The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-07-25
sxrr-sEvESrH DAY, Monday. July 20.

Hon. Mr.. Kauai presented a petition from the
Leper Settlement at MOlOkai, different subjects Laid
on the table.
Hon. Mr.. Aholo from Committee on Education, to
whom was referred the petition from kaaikauna Of
Puns, Hawaii, praying that the sum of $50 be paid
as salary due to him; reported consideration Of the
same, and recommending that the petition be laid on
the table. Adopted.
Hon. Mr.. Kauai presented a minority report of the
Committee on the damages done by the rioters on the
18th of Feb. last, and recommending that the item Of
81 ,2eI.63, which 1t was proposed to insert, be iudeh-
nitely postponed. Tabled.
His Ex. the Attorney General presented the follow
ing report relating 10 rights of certain parties that
are now living at kalaupapa:
To tAe Legislative Assembly Of tAe HGi0dlia,i Isiaads
STLENEN.-AgreeabIy with a resolution adopted by your
honorable body requesting my opinion as 20 the legality Of the
restrictions on persons, owners OF kuleanas within the bounds
Of halaupapa, beg to reply, ihsti am well advised that there
owners Of parcels Of land thereat. And that the Board Of
ieper shall be allowed to visit Isl or rsnaim upon FolSS any T land p place :
or enclosure, by il set apart for the isolation and confinement
OF lePers, without permission OF the Board, have prohibited
their going 10 and from the establishment, notwithstanding
of no law to sanction such restriction, as ali persons have a
legal right TO go to and from their own lands, who are not
Having consulted with the Board Of Health in this matter, l
alluded to, leave Kalaupapa, and to that end has offered TO
purchase their lands, but without success. And therefore for
the better carrying out of the Leprosy Act, which contem-
plates isolation, and as the public exigencies require that the
persons alluded to should not reside at The Leper Establish
BY J! your on honorable = body smpCwsTing the Minister Of the Int
held by the above persons, upon payment If just compensation
therefor as contemplated by Article II Of the Constitution.
Respectfully, II. IL. STANLEY, Attorney General.
The Act to set apart a place for the lepers to re-
side, was taken up on its second reading as a special
order of the day, and was referred to a Special
Committee, consisting of the Hon. Messes. Kaai, Kui-
helani, Minister of the Interior, Wilder, and ". I.
Martin.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.
The House took up the consideration of the order
Of the day, which was the remaining item of the
Appropriation Bill, as a permanent settlement for
His Elk. P. Nahaolelua. Carried.
On motion of the same gentleman, the sum of
S24OO was inserted in the Appropriation Bill for His
Ex. P. Kanoa. Carried.
His Ex. the Attorney General moved to insert in
the Appropriation Bill, under the head of the Inte-
Tior Department, ST. 91. 63, for damages done by the
rioters, as by the special Committee.
Hon. Mr.. Kaai moved to amend by increasing it
to 81 500.
as the damages to Mr.. Wards carriage, and that the
losses and damages of other persons, as well as the
members of this House, be indefinitely postponed.
Hon. Mr.. Kauai said that the members of this
House had no right TO claim for losses and personal
damages on the 18th of Feb. last, because they we're
paid well for expressing their wishes. They elected
His Majesty Kalskaua as the King Of the Hawaiian
Islands, and now he was on the Throne, therefore,
they ought to show respect to their Sovereign by Civ
ing up their claims for damages.
Again they were gratified enough by receiving
offices, seeing that most of them were government
of them will be Tax Collectors, or perhaps get other
Offices; why do they asks TO be paid further7 I
now move that this item be indefinitely postponed.
The President ruled that such remarks were out
of order.
After discussion, the item was passed, as amended
by the Committee. Isl ,291. 63.)
The House then took up the consideration of the
"Recspitulation' of the headings of the Bill: