The Honourable Member for Kingstown having withdrawn his seconding, no
 vote was taken on the motion.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : Your Honour, -Honourable Members of
 Council, I think I am placed in a very invidious position today in- having to do
 something that is unprecedented in the history of St. Vincent. I will ask
 permission to move the following motion standing in my name :
 In view of the fact that the poorer classes of this Colony are in a
 deplorable, poverty-stricken condition; also
 In view of the fact that there is rampant dissatisfaction with prevailing
 conditions throughout the Colony, and
 Because Government is unable to remedy conditions and the masses
 have no confidence in Government, and Religion being the only means
 whereby these depressed people can find comfort in their misery, and as the
 Superintendent of Police and His-Honour the Administrator have colluded to
 deprive these people of their right to religious freedom in th6 Colony;
 BE IT RESOLVED that this Council put forward the people's Petition to the
 Secretary of-State for the Colonies for the removal of the Superintendent of
 Police and His Honour the Administrator, before these depressed people,
 finding no relief from these disadvantages resort to desperation for relief.
 Well, Sir, I am going to ask-for an amendment to this motion.
 At a meeting of this Council on the 13th April, 1939, the following motion was
introduced by me : That the Shakerism Ordinance be amended to define what
Shakerism is ", and I asked permission and.was allowed an amendment to read as
follows: "That the Shakerism Ordinance'1912 be repealed". The request was
allowed and put to the vote with the following result : -That motion was passed
unanimously and according to Law this Council-should have proceeded to repeal
the Shakerism Ordinance. But I understand that through the influence of the
Churches in St. Vincent which s2nt in a petition to the Secretary of State, no
action was taken in the matter.
 In 1944 I put the following question to Government : "Please say whether
 the inhabitants of this Colony are allowed to enjoy freedom of religious worship?"
 The reply from Government was : "The answer is in the affirmative."
 In every instance I have been told that the Government of This Colony is in
favour of freedom of religious worship for the people, nevertheless, there have
been so many cases where they have been arrested and put in prison for serving
God in their own way. I feel that,everybody should be allowed to serve God in.
the way that they feel is best.
 There are other questions. I have put in the interest .of the people so as to
prevent them from committing an offence because when a law is on the Statute
.book it has to be enforced. Government cannot tell what Shakerism is. I am not
interested in Shakerism, but what I want to see is that Government takes a sober
view of the matter, and let people have a regular way of serving God, so long as it
is in keeping with law and order.
 Some time ago we had a conference comprised of those persons interested in
 having their own kind of worship and sections of the community from all over the-
 island came. At that conference we formed what we call the Spiritual Baptist
 Church and elected certain office holders. Mr. McDonald Williams was elected
 Pastor-in-Charge, Myself and others were endeavouring to stamp out, Shakerism
 and were giving to the Church that charter to see that these practices were -not
 parried out. There is no definite body that could be called Shakers, but these