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PROCEEDINGS
OF
THE
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§
FOR
ST.
CROIX.
(Continued from Saturday’s
Avis.)
Item 6.
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Election of
Members for the
Cotton
Commission
pursuant
to
Par.
1
of
Ordinance
of 20 September,
1921,
re-
garding
measures
against
diseases
of
Cotton Plants.
The
Chairman
remarked,
The
four
men elected
last year
were:
Mr.
A. V. Nelthropp,
Mr. S.
Jorgen-
sen,
Mr.
H. Madsen
and
Mr.
N.
W.
Thornberg.
3rd Member for Christiansted
Country
District
(Robt.
W. Skeoch):
Mr.
Chair-
man.
Mr. Thornberg isa Dane.
would
that affect his eligibility?
The Chairman
answered:
I will take
that up with the Goverment
Secretary.
.
Government Secretary
(Timmons):
Mr.
thairman.
I
am
not
prepared
to
say
definitely that
he
would or would not
be
eligible.
Eligibilityrefers
to
election of
men
to office where
executive
power
is
conferred.
4th Appointed Member (Blackwood)
re-
marked:
Mr
Chairman.
While
we
all
realize
the fact that
Mr Thornbergis
a
competent
man and
nothing against
him
except
the Act. passed
by
Congress;
in
order
to
be
on
the safe
side
Ithink
it
best
not
to appoint him.
The Chairman
read the
Ordinance
pre-
scribing
measures
against
diseases
of
the
Cotton
Plants
for
the
guidance
of
members
and
said,—The
Members
to
be
appointed
on
this
Commission
must
be
cotton
growers.
The
Chairman
then
asked
members
to
prepare
their
voting tickets
for the elec-
tion of four
men
on the Cotton
Commis-
sion.
55t
8 voting tickets
were
handed
in.
"
Biected
were:
Mr.
A.
V.
Nelthropp
and
Mr.
F.
Andersen with 8 votes
respectively
and
Mr. H. Mac Kay with 6 votes.
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20
and
10c.
Mr. W. L.
Pentheny
received
5
votes,
Mr. R.
W. Skeoch
3 votes
and Mr.
W.
S.
Abramson
received
2 votes.
As
Mr W.
L.
Tentheny
did
not
re-
ceive
an
absolute
majority
votea
new
voting
had
to
take
place
for
another
member.
.
9 voting tickets
were handed
in.
Elected
was:
‘
Mr. W. L. Pentheny
with 9 votes.
Items.
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Colonial Counecil
Bill No. 3.
Additional Money Bill to the
Budget
for
the
Municipality
of
St.
Croix
for
the
fiscal
year
ending
June
30,
1922.
To
the
Department
of
Educaticn,
Maintenance,
is
hereby
granted
from funds in the
Municipal
Treasury,
not
otherwise
obligated
the sum
of Frs.
15,000,
to
provide
means for building a two room school
house
at
Estate
‘‘Annaly’’.
Intro-
duced
by
4th
Appointed
Member
(Blackwood).
The bill reads
as follows:
Colonial Council
Bill No. 8.
Third Council, First
Session,
1221-1922.
ADDITIONALMONEY BILL
to the Budget for the Mdnicipality of St.
Croizx, for the fiscal
year ending June
30,
1922.
To the Pepartment
of Education
%Maintenance)
is
hereby
granted
rom funds in the Municipal
Treas
ury
not otherwise
obligated,
the
sum
of Fres.
15,000.00
to provide
means
for building
a
two room
School House on the site of the
old
Annaly
school
house,
which
blew
down during the hurricane of Octo-
ber
1916.
.
REMARKS.
The assistant
director
of
éduca-
tion,
furnishes
the
following
in-
formation:
That for the next term
of the Annaly School there
will be
an
enrollment
of apgroximately
forty pupils.
The teacher’s
dwell-
ing house
where
the school
is at
;
present
kept,
is
too
small
to ac-
commodate
the school and deprives
the
Teacher
of
a
dwelling,
it
is
therefore
considered
necessary
to
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build
the school
house
as
soon
as
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possible.
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A. J. BLAKWOOD,
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4th Appointed
Member.
E
The Chairman
remarked:
At request
.
of Government
this extraord:nary
meet.
!
irg
was called
and
all unfinished
busi-
ness placed
on
the Order of the
Day.
I
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placed
this
matter
on with the
expecta-
!
tion that the Municipal Committee
would
i
have sent
in its report,
but
as
that is not
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done
I propose
that the
matter
be
de-
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ferred.
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9nd
Member for Christiansted
Town
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(Canegata)
remarked:
From
the Chair-
'
man’s
statemé&nt
one
would
infer
that
'
the
Municipal Committee
has
not
done
.
its duty.
I wish
to
state
that while
the
'
bill was before
the
Committze
we had
a
.
conference
with the
Building Inspector,
'
and
the
Committee
inspected
the
site,
‘
but
up
to
now
no
plan
has
been
sub-
mitted.
!
The
Chairman
remarked:
The
state-
'
ment
of the Chair of the
Municipal Com-
|
mittee
is quite
correct.
I
think
it
best
to
defer
discussion
on
this
matter
un-
~
til the next meeting.
!
3rd
Appointed
Member
(Amstrong)
would like to know why
the
building of
,
the
school
at
Estate
‘‘Annally’’ was
omitted
on the
budget.
l
The Chairman:
I think
the
Chairman
.
of the
vunicipal Committee
can explain.
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9nd
Member
for
Christiansted
Town
{
(Canegata)
in answer
to the 3rd Appointed
'
Member said,—l co not know,
neither
do
.
I know
what
action
the
Council
will
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take,
but it
seems
to
me
that
it
could
g
hardly
be
expected
that
the
Municipal
_
|
Committee
will recommend
the
buildjpg
.
of
a
school
at “‘Annally’”’, because
we
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adopted
the
principle
that
no
salary
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should
be
raised
and
no
new
construc-
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tion
undertaken,
,
3rd
Appointed
Member
(Armstrong)
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would
like to
know
whether
the
Head
‘
of the Department
of
Education
is inter-
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ested
in
this
matter
or
whether
some
.
one
on the nutside
is
back of it?
E
Government
Secretary
(Timmons)
re-
'
marked:
I know
that
the
Head
of
the
'
Department
of Education
had
the build-
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ing
of
the
school
in
his
original esti-
'
mate:the
Stenographer
in reporting omit-
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ted that,
but
I
know
that
the
Director
.
of Education
is
interested
in
this
mat-
i
ter.
,
The Chairman
remarked:
[
know
that
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the Roman
Catholic
Church
intends
to
"
build
a school
house
at
Mont Pelier,
and
if that
is
done, it
would
not
be
advisa-
ble to
build
at
‘‘Annally’’, as
the
ma-
jority of the school childtenon
the North-
side
are
Roman
Catholics.
:
There :being
no
further
business
be-