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S o 0 wihtl A& VoIS are due and payable. The budgets tor the Municipality of St. Thomas and St. John and for the Munici- pality of St. Croix, for the fiscal year ending Jnne 30, 1920, are hereby increas- ed in the amounts necessary to provide for the aforesaid payments. IN WITNESS WHEREOF 1 have hereunto se. 1y hand and ¢iused the seal of the Government of the Virgin Islands of the United States to be affixed. Issued in St. Thomas, this 17th day of October, 1919, ‘A. D. (SEAL) J. W. OMAN. By The Governor Government Secretaiy. ® ® Publication. ST THOMAS HARBOE 4% LOAN OF 1910. T 1s herveby brought to public notice that I according to the Scheme of Aniortiza- tion for St. Themas Harbor 4% I.oan of 1910, the drawing by tne Notary Pub- lic, &i. Thomas, of ten bonds at Fr. 1,000 each has taken place, resulting in the drawing »f the following bonde: No. 6 > b 4 495 o 448 g L 305 804 e 100 v 4he These ten bonds are hereby called in for redemption or: the 11th December’ after which date the bonds wiil cease to bear interest. St. Thowas Harbor DBoard Oectober 11, 1919. C. C. TIMMONS, Chairman, NOTICE. FROM this date the price for char- coal at this Institution willbe 65 cents per bag. Richmond Penitentiary, St. Croix V. I. Detober 15, 1919. _ C. ESPERSEN. Director wn cherge. Wh‘t L' delivered iln 1 l € LIME own from Estate Southgate Farm at 60 cents pr. barrel. ™ CATHRINBE 1 UDVIG P ® ° üblication. i T is hereby made krown that Govern- ment has transmitted to the under-' signed Sheriff the list of arrears of Ground - and Building Taxes to the Colonia! Treasury for the year 1918, with orders to levy for said taxes if rec~ipt for payment of the taxes be not pr duced within 3 veeks from date. The brenches of "*The National Bark of the D. W. 1’ in Christiansted and Frederiksted are authorized by Govern- ment to receive and give receipt for the taxes every week-day a: the Bank from 9-11 o’clock a. m. and from 1-3 o’clock p. m. _ Christianstad’s and Frederiksted’s Sherift Office, Octover, 6th. 1919. . NOLL. j‘Ui;r'.T from the big factories in JJ New York and Boston, Autemo- bile Paiating, Signs and a'l cther xinds of Jainting. s~ Drop me a Card. JOHAN KLINT. 1 j A q‘q ; }g,?g Frederik sted’s Apcifiecary Hail A OFFERS MELLIN’S FAMOUS FOOD ior the Baby HORLICK'S MALTED MILK for infanes, invalids, ard Travellers, NUXATED IRON TABLETS for general devility Bi/KE, IRON and WINVE requi:ca1 this elimate to give blood and strength Jsan Peisisen, Frederiksied, of'ers recent Arrivals FRESH Codfish, Cream of Wrhes! ' and Rolled Oats Amr. Gran. duogay, . Stulle Olives, Queen Olives. DI, PICKLES GO: DEN GATE FRuUIT SYRUPS STRA'WBERRY & RASPEERKRY. Snuffles Logan Berry Juice, Frankfurier Sausages, VIENNA STYLES SUPREME HAM, PICNIC HAM, Supreme Bacon, Salad Dressing, Tobasco Sauce, LOGAN_BERRY JUICE, Al- monds, Bitter & Sweets, CITRON, “ELBRY, SALT, COX GFELATINE, Royal iaking Po.wder, 12 oz. tins Potatoes, Onions, Rice, broken & whole. And the usual Staple articie. BY THE GOVERNOR OF Tan VIRGIN (SLANDS OF (HE | UNITED STATES. | AProclamati : roclamation. | WHEREAS. Under and by viitue of [ Section 4of the Colonial LLaw {No. 124" | published at A nalienborg, April 6. 1906, | it is provided among other things as fol- lows: ; “In extracdinary cire-mstanc2s the | Governor h:s authority to issue Pro- | visional Law: or Ordinances.”’ j AND, WHERFEAS, by Section 2of an | Act of Congress entitled ""An Acc 1y pro- vide a temporary Government fcr the | West Indian Islands acquired by the | United States from Denmark’’ ete., ap- | proved by the President on the 3rd day of March, 1917. it is further provided in | said Act as foliows: ‘ ““That, until Congress shali otherwise provide, i so far as compatible with the changed sovereignty and not in conflict with the provisions of ehis Act, the laws regulating eleetions and the electoral franchise as set forth in rhe code of laws published at Amalienborg the 6th of April, 1906, and the other local laws im force and ¢ffect in said Islands on the 17th day of January, 1917, shall re- main in force and effect in said Is- | lands™’ | AND WHEREAS, the rate of ex- | change for an Ametican dollar into | francs of the currency of the said Is- lands has, on O«tober 15, 1919, sitdden- | ly advanced from $1.04 to $1.27-1/2. NOW, THEREFORE, I, J. W. Oman, (Governor of the Virgin [slands of the United States formerly known 25 the Danish West !ndian Islands, under and by virtue of the aforesaid I ws,. consid- ering extraordinary circumstances as now existing, in view of the inecrease in prices of necessities of life, incident to the aforemient oned advance in the rate | of exchange, hereby determine and by this proclamation do announce that it is | essential, in crder to provide suficient | means wheredy the employes o° the | Government o' the said Virgin lilands | of the Urited ® tates may ~btain suficient | necessities of |fe under the salaries now | paid to such :mployes in the cairency | of the said I lands, and in order that | the public gooc wil! be promoted thereby, to add to the salaries of said employes, do hereby auth wrize and direct, eflective immediately and until otherwise provid- ed, that there shall be added to the sala- ry of each emplcye of this Government l such further arnounts, in local currency, in addition so such salaries as will equal | the difference netween the normal rate i of exchange ($1.04) and the rate of ex- | change existmg when such salaries |