Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1853-06-04

i Section 3. find be 1t enacted that the CAPTAIN
OF every vessel arriving at any port of entry and
departure with females on board, before he land
any OF the same, shall present list of all such
passengers to the Collector of customs with the
passes OF such females, and at the foot of every
such pass, the Collector shall write the words al
to'oed 10 land and sign his name, and then return
tne passes so signed to the captain that he may
give to each female the pass which corresponds to
her, which shall be her permission to land and
tnat any female found on board without pass
shall be obliged to 60 back in the vessel at the
captains expense, and to live on board at his ex-
| Pense TILL the vessel sails for the port where he
embarked such female passenger.
Secuon a. ind be 1t enacted that on the Islands
OF Oahu, Maui, Hawaii and Kauai the local au-
thoritles oil every district, namely the
shall do all they can to prevent the young
females IN their several districts from leaving their
houses, and going to the ports for the purposes
OF prostitution, and where they cannot prevent
them from going, then they shall take down the
names of those who go, and send list of the same
to the in the port TO which they 90.
Section D. find be ii enacted that all females of
the class mentioned in Section of this Act, who
may wish to return to the ports from whence they
came, may do so under the same passes, under
which they landed, provided they present them to
the Collector of Customs in the port where they
embark, who on presentation thereof shall at foot
name, after which such passes underwritten and
signed, shall be their permission to return to their
homes, and shall exonerate the captain VINO takes
them, from any blame or penalty.
The Minister of the Interior is charged with the
printing and distribution of the forms required in
this act, and with Its publication circulation and
execution.
@ The preceding was brought forward, at
the instance of Mr.. Wyllie, in the Legislature of
1850; again by him, in the House of Mobiles In
1852, and third time, in the same house IN 1888.
REPORT PRESENTED BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNEss
PRINCE LIHoLIHo.
The select Committee to whom was referred the
act entitled " An Act to discourage prostitution by
regulating the passages of young females visiting
the sea ports, or proceeding from one island to
another" would respectfully report as follows -
That in the opinion of your committee, the bill
which has been referred to them, reflects great
credit on the mover as the object evidently Is the
suppression of vice too common to these Islands;
but the bill as referred upon due consideration OF
the same, is in the opinion of your committee i'm
practicable, for the following reasons:
1st. 1t purports to prevent young females going
from one Island to another, or from one port to
another of the same Island, but makes no men,
ton of those who go from one part of the same
Island to another by land, say from Walalua or
Eva to Honolulu.
I'd. 1t requires that pass be given by the Go
vernon nearest Justice, but many natives live III,
Is or 20 miles from such authorities. as in kau,
Hamakua, Puma, Kohala, Hawaii, and Kaupo,
Koolau, Maui.
Sd. Section End leaves abundant room for any
female 10 get to Honolulu or Lahaina. 1t is easy
to find some excuse compatible with the section.
4th. By section Sd, Captains of coasting vessels
must present lists of such passengers females, to
the Collector of Customs at all ports of entry or
departure where they may wish to put passengers
on shore, but how will this regulation affect ports
where there are no Collectors, or those innumera-
BILE points along our coasts where vessels heave to
and allow passengers to land. vessel sails from
Mahukona to Hana with 40 females on board, who
is to wise their passes at the latter place. or from
Kahalui, to Kaiua, where there is no Collector Of
Customs?
5th. In the opinion of your Committee, section
is too indefinite, and will amount to nothing,
while section does not reach the case, and abors
under the same objection as section 3.
For the above reasons, your Committee cannot
report in favor of the bill. They therefore would
recommend the postponement of the bill under con-
sideration and the reference of the subject to the
Minister of Public Instruction, who is supposed to
be the guardian of the public morals, and who Is
officially connected with all cergymen and school,
masters, the trainers of youth, and the proper
channel through whom, for the present we must
look for the redemption of young females from the
great evil against which the proposed bill is direct
ed. In connection with the latter remark, your
Committee would report that they are not without
hope, that some more simple arrangement than
that proposed in this bill may before long suggest
ITSELF calculated to certain degree at all events,
to carry out the very desirable object; and they
would suggest whether some regulations connect
ed with the School system, which rami6es into
every village and hamlet might not perhaps be
practicable. LIHoLIHo
j. kEKAULAHAO.