would beg to recommend to the Council. e
to adopt the COmmittse's Report in franz
ing the Councils Most submissive Report
on this Bill, as this latter Can not be con
sidered suited to meet the wishes of the
Community or of the Council.
The Governor i: From the Committees
Report he saw, that the Committee COM
plains that the Bill is not accompanied by
Remarks as usual he regretted, that the
explanations he had given when introduce
ing the Draft, and the Information contain
ed In the letter of 18th August Il. G. from the
Minister of Finances which the Committee
has had, and the explanations he had
offered in the Committee, had not been
found sufficient. He knew OF no applica.
tiOn to the Government which had not
been answered, and. i'll the report itself, he
found no new facts, which had not already
been brought forward. But he more eS-
peCially had to regret, that some rather im-s
pOrtant information he had given in tlcs'
Committee as to- what the Minister might
be expected to agree tC, and what not, has
not been noticed in this report; therefore hes
WAS obliged to repeat that Nta. enrnt now
in the Council. He had before the C0mmlt.
tee tried TO make il clear, that the malm
object and desire of the Home Government
when proposing altera, IONS IN the Colonial
Law, was that the large deficits hithrrtO
appearing on the colonial budgets could in
future be avoided, and in view Of the
uncertain state of things in st. OFOlx, eS-
peClaIlY the prospect OF q series or dry
ytaIS and Il continuation OF the low prices,
it was found after mature consideration
that the best guarantee i'll that direction
would be to have a small independent
Colonial Budget. The very best guarantees
would, of course, be the method to embOdy
the whole of the Colonial Budget, revenue
and expenditures under the State Treasury's
Budget, but as that would deprive the
colony of all direct influence upOn its most
vital interests, it was considered best under
the circumstances to provide a small mu-
nicipal budget for the colony, at the same
time ~ the State.treasury bears certain
expenses on receiving certain revenues.
He was instructed by the Minister of FL
nAnces to state, that while the Minister
would be willing to accept alterations in
the details of the financial plan of settle
ment, provided they could be made with
out prejudice to the object aimed ut, which
was to arrive at u final satisfactory financial
arrangement, the Minister could not see
that the object could be obtained in a way
deviating very much from what has been
proposed in the Bill, and furthermore that
the Minister, IN view of the very great
sacrifices which already the proposed
arrangement would impose upon the
State Treasury, could neither 50 far as
he himself was concerned agree to, nor
generally speaking consider it possible to
provide the Municipal Treasury with
ampler means than absolutely necessary
to secure u balance to with
under present circumstances. He Vhe
GovernOr) saw now that Notwithstanding
that positive declaration on The part of
the Home Government, tte COMMITTEES
has made a very different proposal, which,
if carried out, will necesSitate8 q slarg'
Budget with an excess on the revenue
side provided at the expense. of the State
Treasury and which will % even bring
about u defnitive arrangements, i'll short -
proposal which will be open to all the
Objectionable features, which the Minister