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at o cost of IL q piece besides labour. or
perhaps 80 dollars, which is rather heavy.
Now, what he wanted to know 10, can il be
considered the duty Of the indiyid.
ual TO whom the allotment of that road
falls, to repair that bridge with all the tim
Der in it, after it frcm the commencement
was SO badly madef He could refer to
previous discussions and the remarks to the
Interpolation No /. 1t should be a Quarter
job and not fall ON the individual solely.
The Governor said. Before answering the
question put by the honorable 4th Member
for Christiunsted's Country District Svitzer).
/ will thank the honorable Member for the
confidence he has shown in Government by
submitting points of law to Governments
Interpretation. The honourable Members
question whether an individual owner is
bound to cally out siEgly such repairs az
may be necessary to bridges, / am sorry to
have TO answer with an unqualified Yes.
1t is true that the road and the bridge
in question were repaired at private
initiative, but it is also true that in 1904 the
road in question was included among the
public roads upon agreement between the
Colonial Councl! and the Government under
S 2 of the Road Ordinance. What remarks
were made, previous to the Councils deci.
sion, as to the construction of the bridge,
uAi1 unNo 90 IlSnt u IIdN nave OtSh
wrong it would appear that they were not
altogether wrorg-but they are certainly
irrelevant to the legal aspect of the present
question. Under s 13 of the Road Ordinance
bridges on the public roads lave 10 Undergo
repairs as well as the roads themselves, and
l suppose that the Road Commission have
not found the repairs i'll question to be suffi-
eitnlly extensive to warrant the application
Of II and decide Oh n Quarter Job. Con
stquentiy, the honorable Member is in my
opinion bound to carry on the repairs de-
manded by the Road Commission. / would
add, that only this morning l received q
report from the Road Commission, stating
that the bridge Ill question suffered from
construction def cts, which wou d now be
remedied "a a Quarter job, so that the
honorable Member need not be afraid that
he would have to renew at his own cost all
the AZ planks he had mentioned.
4th Member for Fredtriksted's Country
District (La"ney) would, as Member Of the
Road Commission, Beg TO say, that III gen
eral, whenever the expenses attending the
repairs of any particular road amount to
go, The job is then considered and treated
as a Quarter job.
No one else required the word; the In
teri citation was closed. The Council con-
scented with 4 against 2 g not votirg) that
the Interpolation under No. 2 be furthrred.
1t reads as follows:
2. Would Government state il it is the
duty of the Police to help in main
tanning the lnbour contracts made by es-
tate owners with rural labourers, and
therefore to punish al br, aches of con-
tracts, as prescribed by the existing law ?
adj z. 1t happens often that lubourers en-
ployed ON Estates under yearly con-
tracts break the contracts ly leaving
their work and employing themselves on
other estates. When complaints on
tina! head with p oofs are laid before the
Police, with n request that the p.Itles
be punished and cIjoined to return to
fulfil the contract. the Police ottentimes
let the labourers go again without being
punished and so it happened not 10 g
ago that n contracted labouror, Charles
Jacobs, left my estate and worked on
"Rattan" several weeks this man was
by the. Police allowed TO go aeaia after
being complained, and without being
punished and furthermore he was al
lowed TO go back to Rattan to work out
the week before returning to work on
my estate. l had given the Overseer