52. Those expenses which according to the rules now in force, would have to
be borne for the Islands by the State-Treasury, as posted in the colonial budget, are to
be assumed by the colonial treasuries, partly as expenses in common partly as
special expenses, with exception, however, of those pensions to former royal officials
in the West Indies or to their widows and children, which have been temporarily posted
in the colonial budget. The colonial treasuries shall furthermore, according to 53
and 54, take over the expenses for the colonial revising office, and the pensions to
royal officials under the colonial administration who retire after this law has come in
force, and to their widows and children.

 53. Those expenses that are to be assumed by the colonial treasuries as
expenses in common are: for the superior administration and the colonial revising
office in the mother-country, with a total yearly amount of 12,600 Rd. R. M.; for the
upper court of justice, with the exception, however, of 200 dollars, until the reduction in
the amount for office-expenses, mentioned in 4 of the law of the 15th of February
1857, be effected; for pensions for royal officials under the colonial administration who
retire after this law has come in force, and for their widows and children, in as far as
the salaries to the officials concerned have been defrayed under the expenses in
common; for the military department, in as far as the expenses relate to the whole
military force on the Islands, and not the separate garrisons, including the amount for
pensions posted under B. f. 1 in the colonial budget for the financial year 1863-64; for
other purposes in common to all the Islands; for instance the items of expenditure
stated under B. e. 4 and f. 2 of the colonial budget for the financial year 1863-64, as
approved by the royal ordinance of the 19th of January 1863. The expenses in
common, with the exception of those for the military department, are to be defrayed
equally by each of the colonial treasuries. Those for the military department are to be
borne by each colonial treasury in proportion to the average-number of privates and
non-commissioned officers that have done duty in each Island during the year in
question, or, in as far as relates to pension, in proportion to the same average for the
last 5 years before the pension in question falls on the colonial treasury.

 54. Each of the colonial treasuries shall assume as special expenses all
 those expenses which specially relate to each respective municipality, including those
 items of expenditure for all the Islands posted under B. e. 1, 2 and 3 in the colonial
 budget for 1863-64, in as far as these do not belong under the expenses mentioned in
 53, as also the expenses for pensions for royal officials under the colonial
 administration who retire after this law has come in force, and for their widows and
 children, in as far as the salaries to the officials concerned have been defrayed under
 the special expenses. The colonial treasury of St. Croix shall also assume 200
 dollars of the amount of office-expenses at the upper-court of justice, until the change
 mentioned in 4 of the law of the 15th of February 1857 takes place. As long as the
 seat of Government is in St. Croix, the colonial treasury of St. Croix has to defray the
 expenses for the superior local administration in common to all the Islands, on
 receiving a yearly contribution of 7000 dollars from the colonial treasury of St. Thomas,
 which contribution can, however, be altered by ordinance.