The Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu (Oahu), Hawaii) 1840-1841, 1841-10-02
For the Poynosian.
Translated iiom the Hawaiian.
Masps Of tt)r Wamaitau GaidnOs.
Continued from page 81.

/ Furthermore, those country people who
search for knowledge, whoever they may
be and in whatever part of the kingdom,
if they write to me or my PRIMER. and
we perceive that their proposition is a
good one, i, shall then be adopted as a
statute Of the kingdom. The Governors
and the King too will sutiiX their names
to the writing. They viii also promote
such seekers after knowledge TO higher
stations, and make them officers in their
various places. And such persons shall
receive one tenth part of the kings in
come at their station, and also one tenth
( part of the land agents income. Such is
the reward which his majesty offers to all
in the kingdom who act as above. and
they shall moreover be admitted TO the
council Of the nation.
Furthermore, whoever of the country
people engages vigorously in any new
employment, not practiced in this coun-
try before. and if it prove to be valua-
bic business to the nation, and to those
who engage in it, and if it was previously
unknown, then this is the decision in re-
/ latlon to such man. lie shah be freed
from public labor on all the labor days
both of the king and Of the land agents,
and from all public labor of the kingdom.
/ lie shall pay no yearly money tax, and
the king will give ten dollars to the man
who thus searches out a new business,
provided the business be continued. Such
is the reward which his majesty the king
offers to all who search out new employ
ment in any part of the kingdom of the
Hawaiian Islands. .,.
IA. Respecting the descent of lands to heirs.
! Be it furthermore enacted in relation to
lands which kamehameha |, and Kane
hameha II, gave to land agents, that after
the publication Of this law respecting tan
alton, whenever any one Of those land
agents dies, his heir shall render an ac-
count to his ma jesty the king of the lands
which belonged to the deceased. and these
shall return one third of those lands to
! the king. According to this rule, all the
lands, whether few or many of every man
who dies shall be divided But if two
months eapse after the death of any per-
son, and the heir neither present himself
before the king, nor send written no.
,ice, then the lands of the heir shall be
divided equally. Hereafter, the lands of
all heirs shall be divided thus, when the
king is not notified. If the deceased,
however, had but one farm, that shall de-
scend to his heir. If he have two farms.
then one half of one of them shall revert
to the king. From this time forth, the
king and his PRIMER must be informed of
all requests of lands, and of whatever re-
lates to the heirs. But if the deceased
have no heir at all, then his land and all
his property shall be the kings. Thus it
is ordained in relation to the land agents
Of his ma jesty the king, and also in reIa-
ton to the land agents under them over
the common people. But the lands of
orphans, widows and old men shall be
protected by the land agents let not the
heirs however among the common people
forget the directions of their landlords.
If any one spoken of in this law seize