, 1908-07-25
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to paragraph I section 2 Of By .Lasts
for the Munictpad Committee for
ST.. Caoic.
That after the word "elects' the paragraph
shall be changed to read thus
RS substitutes for those 5 members
of the Munic pal Committee, ore f.r
each of the electoral di ,tricts, and one
for the crownmember.
f. COULTER.
Id Member for Frederi&ated"s
Iocn
LIST Member foI Ftederik ted (Cluytefl
said, that in Introducing this proposal f,r
Amendment in the By Law for tho Muni-
clpal Committee a great deal Of the leSpon-
sibility for the proposal is removed after
the remarks that had fallen from tho Chair
man in the first part of tho meeting it is
therefore not necessary Tor him Coulter to-
enlarge on The ma ter he would Simply
state the bare facts of the case. In the last
meeting of the Municipal Comm see, tho
que stion of electing o Chairman instead OF
End C~rownmember (Conrau) during his a5-
sence came on for discussion, aud then cues.
ton arose a. to the seat of the ORC xnaem.
Der in the Committee. Il will be remam-
bered that the Municipal COMMITTEES, accord
ing ~ Ii COlOll1tA Law duu : L Ot ln9 by
Laws, shall consist Of 4 elected Members
viz: l for each elective district aad I Crown
member besides those Members there are
2 substitutes, who according to the Rules OF
business are to step IN when any OF tire
Comlnittee's Members are prevented from
acting, neither one Of those Subaiitut 90 is
C~rownmember. The Sutstitu 9 for Fed
eriksted's Jurisdiction, 1T Member for
Frederiksted's Country District (Koefoadr
was by the vote of q Majority OF the
Municipal Committee called on to step in
pro tenn III lea of Mr.. Courau; a minority Of
the Municipal Committee held that the
Committee is incomplete when no Crown
member is in it, and said Minority desired
the question brought before tho Colonial
Council for decision. The Minority holds :
that the Municipal Committee without u
Crownmember, against the prescription in
s So of the Colonial Law, is not legally C n
stituted. The present proposal for amend
ments i'll the Bylaws is intended for reme-
dying that defect by providing that the
substitutes shall be fv3 in nu nber, ons for
each electoral district and one for ths
Crownmember In nov commanding This
proposal, he would suggest an alteration
in the wording, so that the Wort "from'
be substituted for the word 'ior". Fur
thermore it should be provided that in
case a Member, popular or C~lownmemb?r.
along with his substitute be prevented from
acting the Colonial Council shall without
delay elect o member temporarily. In that
way it is thought that all a Using questions
will be met.
The Chairman, under reference to 9 Of
the Rules of Business, put to vote if the
Proposal shall be forwarded it was uani.
mously adopted that chs matter be forward
ed ; and the Council proceeded to the 1st
discussion.
The Governor would beg to say, that
Government has no objection to the propo-
posal, which appears to be expedient; if
the Colonial Council adopts the proposed
Amendments to the BY Laws of the NUM-
cipal Committee, Government will recon-
mend them for sanction by the Minister.
After a respite, the Council resumed; let
discussion was closed aud it was adopted
unanimously with IA votes to proceed to 2nd
discussion.
The following amendments were proposed:
In the Danish Text 4th Line, the word
for" altered to 'fra'; 5th Line the
words Il for Diet Kongevalgte Med