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descend upon us and remain with us forever. Amen. The Vice-Chairman remarked: The Chairman of -the Council is not feeling up to mark to-day and therefore is not able to attend the meeting. The Vice-Chairman read the fellowing communications received since the last meeting cf the Council. 1. Letter from Despatching Secretary (Barrett) dated January 21, 1924, for- warding Government Secretary’s letter reading: 17 January 1924. The Honorable, The Chairman of the Colonial Council, Saint Croix, Virgin Islands. Sri— By direction of His Excellency the Governor, I have the honor to invit2 your artention to Section 28, Chapter 1, Title I, of the Code of Laws for St. Croix, which reads as follows: ““The Governor shall by executive order, prescribe the fees to be charged by the law courts, sheriffs. notaries and peace officers during the period «f one year after this ordinance shalil come into force, and at the ena of the period of one y ar, the schedule of fees so being ceharged by the law courts,, <heritfs, peace officers, and notaries, shall be submitted to the gpespective Colonial Counetis for final ratificaiion or amendment by the said Councis ”’ In accordance with the above, kixecu- tive Order Ne. 17-1920 was originaliy issued, and it was subsequently submit- ted to the Colonial Council and thereafier amended and ratified, for one year, on December 18, 1922 and approved by the Governor on December 28, 1922 it would seem from the above that in view of the fact that the Colonial Council amended and ratified the fees for one year, they should have been again rati- fied on December 28, 1923. Copies of this executive order are here- with transmitted, with the request that this matter be entered on the order of the day for the meetlog of the Colonial Council scheduled for Monday I'cbruary 18, 1924. : : . In this conpection, it would appear necessary for the Colonial Gounail to ratify this exective order as of Decem- ber 28, 1923, the date when its approval expired, ard it would further appear that it is not necessary (o limit its vatifi- cation to another year, since the Seciion of of the Code above quoted provides for its final ratification or amendment. By final ratification would not meaan that the fees cannot be amended thereaiter, since the Colonial Council can at any time amend any enactment passed by it. However, it would eliminate the necessi- ty of having to ratify the entire biil each o Respectfully, : WM. S. ZANE, Government Secretary. *T. ¢t OlXx Y 2. Letter from I‘:‘b&atching Secretary (Barrett) dated FebrWary 23, 1924, for- warding ietter from His Excellency the Governor reading: 18 February 1924. The Honorable, The Chairman of the Colonial Counecil, Maniecipality of Saint Croix, St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Sir: By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Colonial Law of 1906, under date of February 12, 1924, I postponed the ordinary meeting of the Colonial Council scheduled fcr Monday, February 18, 1924, until Monday, February 25, 1924. By virtue of the authority vested 1 me by Section 36 of the aforesaid Coloni- al Law, I have the honor to further post- pone the ordinary meeting of the Cnloni- al Council seheduled for Monday, Febru- ary 25, 1924, until Monday, Maich 3, 1924. : Respectfully, PHILIP WILLIAMS. Governor. 3. Letter from Despatching Secretary (Barrett) reading: 29 February, 1924. The Honorable, The Chairnian of the Colonial Council, Municipality of St. Croix, St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Sir:— [ have the honor to inform you that the Resolution whieh was passed by the Colonial Counecils of St. Croix and St Thomas and St. John in joint session on Thursday, February 7, 1921, has been sanciioned and approved in whole by His Execellency, the Governorof the Virgin Islands, under date of February 15, 1924, I have the honor to be, Sir, Respectfuily, R. E. BARRETT, Despatehing Secretary. To be continued. LCCAL The lncal post office rate for conversion of the French and Belgian frane in the transaetion of internationa! postal mon- ey order business is fixed at 4 cents Uni- ted States money, etfeciive this date, it is advised. The sloop *'Carib’’ sailed from this port yesterday afternoon with the maiis tor St. Thomas. : The S.S. Bogota sailed from New York oa Saturday evening, having 48 tons of cargo for Frederiksted and 76 tons for Christiansted. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. London, March Bth.—lt is stated on what appears to be gocd authority, that the Government of the Free State is do- ing its utmost to urge Westminster to proceed at once to the consideration of the boundary question and the apgpoint- ment es the necessary commission. Tle conference between the two Irish Pre- miers and the Colonial Secretary, which was held last month, adjourned until Mareh 2nd and in spite of the faet that a week has gone past since this schedul- ed date, nothing has been done towards reassembling, the excuse being put for- ward that the Iliness of Sir James Craig is the cause of the delay. Nevertheless, it is hinted that the iliness is really a diplomati» move, being a prelude to a definite refusal on Ulster’s part to nomi- nate a member of the commission. Should Sir James Craig take rhis {course, it 1s understood that heavy financial pres- sure will be brought to bear on Ulster, which would make necessary a big re- duction in the personnel of the Neorth of Ireland corstabularv. The highest ar- thorities in London, however, are siou - ly mezintaumming that on ne wccount wi they allow the conference to break cow:. New York, March Bih. KXaw sugar was steady and prices were unchanged at 7.16, duty paid. There was a sale of 20,000 bags of Cuba’s to local refiner- for Mareh shipment and several cargoes were sold to fLurope. leports of cor, tinved European buying in Cuba were accompanied by a more active demard from trade interests and commission houses in raw futures. 'ine opening was three points lower to three points higher, but the market later advanced and closed at about the best, or from 3 to 7 points net higher. Close, March 5.56, May 5.50 July 5.55, September 5.52, Berlin, March 9th.—teece has been added to the list of nations that have re- cognized Russia. The recogunition agree- ment, signed h2re in Beriin, 1s without conditions, The signatories were Coun- sellor Aussem, representing Russia and M. Canellopoulos, the Greek Minister to Germany. Bombay, B. 1. March 9th--Foru ecivili- ans, were kiled and five injured when the police fired on rioting cotton mill =tri- kers here yesterday. ‘The military later ware called out to deal with the situation, a renewal of tha disturbance being fea:- ed. There has been much incendiarism sinee the strike started. in one district 2.000 bales of cotten were set on fire and strikers stoned the !a:cars who were fichting the blaze. Ihe damage is estim- ated at 30,000 pounds., 'ilne stuning of rallway trains is another featuce of the disorders. Washingten, March ICth.-—The Wea- ther Bureau today issued the following storm warning: ‘‘Advisory ten. a m. Northwest storm warnings displayed Jupitor Inlet, Florida, to Washington, North Carolina and Northwest storm warnings displagyed Cape Hatteras to Boston, Mass. Disturbance of increas- ing intensity off the Carolina Coast mov- ing northward and another over Ohio moving northeastward’’,