, 1892-06-11

are sufficient now as before to keep order
aroNnd. He had spoken with a lot of people,
and not one could say this guard house ID any
improvement he would not here repeat what
people said of it but he would like to know
how many persons have been arrested there
since this station was established. All the
other PoIicemasterS did not look upon this
so called improvement as a necessity, and it
it be now said necessary, it is as much as to
say that former P~olicemasters were not alive to
what is requisite in the Service. Anyhow, if
the station be requisite, and if the Policefund
can be made to defray So, then let the Fund
pay the whole. He would rec mmend to
strike out the $40 now on the Money Bill.
3rd Member for Frederiksted's Country
District (HewiH) If this Station really be an
improvement, it could only be to the men
dwelling there, who of course have a comfort
in the Station but the general public find no
improvement by the more elaborate manner in
which the Station has been arranged, 1t was
a mystery to him how the Government
could sanction an arrangement of that kind
concerning the money and he could not adj
nit His Excellenoy's statement that the Coun-
Gil has overstepped its bounds by Directing to
this guardhouse on the present scale. The
principle involved in the question is decidedly
Objectionable, and he would recommend a vote
to discontinue it.
End Member for Christiansted (Stakemann)
proposed the following as a sub-amendment,
viz Whereas the Colonial Council considers
the amount of S48 formerly granted under this
Money Bill for rent of guard house in Chris
tiansted sufficient, and whereas the Colonial
Council has been informed that the Police
Master has the Police Fund, from which the
additional $50 required for the Guardhouse
are betrayed, and which then would be sufi-
cient to cover the S48 actually needed, the
Council refuses to g~rantthe S48 sub Item 5 Of
this Money Bill.
3rd Member for Christiansted's Country
District (HcwitD: This sub Amendment, if in
order, he would support, as the expense seems
under the circumstances unnecessary for the
Colonial Treasury. But he would propose the
Committee amendment as it stands to DO put
to the vote.
The Governor If that sub amendment be
adopted it is the same as to refuse the Police
Station altogether.
2nd Member for Christiansted CStakemaaa
said the Committee proposal is based on a
mistake; the S52 proposed by the Committee to
be struck out, are not on the Money Bill, bat
only S48, and these should be paid by the
Police Fund, if the larger sum of $50 could be
betrayed from there, This calculation was ne.
ceived from His Excellency after the Conn
mittee's Report had been framed.
Ord Member for Frederiksted's Country
District (HemiH3: Well, certainly, if the
Policetund is 50 plentiful, and can pay $50,
then it can pay the SIS. which are necessary
If the whole 500 are requisite. the Fund
might pay It too.
The Governor: There is a misunderstood
ng in the Committees Report. The fact is that
The rent Of the Guardhouse is to be defraveI
tnder Various Minor Expenses hut if the
uum allowed under this head can not defray
she said rent in full, now after the rents
thas been raised, the balance is to be defray-
ed from the PolicefuAd, how much, must of
course depend upon circumstances.
End Member for Christiansted (Stakemann):
The community is quite satisfied to be without
this gnardhouse; but His Excellency thinks
it necessary to have it If so, let the expense
be borne by the Policefund and not by the
Treasury, since the Council will not vote il.
The Governor; But it is quite a mistake
in regard to the Policefund. The rooms are
requisite, the rents are 500 instead Of S48;
if the whole hundred dollars can be betrayed
under D; 5, without causing a transgression Of
the total sum, then nothing will be paid by
the Policeiund only what can not be betrayed
by d.. 8 will be paid by that Fund.