The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-10-09
PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
PUBLIC ACTS.
Passed at the Session of the Legis-
lature, 1862.
An ACT

AN ACT
To PROMOTE NTER-IsLAND COMMUNICATION.
b. TT ESscrED. By he King, the -N65Iss and Re
yreyeHiafires of the H1udiiaa IIaHds, IN LEXIS
fafire Council assembled
AETfCLE l.. That Robert G.. Janion. William l..
Green, and their associates, successors and assigns,
are hereby constituted a body corporate under the
name of the Hawaiian Steam aud General Inter
Island Navigation Company, for aud during a term
81 twelve years from the date Of the passage Of this
Act, with al the rights, privileges and immunities,
secured TO incorporated companies by the Act rela-
ting to Corporations, and subject TO all the provisions
thereof
Article .. The said Company shall have the ex-
elusive privilege Of running a steamer or steamers
between the several ports and islands Of the Hawaiian
Kingdom, for the term OF twelve years from date,
with the exemptions and privileges granted, or which
Iaay be hereafter granted, to national merchant
vessels
ARTICLE 3. The said Company shall have the
privilege Of obtaining water from the government
tanks, free CT charge, for the use Of their steam ves-
sci or vessels, for the term Of twelve years as afore-
said.
ARTICLE 4. The said Company shall have the
privilege for the term OF twelve years from date
hereof. Of having the exclusive right, free OF charge.
Of n Government wharf on the Esplanade, which
shall be kept IN repair at their expense, and set apart
by the Minister Of the Interior, for the use Of their
steamer or steamers. for landing passengers and
freight, and also for a coal depot; and their steamer
or steamers shall not pay coasting licenses, or port
charges, and no taxes shall be laid on such Company
for such steamer or steamers as they may employ
during the time aforesaid, or for their wharf pro-
perry, coal, or other material employed by the said
Company 10 prosecuting the enterprise of steam
navigation. But il is expressly enacted that The
privileges by this Act granted to the said Steam and
General Inrer-lsland Navigation Company, shall not
enure - their benefit, nor shall this Act become a
law until the Hawaiian Steam Navigation Company
may have surrendered their charter to the Minister
Of the Interior aud cancelled the same.
ARTICLE B. All Goals or other materials for the
production of steam, and all machinery necessary
for the use Of any Of the said steamers, shall be i'm
ported free OF duty, and the vessels in which said
coal or other materials or machinery are imported,
shall be free from harbor dues. provided they do not
take on board any other article of traffic or commerce
or my passengers.
ARTICLE 6. The said steamer or steamers shall
be registered under the Hawaiian flag, on the appli-
cation Of the Agent Of said Company, who shall be 4
resident Of the Kingdom, and said steamer or steam
ers shall enjoy all the privileges and be subject to all
the laws affecting coasting vessels of this Kingdom.
with such exceptions as are herein specified; and it
is hereby expressly understood and declared, that
the right Of towing and tugging is not included in
the foregoing articles.
ARTICLE 7. In order to secure the foregoing priv
ileges, the said Company shall have employed in said
inter-isiand navigation, u good and substantial
steamer of not less than 200 tons burden, within
fifteen months from the date Of the passage Of this
Act, and which said Company shall keep employed
for the said purposes contemplated in this charter.
ARTICLE 8. 1t shall be the duty of the Agent of
said Company to make q quarterly exhibit of the
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Interior; and when it shall appear that they are en-
aDled to pay quarterly dividends of three per cent,
or at the rate of twelve per cent. per annum on the
stock, then said Company shall introduce and main
tain q second steamer, to be employed as in this Act
provided
ARTICLE o. In case the said steamer shall be lost,
or il in consequence Of the provisions Of Article s,
they may have placed two steamers on their route,
either Of the said steamers shall be lost during the
term Of this monopoly, the Agent of the said Com
pany shall, within four months after such loss, give
notice to the Minister Of the Interior that it is the
intention of the said Company shall replace the boat
within fifteen months from the date of her said loss,
and in default thereof this grant shall be void.
ARTICLE 10. Said Company shall carry the pub
lie mails between all the ports and places their yes
visit free Of charge, and safely deliver the same
TO the person directed, and always subject to all postal
laws. always giving seasonable notice of the time and
place Of departure.
ARTICLE IL. The said Company may own sailing
vessels under the Hawaiian flag, and run them in
the coasting trade, but said vessels are to have no
or exceptions not possessed by other
Hawaiian sailing vessels.
ARTICLE u. That whenever the words steamer or
steamers are used in this Act, they shall be deemed
to mean vessels propelled by steam, hot air, or
of any kind other than sails.
ARTICLE 13. IL Z, hereby expressly understood
declared, that the Supreme Judicial Court Of
this Kingdom shall have full power to examine and
tons and obligations Of this charter by said Com
pany. and on having due notice of time and place
fixed by said Supreme Judicial Court for said examin-
alton, and on proof satisfactory TO said Court, that
the terms, conditions and obligations have not been
complied with, said Court shall have power, ut their
TO abridge or modify the privileges Of this
grant, or declare the same forfeit
Approved this 18th day Of July, A. d. 1852
~KAMEHAMEHA.
RAAHUMASr.