The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-05-27
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TIE committee on commerce repoFtg1
lowing petitions. On the petition that the M!uISTt.
be requested to lay before this house the conditions
% tle treaty, the committee that u be
lad On the table, as there were already printed copies
Of the treaty before the house; On the petition that
managers on plantations be made 10 provide their
latorers with suitable lodgings ani board. the Com
mittee recommended 10 lay same on the table. Ga
the petition that timber on konihiki lands be free,
the committee recommended il be laid on the table.
On the petition that laborers be made TO work no
more than zine hours per day, the committee re-
commended to lay same on the table. On the petit
ton that this House approve Of the treaty, the CON-
mittee that il be laid On the table till
the consideration Of the treaty. On the petition to
abolish the million loan act, the committee recon-
mend that il be laid on the table, till the considera-
ton Of an act for that objee, introduced by Hon. Mr..
Preston. On the petition that laborers be free on
holidays, the COMMITTEES recommended that it pass to
engrossment. Report adopted.
Committee on engrossment stated that the trans
lation on the bill relating to AVA license, which was
referred TO them for engrossmeut was not correct,
that in English being altogether different from the
Hawaiian, and begged to return same TO intIoducer.
BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS.
Hon Mr.. Waterhouse gave notice Of an act to re-
gulate fisheries Hon. Mr.. Birch gave notice Of an act
to amend an act approved Aug s, 1874, relating TO
restriction on opium.
Hon. Mr. Aholo read for the first time an act to
amend sec. II, u, Is. and IA Of the law regulating
the Board of Public Instruction, approved on the
10th day Of June, 1865. On motion the rules were
suspended and the bill passed to It's second reading
and was referred to printing committee TO be printed.
Hon. Mr.. Halsukoa gave notice OF an act TO
amend sec. 10l Of the Civil Code, regulating boating
license.
Hon. Mr., Warehouse read a resolution that the
Minister of Finance be requested to lay before this
Assembly a statement of the receipts and expendi-
lures Of the Hawaiian Hotel. since its organization.
Hon. Mr.. Preston amended that q select commit
tee be appointed 10 take the place Of the Minister Of
F nance in this work.
On motion the resolution, as amended, was adop-
ted. Hons. Messrs. Waterbouse, Preston, Gay, Ka-
pena and Aholo were appointed as such committee.
His. Elk. the Minister of Finance laid before the
house a statement of the receipts of Crown lands. as
requested by q resolution from Hon. Mr.. Preston.
The receipts being S62.S77 from Jan. 1st, 1867, TO
Mar. 1, 1876.
Hon. Mr.. Smith read a new rule styled, rule Sc,
for the House, relating to ayes and noes.
Hon. haal read q resolution that the Sergeant-at-
arms be instructed TO procure a half bottle of liquor
tors to come before this house, and analyze the same.
After considerable debating the resolution was with
drawn.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
The consideration of an act to repeal sec. l chap.
Al OF the Penal Code, relating TO furnishing intox-
icating drinks to native Hawaiians; 10 committee of
the whole, Hon. Mr.. Halemanu called to the chair.
y motion that it pass TO engrossment; and also
one to indefinitely postpone having been referred
from yesterday. was brought up for discussion.
After o warm and lengthy debate of two and q
half hours, in which Hon. Messrs. Castle. Nawahi,
Warehouse and His. Ex. Kapena spoke for; and
Hon. Messrs, Kaai, Birch and Mahelona against the
indefinite postponement, a motion to adjourn, and
sit again Tomorrow at l p. NJ. in committee of the
whole on the consideration of the bill, was put and
carried. Adjourned.