, 1889-04-24

head, people having got hold of the body
and taken parts of it for food this is not
the case with Mules, the flesh of which
people don't eat. But even when a carcass
is buried, there should be punishment for
digging up and consuming the carcass;
this would be attempted too. He still
thought that it would be good to say
whether it. is to be considered properly
buried when a carcass is thrown into the sea.
3rd Member for ChriStiansted Iemming(
called attention to the term medgrGUe ia
the Danish text, which referred to no
other process than that Of putting the
carcasses down in holes dug into the earth,
which is not POSSIBLE with the Sea.
3rd Member for ChriStianSted Country
District (Leevy) did not mean to put any
objections 10 the proposal, but he would
like to point out, that in East End there
are Estates with only l or 2 people on
them if 5 or6 cattle die a day, it would be
impossible to have them properly buried /;
the owner would at all events have to
hire hands. But it must be remembered
that when the owner loses his cattle by
the disease, he suffers already q loss of
property it would be hard TO compel him
besides to spend money to bury the cat
tie; it is rather stringent. Then again,
in many places in East End it is diff
cult to get q hole dug i'll the rocky
soil. He would be glad if this point could :
be facilitated when carrying it out.
3rd Member for Frederiksted's Country
District (SUitzer) said he could not see
there could be any hardship in that respect
in EaStend the cattle could be buried on
the spot when they die, except i'll the pens
OF near to houses etc and the pasture man
would dig the hole to bury the carcass. He
could not see that the remarks of the
honorable 2nd Member for ChrlStlansted
(Lemming) were conclusive, because 1t IS
not expressly prevented to throw carcasses
into the sea too; as sure as that can be
done, the carcaSSes will be carried away.
The Governor said, he was OF course
aware that there would always be some
difficulty in carrying out the obligation
imposed by the proposal but on the
other rand it is decidedly necessary, that
calcaSSes should not be allowed to lie I'M
buried. And he could not believe that it
could be impossible to have the CarCasSes
buried, or that it would be hard to exact
it of Estates in EastenG; those Estates do
yield some revenues; to bury dead cattle Is
a measure benefitiug the living stock tn at
measure and all other measures providing
to take care of the living stock will i'll
reality increase the value OF the estates and
consequently it could not be an injustice
to estates to prescribe it. AS for the other
point brought forward by 3rd Member
for FredrrikSted Country District (Svitzer)
the point may be met by adding the
words ri Jorden', 'in the earth" after the
words ''properly buried. The Sanitary
Regulations have placed the proper COM
pliance to these regulations into the hands
of the POIicemaSter, and according to the
Ordinance tranSgreSSionS may be punish
cd with fines not exceeding 100 dollars;
thus it will be seen that there is already
punishment for an instance of the kind
mentioned by the honorable Member.
3rd Member for ChriStiansted Country
District (LeeUy) had not meant to question
the sanitary necessity Of the measure, but
he wanted to call attention to the cOndi.
ton of the owners Of EaStend Stock
Estates he would now only add, that he
hoped that instances Of unavoidable non.
compliance would not be dealt with hardly
in EaStend.
The (GOUernOr) The fines begin with
80 cts and may reach 500.
3rd Member for Frederiksted Country
District (Svitzer) wonld say, that it might
happen that parties may unavOidably
come into difficulties and tranSgressions;
for instance himself; he own the Estate
Little Princess in another part of the Is.
land, and an Estate in Eastend he might
be absent from the latter, cases might
occur of which he gets no informatiOn'un-
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