The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-02-04
PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
LAWS
OF The
HAWAIIAN
Session Of 1854.
AN ACT

AUTHORIZING THE MlNlSItR VI iht
INTERIOR TO GRANT y LICENSE OF
MORE For THE ESTABLISHMENT OF 4
DISTILLERY OR l. IHt
CITY OF HONOLULU.
Be IT ENACTED, by the King and the Legis.
tive Assembly of the Hawaiian Islands, in
the Legislature of the Kingdom assembled
SECTION /. The Minister of the Interior
is hereby authorized TO grant Licenses not
exceeding two, for the manufacture OF Spirits,
in the city of Honolulu, subject TO the condl-
tious and restrictions hereinafter set forth.
SEC. 2. All Spirits manufactured by the
authority of said license or licenses, shall be
discharged by the means of their stills, into
a warehouse, which shall be directly under
the supervision of the Collector General of
Customs, and no spirits shall be Withdrawn
without the permit of the said Collector
General.
SEC. 3. All Spirits, other than alcohol,
manufactured as aforesaid, shall pay, when
Withdrawn for consumption, in this King
dom, an excise equal to the specific duty
that is now, or may hereafter be levied on
spirits of like strength of alcohol of foreign
manufacture, imported into this Kingdom.
Alcohol, manufactured as aforesaid, and en-
tered for internal consumption according to
Section 517 of the Civil Code, shall pay an
ad valorem duty of fifty per cent. on the
manufacturing cost. If Withdrawn for ex-
port, the said spirits shall be subject to the
same surveillance and restrictions TO which
liquors of foreign manufacture are now, or
may hereafter be subjected when withdrawn
for re-expOrtation.
SEC. 4. The License shall pay all ex-
penses Incidental to the storage of his spirits
in such bonded warehouse.
SEC. D. An account shall be kept by the
lcensee, of the quantity of molasses, or
other materials so converted, and spirits so
manufactured, and a report of the same, if
required. shall be made to the Minister of
the Interior, at the expiration of each three
months, from the date of the license
SEC. s. Amy person introducing any
spirits for consumption, which may be manu-
featured by authority of licenses granted un-
der this Act, without having paid the excise
thereon, shall be subject to the same pains
and penalties as though the said spirits Were
OF foreign manufacture, and had been SNUG
gied; and if he shall be an owner or en-
ployee of the d~istilIery from which the same
is introduced, the license shall be forfeited,
and the buildings and apparatus of the said
d%istillery shall be liable 10 confiscation and
sale for the benefit of the public treasury.
SEC. Z. Such license shall be valid for
the space of five years. And before grant
ing such license, the Minister of the Interior
shall demand and receive, at the hands of
the applicant, for the benefit of the Royal
Exchequer, the sum of fifty dollars, and at
the expiration of one year from the date of
said license. the Iicensee shall pay fifty dol
lars further, and so on at the expiration Of
each year, during the time of the license, it
being however expressly understood, that the
Minister of the Interior NAV, at his discre-
ton. set such license up for sale, at public
auction, at an upset price of fifty dollars per
year.
SEC. s. The applicant for a license under
this Act shall deposit with the Minister of
the Interior, a bond, In the sum of two thou
sand dollars, with two approved s%ureties,
conditioned that he will faithfully observe
and obey all the provisions of this Act, as
well as of all other laws of the Kingdom,
pertaining to spirituous liquors.
SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect from
and after the date of its passage.
Approved this Both day of December, y.
d. 1864. kAMEHAMEHA X.