, 1890-01-01
P.R 0 G. E D N G.
OF TEEE
COLONIAL COUNCIL
FOR SIT. CROIx
Continued from AvjS NJ. 1O4.)

After having heard the remarks from His
Excellency the Governor, especially in the
beginning of His Excellency's speech to-
day, whereini it is stated chat we annOt ex-
pect to obtain more than what is required
to get a balance on the budget for the Mu.
nIcipality, he (Lemming) got the desire to
say something more detailed, and be desired
to do so all the more because, if we had OBJ
tanned the information from the Committee
that the State Treasury and the Diet would
take over the Military Expenses and Pen-'
sions, the Governors salary and the other
items enumerated in the Report, it would
have been good and desirable but when
WE also from the letter from the Minister OF
Finances have heard it positively stated
that we must not expect more than to OBJ
tain a Budget fairly balanced, he fOund 1T
his duty to lay stress on a point which he
beforehand had had in mindy viz: by
the help of the figures in the draft and
Vouchers and of the figures concerning
our expenses on the last Budget, to find
out what could really be required to get
an Income on the budget, sufficien. to COW
er the Expenses required. His oplnlOnlS
that there will be required considerably
more than what is put down ia the Draft.
according to the expense entered on the
Budget for ahe present year. His idea Is;
namely, in 50 far as we look at the figures
in Voucher I. 10 the bill, we will find the
Income estimated too Ligh under some
items, VIZ. the Absentee Fax, which is
5000 above what can be expected !; the
Horse, Boat, aud Carriage Tax $50 too
high; the Quarterpercpnt-taX 5000 too
high, in all $500 under a; then there IL
the Export Duiy which is 52,OOO III excess
of what we can reasonably reckon upon
getting in; the revenue from cranage 500,
from the Pilot and Harbour department.
$3.50! revenues FROM fees on Bnrgher Briefs
etc. $3.50, making $3.50 under B; and final
lv the revenue from the Prison Depart
menu is no doubt $500 above, making mall
$4,000 too much estimated Revenue. On
tbe other hand some Of the Expenses are
mt down too low the Pilot Department
$40, the Militia and Brand Department.
$3.50. Road $500, Prison, 81 ,250, Sanitary
S26 7O. Poor $40. Prison $430, in all $3.50.
If this amount he added to the deficiency
according to Voucher /, the reSJaC will be-
a deficiency of Sl2, 1852 to begin with. If
that is sO-and he thought the figures are
pretty near correct-he WOuld,fo the event
that the proposal contained in the Com
mittee's Report should not be entertained,
suggest as AN amendment thereto, that
the Income attached to the MunlclpaI
Treasury be increased by adding the
Ground and Building Tax, and to- the
Revenue to the State.treasury be trans
posed Item B. 13, fees from Burgher Briefs
etc. 81, POI which is now on the Draft of
the Municipal Budget. In that way we
would arrive at a balance. He WOuld
now try to explain how he had arrived
at those figures, namely partly by using
the figures on the last Budget, viz:-
that for the current year,and partly
by a calculation of the Export duty
which he had made in the following
name the object is to arrive at an eStlI
mate ola proper average sugar crop /; wheDt
we put down a crop of 1,40O hOgsheads q
1.5OO lbs. he was sure it was not too smell
take then the average price OF sugar at
$3.50 the cect., we get S24,668.76; and If
we add 50, 900 for Rum and Molasses I'm
Christiansted there cannot be reckoned on
more than $500 to $500, in West End about
S1.50O. we arrive at a sum of Sa6, O60.B as
the total of Export duty on a fair average
crop, or $4,000 less than what is pat Down
in Voucher [. This, then, is what he would
beg to propose, that the Committee viii
accept an amendment, or if not then at all
events that it be inserted in the minutes
of the Councils proceedings as a proposal
from l Member of the Council-tOs this
effect that as it is requisite to com4Aence
with a balanced Budget, and to pr0vlde an
Income for the Municipal Chest sufficient to
meet the actually necessary Expenses un-
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