, 1891-04-29

3rd Member for Christiansted's Country Dis
trict (Sritzer) in introducing the Draft said
he could refer to the proposal, which speaks
for itself. and it was not his intention to
tire the Council with long remarks on the
matter he would only ask the Council to con-
slider the proposal and give it that conside-
ration and furtherance which he thought the
matter in itself merited. Everybody knows
how the people walk about the country tres
passing and stealing. One of the remedies
suggested to meet this growing evil is to
control the use of firearms. 1t might seem
selfish of him to propose that only owners of
$50 acres Of land should have liberty to keep
firearms free of expense, but not so he had
not overlooked that the large class of manag-
ers and overseers should have that liberty free
of expense we remember what coed services
they rendered during the last riots, and it is
chiefly on that class we must rely IN case of
another riot. But an alteration to meet
this could easily be made in the Draft. He
proceeded to state some instances OF the evil
results and dangers of the present unlicensed
system. And he begged the honorable Coun-
Gil to discuss and decide where the right line
is to be drawn for the liberty of keeping guns
etc. He was aware and would here at once
state, that the Draft is not perfect, but he
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prove wherever it is needed.-The next thing
he thought it was necessary to arrest Is, the
increasing sale Of game it should be 50 that
everybody who buys game, knowing it to be
stolen, should be amenable too, remembering
the old proverb, the Upholder is as bad as the
Thief. This encroachment as well as the
habit of stealing Longtops. grass etc, are
evils, from which all of us are suffering, and
it is not unfrequent that complaints are met
with objections as to. want of proof, the un-
avoidable 2 witnesses these are not always to
be had and thus the sufferers get no redress,
and the evil continues growing, particularly
now-a-times when every body has a piece OF
land, where a few canes are grown, and II you
accost people caught almost in the act of steal
ing your canes or tops, you are told IT does not
concern you, the man has canes and tops too.
He could tell many instances Of his own expe-
rience and that of others but be did not wish
to tire the Members, but would
that the Draft be sent to q Committee. The
Policeoffices do not now as before send out
Policemen or Soldiers or even Watchmen to
get hold Of people wandering out and commit
ting depredations of property; still, this is a
point on which the severest measures should
be applied, especially now when the labouring
population consists of q good deal of rubbish
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right to look for good and strong protection
from the police, to arrest the increasing evil,
where Immigrants after arriving here and get
ting money, leave the Estates and wander away,
at times with the Estates implements, and
engagingthemselves under some fictitious name
on Estates in the other jurisdiction, where they
are not known as yet. The laws on vagrancy
are insuficient to meet this evil, and therefore
he had thought it best to propose an enact
ment ON that head too. He. would now ask
the Government and the Council to do some
thing in the matter. He did not expect that
the matter wouldsbe passed as be bad brought
it ip, and be hoped honorable members would
take it as his meant His sole desire was
to call attention to this matter and to lead to
measures that would secure US pur property
in peace and peace on our property. BE would
now therefore close by recommending the
Draft to the Council and to a Committee.
4th Member for Frederikated's Country
District INC Doaald) said, be had not intended
to say anything on this matter, but he found it
necessary to take exception to some remarks