The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-03-04
Correspondence Of the Commercial Adversl..r5
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Mn. EDITOR :-It is generally supposed that /,
long talked Of s. Revised Code'' Of laws is prepa/
and is to be submitted to the Legislature at its
session. There are also rumors, not, 80
writer knows, IS from the Government Hou
said Code contains not only 9 systematic
ment and condensation of former statutes,
tial and extensive alterations of the old IL
it is in fact not only . reuised but to . gree
nep Code. It is said that the rates Of tax
modes Of enumerating and collecting taxea
mercial regulations. and many other thi
affecting the whole or large portions Of
nifty, are to be quite different from former
In fact, people talk Of it as people will tail
which intimately concerns them, and Of N
are, nevertheless, not properly informed.
ask, Mr.. Editor, whether it would not be
and wise to have the Code, IL it does contain
terations, published and before the people at
months before the meeting Of the Legislatxh
that the people may have an opportunity "a
instruct their representatives. in regard to
the Legislators themselves may have tius$
and understand it, Or is it expected that D
orable Luna Makaainanas viii bolt the Wild
swallow-both versions, headings. preambles
tons, provisions and alias If it was SO much
eminent pap, and q sure cure for all ills, public am
private, without stopping to smell or taste the dose,
It strikes your humble servant that such an expects
ton will be grievously disappointed, and that a bt
ter mode Of giving Honorable NJ. P.'s an excuse 4,
drawing SO q day for five months could hardly hav.
been devised. What /! Raising the dog-tax to So.
head withQnl 0alaau. sAole loa, Stree.
- OurEy S,pr
FIN our issue Of Feb. IL, we devoted a column u
more to the subject Of the Revised Code which is toll
submitted to the Legislature Of 1853, and expressed
the opinion, founded upon information which we had
received, that. although the powers granted the Com.
mission were rather indefinite. yet they had !. taken
the broadest view of the power confded. and made
many alterations" If our correspondent above i
correct in his information. i" the half was not told
Of the broad Interpretation given by the Commission.
ers to their powers, and we again repeat the sugges
ton which we then made, that no portion Of the pro
posed Code should be taken up for passage by tn.
Legislature without previous publication and dis
cussion. In a matter Of grave Importance to the na
ton at large, involving radical changes in the organic
and supplementary laws under which we live and
move, . thorough previous discussion by all inter.
ested is not only desirable in order to expedite the
1abors of the Legislature, but of absolute necessity to
ensure a proper respect for the laws which may be
enacted. The country is now suffering and has for
the past ten years suffered from the effects of an an
nual course of hasty, ill-digested legislation. and we
had hoped that the Code now under discussion would
have eifectually removed both the causes and Their
effects; but unless the present administration shake
off a little Of their pis Inertia and awake to the i'm.
of the subject, we shall have to endure Q
six months session or experience a repetition Of
the blunders Of former years, with this difference,
that our progress viii have been only from
bad to woree.1