The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-09-25
KAAHuNA,
AN ACT
TO AMEND THE EXISTING LAWS RELATING
TO THE ROAD TAX.

To AMEND THE EXISTING LAWS RELATING
TO THE ROAD TAX.
Be IT ENACTED, By the King, the MOBILES and Re
personalities Of The Ha10aiidn Islands, IN Legis
Iatire Council assembled:
SECTION l.. That section 17z of the Civil Code be
and is hereby repealed, 6nd a new section be inserted
in its place, to read as follows:
Z" Section 172. The Road Supervisors shall cause
the road tax to be worked out1D their respective dis
tricts, between the 1st day of January and the last
of November of each year."
SECTION 2. That section 175 Of the Civil Code
shall be and is hereby amended to read as follows,
viz
:" Section 175. The Road Supervisor shall have
power to compel the attendance and labor of the peo-
pie liable to road tax, to labor on the road anywhere
within the district in which they reside, provided he
shall remit one days work for every FIVE miles travel
ed by the people from their places of abode, section
ia of the Civil Code Notwithstanding"
SECTION 3. All fines imposed and paid under sec
tons l76 and 1T of the Civil Code shall be paid over
by the several District Justices to the Road Supervi-
sor of the district, and shall be expended by them as
part of the road tax OF such district.
SECTION 4. That section 179 of the Civil Code be,
and is hereby amended to read as follows
Section ITO. 1t shall be lawful for the several
Road Supervisors to commute for the labor tax on
roads with the employees of all persons employed by
the month or year, either to complete a certain
amount of work on the roads, or TO work by the day
with carts, ploughs or other implements as may be
agreed on; it shall also be lawful for the several Road
Supervisors to commute for the labor tax, with any
and every person liable thereto, by taSkWork.
SECTION 5. That section 1S3 of the Civil Code be,
and hereby is amended to read as follows:
Section 1873. Every person liable to the road tax
shall work out the same from the first day of January
to the last day of November of each year, and any
person falling so to work out his road tax, when
called upon by the Road Supervisor, shall be COM
PEELED to pay the Communication of this tax by the tax
collector, as in section sos of the Civil Code provid-
ed"
SECTION 6. The Road Supervisor shall call out
by names each and every person liable to the road
tax whom he desires TO work out his tax, giving at
least always three days notice of the time and place
of labor.
= SECTION Z. All carts and drays shall each work
annually one day on the road, or in default thereof
pay n Communication of two dollars; provided always
that the respective owners of such carts and drays
shall provide a sufficient team and teamster for them
for such work.
SECTION s. The Minister Of the Interior is hereby
empowered. in his discretion, to detail for labor on
any public road, upon application to that purpose,
from any Road Supervisor, as many prisoners as he
may deem necessary for such work; said prisoners to
be under the care of their usual overseers and SUBJ
ject to the Road Supervisor only, as far as regards
the mode of their employment
SECTION 9. That section 4S7 of the Civil Code be,
and is hereby amended by striking out the word
q high from before the word :" Schools in the last
line of said section.
SECTION 10. This Act shall take effect from the
date of its publication, and any laws or parts Of laws
in conflict with the same are hereby repealed.
Approved this I'D day of August, A. L. 1867.
kAAHuN,SU.