, 1909-02-03

HulCu II - LudNl6r
To be added to the section as clause s:
"The same trading right, which according
to the foregoing, is conferred on the owner
or administrator of an estate shall likewise
belong to every regular estate labourer
in regard to the estate where he lives, and
the rules given in this section are also APP
plicable to such trade"
To CHAPTER III.
In regard to the provisions contained in
this Chapter, which do not depart in any
essential point from the provisions in the
Ordinance of 1853, Chapter III, the Com
mission can agree with the st. Thomas
Proposal.
It is presumably right to continue to
maintain the rules about proof of skill, also
what concerns mechanics from Denmark.
compare s 13 of the Proposal and s 10 of
the Ordinance of 1853.
There does not seem to be Rny reason for
the omission from s IA of the Proposal of
the rule in s II Of the Ordinance Of 1853
that apprentices are subject to the domestic
discipline of their masters.
The rule concerning the sale of goat meat
in clause 2 Of S Is of the Proposal falls
away as a consequence Of the slaughtering
of goats and dealing in goat meat requiring
also a burgher brief Compare the fore
going.
4u6 OOLuInlSSlOu QO6S uOG uuQ any OCCQ-
sion to propose changes in the provisions
concerning apprenticeship, which in them
selves are good enough as they stand. 1t
is to be regretted that no proper and sys-
tematic instruction in handicrafts exists in
ST. CrOix, but the reason of this is that the
Workmasters will not take apprentices if
they have to support them, aud that the
parents OF children who might be expected
to become handicraftsmen have not the
meaDs to support them during the period of
apprenticeship. That the case was other
wise in former times is probably due to
there having then existed in the Country
q class of the general population who were
better placed than the ordinary labourers
but this class has disappeared in the course
Of time, and people in the towns having
small means prefer to send their children
to North America as servants rather than
pay the expenses of their training as handi-
craftsmen in st. Croix, Under these cir
cumstances any rules whatever about APP
premiership have but little significance,
and what is already prescribed is at all
events sufficient.
AS q consequence of the foregoing the
Commission will confine itself to proposing
the following amendments to Chapter III
OF the Proposal:
To s II.
La the last clause after the word widow
add or the wife of a burgher who has
deserted her"
To 10.
In the first clause, after the words "who
show that they have executed" insert the
words "a satisfactory specimen Of
To s IA.
AT the end of the last clause but one is
to be inserted
apprentices are subject to the domestic
discipline of their masters until they have
completed their 18th year. Q
To 5 16.
The second clause to be struck out.
To Chapter ".
The Commission can agree to this Chap
ter Of the Proposal, so, however, that in
s II after the words "5 francs is added:
for transgressions of S II from so francs)".
and that it be added to 5 Is "Burgher-brief
on Planters business (cfr. Ord. 1858 s l, A.
entities its holder to run the factory on
estates owned by him (be it sugar works.
cotton-ginneryor any other factory connect
ed with the working Of the estate( as long
as he only runs the factory ior the sole use
of his own estates and for the preparing Of