St. Croix Avis (Christiansted, St. Croix [V.I.]) 1844-Current
February 28, 1865

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S’to COiX A"Ti’SO UDGIVER: HANS HATCHETT. TRYKT I ENKEN HARRIET HATCHETT’S BOGTRYKKERI. 21de Aarg.] The “AVIS” IS EDITED BY HANS HATCHETT; i AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. for the Proprietress. e————" BANK OF ST THOMAS. e RY OTICE is hereby given that the divi- AWI dend of Four and a half per Cent on the paid up Capital of this Institution, declared at a Meeting of Proprietors held this day, will be payable at the Bank to- morrow and every day after, during the hours of business. St. Thomas, 23rd February 1865. A. WOLFF, Manager. Lost on Sunday Evening the 26th Inst., re- turning from Estate Clifton Hill to West End, a Ladies Cylinder Gold WATCH single cased white dial. The finder will be suitable rewarded by depositing sald Watch at King’s Hill Police Office or at Frederiksted’s Police Office. WANTED TO BORROW

%20,000. for which a liberal rate of interest will l be allowed and good security given. Any person disposed to lend will please ad- dress Borrower” at the Post Office, with real name, which will be attended to. 7 L have just received by the Bark n telope Brig Nellie the follow- ing articles which they offer Jor sale on reasonable terms, viz: MEAL IN PUN. BBLS. Superfine Flour s i in whole bbls. RYE FLOUR. WATVY BREBAD in pun. bbls. PILOT BREADIN BARRELS. CANDLES. STARCH. Butter in 25 lbs. kegs. MESS PORK. PRIME PORK. BEEF IN BARRFLS. Fulton Mkt Beef in i and 1 bbls HERRINGS, MACKAREL, SALMON IN BBLS. Scale Fish in 4 quintal boxes. BACON. CHRISTIANSTED, TIRSDAGEN den 28de FEBRUAR 1865, Matches. SMOXED HERRINGS. ENGLISH SOOAP. Green and Black Tea. Hhds. Shooks. RED OAK STAVES. WHITE OAK STAVENS. White Pine Boards. Pitch pine Boards Laths Norway pine Boards for FLOORING- Spruce boards. Spruce, Norway Pine P. P. Scantling, assorted sizes. SPRYOCE PLARTE, ALBANY SHINGLES. BOSTON Ditto. CYPRESS Ditto. BANKING PLOUGHS N 022 HAY. Salt in Barrels. CAPA FUSTIC POSNTS. TOP CUTTERS. Plough Socks. Hydraulic Cement, Tar in Barrels. Christiansted February 21, 1865. Roche Bros. Co. CONSULATE OF THE UNITED STATES OFF AMERICA FOR THE ISLAND OF ST. CROIX D. W. 1., Feßruary 14TH, 1865. f\ I{D (12 is hereby given, that Lr U l:g henceforth, no tra veller, except immigrant passengers, directly entering an American Port by sea, will be allowed to enter the United States from a foreign country without a passport. If a citizen the passport must be from the Depart ment of State, or from some U. S. Minister or Consul abroad, and if an alien, from the competent authority of his own country; the passport to be countersigned by a diplomatic agent or consul of the United States. This regulation will be strictly en forced by all officers civil, military, and naval, in the service of the Unit ed States. No immigrant passenger coming ii: manner aforesaid will how ever be obstructed; or any other per sons who may leave a foreign coun- try on their way to the United States; before intelligence of this regulatiorn could reasonably be expected to reacl them. E. 11. PERKINS, U. S. Consul. DE'.l' bekjendtgjores herved at Ons dagen den 2?9de Marts forst kommende Middag KI. I2 slet, vil Repartitionen paa afsgangne Madame nLouisa Phelan og tidligere afdøde nMand Anthony Phelans fælles Boe vorde fremlagt, og ventes Boet der efter sluttet. St. Croix, Christiansteds Skifterets Contoir den 17de Februar 1865. q J. A. Stakemann. Tis hereby made known, that on U Wednesday the 29th March next, 1{ 12 o’clock at noon the Repartition in the dealing of the late Mr. and i Mrs. Phelan, will be produced and the dealing closed. Nt. Croix, Christiansteds Dealing Court Office, 17 February 1865. J. A. Stakemann.

The Undersigned lg have just received, pr. Schooner “DRA GON,” the followiug Articles, viz: Cheese, Butter, Lard, Pork, Hams, Pota toes, Onions, white Floug in whole and half Barrels, Starch, Rye flour, Corn Meal, f Quarter Barrels family Beef, white Beans, &e., &e., &e. i February Bth, 1865.

Finlay Co. AUCTION. Z UCTIONS-Directeuren bekjendt _/,.X gjor herved, atifølge Requisi tion as St. 'Thomæ Skifteret som be handlende afdåde Anna Lavinirs Bo mvili Medfør as Placat 22 April 1817 blive opraabt til Salg ved 3de offent lige Auctioner den Stervboet tilh rende faste EIENDOM Nr. 7 Prindsensgade, Kronprindsens Qvarteer. Iste Auction afholdes Onsdag d. 15de Marts næstk. KI. 12 Middag. 2?den Auction afholdes Onsdag den 29de Marts næstk. KIl. 12 Middag. 3die Auction afholdes Onsdag d. 12?te D April næstk. Kl. 12 Middag. mJlste og ?den Auction paa underteg nede Contoir, 3die Auction pea Aa stedet. Conditionerne, Panteattest og Vur deringsforretning ville blive fremlagte ved Auctionerne, hvortil Lysthavende indbydes. St. Thomæ Auctions Contoir, den 15 Februtif 1865 5=- 0 N Rosenstand, Auctionsdirecteur. [Nr. 17.

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AUCTION. HE Vendue Director hereby W makes known, that at the re quest of St. Thomas Dealing Court in administration of the estate of Mrs. Anna Lavinir deceased is offered for sale by 3 Auctions in conformity with the Royal Ordinance dated the 22nd April 1817 THE PROPERTY No. 7 Prindsensgade, Kronprindsens Quarter, belonging to said estate. Ist Auction on Wednesday the 15th March next at 12 o’clock noon. 2nd Auction on Wednesday the 29th March next at 12 o’clock noon. 3rd Auction on Wednesday the 12th April next at 12 o’clock noon. Ist and second Auction at the under signed office, 3rd Auction at the pre mises. The terms of the sale, Extract of mortgage and appraisement to be peen at the Vendues to which pur chasers are invited. St. Thomas Vendue Office, the 15th February 1865. Rosenstand, Vendue Director OF THE MEANS OF THE RUM FUND will be lent out. Applications, stating the selfdebtor securityship offered, to be addressed to the Burgher Council and for warded up to the 4th proximo 2 o’clock M. Burgher Council’s Secretary’s Office, 21st February 1865. JACOB MULLER. S S SRR From the St. Thomas Times, February 25.) The lower part of our Main Street is some what in confusion, owing to the operatives be ing busy digging trenches and laying down the principal mains for the Gas works. The work, however, proceeds tolerably rapid, as the mains commence as low down as the burial ground and have now reached as high as the Catholio Church. The Iron bridge that is to span the so-called Lange’s gutter, whereby a larger volume of water descending from the hills will pass frecer to the sea than with the old bridge, is alse being constructed. We are enabled so state that the Trustees of the Saving’s Bank have determined that the money which it was proposed should be spent for some public good shall be invested in a Re servoir to contain some 10,000 puncheons, and bave appointed a Commission to see the work carried out. After the Reservoir is completed, then there will be fountains set in some of the principal parts of the town and hydrants along the streets. Our dredging Machine may now be said to be in full working operation, and Lighters may be seen daily passing out of the harbour with what has been gtedged from the bottom..

Private intelligence from Turks Islands of the 18th instant, states that the Spanish troops had commenced to withdraw from Santo Do mingo, 2,000 having left Monte Cristi for the Havana. We give the information as it has been shewn us in private letters, we therefore do not answer for its correctness. From the London Times, January 30, 1865.) It is only by slow degrees that we are begin ning to understand the power of the storm which swept over the Bay of Bengal on the Ist of November. The most imaginative of men STe CROLE AV)] has a difficulty in accepting an experience dif ferent from his own, and just as the King of Siam disbelieved in ice, so are Europeans incre dulous about the natural phenomena of the East. After the first shock we rapidly persuad ed ourselves that the accounts of the Cyclone were unduly exaggerated, and we looked upon the narrative of its fury as an example of Asia tic hyperbole. Later accounts have shown that the earliest details were indeed inaccurate, but they were inaccurate only in uoderstating the effects of the storm. The trustworthy re ports of English residents bave convinced us of the fearful reality of the disaster which visited the coasts of Bengal and Madras, and increduli ty is silenced before the statistical returns of official investigators. The art of the rhetorician is not needed in describing such a eatastrophe as the Cyclone of November. The simple narrative of Defoe has more effect on the mass of men than the most highly coloured pictures of poets, and even than the philosophic realism of Thucydides. Bit by bit the trath is revealed, and the horror of the scene is at last realized by all. Sixty thousand persons were destroyed by the immediate conse quences of the storm of November, and a vast number have met a slower death through its later influence. Sixty thousand was the number estimated to have been killed by the eartbquake at Lisbon on another All Saints’ Day, a century ago. Nor was the proportionate destruction less thanit was then. Iu the island of Saugor out of 8,200 persons but 1,200 bave been left. The remaining seven thousand passed, in less than an hour, out of existence. All along the eastern cost of the Indian peninsula went wind and storm fulfilling His word. It was the time of spring tides, and under the influence of the hur ricane the sca rose to an unexampled height. Up the course of the Ganges the wave rushed, overwhelming the villages on the banks, and leaving the few who survived the flood to perish for want of food their grain rotted and their crops were destroyed by the salt water, and they had no resource but to die. But the scene of the greatest disaster appears to have been Masulipatam, about half way down the coast. The town lies a little to the north of one of the mouths of the Kistna, on the plain which stretches from the Kistna to the Godavery. The mud which has for ages been washed down these rivers has formed a district little above the level of the sea. In the wet season it is overflowed by the freshets of the Kistna, and it requires at all times to be protected from the occan by sea-walls and dikes. The Dutch, who first settled at Masulipatam, probably saw in its situation something which reminded them of Holland, and congratulated themselves that the single good anchorage on the coast was close to such a flat and fruitful plain. But the qual ities which appeared to them advantages made Masulipatam an easy prey to the storm. The Cyclone rushing across the Bay of B:ngal fell upon the spot which was least prepared to meet it. The centre of the hurricane passed within a mile of the devoted town at 10 p.m. on the Ist of November, in a night of utter darkness. Amid the storm of wind a tidal wave thirteen feet higher that the highest tide-mark surmount ed sea-walls and dikes and poured over the whole of the surrounding country. For an hour the water rose and covered mnearly eight hundred square miles of the plain, and when it retired, at 11, the work of destruction was done. The plain for 80 miles along the coast and from nine to ten miles inland had been submerged, and in one place the storm-wave had reached a spot 17 miles from the shore. We can only feebly picture to ourselves the desolation of the scene. The low-built houses of the natives had been washed away, and those which might bave reached above the wave had been blown down by the fury of the storm. The fiercest powers of the natural world were at work, and in the darkaoess of night there was no escape possible, whatever might bave been done in the light of day. Whole villages were entirely destroyed their inhabitants were drowned, their cattle were lost, their crops were buried beneath a thick deposit of mud and sand. 'l'o have been the sole survivor of such a calamity was, per haps, a more cruel fate than to have perished with kinsfolk and friends. When help came from Madras, those who brought it witnessed a sight which they will not easily forget. The mud banks were full of unburied corpses in eve ry possible attitude, combining the grotesque and the horrible. Side by side lay one whom despair had reduced to abject resignation and another whom it had driven to wiid defiance. Half the town was in ruios fallen trees, drift, the ruins of houses, and deep pools of salt water made streets and roads impassable. Huge barges had been carried into the centre of the town, and masses of solid masonry had been rolled, boulder-like, distances of 60 and 70 yards. The first impression of those visiting this city of death was sufficiently awful, but when after a while the tale of destruction was reckoned it was seen that the first horror had fallen short of the reality. In fort and town one-third of the inhabitants had perished. A thousand were drowned in the fort and fifteen thousand in the town, and io the surrounding villages twenty thousand more bad met their death. In one Brabmin village on the outskirts of Masulipatam seventy only remained alive out of seven hundred. For a single night, or rather for a single hour, the destroying angel had been at work, and when he finished it was as if the life of man and the life of nature had both been efficed. Beneath the sweep of his wings the prosperous plain bad become desolation and the fruitful villages tenantl ss. i There is a wild legend of the Breton coast which may serve to illustrate the different tem per in which English and Hindoo have met this great calamity. An adventurous Frenchman resolved to reclaim a marsh occasionally expos ed tothe irruptions of the sea by building a sea wall without it and draining the land thus en closed. An old Breton warved him not to at tempt the impious enterprise the limits of sea and land were fixed by Divine command, and man could not gainsay it. The Frenchmau per scvered, reclaimed the land aod within a year or two reaped an excellent harvest, and a-ked the old man what had become of his warning-. “The end is not yet,” said the Breton. 'L'ne next week the harvest-feast was celebrated, and at a late hour host and guests retired weary to their beds but, so runs the Bretou tale, in the night the storm arose and in the morning sea wall and farmstead, barus aud cultivated field, had entirely disappeared. The Celtic feeling of passive submission out of which the legend grew appeared among the natives of Masulipatam. A more energetic pcople might, indeed, have been cowed by the awful cxhibition of force from which they had suffered. The survivors were overwhelmed by this disaster, they bowed in resignation to the stroke they had received, and for a time there was a danger lest the uuburied dead, the salt water, and the damaged grain would prodace disease which would carry off those who had escaped the first disaster. For tunately there were Anglo-Indians at hand with better counsels. To them, as to any other Ln glishman, disorder is a thing to be remcdied, and with timely assistance from Madras they set to work. Natritious food was forthcoming and supplementcd by careful sanitary measures. Parties of Sepoys, police, and hired coolies, di rected by European energy, went through the town and district collecting and burying the dead, while others were set to work in clearing out a canal so as to obtain a supply of water partially free from impurity. After a time, as the numbers unburied were reduced, it was found possible to burn the corpses which were left, a thing at first impossible from the mere absence of fire-wood, and those who were at first buried hastily were more carcfully covered. The natives took heart at the sight, and through the infection of European energy joined in the work. We are warranted in sayiog that these exertions have probably saved the town from a fearful epidemic. Amid the horrors of the catastrophe which visited Masulipatam, the man ner in which the British residents strove to counteract the evils which might have followed in its rear is a source of true consolation. Col lector and sub-collector, the officers of the Sepoy regiment quartered in the fort, and of the Engi neers, and Anglo-Indians of every quality, as sisted in the work. The spectacle of their re solution and forethought, their promptness in: preventing new and their zeal in mitigating foregone disasters, is an instance of true sub mission to the Divine commands, not in acqui escing in the disorders attendant upon a natu ral convulsion, but in seeking to make the whole earth fruitful and meet for the sustenance of man.

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P ‘i v o St. Crotx Savings Bank. /N conformity with the Constitution of the St. Croix Savings Bank Art. IT 2 the Thirteenth Annual Mesting of the Members of this Institution was held on Monday the 20th Instant, 2 o’clock p. m., at the Office of the Institution to receive the Report of the transactions of the Bank for the thirteenth year of its operation and for the election of a new Board of Trustees. On the motion of Mr.J. C. Brandt, seconded by Lieut. Boye, Mr.J. de Pontavice occupied the Chair after which the Report of the Board of Trus tees was read to the assembly by the Secretary, Mr.T. E. Mendes, and laid on the table. Proposed by Mr. H. Hatchett and seconded by Mr. W. Mey er that the Report be adopted. The Chairman in calling the attention of the assembly to the report before them, remarked that it was highly satisfactory, showing that the Imsti tution was progressing he therefore first offered a vote of thanks to the late President, Mr. James Finlay, who for a number of years has devoted his time to the benelit of the Institution next to the present President Mr. Geo. Behagen, who, it is hoped, will continue his functions for years to come; also to the Gentlemen Trustees for so kindly offering their time for the welfare of the Institution, and lastly to the Accountants Messrs. Alfred Creagh and P. Wedersoe for the satisfactory manner in which they fulfill their duties. 1 Th:oi meeting was then called by the Chairman to elect 19 Trustees for this present year, when the following Gentlemen were unanimously reélected G. Bebhagen. C. Hattensen. T. E. Mendes. W. Simmelkier. o A. Bretton. W. H. Heyliger. Abr. Meyer. Wm. Peebles. J. F. Colberg. C. Holstein, E. Monefeldt. C. E. Rahr. 1.. Faber. N. Iversen. R. Morton. G. Walker. R. A. Finlay. H. N. Malgrav. P. Rosenstand. A vote of thanks was accorded to the Chairman for his services on the occasion, after which the meeting adjourned. J. de PONTAVICE. A meeting of the Board of Trustees was then held the absent members were Messrs. A. Bretton, L. Faber, H. N. Malgrav, W. Peebles, C. E. Rabr and G. Walker. 'The Board then proceeded to elect a President and Secretary—Mr. G. Behagen was chosen for the former and Mr. T. E. Men des for the latter office. As Members of the Board of Investment were elected Messrs. C. Hattensen, W. H. Heyliger, N. Iversen and G. Walker, and as committee of ac counts Messrs. R. A. Finlay and A. Meyer. The meeting then adjourned. T. E. MENDES, St. Croix February 20th 1865. J Secretary. Os the Board of Trustees of the ST.CROIX SAVINGS BANK 1864, GENERAL STATEMENT: Balance of Daposits Wan on 3188 Dedetiir 1863 ci. iv, i sianainies $40.585 B 2 From Ist January to 31st December 1864 have been dep05ited.......... $20,117 45 T T G e 128 49 TIO, CUINEIIAG B 0 LIBBIDRE s iio i i i 1,467 62 21,013 56 $71,299 18 Withdrawals during the same period have been, of Capital $22,636 19 T BRI i csiiini i iiiag b i i 128 45 22,764 G 8 s _ Leaving a Balance of Deposits $48,534 50 'l'he General Fund was credited on 31st December 1863 with........... 8 7,203 59 Beceived Tor 2 QuPIICRIB BOORB (o 0 s wincitaianinisocsiolicssunis 00 Balanee of Interest 2,187 74 9,391 83 And debited for Accountant’s Salary from Ist January to 31st December 1864. S6OO 00 Assistant Accountant at West End for same time............ 100 00 A Donus granted Iho AcoOuBbARE, .oocv. v viviscnnasia 100 00 Do. do. the gesistant Accountant .soosen 50 00 T T G e s L 36 00 DWlIn DA sis v iasassienisese- 120 00 Printer, Postage, Stationery and Office rent in West End 296 01 1,302 01 Beovie s Bulmoa of 0.0 oc oot ian i tai s iinenes. B BORD BE AR LBNBF i ik it ie AR e aieraii, RB B Which is invested as follows: In Bill Bonds with Securities and self-debtors 850,815 00 Deposited in Agency Bank of St. Thomas 9,809 32 856,624 32 'The aggregate of Deposits in 1864 was in Christiansted 2,317 PO Tregaiß g. i it 408 JF 2,742 comprising 273 Deposits of 20 Cents each. 783 Do. above 20 and under 81 =5 1808 Po g1 5 i am s 5, 10 I B 1D ..o 20 38 Bp. 50 s Do ¢BO 100 2,742 In 1863 there were 232 new accounts opened, while in 1864 there have been 285 say 214 in Christiansted and 71 in Frederiksted, viz Apprentices.... 2 (e 1 Mechanics .....16 Npr5e5........ 2 Servants ....11 Palcher 1 Fishermen..... 2 Ni1ary,......0 Minters....... 2 Yot 9 Oatiman 1 Laborers ......83 MW ..o .07 Ploughman 1 Washers g The number of Depositors who have withdrawn is 537 of which 252 in full and 285 in part. The average number of Deposits has been pr. week in Christiansted 45 in Fredgriksted 8. At the close of the year there were 915 accounts open in the Bank. On 31st December 1861 the Balance of Deposits amounted to $43,186 11, on 31st December 1862 to $47,315 12, on 31st December 1863 to $49,585 62 and on 31st December 1864 to $48,534 50. e The General Fund of the Institution arising from the Surplus of Interest on the invested Capital amounted on 31st December 1862 to $6,126 61, on 31st December 1863 to $7,203 59 and on 31st December 1864 to $8,089 82, showing an increase in the past year of SBB6 2£3. There are now 99 Members, viz: 71 in Christiansteds’ and 28 in Frederiksteds Jurisdiction. For the Board of Trustees, St. Croix, Christiansted February 13th 1865, GEO. BEHAGEN, President. ST CROLX AVI S,

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEMI-ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE PRORIETORS OF THE BANK OF ST. THONMAS J HELD AT MR. BONELLI'S “EUROPEAN HOTEL,” THIS 23rd DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1865. Mr. AUG. SCHLEGER, President. THE PRESIDENT READ THE ADVERTISEMENT CONVENING THE MEETING, AND REQUESTiD THE SHARE HOLDERS TO APPOINT A CHAIRMAN. Proposed by Mr. Schutt, seconded by Mr. Fontana and carried, that Mr. H. Feddersen be requested to act as Chairman Mr. Feddersen having taken the Chair, requested the Manager to read the Report. e i BREBEPORT: By the President and Directors of the BANNK OF ST. THOMAS, to the Proprictors assembled at the Fifty fourth Ilalf-yearty General Meeting, this 23rd day of I'ebruary 1865. The Directors have the pleasure to submit to the Proprietors the result of the business of the past half year: 200 RO ORI UORO U DEENL ohic e e is i e ks aae i s S IERSEG U 0 Tho unaivided Tyolsto the QUIR July laßb were .0 ciiiininniniiinnss —g—.?_l:?lJß 76 TRO IO TRORE U TRO HURE SIE TRORUNE BIIORIIOH 80, .00 00l i iiins bit e i e e ey 814/946 1D 20 D U OF LI PO SINEON CU BUCUIUIBRIRG W.. o o rb. e i i ie e s e BTG O] 13,451 54 i __.33—'34,755 30 T T R R O B M G ei e e e e e e e 21,087 50 Lelvel. ooy BLGET UY from this sum the Directors propose to pay a dividend of FOUR AND A HALF per Cent. on the paid up Capital. In conformity with the approval given at the last Meeting, the Lot No. 5 and 6 Kronprindsens Street and Quarter has been purchased for the sum of Nine ‘Thousand Two Hundred and Eighty Dollars for a Bank Building, and the Directors now submit a plan of the alterations required. The (;;erm of service of Messrs. E. Schiitt and A. Julien having expired, you will be called upon to elect two Directors in their stead. BANK OF ST. THOMAS, St. Thomas, 23rd February, 1865. AUG. SCHLAGER, President. E. SCHUTT. D. McDOUGAL. M. LUCCHETTI. A. JULIEN Dr...........GENERAL BALANCE SHEET OF THE BANK OF ST. THOMAS, 31st JANUARY 1865,..........Cr. 1865.( 11865.] Jany.|3l] To 50 per Cent. on 1,205 Shares 301,250 00}Jany.|31 By Lot N 0.5 and 6 Crownprinces Street| Acoumulating Fand. 61,101,09 and Quarter, with Buildings therconi Amount of Deposits, Notes in circu—! purchased for a Bank Duilding.....| 8 9,032 55 lation and Interest due on deposits. 815,277|99 |By Balance owing to the Bank, Amount| Balance of Profit and Loss Account.& 15,162‘41 l of Bills, Notes and Cash on hand._.! 1,183,758 94 B o $1,192,791/49 $1,192,791/49 1865.| e Lig6s, et Jany.[3l] To 10 per Cent. of the Net Profits for Jany.|3l| By Balance of Profit and Loss )o o 6 of! the last six months, carried to Ac- Account to 30th July last §g i g cumulating Fund. 1,494/61 Net Profits from Ist Aug. Balance of Profit and Loss Account 13,667/80 lastloaate. 14,946 15| 15,162;41. et e 15,1(32!41 s 15,162 41 =1865. ;—-——————————-—i-;,-: Jany. 31! By Balance brought d0wn........... I ]3,667i80 i A Dividend at the rate of 9 per Cent per Annum on 1,205 Shares, or on $301,250, will for six months require $13,556 25. St. Thomas, 18th February, 1865. Audited: AUG. SCHLAEGER, President. A. WOLFF, H. HAAGENSEN, E. SCHUTT. ,Manager. Accouniant. D. McDOUGAL. M. LUCCHETTI. A. JULIEN. —-————————-——-——-*——-m Moved by Mr. M. DeSola, seconded by Mr. Dacosta Gomez and carried,—That the Report now presented be adopted. The Manager next read some further explanation from the Directors relative to the affairs of the Agency in St. Croix, submit ting at the same time a plan of the proposed alterations on the Property No. 5 and 6, Crownprinces Street and Quarter, necessary for Bank Premises, which were agreed to. The Chairman then requested the Meeting to vote for two Directors to replace Mr. E. Schiitt and Mr. A. Julien, whose term of service had éxpired, which resulted in the re-election of Mr. A. Julien and the election of Mr. L. H. Jensen. Moved by Mr. Wilkens, seconded by Mr. Luria and carried, that the thanks of this Meeting be tendered to the Direclors for théif attention to theé Interest of the Bank. N e e A vote of thanks to the Chairman for his services this day was fiegose_d and carried, after which the Meeting closed. St. Thomas, 23rd February, 1865. HARALD FEDDERSEN, Chairman. H. HAAGENSEN, Acting Secretary. ST. CROLE AVLS: