the first
represents
the member
and
the
other
the Substitute,
:
For
an Appointed
Member agd Substi-
tute.
:
14
voting
t ckets®
were. handed
in.
Elected
was
4th
Appointed
Member
(A,
J.
Blackwood}
as
member
with
13
votes
and 2nd
Appointed Member
(Noll)
as
Substitute
with 9 votes.
Ist
Appointed
Member
(Henderson)
and bth Appointed
Member Lunney,
re-
ceived
two
votes
respectively
and
3rd
Appointed
Member
(Armstrong)
receiv-
ed
1
vote
For
Christiansted
Town and Substitute.
14
voting
tickets
were
handed
in.
Elected
were:
2nd
Member
for
Chris-
tiansted
Town
[Canegata]
as
Member
with 14 votes
and 2nd
Member
for
said
Town
[Abramson|
as
Substitute
with
12
votes.
3rd
Member
fcr
Christiansted
Town
[ Pentheny| received
2 votes.
.
For
Christiansted
Countysy
District
and
Substitute.
:
15 voting tickets
were handed
11.
Elected
were*
3rd Member for
Chris-
tiznsted
Country
District
(Robt.
W.
Skeoch)
as
Member
with
10 votes
and
Ist
Member for
said
District
[Ramsay]
as
Substitute
with 8 votes.
Ist Member
tfor Christiansted
Cnuntry
Disrrier
[Stakemann!
received
1
votes
and
2nd Member for
said
District
[Mac
Kay] received1 vote.
For Frederiksted
Town and Substitute.
15 voting tickets were
handed
in.
Elected
were:
2nd
Member for
Fred-
eriksted Town
Merwin with 15 votes
and
Ist
Member
for
said
Town [Coulter]
as
Substitute
with 15
votes?
[For Frederiksted
“ountry District
and
Substitute,
16 voting tickets
were handed
1n and 4th
Member
for Frederiksted
Country
Dis-
trict (Fleming)
was elected
Member
with
9 vo.es:
as Substitute
2nd Member for said
District
(M. M. Skeoch) received
8 votes.
As
the
Substitute
had
not
received
absolute majority vote
a new voting had
to take place.
14
voting tickets
were handed
in
and
2nd
Member
for
Frederiksted
Count:ry
District
[M.
M.
Skeoch]
was
elected
with 10
votes.
:
7
Ist
Member
of said
District
(Ander-
sen)
received
4
v ‘tes.
The
Chairman
remarked:
I
might
gtate that in connection
with the Appoint-
ment
of Commissions
I have
received
3
letter
from
the
Governorin
connection
with this matter.
wast
year
the various
Commissions
were
not appointed
because
they
were
thought non-essential.
This
matter
will be
given
attention
by
the
Municipal Commictee
after it has organiz-
ed itself.
;
Blection
of four men
to
serve
on
the
Publiec
Cemetries’
Commission.
Two for
Christiansted
and two for
Frederiksted.
For Christiansted.
16 voting tickets
were handed
in.
Eiected
were:
2nd
Member for Chris-
tiansted
Town [Canegata]
with 16 votes
1.
G Hir
& AV
| N
and
Ist Member for said
Town
(Abram-
son)
with 14 votes.
Ist Member
for Christiansted
Country
District (Stakemann)
received
2 votes.
For Frederiksted:
16 voting tickets
were
handed
in.
Elected
were:
2nd
Member
for Fred-
eriksted
Town
(Merwin;
with
14
votes
and Ist Appointed Member
[Henderson]
with 13 votes.
Is¢
Member
for
Frederiksted
[own
Coulter received3 votes
and
4th
Mem-
ber sfor
Christiansted]
Country
Di.trict
Ramsay
received
2 votes.
Ist Member for Christiansted
Country
District Stakemann
entered
the meeting.
Eiection
of
a
Chaplain
for the
Coun-
cil.
16 voting tickets
were
handed
in.
Elected
was:
Rev.
Critchlow
with
14 votes.
Rev. Pigott
ar d Father Daily
received
1
vote respectively.
|
Iters
3.
Election
accordine
to
Ordinance
of
17th
Jan.
1908,
§ 6
of
a member
to
enter
the
Board
of Management
of
the Asylum for Lepers.
13 voting tickets
were handed
in.
Elected
was:
2nd Member
for
Chris
tiansted
Town Canegata
with 12
votes.
3rd
Member
for
Christiansted
Coun-
try
District
R.
W
Skeoch
received
1
vote.
The Chairman
remarked:
Before
pro-
ceeding
further
with
the Order of
the
DayI have
received
a
letter from
Gov-
ernment
fixing the Ordinary
Meetings of
the Council for the following year
which
1 would like to
read
to you.
The
Chair-
man
read
the
letter;
and
furthermore
said,
This matter
will be printed
and
~ir-
culated
to members
as customary.
The
Chairman
further
remarked.
A
letter from the
Public
Works
Officer to
the Municipal Committee
bearing
on
the
telephone
question
has
been
handed
to
me
to read
to the
Council.
The
Munici-
pal Commitee
deems
it proper
to have
ig
read
to vou.
Accordingly
the
Cecretary
Canegata
read
the letter.
:
The Chairman
would
like
to know
if
any member
wishes
to make
any
remark
on this matter?
No one requested
the word.
To
be
continued.
- The public
meeting held
in the theatie
last
night
was
very
largely
attended
and
graced by
several
speakers,
includ-
ing
members
of
the
Colonial
Council,
Abramson,
Andersen,
Canegata
and
Stakemann.
If
the
secretary
of
the
meeting will furnish
this paper
with his
report
pleasure will
be
taken
in publish-
ing same.
The Bank’s rate of exchange
on
New
York fell
again
yesterday,
to
15% for
buying and
16 for selling.
While
every-
one is glad to see
the local currency
grad-
ually gaining
its
former standard
value.
and the prospects
of greater
equalization
with
the "United
States
currency
thus
more
assured,
it isgndeed
with the
great-
est
appreheasion,
almost
despair,
that
the cost
of living is
noted
to remain
in-
flexible. nay.
rather
inclined
to
soar
than
go down.
Our
considerate,
‘‘Christian’’
mercantile
element
which put the prices
up
with an alacrity worthy of a better
cause
and witha
promptness
that fairly seemed
to anticipate
the depreciation
in local
cur-
rency
when
it came,
is
now stubborn
as
a
bull
and
advancing
the
most
foolish
argument
to
sustain
the
position
in
charging
the
maximum
for
even
the
direst
necessaries
of life.
When
the
ex
change
rose
to
288%
on
the
16th
October
1919,
the shops
closed
and
the
biggest
fuss imaginable
was
made
over
the
monetary
situation;
mass
meetines
were
held
one
after
another,
and
the
only
tqpic
was
the
exchange
and
the
quickest
and
surest
way
of increasing
prices
to
meet
the
exigencies
of
the
time.
The
most
prevalent
contention
then
was
that the
loeal
dollar
was
not
worth
more
than
what
remained
when
the discount
was made,
and that the goods
had mostly
to
be paid
for
at
the
dearer
rate of exchange.
Itis
a rather
strange
game
that doesn’t
work
both
wavs.
hur
today
we
hear
nothing of
that
kind
of
argument
in_spite of
the fact that
it
1s
4
logical deduction
supported
by
arithme-
tic and not to be denied
by all the sophis-
try and quibbling, that the money
is
now
worth
more
and
should
consequently
have
a
larger
purchasing
value.
Rut
what’s the
use talking anyway?
No
no-
tice
ils given
this
vital
question.
The
Food Commission
s
probably
paralysed
or
swooning,
and
the adjustment
of
its
price list as
called
to attention
sometime
ago still remains
to
be
done.
The
em-
ployees
who
have
been
receiving
the
difference
of
exchange
on their
salaries
can
now look forward
to getting
consid-
erably
less
this
month
while
the
high
prices
stare
them. with
a
counten.
ance
more
venomous
than ever, the where-
with
(o
pay
prices
being
adjusted
o
correspond
with
the
ruling
value
of
local
currency
while
‘he
seller,
boast-
ing o
his
civilizatior
and
culture
as
compared
with the heathen,
is
selling
his
soul
for the
sweat
of
his
neighbor.
T'nat
prices
have
gone
up
is nu
excuse.
prices
have
always
been
going
up
and
they
have
advanced
here
accordingly;
but
what
about
the
value or the
money
going
up
too?
The
merchant
who
sjx
months
ago
had
to pay
$28.50
to
remit
SIOO
to the States
can
today
do
so
so;
$16.00;
in whose
pocket
~hall
we look for
that
$12.50;
in
that of the
merehant
or
the consumer?
This matter
lif not rectj-
fied
without deiay will
not be
profiteer-
ing,
but
sheer
robbery.
Certain
mer-
chants
are
in favour
of giving the people
a square
deal
and
these
are
invited
to
come forward
and
take
a
stand
for
jus-
tice,
that
it
may
not
perish
from
St
Croix.