The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1880-08-25
AN ACT
To provide for the Drainage and Sewerage of
the City of Honolulu.


To provide for the Drainage and Sewerage of
the CITY of Honolulu.
Be il Enacted By the King and The Legislative
| Assembly Of the Haraiian Islands in the
Legislature Of the Kingdom assembled:
SECTION l. It shall be lawful for His Ma
jesty, by and with the advice and consent of
his Privy Council, to decide upon and adopt
scheme for the drainage or sewerage of the
city of Honolulu, as may be deemed expedient.
SEC. 2. For the purpose of this Act the
Minister of the Interior shall as soon as con-
venient cause to be made surveys of the area
within the limits of the city of Honolulu, and
of the suburbs thereof which he NAV think
necessary to include in such surveys, and
map or maps thereof. on such scale and with
such indications of levels and particulars of
sewers and underground works and of the sur
face as to him seems fit, and may cause such
map or maps, or any part thereof, to be from
time to time copied, engraven and published;
and shall from time to time cause such map or
maps to be revised and such additions made
thereto as may shew the sewers and drains,
houses or other alterations, and such map
shall be submitted to His Majesty in Privy
Council for action thereon as specified in Sec
ton l, and after such action shall be kept in
the Office of the Minister, and the same or a
copy thereof shall be open at all reasonable
times to the inspection of the owners or occu-
piers of lands or houses within the said city
and suburbs.
SEC. 8. The said Minister, with such advice
and consent as aforesaid, may make any sewers
or drains of such construction and in such
manner as may be thought proper, and may
Subject to the restrictions hereinafter men-
toned break up the soil of any public or
nd oinl-
trenches for the purpose of laying down, max
ing and constructing common sewers or drains
therein; and may cause such common sewers
or drains to communicate with the sea or any
arm thereof, and also from time to time may
open, cleanse and repair such sewers or drains
or alter the position thereof; and also from
time to time may make any drains or sewers
from any main sewer or drain laid in any
street by virtue of this Act into any dwelling
house or houses, public or private buildings
and premises for the purpose of cleansing and
draining any such house or houses or other
premises by means of such sewers or drains
and may DO all such other acts, matters and
things as the said Minister shall from time to
time deem proper for making, amending, re-
pairing, completing or improving any such
sewers or drains, or other works to be made,
done and provided for the purpose OF this Act.
SEC. 4. In the execution of the several pow
ers hereby granted, the said Minister shall do
as little damage as may be, and shall build
and construct the said sewers in a sufficient
and effectual manner for accomplishing all the
purposes hereby intended and subject to the
restrictions hereinafter mentioned and after
laying or removing CT altering or repairing any
such drains or sewers shall Immediately fill in
the trenches or excavations and make good the
ground, soil, pavement of any such public
or private street and other drainage end re-
move the rubbish occasioned thereby, and shall
in the meantime fence or guard the place or
places where any ground shall be opened
in such manner as to prevent danger or acci-
dents to passengers, carriages, horses, cattle
or sheep, or agreeably in all respects to the
provisions in this Act contained; and this Act
shall be sufficient TO indemnify the said Minis
ter, and all persons acting under his authority,
fer all acts and things done by virtue hereof.
SEC. s. The cost of all works authorized by
virtue of this Act shall be paid out of any
moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, by and with the consent of the King
in Privy Council, and the Minister of the Inte-
rior shall report to the next Legislature spe-
officially the amount so expended, and the
works upon which the expenditure was made.
SEC. 6. His Majesty in Privy Council as
aforesaid shall determine what portion, if any,
of such expenditure shall be borne by the
owners of property in the city of Honolulu and
its suburbs, and how and in what manner the
same shall be repaid.
Approved this 18th day of August, Al D.. 1880.
KALAKAUA r.