cil
be
convinced
that
these
properties
should
be
exempred
from
taxes
a
law
could
be
made
whereby
they
could
be
exempted
1 would be willing to postpune
ihe matterif Government
is
willing to
take
it under
consideration
but
as
al-
ready
stated,
I cons der
the matter
pro-
vided for
by existing laws
and
ordinan-
ces,
.
It
seems
from the letter
which [
have
just
read
that
Government
is .laying
stress
on the werds
of the Ordinance
of
31st.
December,
1907
in
Section 3,
in
which
is stated
‘‘properties
belongzing
to
the State
and
build ngs
used
for church
purposes’’,
seeing in these
words
a differ-
enc2
between
puildings and
properties;
now
the
law
never
infended
ro
differ
entiate
according
to
Colonial
Law,
namely:
When
there is
adiffereace
in
the Danish
and English
text,
the
Danish
taxt of the law is to b 2 recognizad,
same
only
haviar b22a
iaid
bzfore
the
King
for
sanction.
Now
in the
Danish
text
tnere
is no difference, it reads
in
_ransia-
tion
‘‘properties
belonging
to
the
state
or such
as
are used for churca
purposes’’.
Herewirh
the argament
which rhe
Gov-
ernment
might
build
on in the
Eaglish
text falls to tt e ground.
2nd Member
for Frederiksted
Couniry
District
(M.
WM.
Sk=och)
enteresd
the
meeting
.
Member
Stakemwann
continting,—lu
regard
to
the
property
No.
69,
Queen
Street,
this belongs
to
the U. S.
Govern-
ment:
the Treaty
having transferrad
all
the
properties
belonging
to
the
Dan-
ish
State
to the U.
S.
Government,
and
this being
one of these
consequent.y
be-
comes
the property
of the United
>tates,
the Treaty only reserves
to the
Lutheran
Coneregation
the
use
of
same.
Apart
from
it being States
property
it
is used
for housing destitutes
(the
member
read
Section
4of the
Ordinance
of Ist
Octo-
ber,
1902) and
continuing
said,
this
is
plain;
firstly the
building belongs
ro the
Government:
and secondly,
it is occupied
by indigent persons
who receive
support
trom poor
funds;
it is a charitable
insti-
tution
and
therefore there
is
no
income
derived from
the property;
and by virtue
of
law
of
lst
October,
1902,
tnhe
pro-
perty is
therefore exempted
from
taxes.
Tpe next is, the question of
the tax on
property
No. 68, Queen Cross Street,
this
is
a
consecrated
building
and
is
being
used
exclusively
for
church
purposes,
consequently
it
comes
under
the
law
which exempts
building for church
pur-
poses
from
paying
taxes
and
no
more
commenrt
is needed.
1 believe
[ have made myself clear,
vut
further
as
a further alvance
of my opin-
jon,
I beg
to call
attention
to
a
letter
from Government
under
date of Occober
8, 1916, in which the Danish
Governnent
authorises
the canceiling of the
tax
for
1915
on property
No. 69,
and
letter
of
November
3,
1917
from
the
American
Government
in
which
this
Government
cancels
the tax for
1916.
ST URG
Y ®AY| >
I propose
that
tihe assessments
on these
properties,
which
ire not yet paid, be can-
celled, and
the
taxes which
by an
error
have
beenn
paid bo refunded;
and
if the
Government
be willingit :night
take the
matter
under
rene wed corsideration
and
if it finds that the
law,
as
understood
by
me
1s correct,
I siould then
be willing to
withdraw
this dra:t of Ordinance
as
su-
perfluous.
'
‘the C-airman
would
like to know
the
date
under
which the letter
to Mr. Peger-
seh
was writcen
aind by
whom
?
Ist Member for Christiansted
Country
Distriet
(Stakemann)
answered
October
9,
1619, a~d signe| by
Desparehing
Sec-
retary
(R. O’Hagea).
4th
Appointed
Member
[Blackwood]
remarked:
Mr. Chairman.
As this
mnat-
ter pertaias
to the financiai affzirs of the
Muvricipality it wa. diseas:2d’
by th2
Mu-
nicipal Committee
and
re:ommended
to
the Council
with te understanding
‘hat
all proper:iies
usec
for
church
purposes
and
belonging
to
other
dencminations
should
be exempte
d irom faxes.
Ist Member
tor _hristiaasted
Country
District [Stakema
in]
remarked:
Orther
churches
nave aoy:ied
for
the
same
re-
lief.
‘
:
No.one desiring
the
word further
the
Chairman
said
tha
1f
there
were
no
ob-
jections
first
discussion
vould
remain
open until
the nex
meating.
The
Chairman
then
gave
a
recess
of
20 miputes.
_
[To
be
“entinu-d.]
We have
been
asked
to
mention
that
during
this week
the
Industrial
Brass
Band
wiil vender
two
concerts
on
the
wharf
on rhe
12th.,
and
14'h.
inst.
The
theatre
was
very
well
attended
last night and
the
Harts exhibited
of
the
seria: proved
very
o2xeciting
and
created
an eggerness
to fol.ow it up.
TELEGRAMS
ST. CROIX
STA +tION.
Berlin,
March
&rd —A
proclamation
issued
today
calls vpon all Germans
who
believe
their names
to be
cn
the list
of
men
whose
extradition
is demanded
by
the
Allies to make
inown
their place
of
residence
vo the A‘torney-General.
Paris,
March Brd.—Turkey’s
army will
be limited to the
number of troops
neces-
sary to maintain
order in Asia Minor,
ac-
cording to the ‘‘Journal’’,which
says
that
Turkey
will be
compelled
to
keep
her
armed
forces
on
the Asiatic side of
the
Bosphorus.
Washington,
Mar:h
3rd.—The
reten-
tion of sufficient wa--time posts
and
war-
time plants
to permit of
the
expansion
of
the army and
th2 resumption
of
the
production
of war material
at full capaci-
ty
will
be
recomriended
by
General
Pershing,
he indica‘ed
today
¢n his
re-
turn to Washington
after a thre\months’
tour of camps,
eantonments
an
supply
depots
over
the
country.
There
is
a
strong sentiment
chroughout
the
United
States
in favour of
universal
service
of
some
sort,
the
General
said,
based
on
recognition
of
the
benefit
to
the
men
themselves
and also
because
‘‘we might
not have
the Allies to hold the line for
us
in the next war”’
:
London, March
3rd.—A
wireless
de-
spatch
received
here
from
Berlin
an-
nounces
that
the
Norwegian
Premier
has
stated
that
Norway
is
prepared
to
supply
Germany
with
fish
and
fats
on
credit
since
'‘Norway
is convinced
that
the
German
people
will comply
with
their
obligations.””
The
despateh
adds
that the Leipzig fair opened
with eleven
thousand
firms
exhibiting and that
nine-
ty thousand
visitors
have arrived
includ-
ing fourteen
thousand
foreigners.
Marseille,
March
3rd.—The
steamer
Austria
sailed
from
this port last night
for the near
Kast
with
fifteen
hundred
French
troops
who
will
disembark
at
Constantinople.
Paris,
March 3rd.-- The
League
of Na-
tions
will
hold
its next
session
in Paris
on
March twelfth
and
the
organization
of a commission
which
is to investigate
the condition
ir Russia
will be
taken
up.
Milan, March 3rd.—The
general
strike
which
was
declared
here
on
Menday
as
a result
of the clash
between
the
troops
and
a
demonstration
on
Suenday,
in
which
two civilians
were
Kkilled,
ended
yesterday.
London,
March 3rd.—Actlve
prepara-
tions
are
being made
to open
Petrograd
to
navigation
and
merchant
ships
are
being fitted out to
resume
relations
with
Western
Europe.
Copenhagen,
March Ist. It is offleially
announced
that
the
Esthonian
Govern-
ment
has permitted
General Yudeniteh,
former
Commander
of
the
Russian
North-West
Army
and
some
of his
offic-
ers
to proceed
to Paris byway of Libau.
The
Berlingske Tidende’s
Reval
corres-
pondent
says
that
General
Yudenitch
and
his
Generals
left
Esthonia
in
a
motor-car carrying the
British flag,
and
states
that he
is taking his
private for-
tune,
which
1s
estimated
at ten
million
pounds
in Esthonia
marks.
Os
General
Yudenitch’s
army
there remains
in
Es-
thonia twelve thousand
who
: re suffering
from spotted typhus
and there
are also in
Esthonia
one
thousand
hunger
stricken
fugitives.
.
London,
March 2nd.--The
appointment
of
*Sir Auckland
Geddes
as
British
Am-
bassador
to the
United
States
has
been
officiallyannounced.
He will leave Lon-
don
for
the
United
Sfates
in
about
a
month.
Gneneva,
March 2nd.—More
than
one
million childrem
are
now being
ecared
for
by Governmental
aid, according
to reports
submitted
by §the
‘‘Save
the
Children’’
Congress.
There
were
nineteen
hundred
and thirty deaths,
mostly
children,
and
only eighty births in Vienna
from
Feby.
Bth.
to thirteenth,