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A:W.
1. SOLDIER
SHOT.,
Upon
ibe
arrival of the transport
Orea
at
Barbado:
on
the
Z4th ul:. with the
last
draft
of
the
B.
W.
L.
Reulmert
for
the differei
. isiands,
the repor.
wasgiven
of a tragedy
on
the nighseas
which
crea-
ted
quite
,
a
sensation
in
the
island.
yvmong the men
on the transport
were
sev-
eral
military
prisoners
“n
their
way
to
Jamaieca.
‘i here
was
also
a Barbadian
in
the number
who it is said,
had given cou-
sid>rable
tri üblz during the voyage by be-
having
in
a
most
seandalous
manuer
“hroughout.
He
is
said
to have fought
his guards,
and
in consequence
was
very
rovghly handled
After being shotinthe
”
arri by the
2rovost
Sergeant
ana clubbed
on
the
heac
wiih
some
heavy
weapon
he
was otherwise
must inhumanely
treateq,
esrecially
aiter
he
was down.
A
Barba-
dian
soldier—a
guiet,
easy
going fellow,
who
bore
a hizh
reputation
hoth
at home
and in his rerimeni—expressed
sympaiiy
with
his
maltreated
feilow eountryman,
and cried
shame
at the Provost and oihers
-for continuing
tu beat
the
man after
hav-
ine shot
him down.
Forsayingthis
Lasih-
ley got the other
end
of tae
¢lub
on
him.
Tren
up
stepped
one Capt. Ruttee,
a
Ja-
maican,
ovn
the
scene,
who,
without
in-
vestigaticrn,
upon
being
iold that Lashley
was showing sympathy
with the prisoner
simply
drew
out
his
revoiver
and sHot
he
inoffensive
man fataily
in
the neck.
Ruitee,
it is said,
was piaced under arrest
by
the Captein of the
transpori,
and was
taken
a prisener
(o be tried for his erimi-
nal
act at Jariaica.
Dominica Guardian,
Oet.
9th.
:
CHRISTIANSTRI:
V. I. U.
&8
A..
TUESDAY.
4ru
NOVEMBER
19819,
Pr
it t
] et
rrovisishal eriina ice
W vI
i&
!
i
WHEREAS,
Under
and
by virtue of
Section
4 of
the
Celonia!
l.aw
(No.
124}
publishad
at Amalienborg,
Apri
6,
1906,
it is provided
among
other things
as
foI-
IIOW S;
“In extraordinary
cirec
mstencos
tne
Governor
has
authority
to
issue
Pro
visiona!
Laws
or Ordinances.”
AND.
WHEREAS.
by
Sectior
2of an
Act of Congress
entitled
“"An Act to
pro-
vide
a
temporary* Government
for
the
West
Indias
.Islands
acquired
by
the
Uni:ed Stat-s from
Denmark’’,
ete..
ap-
proved
by
the
Président
on
the
3rd day
of Mareh,
1917,
it
is further previded
in
said
Act as rollows:
““That. until Congress
shall
o‘herwise
provide,
in
so far
as
compadible
with
the
changed
sovereignty
anl
not
in
confliect
with
the
nrovisions
of
this
Ae,
the
laws
regulating
<lections
and
the
elecioral
franchisc
as
set
forth
in
the
eode of laws
pblisned
at
Amalienborg
‘he
6th
o'
April,
1906,
and
the
other
local
laws
in
force
and effee:
in said
Islands
on the
17th day of JAnuary,
1917,
shall
re-
main
in
fore#
and
offeet
in
said
is-
AND.
WHERAS,
the
rate
of
ex-
change
for
am
Amcirican
dolhae
into
francs
of
the
cumrency
of
the
said
lls-
lands
has.
on
Octßber
15,
1919,
sudden-
ly advanced
from $1.04
1o $1.27-1.2.
NOW,
THEREFORE,
1, J.
W
Oman,
Governor
of
the
Virgin
islands
of
the
United States,
formerly
kcown
-as
the
Danish
Wesi
Indian
is'ands,
under
and
bv
viriue
of he’ atoresaid| ws,
coneid-
eriny
extraordidary
cirecumsiare2s
as
now
existing,
fin view 0. ihe
incease
In
prices
of
necessicios
of-life, ineidenc
to
ihe
aforementiofied
advance
in
iae
rate
ui
exchanze,
hereby
determine
and
by
this
proclamation
do
announce
that it is
essential,
in
order
to
provide
siadicient
means
whereby
the
empioyees
-of
the
Government
of the
said
Virgin
islands
of the Urited States
may ~biain <aificient
necessiiies
of life
under
the salaries
now
paid
to
such
employes
in
the
cirrerey
of
the
said
is'ands,
and
in
ord:r
that
the public good wili be promoted
tlereby,
to
add
to
the
saiaries
oi said
en ployes,
do hereby
authorize
an:
direet,
effective
immediately and
untit
otherwise
provid-
ed,
thal
there
shail
be ndded
1o the
sala
1y ol each empicye i
this
Government
No.
254.
such further amounts,
in
local
currency
in addition
ro
such: salaries
as
will equal
the difference
between
the
normal
rate
of exchange
($1.04)
and
the
rate of
ex-
change
existing
when
such
salaries
are
due.
and
payable.
The
budgets
for
the
Municipality
of
St.
Thomas
*
and
8t
John
and
for
the
Munici-
palicy
of
St.
Croix,
for the
fiscal
year
ending
June
30,
1920,
are hereby
increas-
ed
in the
amounts
necessary
to
provide
tor the aloresaid
payments.
IN
WITNESS
WHEREOF
1
have
hereunto
set
my hand
and caused
the seal
of the
Government
of
the
Virgin Islands
of tne Urited States
to
be aftixed.
Issuzd
in St.
Thomas,
this
17th day
of
October,
1919,
A. D.
(SEAL)
J.
W. OMAN.
By The Governor
C.
C.
TIMMONS
Government
Secretary.
Thus
duly passed
and.approved
at the
3re
OU.sdinary
meeting
of
the
Colonial
Councit
held
Monday,
Jctober
20,
1919,
D. C. CANEGATA.
ROBT.
MERWIN.
Secretary.
Chacrmau.
The
above
Provisional
Ordinance:
is
herc by sanciioned
and approved.
Witness
my
Hand and
the Seal
ot the
Goverrment
of the
Virein Islandsor the
United
States
at
St.
Thomas
the
27th
day of October
in the
year
1219.
(S;}Al;.)
4
J.
\N. ()A\iAl\
Governor.
By T
ri*«;iC
=
iNU
E.
ARTIES having claims
against
the [s-
P
tate
of
the
deceased
CHRISTIAN
PETER
THEOBALD
FRIIS
of
Ws
rate
Mount
Vietory
ave
hereby
notified
within
& months
to tile their
claims
with
the
necessary
proofs
of
same
with
the
undersicpred
A
E. Stakemann,
who
with
co-exccainr
EausJ.
Koeind
have
taken
the said
estate
under
administradon
as
executores
testamenti.
The meetings
in the
estaie
will be held
.t Lawver Stakemann’s
Office
in
Chris-
iansted
on
the
3rd
Thursday
of
every
moutih
at 3 o’clock p.
m.
Frederiksted,
Bt. Croix,
Oetober
30ih
1919.
H |
KOEFOD,
A E.STAKENMANN.