President: I now-call upon the Honourable Crown Attorney to move the first
 reading of a hill cited as the Hydro-electric Bill, 1951.
 Honourable- Crown Attorney Your Honour, Honourable Members, I beg to
 introduce and have read for a first time a bill for an Ordinance to implement an
 agreement made between the Government of the Colony of St. Vincent and the
 Colonial Development Corporation for the construction maintenance and operation
 of hydro-electric works by the Corporation in the said Colony. The long title of
 the Bill is self-explanatory, and I think everyone here understands what is the
 objective of this Bill. The Government of St.'Vincent is to enter into an agreement
 with the Colonial Developmenit Corporation to establish hydro-electricity in the
 Colony, and this agreement-must have the approval of the Legislative Council. This
 agreement is contained in the Schedule to the Bill, and if you pass the Bill and
 approve the Schedule, it will not be necessary for us to proceed with the motion
 standing in my name for the specific approval of the-draft agreement.
 Honourable Colonial Treasurer : I beg to second the motion.
 Honourable Member for South Windward: There is just one question. I
 would like to know the reason for the urgency in passing this bill today.
 SPresident : The reason for taking the Bill through all its stages today, is that
,. the Construction -Engineer of the Colonial Development Corporation is now-in the -
 island, and will be ready to start the work as soon as Mr. Roddam the Deputy
 Manager of the Corporation arrives on May llth. The Corporation would like to
 make an immediate start on the Sche'me, but cannot do so until it is given power
 under this Bill to enter on people's lands, run pipe lines, erect poles etc. I don't
 know if Honourable Members have had time to go through the Bill, but it is
 similar to the one which was passed recently in Dominica.
 Honourable Crown Attorney : Apart from that, there are quite a number of
 clauses in the bill which are similar to those in our Electricity Ordinance.
 Honourable Member for South Windward : I was more concerned about the
 Schedule to the Bill. -
 President : -ve have already discussed, the Schedule in detail in Finance
 Committee.
 Honourable Member for South Windward : I was not at that meeting.
 .Clause 2-Interpretation.
 Question that clause 2 stand part of the bil put and agreed to.
 CGlause 3-Governor empowered to make agreement with Corporation.t
 Question that clause 3 stand part of the bill put and agreed to.
 Clause 4--Generation etc. of electricity during currency of licence forbidden,
 except for own use.
 1- Hnourable Crown Attorney:- This Clause was re-drafted by me because the.
 original draft gave power to the Governor to fine, which is an.unusual provision.
 It rnow reads as follows :-
 (2) "Any person acting in contravention of the preceding subsection, shall be.
 guilty of an offence thereunder and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine
 not exceeding six months' and in addition thereto he may be ordered by the court
 within such time as the Court may prescribe, to dismantle his equipment at his own
 expense, and if he shall'fail to obey the order of the Court within the prescribed