for the
sth
Ordinary
Meeting
of
the
Colonial Council
of St.
Croix,
for the fiscal year 1923--1924,
Fourth
Council,
First
Session,
MONDAY,
MARCH 3, 1924, at one o’clock p.m.
1.
Production
of co®y of Minutes
of the
Munieipal
Commiitee
for
the
quar-
ter
ending
December
31,
1923,
for-
warded
by the Chairman
of the Com-
mitttee for
inspection
of Members
of
the Council,
2.
Colonial
Council
Bl
No. 12.
Third Counci!, First
session.
Continuation
of
3rd
discussion
on
Colonial
Council
Bill
No.
12,
Draft
of
an Ordinance
introduced
by
Gov-
ernment
providing
f{or the
assess-
ment,
levy,
and
collection
of
taxes
tor
the Municipality of St. Croix.
3.
Colonial
Council
Bill No.
13.
{ff'ourth Coupcil, First
Session.
2nd
Discussion
on
Colonial
Council
Bill
No.
13, draft
of
additonal
mo-
ney
bill to the
budget
for the
Muni-
cipality
of
St.
Croix
for
the
fiscal
year
eanfding
June
30,
1924,
intro-
dueed
by
Government
piroviding for
Frs.
10,000,
to"
the
Public
Works
Depariment
for
the
purpose
of
re-
paiving
the
small
bo:t
wharf
in
['redeniksted.
4.
Ratification
of fees
fixed for services
periormed
bv
the
law
courts
pur
suant
to Section
28, Chapter
I,
litle
[ of the
Code of Laws
for St. Cruix.
5.
Colonial
Counecil
Bill No.
18.
Fourth
Council, First
Session.
[otroduction
of and
Ist discussion
on
Resoiution
introduced
by
Ist
Mem-
ber
for Christiansted
Country
Dis-
trict (Jessen)
providing
for
the
ap-
pointtnent
of
a
Commission
of
7
members
to
revise
theexisting
Po-
lice Regulations.
6.
Colonial
Council
Bill No.
19.
t'ourth Council, First
Session.
Intruduction
of and
Ist discussion
on
Colonial Couneil Biil No.
19, drait
of
an
ordinance
introduced
by
2nd
Member for Frederiksted
Town (Mer-
win),
providing
for
a
revisiun
of
public holidays in
St.
Croix.
Colonial
Council Office, St. Croix, Feb-
ruary 25,
1924,
ROBT.
L. MERWIN,
C airman.
Quebec
Steamship
Co.
THE S. S. “P sRIMA”
from Windward
Islands
on
her
way
to
New
York
is
due
at Frederiksted
at
@
velock
on. Friday
morning.
RORBR’T.
L. MERWIN & Co. INc.,
Ageiues.
ST
LROIIX
ARYS
)
Mails Cio:e
|
for the United States,
Eurepe,
etc.;™
i
by s.
s. Parima,
on Thurday,
28th,
.
at 4.00 p.
m.
|
For the Lesward
and
Windward
Islands
by
s.
s.
Surinam
at
4.00
.
p.
m. tomorrow (27th).
|
LOCAL
|
she
s.s.
“Parima’’ for
New
York is
due
at Frederiksted
on
Friday
moraing
1
&0 o’clock.
|
We have
to thank
Mr.
Ans. Fabio for
'
kiodly sending
us
a
copy
of the photo-
|
graph
taken
by him of the recent
gather-
|
irLg of newspapar
men,
naval officers ana
|
other;
“on
the
steps
of
Government
|
H
use.
The
same
is
on
sale
by
Mr.
.
I"abio at ten
cents
each.
The sloop ‘‘Mizpah’’will be dispatched
|
from
this
port with
the
mails
for
St.
-
'Lhomas
this afternoon
at
thwe usual hour.
|
|
The
Despatching
Secretary
wishes
to
~
take
this opportunity to thank
the
eiti-
.
gzens
of
St.
Croix wiho
so genervously
do-
"
nated
their
services
and
their
automo-
~
biles
for the use
of
tne
newspaper
cor-
~
respondents
and
Officers
of
the
leet
-
who visited St. Croix on Thursday,
Feb-
.
ruary
2lst.
|
L
~
Mr. C. C. Fisher,
the Reclamation
En-
.
gineer,
wili arvive
here
on
the
U. S. B
|
Grebe about
noon
to lay.
4
2
TELEGRAMS.
'
ST.
CROIX STATION.
2
Parvis,
Feb.
21st.—In
a test
vote
in the
|
Sepate
today
M.
Poimcare
was
sustained
;
by
a
majority of 16.
The
vole
was
150
|
dor and
134 againstythe
Premier.
|
NMoscow,
Feb.
21st.—Aceording
to
ad-
’
vices received
by the Foreign Office hare,
t
Austria
has
given Soviet
Russia
recogni-
|
tion de jure.
Hythekent,
I'eb
21st.—Sir
Henry
Lu-
ey, M."., died here
iast
nig ht,
;?
Washington,
Feb.
2lst.—'lhe
Senate
|
today adopted
without discusgion
a
reso-
"
lution
appropriating
one
hundred
thou-
'
sand
doliars for the prosecution
of the oil
.
lease
cases.
{
Washington,
Feb.
2lst.—Fifty
seven
persons
in the United
States
wiil receive
.
approximately
one million dellars
under
"
the first
group
of awards
by the
Claims
-
Ccmmission
as
compersation
growing
'
out
of
the
sinking
of
the
White
Star
i
Liner ‘‘Lusitania’’.
|
Springfield,
lils., Feb.
2ist.—Mr.
Me
.
Adoo
entered
the
Illinois primaries
to-
'
day,
when
a petiticn
to nominate
him
as
'
Demceratic
Candidate for tle Presidency
'
was filed here.
‘
P.ris,
Feb.
21st.—The
‘‘Journcl” of
Paris,
savs
that railroad
experis
recom-
mend
a loan
oI five
miilion gold
marks
to
Germany
as
a
prelude
to
simiar
loans
in the event
that this
one prospers
and
that
the
railroad
receipts
are
in-
creased.
1t
is understood
that
English
bavkers
have
promised
Herr
Schadt
a
hundred
mi!lion marks for the goic bank.
London,
Feb.
21st.—Mr
Maec Donald’s
shouiders
are
beginning
to droop
under
the
heavy
burden
of
his
dual office of
Premer
and Foreign
Minister.
The
con-
dition of his health
is causing
his friends
solicitude.
It
is
believed
the
Premier
himself
has realized
the enervatine
char-
acter
of the duties
of the
two
positions.
For the
time being,
it is
understood,
he
intends
to
give Mr.
Arthur Ponsonby,
Under-Secretary
for
lorcign
Aifaics,
broader
powers
and
responsibiiities
in
the Foreign Office.
Paris,
Feb.
21st,—The
slump
of
the
Frane,
it is feared,
wiil affect
the
Cabin-
et
direetly.
M.
Poincare
believes
tne
Cabinet
will meet
with
d:saster
should
the march
of events
continue
thus.
M.
Poincare
has pointed
out the Government
chances
in the
furtheoming
elee
ions
as
shown
by the mectings
and he stil points
out that the only way
to preveat
the deba-
cle which wili ensue
18 by speedy
aetior
on
the
plar
for taxacion
and
that
the
plan
for-reparations
be baouzht
to
a success-
ful istue.
It is said that M. Poincare
has
approved
the prirciples
expresscd
by ihe
reparations
expects
to
the
effect
that
Franee
relinguish
her
economic
contrild
over the
Ruhr.
This
measure,
to be
sure,
will
meet
with
great
opposition
uniess
ironclad
guarantees
are
given
as
10
the
soldiers
occupation.
London, Feb.
22nd.-—The
delegate
con-
ference
of
the dick workers
has
decided
to
recommend
ucceeptance
of
the
surike
settlement
terms
to
the
members
of the
union,
it
was
wnnounced
by
Seecretary
Bevin
of the
dock
wonrkers
this
after-
noon.
Parig,
Feb
22nd--France’s
rights
can
be obtained
ratber
through
international
peace
than
by
fcrce,
declared
Edouard
Herriot,
Leader
of
the
Radical
Pariy,
speaking
at
a luncheon
of the Anglo Am-
erican
press
Associii
o
sesterday.
“"We
who represent
the
French
democracy
are
as deepiy
concerned
over
France
obtain-
ing
ail berrgh
s,
«8
other
Frenchmen
who are somewhnat
more
noisy about it”’,
he said.''They
believe respect
for French
rights can be ohtained only through foree
We think the solution
lies in internation-
al peace.
London,
Feb.
22nd—The
Cairo
corres-
pondent
of the Excnange
Telegraph
sars
the
Tutankhamen
tomb will be reopened
at two o’clock todzy by the director
gen-
eral of
the antiquities.
'T'hisis
for
the
purpnse
of
sateguarding
the
contents.
London,
February
22nd—1he Evening
News prints
a vag ie story that
a
scheme
is being prepared
for all British flight to
the North Poie.
It says
ihe movirg
ar-
ound spirit is Commarder
F. M. Boothby