,Ordinance, 1942. The object of this Bill is to provide for the grant of sick leave to
shop-assistants.
 Honourable Colonial Treasurer : I beg leave to second the motion.
 Question put and agreed to.
 Bill read a first time.
 President : I now call upon the Honourable Colonial Treasurer to move the
second reading of the Currency Bill.
 Honourable Colonial Treasurer. I beg leave to move that a Bill for an
 Ordinance to implement an agreement to provide for a uniform currency in the
 Eastern Group of the British Caribbean Territories be read a second time.
 Honourable Crown Attorney : I beg to second the motion.
 Question put and agreed to.
 Bill read a second time.
 Honourable Colonial Treasurer : Mr. President, Honourable Members, I beg
 leave to move that this Council resolve itself into a Committee of the whole Council
 to consider the Bill clause by clause.
 Honourable Crown Attorney : I beg to second the motion.

 In Committee.
 Clause 2-Interpretation.
 Question put and agreed to.
 Clause 3-Agreement to have the force of law. First Schedule.
 Question put and agreed to.
 Clause 4-Bcard to have sole right to issue and re-issue currency notes and coin in
 the Colony.
 Question put and agreed to.
 Clause 5-Issue and form of currency notes and coin.
 Honourable Member for South Windward : Does this mean that we will soon
 have new notes and coin issued for use in the Colony.
 President : I don't know how soon the new currency will be issued. The
 Currency Board has just been set up, and the notes and coins will have to be made.
 Honourable E. A. C. Hughes : This Ordinance will not come into effect as
 soon is it is-passed by Council. It will come into operation by proclamation.
 Honourable Crown Attorney : I beg to move the insertion in Section 5 of a
 subsection to be numbered (3), and that the present subsection (3) be renumbered
 (4), as follows :-
 (3) Coin issued under this Ordinance shall be of the denominations and
 weight and be made of such metal or metals as are specified in the
 Second Schedule as amended from time to time under the provisions of
 subsection (4) of this section and be of such form and design as may be
 prescribed.
 Honourable E. A. C. Hughes : Under section 5 of the first schedule to the
 Ordinance the shares of participating Colonies are set out. Can anybody say how
 this division came about and on what basis it was arrived at?
 The percentage payable to St. Lucia, for instance, appears to be out of
 proportion.