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practical Importance, also that s of the
said Ordinance should be %retaine compare
s 10 of the Proposal, in regard to which
latter however it is to be remarked that
we do not see any reason why the trade IN
turtles and game of whatever sort, living
animals, lime and salt, should not, as hither-
to, be free, or that those goods, us hitherto,
should not be offered for sale from boats at
the landing piels and wharves.
Having regard to the provisions in Is
Of the Ordinance Of 9 July 1886 to prevent
trespassing on the fields and roads IN he
island oflSt. Croix etc, sugar canes and game
should be added to the list of things which
require a pass when they are brought to the
towns.
AS no market stalls are found in st.
Croix the Commission finds no reason for
striking out any Of the goods named in Ord
1853 5 8 clause 3 as those which mag be
carried around for sale.
Considering that there are no general by
laws for the Police in st. Croix we would
propose that a provision should be
added in this section that the Government
should be empowered to fix the further rules
concerning the times within which the bus
mess or offering for sale mentioned IN the
section may be carried Oh, with what other
wise is to be observed in regard to it.
Withdrawn from the merchants exclusive
rights ought moreover, as in Denmark,
(see N. L. 1857 s 4O) to be the deal Dg with
goods stranded or damaged by the sea,
which it should be right to sell by auction
both in large and small quantities even if
the owner does not possess trading rights.
1t should moreover be allowed that the
auction could be Leid III amy place whatever
on the islands.
AS regards the trading rights Of mocha
MICS and manufacturers it may presumably
be considered best to insert III the Proposal
a provision corresponding to that III the
Trades Law of 20 Dec. 1857 ; %, which
contains provisions that it shall be permitted
to manufacturers and mechan cs TO offer for
sale both the productions Of others SO long as
they belong to their trade, as also undor the
same CONDITION, second hand articles, like
wise it is dlloWed them to deal iii the goods
which by the treatment which is the object
of their work in their trade have undergone
al essential change, regardless of whether
the production in othof respects belongs
under other trades.
In regard to the Proposals 81 about the
trading rights Of butchers il must be remark
ed that the words game and tuItIes' should
go out, III accordance with tho foregoing,
that these goods should be objects for free@
trading.
The Commission, with the exception of
the Chairman. finds it reasonable that the
sole right to Ctfer meat for sale in the towns
should be reserved for the butchers, us it is
considered That otherwise the butchers
would be exposed to-eHeAA -eompotiiiun
from the planters and other country poo
pie, that their existence might be endauger-
ed. II is - esiled hat The said right be es-
tabllshed by the Ordinance add that the
rules in S 10 Of the Proposal, that meat
can be offered freely for sale in The market
places be struck out. The Chairman on the
other side is Of the opinion, that the coun-
thy people ought not to meet hindrances in
selling THEN products MS best they can, even
if thereby some competition is started with
the bu cheers, and he CON iders 1t inexpedieut
to give to the latter a monopoly Of the sale
Of meat III the towns, as the butchers are so
few that it may be feured, that they could
agree between themselves to offer the coun-
try people too little for the animals and to
demand too much from the town-people for
the meat. The Chairman fuI thormore thinks
that the rules in S 10 must be Interpreted in
accordance with the rules in : 7 about the
butchers right to 'deal in" meat, in such II
way that s 10 respecting meat only gives