, 1912-07-10

Addition to the Sanitary Regulations Of Goth
January 1886 for the Country District of
st. Croix these matters are on the Order
of the Day.
Letter No. 884 of 9th ult. from Govern.
ment informing the Council, that it has
pleased His Majesty the King by royal re-
solution of Doth inst. to appoint Administra-
tor Q H. Schmiegelow KID. as End Grown
Member of the Council for the balance Of
the elective period reckoned from Goth April
1909.
Letter of 18th alt. from 5th Grown Mem
Der Segelcke informing the Council that he
intends going to Denmark for 6 months and
therefore according to s 81 of the Colonial
Law resigns his membership this matter is
on the Order of the Day.
The Chairman then begged the Council
to excuse him for having forgotten in
the last meeting to let the minutes of
the previous Meeting be read. The
Assistant would therefore now read the min
utes of the two last meetings.
The minutes Of the meeting of 25 March
a, c. were then read aud tact ly adopted.
The minutes of the meeting of ID May
were then read.
2nd Member for Frederiksted Country
District (LHnney wished to make a few re-
marks. The minutes were published in a
very abstract way, they only dealt deliberately
with the Chairman's remarks. when you read
them. you would think it was q Gladstone or
aJohnston or some o her great statesman, but
the other Members Of the Council could de-
mand to see their remarks pat down and not
distracted as they now were. His remarks
were distracted III a manner, that it didn't
cover at all what he had said. He would
not dwell l~eugthily on this, but every one
who had heard him would agree with him
that his remarks read entirely different es-
p~ecially his remarks about the building of "a
school at Kings Hill could not at all be an
derstood. He was an old member of the
Council, not a greenhorn, and he would not
be slighted i'll this manner. He considered
the Chairman's dealings with regard to the
publishing Of the proceedings far fIom far.
He would mention an instance from some
years ago, when o law was passed about in
heritance, he was acting rs VIce-Chairman
and made som remarks about a link of heir
ship, the proceedings came to hira, and he
corrected them. He concluded by saying,
that his remarks ought to be published us
we'll as other members.
The Chajrmdn answered, that the Assist
ant had come to him and said that he was
not able to understand and follow the hon.
members words. He, the Chairman, had
answered the Assistant, that he himself had
not been able to understand the hon. Mem
Der, his remarks were Jumping from one
topic to another without connection with
each other. With regard to the hon Mem
ber's accusation, that he, the Chairman was
Mt fair in his dealings, he would only re-
mark. that he never before, III his capacity as
Chairman, as Member of the C0uncil, rs
Ltwyer or in his private life had met with
the uccu alton an therefore took it very
light and would leave it standing for the
hon. Members own account. The hon. Mem
Der need not TAKE it 50 much to heart, he
would soon find a new Chairman, that would
be more to his taste.
II of the rules of business says, that
"the Assistant shall under the direction Of
the Chairman frame a draft of a Report Of
the most essential part Of the proceedings III
the Council and of their result, which draft,
after being revised by the Chairman and the
Secretaries, shall be published in print"
According to this the Members had no right
to decide what and how much of their re-
marks ought to be printed, but it was left
entirely to the Chairman and the Secretaries.
Regarding Kings Hill school it did not
in the least concern the matter under discus