Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1854-01-07

l And ehokingy my heart throbbed willis she sung.
Unconsciously my wandering thoughts were led
Back to the hallowed paths of home, sweet home"
| sought my pillow, but the siIvery hair
| OF an aged father DER my visions streamed.
And many sparkling eye bewitching fair,
As they were long ago, upon me beamed
i I woke, thanks to the songstress,
| had dreamed.
T The following is the Charter of the Hawaii
an Steam Navigation Company, which we publish
ed in Supplement on the 2Sth of December.
Whereas an ordinance was passed in the Privy
Council on the 25th of July 1851, granting certain
privileges to VIM. H. Howard and others in rela-
ton to Inter Island Steam Navigation, and where
as at subsequent day the following resolution
was passed, viz: Resolved, That the privilege
s-.nted To Capt Howard. which expires on the
30th November 1851 be extended to sixty days
from that date and that thereafter the contract for
which he had stipulated be given in the same
terms to whomsoever shall first place on efici-
ent steamer of the capacitWndicated, in the Kings
waters, properly equipped for inter-island naviga-
ton, and that this resolution be published every
week in the Polynesian until further orders."
And whereas neither the said Howard nor his
associates did comply with the terms of said ordi-
NANCE and thereby forfeited all claims to said priv
ieges.
And whereas on the 1st day of August last, the
following resolution passed by the Privy Coun-
| Gil, viz {" Resolved, That the communications of
Mr.. Bowlin this day submitted to the Privy Coun-
Gil respecting inter-island navigation be and are
hereby referred to Messrs. Wyllie, Bates and Ka-
mehameha, to consider and report upon at their
earliest convenience" and at a subsequent day
said committee made a report favorable to the
grant of the privileges prayed for.
In view, therefore, of the previous action of the
government and Of the very great Importance of
interisand steam navigation, it is hereby ordained
| and declared
Article l. The exclusive privilege is hereby
granted to Garet w. Ryckman, Emery T. Pease,
William A. Lghthall, Perry G. Childs, Richard HI.
Bowlin, associated under the name and style of
The Hawaiian Steam Navigation Company, and
their associates and successors, for the establish
ment of steam navigation between the several ports
and Islands of the Hawaiian Kingdom for the term
/ of ten years with the exemptions and privileges
granted, or which may hereafter be granted to ma
tionaf merchant vessels, and the same exclusive
privilege for the same term oftme is hereby grant
ed to said Company for the tugging or towing ves
sells iE and out of the Harbor of Honolulu by steam
with the privileges and obligations of Pilot of
| Honolulu so far as their steam vessels, those
vessels towed in and out of the Harbor Of Honolu-
/ lu, are concerned.
| Article 2. The said Company shall have the
privilege of obtaining water from the Govepment
Tanks free of charge for the term of five years.
| Article g. The said Company shall have the
privilege for the term of five years, of landing
passengers and freight at such of the government
| wharves as the Harbor Master or Wharfnser may
direct when not engaged or occupied by other ves-
sels and shall be free from all harbor dues or port
charges.
| Article 4. All Coal or other materials for the
production of steam, and all machinery necessary
for the use of any of said steamers shall be import
ed free of duty, and the vessels in which said Coal
or other materials machinery are imported shall
be free from tonnage dues, provided they do not
take on board any other article OF trafic or COM
merce any passengers.
Article 5. The said steamers shall be register
ed under the Hawaiian Flag, on the oath being
taken by the agent of said Company, that ne is
Hawaiian subject and that the steamers are the
property of said company and they shall enjoy all
the privileges and be subject to all the laws affect
ing coasting vessels of this Kingdom.
Article 6. In order to secure the foregoing
privileges the said company shall have employed
in SAID Inter-island Navigation new and substan-
tial steamer, of not less than $50 tons burthen,
within twelve months from this date in addition to-
the steamer "AKAMAI," now employed, and
which said company shall keep employed for the
said purposes contemplated in this grant, or one
equally commodious and safe, and hereafter shall
furnish all the steam facilities which the business
of the Hawaiian Islands requires not only for the
| Inter-Isand Communication, but for the tugging
and towing in and out of the Harbor of Honolulu.
| Article z. Said company shall allow these steam
ers to be pressed into Government service In any
emergency calling for the use of the same, the
Government paying an adequate and fair comPen-
saton for the use of the said steamer or steamers
so used and in the event of the loss of said steam
ers in such service, to pay to the said company the
| full value of the same.
Article 8. Said company shall afford the Gov
ernment any facilities IN their power in carrying
on any public Improvements Of the harbors OF the
group.
Article g. Said company shall carry all persons
| on official business of the Government free OF
charge to and from any port Of this Kingdom.
Article 10. Said company shall carry the public
Mails between all the ports and places their ves-
sells VISIT and safely deliver the same to the person
directed, free of charge, Always giving seasonaole
notice of the time and place of departure.
Article IL. The Supreme Judicial Court u here.
by authorized and empowered on the applicatlono OF
anv ten citizens of this Kingdom to revise the rates
of passage and freight and fix the same after tne
expiration of FIVE years, and at such other unes
thereafter as said Court may deem proper:
| Article IL. The Supreme Judicial Court Is here
/ by authorized and empowered, on application OF
anv ten citizens of this Kingdom, to revise the
raiea az tngcinp and towing by said company in
and ont of The harbor of Honolulu, and fix the
] same,
/ Article Is. 1t Is hereby expressly understood
and declared, that the Supreme Judicial Court OF
this kingdom shall have full power to examine and
adj udic ate on the fullment Of the terms an con-