The Hawaiian gazette., 1868-06-24
By AUTHORITY.
TIE Legislative Assembly was pro-

The Legislative Assembly was pro-
rogued by His Majesty, to-day, at u n.
The King left the Palace under Royal
Salute from Punchbowl Battery, attended
by his staff. and escorted by the Hawaiian
Cavalry, under the command Of Major C.
II. Judd. the Household troops being on
parade at the Courthouse.
Attended by the Chancellor of the
Kingdom, the Ministers of State, and Of
6cers of the Royal Household, His Majesty
entered the room, and ascending to the
Throne Chair, addressed the Assembly:
MOBILES AND REPRESENTATIVES:
The labors OF your session are at an end,
and IL is with sincere satisfaction that con
graduate you on the result of your delibera-
lions. You have passed several laws that
will promote our trade, encourage our agri-
culture, and develope the resources of our
country. The sums You have appropriated
for the public improvements, and more espe-
cially for facilitating the means Of comma
uication between the various islands of my
kingdom, and between my kingdom and
California are ample. II will be my duty
and that Of my Government TO see that your
wishes are carried out.
For your Iiberality toward my family and
toward myself thank you
Your solicitude for the moral and ply
steal welfare of my people has been evil
denced BY the generous appropriations you
have voted for the expenses of the Board
of Education and Board of Health
You have given satisfaction TO a want long
felt in this country, in providing for the
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practice, aud in regulating the exercise of that
profession amongst competent Hawaiians.
/ am happy to see that the policy of intro
ducing immigrants of a kindred race has
received your hearty cooperation, and that
you have passed law, and provided the
means, to enable my Government TO carry
out this most important measure.
The Session has been comparatively short,
and have remarked with deep satisfaction,
that although differing in opinion on few
questions, you were unanimous in your feel
ings of love for our country and OF loyalty
TO your Sovereign.
MOBILES AND REPRESENTATIVES
On your return TO your friends and eonstit-
uents. convey 10 them my good wishes and
my hope that, with the blessing Of God
Almighty, peace and prosperity viii con
tinne 10 abide with us. You will carry with
you the consciousness of having done your
And / do now declare the Legislative
Assembly of the Kingdom prorogued.
At the conclusion of the Speech, the
King withdrew and returned to the Palace,
attended by all the troops
The Assembly just prorogued met on
the 18th day of April. The session has
been short, yet number Of important
laws have been passed, which must tend
to the enhancement Of our prosperity.
Nearly seventy Bills have been passed,
and have acquired the force Of law; nearly
forty Bills have been rejected in the As
sembIy, and six or seven others have not
secured the signature of the King.
Most of these Bills are amendments to
the laws in force. to adapt them better to
the public good, or to meet the necessities
of the public service but there are Others
which embrace new points of policy, and
cover interests and rights not before legis-
lated upon. The practice, in larger de-
gree, has been followed this session, of
having the drafts of all the important Bills
printed before the second reading, and, be-
fore engrossment. passed through Re
yisory Committee, and the wording and
translation carefully compared. This has
secured more perfect construction of the
Statutes, and closer correspondence be-
tween the two languages. than usual The
new Statutes will be published as fast as
they can be prepared for the press. aud the
people at large become informed by author
lty of the new laws enacted by their legis
lators.