S'lCiimble. 



•96 TjRINIDAD A^W TOBAGO BULLETIN. [XIX. 2. 



AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE ORDINANCE, 1920. 



Tkinidad and Tobago, 



No. 57.-1920. 



1 Assent, 



LL.S.] 



J. R. Chancellof., 



Governor, 



21st December, 1920. 



An Ordinance to raise by an additional tax on agricultural produce 

 during the year 1921 a moiety of the Colony's contribution of 

 ^50,300 towards the cost of establishing a Tropical Agricultural 

 College for the British West Indies. 



\2Ut December, 1920.] 



"Y'l/IIEREAS the Tropical Agricultural College Committee appointed by 

 the Secretary of State for the Colonies was unanimously of opinion 

 that steps should be taken at an early date to found a Tropical 

 Agricultural College in the British West Indies, and recommended tliat 

 the College should be established in Trinidad, provided that the 

 Government of Trinidad and Tobago was prepared to afford adequate 

 support and offer every reasonable faciUty : 



And whereas on the ninth day of April nineteen hundred and twenty 

 the Legislative Council passed the following resolution : — • 



'• That this Council approves the recommendation of the Committee 



" appointed to consider the desirability of establishing a Tropical 



"Agricultural College in the West Indies that such a College 



'• be established in Trinidad ; and recommends that the initial 



'• sum of i;50,000 required for its establishment be raised by a 



•• tax on Agricultural produce during the years 1921 and 1922." 



And whereas the said resolution was conmiunicated to the Secretary 



of State for the Colonies who has now decided that the Tropical 



Agricultural College shall be situated in Trinidad; 



And whereas it is accordingly expedient that an additional tax be 

 imposed on agricultural produce during the year 1921 in manner herein- 

 after appearing ; 



And whereas the taxes imposed by this Ordinance are estimated to 

 produce the sum of <£25,000 ; 



Now, therefore, be it enacted by the Governor of Trinidad and 

 Tobago M-ith the advice and consent of the Legislative Council 

 thereof as follows ;^ 

 ^fc'hort title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Agricultural College (Produce 



Ta.x) Ordinance, 1920. 



Interpreta 2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires : — 



'^'on. .i Shipment " means shipment for exportation to places or parts 



beyond the limits of the Colony, and '• shipped " has a corresponding 



meaning. 



