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S\;“ ( )§t -~ ~ /\‘l\ | \\ b /b . I ‘ ! /\'\/I’\\\V / P = i—-:\\ .‘l\ \-\ \i ‘ ! !] fe- " 15TH YMCAR THE 55_‘. CRDIA AVD is printed and pudlished daily (Sundays and Holidays exceptedy by . Johansen at f;l;-(" ’i("".,w' '\)i‘[i"'! i NR d3---50 cents monthly wn advance, 2 ceuts per single copi. intered as second-class matter iy 26th 1917 at the Post Office at Christian- sted St (owr, V. L ol the &1 5. A, % der the Aci of Moreh 3. 1879 Contrivution to this paper will be glad- Ly received hen the same deals with mat- ters of general interest, and is accompa- nied with the author’s name, as a quar- antee of gool faith. The editor cannot be responsibleJor tie views ofs correspon- dents nor dozs he necessarily endorse them. A:W. 1. SOLDIER SHOT., Upon ibe arrival of the transport Orea at Barbado: on the Z4th ul:. with the last draft of the B. W. L. Reulmert for the differei . isiands, the repor. wasgiven of a tragedy on the nighseas which crea- ted quite , a sensation in the island. yvmong the men on the transport were sev- eral military prisoners “n their way to Jamaieca. ‘i here was also a Barbadian in the number who it is said, had given cou- sid>rable tri üblz during the voyage by be- having in a most seandalous manuer “hroughout. He is said to have fought his guards, and in consequence was very rovghly handled After being shotinthe ” arri by the 2rovost Sergeant ana clubbed on the heac wiih some heavy weapon he was otherwise must inhumanely treateq, esrecially aiter he was down. A Barba- dian soldier—a guiet, easy going fellow, who bore a hizh reputation hoth at home and in his rerimeni—expressed sympaiiy with his maltreated feilow eountryman, and cried shame at the Provost and oihers -for continuing tu beat the man after hav- ine shot him down. Forsayingthis Lasih- ley got the other end of tae ¢lub on him. Tren up stepped one Capt. Ruttee, a Ja- maican, ovn the scene, who, without in- vestigaticrn, upon being iold that Lashley was showing sympathy with the prisoner simply drew out his revoiver and sHot he inoffensive man fataily in the neck. Ruitee, it is said, was piaced under arrest by the Captein of the transpori, and was taken a prisener (o be tried for his erimi- nal act at Jariaica. Dominica Guardian, Oet. 9th. : CHRISTIANSTRI: V. I. U. &8 A.. TUESDAY. 4ru NOVEMBER 19819, Pr it t ] et rrovisishal eriina ice W vI i& ! i WHEREAS, Under and by virtue of Section 4 of the Celonia! l.aw (No. 124} publishad at Amalienborg, Apri 6, 1906, it is provided among other things as foI- IIOW S; “In extraordinary cirec mstencos tne Governor has authority to issue Pro visiona! Laws or Ordinances.” AND. WHEREAS. by Sectior 2of an Act of Congress entitled “"An Act to pro- vide a temporary* Government for the West Indias .Islands acquired by the Uni:ed Stat-s from Denmark’’, ete.. ap- proved by the Président on the 3rd day of Mareh, 1917, it is further previded in said Act as rollows: ““That. until Congress shall o‘herwise provide, in so far as compadible with the changed sovereignty anl not in confliect with the nrovisions of this Ae, the laws regulating <lections and the elecioral franchisc as set forth in the eode of laws pblisned at Amalienborg ‘he 6th o' April, 1906, and the other local laws in force and effee: in said Islands on the 17th day of JAnuary, 1917, shall re- main in fore# and offeet in said is- AND. WHERAS, the rate of ex- change for am Amcirican dolhae into francs of the cumrency of the said lls- lands has. on Octßber 15, 1919, sudden- ly advanced from $1.04 1o $1.27-1.2. NOW, THEREFORE, 1, J. W Oman, Governor of the Virgin islands of the United States, formerly kcown -as the Danish Wesi Indian is'ands, under and bv viriue of he’ atoresaid| ws, coneid- eriny extraordidary cirecumsiare2s as now existing, fin view 0. ihe incease In prices of necessicios of-life, ineidenc to ihe aforementiofied advance in iae rate ui exchanze, hereby determine and by this proclamation do announce that it is essential, in order to provide siadicient means whereby the empioyees -of the Government of the said Virgin islands of the Urited States may ~biain <aificient necessiiies of life under the salaries now paid to such employes in the cirrerey of the said is'ands, and in ord:r that the public good wili be promoted tlereby, to add to the saiaries oi said en ployes, do hereby authorize an: direet, effective immediately and untit otherwise provid- ed, thal there shail be ndded 1o the sala 1y ol each empicye i this Government No. 254. such further amounts, in local currency in addition ro such: salaries as will equal the difference between the normal rate of exchange ($1.04) and the rate of ex- change existing when such salaries are due. and payable. The budgets for the Municipality of St. Thomas * and 8t John and for the Munici- palicy of St. Croix, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, are hereby increas- ed in the amounts necessary to provide tor the aloresaid payments. IN WITNESS WHEREOF 1 have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Government of the Virgin Islands of tne Urited States to be aftixed. Issuzd in St. Thomas, this 17th day of October, 1919, A. D. (SEAL) J. W. OMAN. By The Governor C. C. TIMMONS Government Secretary. Thus duly passed and.approved at the 3re OU.sdinary meeting of the Colonial Councit held Monday, Jctober 20, 1919, D. C. CANEGATA. ROBT. MERWIN. Secretary. Chacrmau. The above Provisional Ordinance: is herc by sanciioned and approved. Witness my Hand and the Seal ot the Goverrment of the Virein Islandsor the United States at St. Thomas the 27th day of October in the year 1219. (S;}Al;.) 4 J. \N. ()A\iAl\ Governor. By T ri*«;iC = iNU E. ARTIES having claims against the [s- P tate of the deceased CHRISTIAN PETER THEOBALD FRIIS of Ws rate Mount Vietory ave hereby notified within & months to tile their claims with the necessary proofs of same with the undersicpred A E. Stakemann, who with co-exccainr EausJ. Koeind have taken the said estate under administradon as executores testamenti. The meetings in the estaie will be held .t Lawver Stakemann’s Office in Chris- iansted on the 3rd Thursday of every moutih at 3 o’clock p. m. Frederiksted, Bt. Croix, Oetober 30ih 1919. H | KOEFOD, A E.STAKENMANN.