, 1908-12-02

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had been even stronger in his expressions
than perhaps strictly warranted. AS regards
the remark that the papers IL the case nave
only in a casual way been p!acet on the
Councils table, he woull beg to make a IT,,
strong protest it was done fier full ana
mature I, Election, aud really, he had even
gone n little further than under ordinary
{ circumstances in cases Of a similar nature;
it would in this instance as in other previous
cases, have been quite sufficient that he
in this meeting had notified the receipt OF
he Governments communication with the
vouchers, for there is decidedly no room nor
possibility to 20 or say anything more IN the
matter. after the Councils own resolution
irstead of doing that, he had at once, after
the receipt Of Governments Communication
of 29th October, had all the papers translated
aud copied, and by circulars that have safely
reached all hands, he informed the members
that Governments letter containing the
Minister'S final say and the reply from the
4randsire and the Committee were exhibit
cd from the 4th November to date, 10th
November, in the usual place, and among
those papers is also the Choirman's letter Of
1st August conveying not only the Councils
exceptions made to certain points, but alsoth
Councils acceptance Of the gift as a whole.
The method followed, besides being in keep
ing with what has been done in several pre-
vious |instanc -, is perfectly correct and for
mll. In order the better to explain the
matter and its course, he (the Cbairman)
would beg to recall 10 the mind OF Member
that on the 2nd August 1907 the Govern
ment communicated to the Colonial Council
a letter from the Ministry OF Finances of 9
Ju'y forwarding o letter of + J ally from the
Grand SIRE of the Odd Fellows in Denmark,
oL,4;or +L,f +ho nl1 FallOurC bo1 c1acan1a1
in getting a piece of land for erecting the
LoperasyIun, for which the requisite capital
hal been provided, and requesting the Gov
eminent TO take the opinion of the Colonial
Council on a Plan and Drawing of the Asyl-
um, the CHAIRMAN referred the whole mat
ter to the Committee then in existence on
the Draft of Ordinance prescribing meas
ures to combat the spread Of Leprosy that
Committee rendered q report containing
Proposal for a Resolution from the Colonial
Council, which Report and Proposal were
IN torn.0 brought before the Council by a
special Report Of 18th August 1907; the
Resolution was un lnimOusly and with
out discussion alop ed by the Council
in the Councils Meeting of Goth Au-
gust 1907. The Resolution was then
forwarded to Government and from thence
to the Ministry and Grand Sire in Copen-
hagen. He would now inform the Council
of what then took place. There arose a
regular storm i'll consequence of that Report,
more especially against himself (the Chair
man); anonymously and otherwise they
wont d their wrath upon him, both as Kings
Physician and Chairman of the Colonial
Council. In one paper an anonymous wri-
ter went 50 far as to intimate that the
best thing to be done was to discharge
him and Professor Ehlers. who was a
friend of Alberti's and by his own &C
acknowledgement Mr.. Alberti's official adviser
in medical matters, wrote in Alber,i's news
paper, "the Dannebrog," a very strong ar
ticle against him (the Chairman), cont aiming
both what was true and what was not true.
At the request of Governor Cold, he (the
Chairman) wrote an article in response, de-
Tending himself and the Council, but this
article never appeared. but was suppressed,
an act which must be considered low and
mean, not to allow a man that has been at
tackled the chance to. defend himself. Nov
the matter rested until December 1907,
when Government forwarded to the Coloni-
al Council a letter with 2 vouchers to the.
Ministry Of Finances and from the Ministry
of Finances to the Government accompanied
10y 2 'etters to the Grand Sire and the Reply
of 2lst October 1907 from the Grand Sire;