The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-09-10
Articles OF amendment Of the ConsIitu.
ton. proposed and passed pur-uanf TO rht
IOJth Article of the COnstifutiou.

Resolred, by the King. the Mobiles and Representa-
tives Of the Hawaiian Islands in Legislative Council
1 assembled
ARTICLE l Article 18th is hereby amended so as
TO read a. follows:
1.-THE Crown is hereby permanently confirmed to
His Majesty kamehameha ~ and 10 the heirs of His
4 BODY lawfully hcgOtten and to their lawful descend
ants in a direct line; failing whom, the Crown rhali
descend to His Royal ~IIighuess Prince Lot kameha-
meha, the heirs Of his body lawfully begotten and
their lawful descendants in n direct line; falling
Nhom, the Crown shall descend TO Her Rnyal High
ness the Princess Victoria kamamalu KaIhumanu,
the heirs of her body lawfully begotfen and their
lawful Descendants in q direct line. The succession
shall be to the senior male child and TO the heirs OF
his body; failing a male child the succession shall be
to the senior female child and TO the heirs of her
body. In case there is no heir rs above provided,
then TIE successor shall be the person whom the King
and the House of Nobles shall appoint and publicly
proclaim as such during the Kings life; but should
there be no such appointment and proclamation. ani
the throne should become vacant. then the Kuhina
Nui Immediately after the occurring OF such vacancy,
shall cause n meeting of both Houses of the Legisla
ture, who shall elect by joint ballot n successor to the
throne"
ARTICLE 2. Article 50 is hereby amended so as
TO read rs follows:
1.-THE person of the King is inviolable and sacred:
His Ministers are responsible; to the King belongs
the Executive power; all laws that have passed both
Houses Of the Legislature, for their validity shall be
signed by His Majesty and the Kuhina Nui; and all
His other official acts shall be approved in the mode
prescribed by law, except % specially provided by
this Constitution
ARTICLE 5. Article 18th IS hereby amended so as
10 real a. follows:
The representation of the people shall be based
on the principle of equality, and shall be forever
regulated and apporrioned according TO The populs-
ton, TO be aScertained by the oficial census. In the
year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-four
and every tenth year thereafter, the number of Re
rreseutatiyes shall be fixed by the Legislature, agree
ably with this and the 10th Article
ARTICLE 4. Article 18th is hereby amended so as
TO read as follows:
mo person SHALL be eligible for n Representative
Of the people who Is insane, or All idiot, or who shall
at any time have been convicted of any infamous
crime, or unless he he n male subject or denizen of
the Kingdom, who shall have arrived at the frll age
of twenty Eve years, who shall know how to read
and write, who shall understand accounts, and VINO
shall have resided in the Kingdom for at least one
year Immediately preceding his election, and who
Shall own real estate within the Kingdom, unincum-
bered, of the value of q; least two hundred and fifty
dollars, or who shall have an annual income Of II
least two hundred and hfiy-doilars."
ARTICLE 3. Article SD is hereby amended so as
10 read as follows:
The Legislature may from time TO time establish
such Circuit Courts as the public convenience may
require; for each of the Circuit Courts so established
one or more Circuit Judges, not exceeding three,
shall be appointed 10 hold their office during good
behavior subject 10 removal upon Impeachment"
Article 6. Article 81, is hereby amended so as
TO read As follows:
"In order that the people may rot suffer from
long continuance in place Of any District Justice,
who shall fail of disoharging the important duties Of
his Office with ability and fidelity, ali commissions of
DISTRICT Justices shall expire and become void in the
term Of two gears from their respective dates; and upon
the expiration Of any commission, the same shall be
renewed, or another person appointed, az shall most
conduce to the well being of the Kingdom provided
ALWAYS, that Distric; Justices shall be subject 10
removal ct any time By the Circuit Court, or by the
Supreme Court. for causes particularly assigned by
the Judges Of the said Court IL rendering their Jndg-
ment. But no District Justice shall be removed
until he shall have notice OF the charges made
against him, and an opportunity of being heard in
his defense"
Approved this 2&i day of August, A. D. 1869.
KAMEHAMEHA,
ElAHTHlSv.