Polynesian., 1851-09-27

Ftrst calling a meeting oflthese persons, who
are subject to the road tax in their respective
districts, by giving five days public notice of
the time and place of said meeting, and ta-
king their voice onthe propriety Of the mea-
sure. This voice, whether for, or against the
measure proposed, shall be obeyed
SECTION 3. The said supervisors shall col
lect and disburse all road taxes, within their
respective districts; ard no portion of said
tax shall be expended in any other district,
except with the consent of the people Of the
district, expressed in public meeting, called
as provided in the preceding section.
SECTION 4. Every person who Is liable to
the road tax by. the existing laws shall be liza
BILE to the labor tax on roads in the district
by the Inspector for that district unless he be
provided with certificate from some road
inspector, thathe has already performed his
labor or paid his commutation for, the cur
rent year in some other district
SECTION S. Nothing in this act contained
shall be construed to include persons who
are really sick. or aged persons exempt from
the labor tax, or boys under sixteen years of
age as liable to- the road tax
SECTION 6. The said supervisors, within
their respective districts, shall have the power
to sue for, and collect by execution, all un-
paid road taxes; and ON or before the first
Monday of January in each year, shall give. a
faithful account to the governors Of their re-
fspective islands, of all the monies collected
by them, and the manner in which those
monies have been expended.
SECTION T. The.said supervisors shall be
under the general direction Of the Minister
of the Interior, and shall receive such equi-
table compensation, to be paid out of the
public treasury as the governors ofaheir re-
speciive islands may determine, and which
shall be approved by the aforesaid Minister.
SECTION g. The said supervisors shall
have the power TO appoint lunas under them,
for their respective districts, not exceeding
FIVE in number, whoseiduty it. shall be to car
visors, in their respective neighborhoods !;
and whose only compensation shall be exemp-
ton from road labor or road tax.
Secrioy,9 II shall not be. lawful for. any
road supervisor to compel the people of any
neighborhood to 60 more than five miles
beyond their residence to labor on any road
unless by vote Of the people Of the district
expressed in public meeting called as provi-
ded in the second section ofthis, act
SSEcrIoNi 10. The said road supervisors
shall have power to draw on the Minister of
Finance for all monies appropriated by the
Legislature for the roads of their respective
districts, and to expend the same accounting
therefor to the Minister Of Finance through
the governors of their respective islands.
SECTION IL. All monies. appropriated by
| the Legislature for any particular road run
ming between places situated in different dis
tricts shall be drawn for, and expended by.
the Minister of the Interior through his clerk
ofihe Bureau of Internal Improvements
SECTION IL. The commutation for the
road tax of domestic servants and laborers
on plantations shall be the same as that paid
by other persons. namely fifty cents per day.
SECTION l3. All laws or parts of laws in
consistent with this act shall be-. and, The
same are hereby repealed.
SECTION. H. This act shall fake effect on
the first day of December next.
Passed by the Legislature, June 18th,
1851.
i.KAMEHAMEHA.