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to extend the exemption to the managers, over
seers, engineers, etc. in the fixed employ of
such proprietors, rather than to remove the ex-
emption. AS regards the fee of so and
renewal fee of 81 p. a., [ would merely observe
that in the British Island of Anguilla the fee
is FL p. a. in England etc. it is 93 lbs. Cd:
and certainly, every practical man Will know
and see that So would be paid with impunitv
by the meanest rogue and vagabond a half
days hunt would repay that amount fore
fold.
Next His Excellency spoke of the prohibi-
ton of lending QUIT seems that His Elk
cellency misunderstood the 5th part of l. 2nd
division, as having allusion to firearms. where
as it evidently speaks of the ticket, and the
loaning out thereof. His remarks. being base
on a wrong supposition, must of course lose
their force; but | would beg to ask what en-
croachment is there in saying a man must not
lend out a public license granted to him
personally ? Is it, perhaps, allowed to lend
out a passport, a burgher-brief, a rum-l license
a cart or porter license? How would it be
possible to exercise any control without some
such clause? What extreme encroachments
on the right of property are not enjoined by
Law in consideration Of the general welfare.
public veal, co-existence of others, etc, and
what would this mighty trivial Injunction be
or signify, compared with the object to be
secured His Excellency is too mindful of
the supremacy Of the right Of property in this
individual instance, and | fail to see that he
has given any just reason for that if there were
the slightest and most distant public admins
trative object in view, there would be no
hesitation to impose any and every neargoing
'encroachment,' only remember the last law
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horses, mules, conveyances, etc, in times of
emergency, an Just when those articles are
most needed by their owners. Certainly the
protection of life and property in the country
districts must be of equal Importance: the
Legislature must be alive to the protection and
preservation Of Citizens and their property.
equally as much as to the supplying of public
requirements. Some one might ask: "-And
shall | not be at liberty to lend my ann to a
friend from st. Thomas to go out hunting p
To that | would reply: Certainly. you may
lend out all your guns but the tickets you
must keep; if your friend be caught with the
gun without the ticket, that is the proof Of the
friend having no right to have the gun. and the
friend must bear the consequences, but il ne
has the tickets too, then the ticket owner must
bear the responsibility. If a cart or Wagon
or some nice coach, bearing the escutcheon of
some one of the nobility and gentry, be lent
out by the owner, and that vehicle causes
damage some how or other, won't the Police
man note down the name of the owner. as stated
on the vehicle? And won't it be his respon-
sibility just because his name or distinc-
ton is attached to it? If it were not, then
the person using it would be the one to be
seized hold of.
His Excellency said it would be a dangerous
thing to give private parties, owners of estates
or their representatives, the right to seize and
apprehend persons carrying firearms; but the
proposal refers only to the case where persons
are found on.the lands or roads, ponds or fields
of the property with firearms, and persons so
seized are to be brought to the nearest Police
station. The presumption is always that
~depredations have been committed or
are about to be committed when Won
meet a man with firearms on your pro-
perty. His Excellency in referring to the
present Ordinance of 1886 said it is ~vexatious
that land owners under that Ordinance have
no power against such trespassing beyond that
OF taking the lame of the aggressors and
reporting it; it is evident that he would not
deny that this is a perfectly farcicaI and ridi-
culous enactment; but why then is he opposive,
to an alteration for something more effective?
| do not share the opinion of others, that,
true to the tradition of Government, His
Excelleney sets his face against every thing
not originating from Government, and saws,
I'VE, we alone know what is GOOD for Our