APPENDIX TO MINUTES OF LEG. CO. OF 5TH APRIL, 1951.

 LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF SAINT VINCENT.

 SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.

Mr. President and Honourable Members;
 We having, at a meeting of the Legislative Council held on 1st March, 1951 been
constituted a Select Committee to consider the Bill for an Ordinance to provide
for the establishment of Local Authorities for Towns and Villages, beg to report as
f allows :

 MEETING OF COMMITTEE.
 The Select Committee held one meeting at the Council Chamber on Monday
12th March, 1951, at which all the members were present. The Honourable P.
Cecil Lewis, Crown Attorney was elected Chairman. Mr. C. G. Huggins, Local
Government Officer, was summoned to the meeting and assisted the Committee in
its deliberations, and Mr. Henry H. Williams, Acting Clerk of the Legislative
Council, performed the duties of clerk.

 TIHE BILL
 The Chairman explained that the bill proposed only one important change in
 the existing law i.e. with regard to the qualifications for electors, and the
 qualifications for members-of the local authorities. It was intended to introduce
 universal adult suffrage, as was proposed for the Legislative Council. Otherwise
 the bill was little more than a consolidation of existing ordinances.
 The Committee proceeded to consider the Bill clause by clause.

 Sections 1-5 were agreed to. /

 Section 6: "Powers of Governor in Council to create urban and village districts
 and define boundaries.
 Mr. Mc Intosh felt that the Legislative Council should be given some control
 under this section. The Crown Attorney was of the opinion that members of the
 Legislative Council c6uld exercise such control by the introduction into the
 Legislative Council of suitable motions in cases where they saw the need for the
 establishment of a local authority or for the changing of the boundaries of an
 urban or a village district. '
 The section was agreed to.

 Section 7--Village Councils.
 There was a long discussion as to whether or not a sub-section should be
 added to the effect that the existing Village Councils of Troumaca and Marriaqua
 should be deemed to have been established under the Ordinance, or whether it
 would be necessary to re-create them after the- passing of the Ordinance. The
 Crown Attorney finally advised that in his view their position was secured by the
 saving clause under Section 61, and the section was accepted.
 Section 8-Capacity of Local Authorities.
 No Amendment-


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