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badly increase. Furthermore Governments
will have to provide the store.rooms aud
shops. necessary for starting the business.
perhaps by transfer from the present OWL
ers of licenses.
This proposal, it is considered, will tend
TO reduce the consumption of rum in the
Island.
ad s 8.
This proposal makes more rigorous the
rule in so in the Ordinance of 4th May
1886 concerning the trade in and the sale
of rum etc. in st. Croix, by which the limit
is placed lower, viz: at the age of Is
nd s 4.
BY virtue of the permission granted by
the Ordinance of 1886, the number Of rum
shops is at present 5 in Christiansted and
4 in Frederiksted.
It is expedient to have the further rules
for the utilization by the Colonial Treasury
of the monopoly Of selling rum fixed by %
Colonial Ordinance, such as for instance
the form of management, the situation and
arrangement, of the shops, the procuring
of store: DOM and shops.
His Excellency the Governor (He1ocg-
Larsem). MIR. Chairman, honorable Mem
OOAoj JOu VIII OhSlIJ seq VIC iulcuIlOu Vi CU0
Law. You will be aware, that certain licenses
have been given for 3 years, and could only
be renewed for 3 years, Government could
at any time after the three years refuse to
renew the licenses. But it is considered
wrong to allow private individuals to enjoy
the privilege as rumshop. keepers and better
to allow the revenues from that source TO
accrue to the Colonial Treasury where it may
be used for the good of the island. It has
been considered necessary for Government
to have an Inspector or inspectors to super
intend the selling of Rum, but this must be
left till later on. The different paragraphs
need no explanation outside of what follows
from the remarks to the Draft, and l hope
for a favourable reception of this Draft.
The Vlce-ChNirman Coulter. The dis
cassion is open.
2ud Member for Frederiksted Town
(Meraoin I bave always considered it wrong,
that old rum has not been sold as much AMI
as easy as for Inst. whisky is sold. The rum
which we know here in ST. Ctoix is a good
article it should be arranged 80 in this Law,
that it could be sold in bottles.
All licenses should expire together. To
let them drop off one by one is not fair, all
the licenses should stop with the last one.
/ omm the Draft TO be discussed in IA
ommitte
his ExceileDcy the Governor (HetVeg-
Larsem). In case it is allowed any detailer
to sell rum in bottles, it will be very difficult
to control the drinking, and as people in the
Mother Country are very interested in pro-
hibiting the sale of alcohol and thereby pre-
vent iutemperance, it would not be dvisab.e
to recommend such q sale; the other question
about the expiration at one time of all Ii
censes could be taken into consideration in
the report.
Ord Grown Member (Pretto). As this is
no longer a question of temperance but OF
revenue, my opinion is, that the entire BUSH
ness should be taken over by the Conncil, SO
that it has control over all liquors. One of
the reasons advanced why rumshops should
be taken away from the present holders is
because it is considered a "Ben". if it is SO
in the case of the rumshopkeepers, 80 it is
also in the case of the tavern-keepers, be-
cause one of them is an ice manufacturer,
soda water manufactures and besides he is q
foreigner. The taverns should be taken over
by the Council.
His Excellency the Governor (Heloeg.
Ldrsen). I think it is quite an obsolete
system we are WORKING under here in St.
Croix. The hon. last Speaker mentioned the
Council should take over the sale of ice etc.
! think here would then be the only place