, 1908-01-08

SpectOr and when later on, the Government
got III dread OF not getting means enough
from those sources, sufficient TO cover those
items, the Minister furthermore proposed
and the Colonial Council agreed to authorize
the Ministry eventually, if needed, to raise
the import duty. But, let all this be as it
may, the point mode is, that after all those
guarantees, we had reason to expect, not
only that we would have been left to our
selves to regulate the details of those branch
es, but, also more especially, that they would
have, when being regulated by the State,
been more carefully and more suitably Oh
ganized, for instance the G~endarmery and
the Bookkeeper but of course there are
some legal enactments on that head. The
Council could never have got consent from
home to reduce the Government Offices to
such au extent as done by Government, when
the State took over the expenses thereof.
AS regards the Committees remark in con-
nection With the Prison and culprits being
sent to Denmark, the Committee is in accord
with the Royal Commission (Report p. IS, If
he remembers right, and i'll point of fact
the Prison Department us Ienitentiary is
most properly, as is the case throughout
Denmark, a State Department, while the
Prison as an Arrest must remain u
Communal affair; the question is then,
whether those very expenses which His
Excellency enumerated, in come ton with
the sending home Of a culplit, should
not rightly be betrayed from at home, or
compensation allowed If we have TO keep
Gu pitts here ? Now, from his calculation
the position stands thusi According to the
Governors original proposal for he Gov
ernor 26, $50 Fr., for the Military 252, go Fir.
or total 279,16O Fir. But by The final
agreement, the State took over, the Governor
DC OHO tho MiliforV 0SD o1n 4ba Cb1rch
es 1880, Schooldircctor $500, in all 306,4UO
FIR. deduct the $4,000 Ff. and we get
231 400 FIR. compare this with the before
named 279,160; and we will see that the
State actually assumed ~ $50 Fir. below
what the Colonial Council protest at the
fame time the lottery surplus must come in
too, thus lessening the figures still more.
Of course he knew that he could not alter
the Colonial Law by his remarks OF criticisms;
but we know that according to : 53 of tile
Colonial Law, that Law will be revised in 10
years time; he thought it his duty now to
call attention to such points that should be
taken under consideration when The revision
takes place. AS regards the Committed re.
marks on the 5 p. CT. on Teachers salary,
the Teachers get DO hight to that allowance
before they have received permanent appoint
ment from Government; some teachers have
not obtained it;and the Committed idea was
that as it is admitted that the new School
organization must come on shortly, then
such appointments might be deferred asthare
is no positive l light acquil e 0by them With re-
erence to the Building Expenses it is unusu-
al to grant amounts for that purpose without
a specification, and as it was supposed TINT
with the 10000 FIR. to hand there would be
all cause to be more economical than when
10000 are disposable AMI OF course the
work must be limited accordingly although
$500 dollars can go q good way with the
few public buildings still remaining. One
more remark he had to make, namely in
connection with the aluation of $50 pr. acre,
which His ENcel'tncy thinks is too low but
to that he would say that that figure is III
accord with the results of most app,aise ments
of late years, in fact many such are below
that figure. But he must say that since
the Committee made that remark, he had
become aware of the rate of taxation i'll
Barbados beng higher than ouIs here
The GOuernor would beg to point out,
that there is this difference, that when in
Denmark the State have all the expenses for
tie Prisons and culprits thele, then the
State requires all Revenues, such as Custom
dues, Postal Revenues, etc, which so here