, 1890-02-19
REMARKS.

worn, WAS damaged so severely AS to rem
der IL renewal OF the roof necessary. 1t IN
furthermore considered necessary to renew
the piles of he landing bridg e, which are,
partly destroyed, partly in Il bad condition.
dd 2. The roofing over that part of the
Government House which IN occupied by
the Governor, and over the Kitchen, stands
in need Of renewal, even aS the root over
the servants rooms requires ~ pairS. It was
first intended 10 enter the necessary mOn-
ey-bill for this purpose on the draft 81
budget for 1S9G-9I, bnt aS the Building I'm
SpprtOr has stalled that the heavy rains
and wind during Inc fist half IT September
had rendered the roofing so 'taky that the
intpriO OF the buildings would subj 1t thtt
repairs were post pOfed, and an the HtNlateS
could not make use of tile building in IT'S
present state without endan gering their
health, it has become necessary to come
mence the work, and hence the expend-
iture required for the purpose is entered
on he present money. bill. 30 @ftul
The Building Inspectors estimate will be
found on the Councils table. ..sa3 Is fire
The Chairman placed the Bill for &881.9S
under discussion. @e5sha eg T. no Jail
The Governor introduced the Additional
Money Bill and said that the Govern
ment has had an opportunity earlier to ex-
plain the circumstances that had caused
the precautionary measures taken to pre-
vent the spread of the malignant lung
disease prevailing last year on some estates
in EaStend. Those measures have Of
course caused expenses, and to cover them
the Government introduces this Money
Bill for $81l; the Council will see how the
amount has been expended and he would
I'D ii to the Councils grant.
3rd Member for Oh ristlansted (S~tGkemGnRl
said he had ex pected that His Excrllrncy
would have stated the reason why this Adj
ditiOmal Money Bill hail not been laid be-
fore the Council in due time in accord
auce with s 60 of the Colonial Law The
necessity of the expense for the precau.
tiOnary measures against The cattle disease
had occurred in. July last year and since
then, the Council has held 4 meetings /; tho
Colonial Law enactS that whenever eX-
penses for which there IS in grant become
necessary, the Government, if it sees I'll to
def ay SRch expenses, shall lay a Draft Of
an additional grant before the Council III
it's next ordinary meeting OF in an extra
Oh ordinary meeting; and as this has not been
observed, and the Council has had so many
meeting s before this one, he had thonght
His Excellcncy would have Said'sOmething
to explain it.
The GorernOr: AS already said, the Co.
vernment, had at an earlier period stated
the necessity or taxing the measures III
question for the purpose stated; no Objec-
ions were then made to it in the Council
and therefore the Government had had
good reasons to expect that objections to
the expenses caused thereby would not be
raised. 1t has alwas been customary, at
least during the 9 years he has been here,
10 lay before the Colonial Council Addi.
tiOnal Grants during the last 3 months of
the financial year, as it as a irnles is not
possible before then to see If Additional
sums need to be granted, and the lntroduc-
ton OF the present Additional Grant had
been deferred in accordance with that
custom in order to have all the additional
Money Bills despatched at once,
3rd Member for Christianstetl( StakenaGnn)
said, that evenif the Colonial Council had
given an express consent to>the Money Bill
not coming on at til" time prescribed, that
could not change'the Colonial Law, and he
did not think the omission could be made
even with lhercOnsent of the Council.
No one requested The word further; the
Council consented unanimously with 8
votes that The Draft pass 10 End discussion
aud that it be- referred to this Committee on
the Budget.
The Bill for 800 was next PLACED under
discussion within closed 3oors.M and was
a.. Iefrru.d toIhe Budget Committee.
The Money Bill Tor $500 then came
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