, 1894-03-07

Introduce this Draft IF Budget with Money
Bills for the financial year l894-95, he would
beg TO say, that the present Draft presents
very few new features. and lie could refer 10
tie remarks acc DmPtny ing the Draft and the
Money Bills, where The differences With
former Draft w l.! be found sufficiently ex.
plain d it was only necessary for him to
make a feW remlris On a fAw Items. On tbs ;
Revenue Side the Export Duty is entered
with a sum considerably higher than in last
years budget as far as caA be judged from
tie outlook and the results already gaintd.
We would seem justified in rot considey1pGs
this estInat exaggerated. Tie remaining.
items OF the Revenue are entered GA the basis
Cf The triennial average amounts collected.
o. the Expenditure Side there is under the
School Department an Increase of $500 in .
the subsidy to the Private Boys High Scho9E j.
in FIederikSted, the amount being now en-
tered with a sum up to $500; the school
las beeiI in existence so long as to prove its
st biiity, and the increased VI, bsidy has been
recommended iby the School Board and COR
responds with the number Of pupils and the
degree Of efficiency. Under the Sanitary
Department the amount is decreased; the
amount last year was exceptionally high,
partly owing to the expenses for q Disinfcct-
irG Oven in FrederIkste1 and partly to the
amount at disposal for such precautionary
measures against cholera, as might have been
requisite under he then existing state Of
things; fortunately future prospects do not
require such precautionary measures now.
With the last European Nails the Govern.
menr has received information Of the death "
Baron Rosenkrantz and his pension will
therefore cease, while a pension to his widow
viii be entered, and the necessary Rectihoa.
ton will be brought in. OF new pensions,
there WAS but one, namely $50 to the widow
Of the late Hospital Sergeant in Frederiksted,
Mrs. Krag. The expenses under F.. for
Building purposes are rather higher than
usual. and from the remarks it Will be seem
that the increase is owing partly 10 he amount
Of q new crane for ChriStlansted's Wharf,
1850, anal partly arises from the repairs ex"
plained IN the Building Inspectors letter,
which has been forwa ded to tne Council, and
which are requisite chiefly to the Barracks
Mt ChrIsti.usted aud the Custolnhouse In
FIederikSted. With these remarks le would
beg to recommend the Draft for discussion
and adoption.
2ud Grownmember (Lemming) took. his
seat in the Council.
3rd Member for Frederiksted's Country Dis
trct (HsOitt)sa aid His Excrllency III lntroauc-
;,r tf,s Daft Of Budget, had made some few
remarks on the g neraI ~featurps of the Orafs.
bnt members had expsc5e' that some aliusion
woaid have been male by His Excellency, as
70 the way in which the deficiency in the
Daft Of upwards of $lO6, 900 is to be cover
ed 1t is usual aud customary elsewhere.
when introducing for adoption by q Leg sla.
i've DO " such q financial matter OF this kind
~ accompany it with o statement showing
how the budget is to be balanced; but His
Fro4iIency has TO day made no rcmarks in
exclamation of the de6c it in this Budget; the
faT renal ks made by His Excellenoy were
mostly Of Increased expenditure, especially
under the Building Department, where the
expenditure appears much higher than fora
great number pf' years heretofore;7;"but as no"
again the difference between the Revenue
and the expenditure lis 50 large and the sx.
nenses are SO very MUCH beyond what the
colony can afford OF. what is needed. we can.
no; but seriously considerhow it is TO be;
this Council cannot but pause TO enquire whas
are - he the results of this financial system.
He rs Member of The Council can't see whst
can be the object il, laying before the
Council today q Draft Of the nature and con-
tents o fthis one before us. considering, az We.
must what has taken place for the last s
wears. 1t will be remembered that IN lo9o.sA,
with the prospects Of 8 crop far below what
had been known for a large number OF years
and almost unprecedented low prices. OF sa-@s
u.1 ~ view Of the eXtlaordinaryt man.