, 1893-06-24

similar purposes. OF. course the Mayor or
B~urgernaster for each Municipality should
be appointed by the King. He should be
paid by the Municipal Chest.
When the State assume the tens above
pointed out, it will be observed that the OK
penses to be assumed by the State would be
For ST. hOmGs.
Jhe Government. ......... 49,. IS IL ZOO
The Military ....... 49,. y. $500. 20, 1000
Of these the expenses for the Government
can at once be struck out, there then remains
about SSS, 900, of which however the pensions
10000 will gradually cease.
The islands Isl. Thomas and St. JAM retain
their self Government and all the present
revenues for the Municipality and FOR the en-
tire interior administration and the judiciary
and Police Departments.
Those revenues consequently which will
belong to st. Thomas Municipality are the
present aggregate revenues excepting those
of the Postal Department. and amount TO
about $4,000 annually. The revenues and
expenses will then about balance, that is to
cay according to the present organisation but
1t ls obvious that as soon as st. Thomas Co.
lonial Council stands independent and with
the right subject to the appreciation Of the
Home Government to reorganise its admin =
%trntion, Courts and Police there will be found
very much that may be saved IN these items
The administration Judiciary aud Police De-
partments at present cost for ST. Thomas
$4,000 inhabitants about $40, 800 or about
10000 KrOners aunually-surely considera-
BILE might be saved in this. Besides this are
found among the expenses, for building expen-
ses 81 500, for divers expenses 81, 600 and for
uncertain expenses 81, 900. What the difference
is between Diverse Expenses and Uncertain
Expenses" cannot be seen from the motives,
but these 3 items together amount to gil 700
which added to the aforesaid SAC, 800 amount
yearly to about 200, 900 Kroners. A great
deal might surely be saved in this. and when
therefore st. Thomas be freed from all luxury
i'll the administration and be placed on It's own
footing, it would become the business Of tho
inhabitants to consider whether they might
not benefit themselves by, through a reform
ing of taxation to facilitate m and
shipping in making the island a free port or at
least a cheap and good harbour for refuge or
transit-it has been so before and could likely
become so again.
The ship.dues are at present S29, 000, and the
import duty 1900, about $4,000 Kroners.
One of these items at least might surely be-
abolished at the same time as retienohments
be made in the aforesaid considerable amount
10000 Kroners); and a tax on properties
niAN dwellings, Ol IL pure llCOi4Io Il UOuAO OC
far more natural for a town as st. Thomas,
than such burdensome dues on and
shipping as duties, lighthouse dues, pilot and
harbour dues.
Az regards st. CrOix the conditions for a
change in the direction pointed out (self-
government and all present revenues for the
Municipality for the use in the administra-
tion and judiciary Departments) are of an
even more favourable nature.
The State would have to assume.
The Government......... -. .....& i2,SOO
The Military Expenses .....-....... $4,000
The Pensions. ............ ...... $500
Of these the Government can at once be
done away with, say Sl2,3O or about $4,000
Kroners. There then remains $50, 100 to be
betrayed at the present time by deaths the
$4,000 will gradually disappear.
The Postal and Telegraph balance. Tho
present revenues of the island mot calculating
the postal revenues) are about S15l. 700.
whereas the expenses, deducting the -afere-
mentioned 4 items, will be about S126. 400,
consequently leave a surplus of about S25, 600:
But considerable savings might likely DO
made in the following items of expenditure /:
in the administration, the. Judiciary amp
Police Departments, together about $S2,300
or about 10000 Kroners, besides in building
expenses $4,000, uncertain expenses $500,
%o~A%har co Qn0 - ohov& 90 000 KrnAa~w