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BATURDAY,
1136
AUGUST,
(855
No. 184
THE
ST. CROIX AVIS
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and
published
daly (Sundays
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14 Holivdays excepted)
by G. Johansen
at
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2 ¢onts
per single copy.
last
night beinx 52 esnts
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¢
urdav’s
rate
was 9J
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Coni nercial-
3
ly,
Garmany’s
paper
curcency
has
peen
regarded
as
wortniess
for-a
long
time.
:
Ail bu:sirbexs
with
that
couatry
has
been
§
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done
in
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currencies
of
the
United
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ECTION 31 of the
Ordinance
concerne
:
ing
Public
Roads
in
St.
Croix,
ap-
!
proved
July
14,
1923
to
take
effect
g
from July
1.
1923,
reads
thus:
‘
“To provide for
the maintenance
and
{
operation
of
the
road
machinery
there
shall
be levied, assessed
and eslleeted
by
the
Government
from
and
after July
1,
1923,
the
ftollowing
semi-annval
fees
which
shall
be puvable
on January
Ist
and
July Ist respectively
:
(2)
For
passenrer
carrying
autenio
08
not
ex-
cecding
2,200
tha.
...
.. Franes
40.00
(b)
For
passenger
earrvinge
‘
antomouties
from
2,200
to 3. 000
ths,
Wu‘!;-:i;‘ i
.
50 00
(¢)
For
passenger
carrying
«utomonhties
above
3,000
08, weiEit: .l
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TRI
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(d) For Auto Trucks
or other
:
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ygehicles
under
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...
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B
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(e) For Auto Trucks orother
freight
vehicles
above
Sooohw.
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oTese
(f) For
Auito Truck Trailers
'
per
ton
gapacily
per
ttaipe
...
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BN
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In defauit of this
tax not being
paid it
i
shall
be
eollected
in the
same
manner
as
i
provided in the Horse,
Carriage
and Boat
§
Tax Ordinance.
,
New
licenses
issue]
within the
period
i
shall
be paid
for proportionate y.”’
‘
The
taxes
due according
to
the
abo
1
ve
z
section
for the
second
half of
1923
be-
came
due onJuly
1, 1923 and will be
pay-
able
at the Police
Oiices
on September
3
1023
in the
same
manner
as
the
Horse,
Carriage and Boat
Tax.
I
Tax-lists
will
be
distributed
by
the
Police
Department
and
arve
required
to
be correctly filled our and returned
to the
respective
Police
Offices
2 duys after
re-
ceipt in the towns
and
4 days
after
re-
celpt in the
country,
Government
of the
Virgin Islands
of
the
United States
of America,
St. Croix,
August o, 1923.
R.
E. BARRETT.
Despatching
Secretary.
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sittt
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Fontered
as
second-class
wmatler
May
|
26th
1917 at
the
Fost
Otfice at Christian-
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Wit
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the Act of March
3.
1879.
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CHOIXS ATION.
Dusseldorf,
Auwz.
6th.—iany
winers
in the Ruhr
are
using
their
own form of
passive
resistance
on employars,
accord-
¥
ing
to
reports
10
French
headguarters.
,;
The
miners
whean
they
fail
to get
their
&
vage
demands,
instead
of
striking,
€0
|
th»
work,
but
iisead
of
fabourinz,
sit
a
down,
play eards-and
tell
ther
troubles.
i
i he employers
granted
&
wage
inerease
|y
of 100 percent,
but
the
miners
insisted
E
oa
a five mili on mark
bonus
to
meet
the
i
high
cost
of
living,
The
empicyers
!
csuntered
with an offer
of hall the boous
¢
requested,
bat
this {uiled
tosatisly
the
E
miners,
who
increase®
their
cemand
to
’
teq
millions
and
asked
that
baif
of
§
\heir
wages
be
paid
in
the
Reichsbank
%
ge,
instead
of
the
local ‘not
gold”’
;
currency.
Lerlin,
Aug. 6th.-
In
a
memoriel
pre-
sented
to
ihe
Pope
through
Monsignor
‘Testa,
the
papa'
envoy
in
the Iluh:
the
entire
Catiholic
elergy
in
the
Ehincland
§
and® Ruhr
petitioned
the Hoy
Pather
to
|
use
all posable
means
at
his
disposal
to
A
rrevent
tae
threatening
separation
of
Vyest Prussia
from the
Empire.
The
es-
t:blishment
of
a
separate
stae
under
§
French
mititary
econcmic
and
cu
wural
control
is desigr.ated
in
the
inemorial
as
j
‘4 nationa! and
church
disaster”
by the
f
petitiopers,
who
defend
passive
resis-
§
tapce
on the ground
that
1t
is
the
only
H
weapon
at
tue aisposal
of
a
delenceless
B
population.
While
disapproving
the
sa-
§
hotage
by
the
Germans,
the clergy
de-
clace
such
outbreaks
are
eusily
under-
§
standable
in view
of
“*the unending
tor-
#
tuous situations
to
which
the pepulace
is
B
beir.g subjected’’.
;
New
York,
Aug.
Tih.—One
mullion
German
payer
marks
could be pruchased
3
in
the local foreign
macket today for
28
B
cents
or only
4.2 cents
more
than
the
§
price
of a single
mark
before
the
war.
ioday’s
quotation
represented
an
over-
§
nigkt depreciation
of 46 percent,
the rate
FOR SALE
|
One
six-cylinder
5
passenger
model
3
D-45 Buick
10 good conditon.
4
Also
one Ford
5passenger,
equiped
§
with
minute
wheels
and
spare;
also
bumper.
.
i
For turther particulars
apply
to
G. A. FLEMING.
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