The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1884-08-20


Your Committee we're informed the price r,l bv
the Board for copying. in many cases vas al ne
rate Of ten cents per line. This il very extrara
CANT price, as they would have no difHcuitv In uot
ting all their copying done for fifteen cents per 100
words. Moreover with a Secretary employed at
$50 per month, il would seem as II an necessary
copying could have been accomplished By him
without any further expense
Your Committee asked for a list Ct the books
and documents for the purchase Of which the sum
Of 5000 Is needed, With the estimated cost Of
each; and The President of the Board has prepared
for them list of . Genealogical and Historical
Books and s. Books Of Nslss and HsigH devo-
tons with the number or words contained in each
which amount altogether to 7S0, $40 words. In the
communication accompanying the list IL Is pro-
posed 10 pay for these documents at the rate Of
Sl-oO per 100 words or a total of S7S05.75. It is
PLAIN from this that the present Board OF Gene
alo0y IS incompetent TO undertake a business in
Voivlng the outlay Of public funds, as these docu
ments can all be copied at cost of not more than
IA cents per 100 words. Moreover out of the %
ooeumenfs, probably not more than or 4 are
worth even the expense Of copying. It is fair how
eter 70 state that at the conference the Board az
Plssssea purpose 10 spend portion Of the amount
nons III m paying the persons who have the res
PoH:slDl6ty OF guarding the bones OF ancient Ha-
ETs.,ai Cnle1s deposited in various caves in the
, nlnkuon- 1our committee think it highly i'm
S III - MAKE an appropriation for such pur-
pose ana call II Tor purchase of books
The Board explained 20 YOUR comToitfso that ,ho
reason why the denealogy Of no one under consul.
Grafton has been completed, was the dificnlfv NJ
procuring witnesses to Substantially ~. -fsJ - -
applicants, and in looking over the Nance - 49,
applicants your committee do not find a s1nolsons
whose Genealogy is of such importance as H. va
rant the expenditure of any public money in a.
testing it. II was stated that It had been custo5
airy at times to call a meeting of the ooard Tor
Monday and the desired witnesses not presenting
themselves the meeting was dissolved and called
again for the succeeding Monday, with often
similar result.
Considerable space in the report is devoted TO
the discussion of theories in regard to ancient
Poynesian Continents, and your committee were
shown several maps furnished by the Survey
Department illustrative of these theories. Your
committee think 1t perfectly safe to leave the in.
vestlgation Of such subjects TO scientific men
whose knowledge and attachments fit them for
It ; and that the dignity of the report is very
much impaired by the introduction of crude
speculations OF that character.
SO also in regard to the chronological investiga-
tons proposed by the Board your committee
hnd, In the Classification and Analysis presented
IN the report an exceedingly puerile ATTEMPT TO
handle subjects that have occupied the attention
OF many learned scholars in other countries, nud
believe that any further expenditure for that pur-
pose will be wanton waste Of public funds.
The main facts presented in the report submit
ted TO your Committee are, that the money appro-
prlated by the Legislature of 1882 has been spent
chiefly for liberal salaries for members of the
Board of Genealogy; and the only work accom-
plished by said Board is the collection of n lot of
tradition and genealogy, which documents how
ever, have only been borrowed and must now be
purchased in order to be available for any use
The prices which the Board propose to pay for
purchasing or copying these books is certainly
eight times as much as is necessary to pay for
such work.
The Members of the Board do not hesitate TO
draw the full amount of their salaries even when
the time devoted to their work has been only one
day per week.
Therefore Your Committee think that it will be
wasteful extravaganza to place any further sum of
money In the hands of this Board as at present
constituted and recommend that no further ap-
preparation be made for the Board. The sum OF
two hundred dollars is recommenden for copies
OF the following books to be placed in the Govern
ment Library:
Kamokuih. ID. Malo books; Kumulipo (usie;J
TO be expended under the direction Of the Minister
of Interior.
This sum is sufficient to provide for copying the
above four documents in case the present owners
should not wish TO part with the originals
IL IS also recommended that the copies of books
and meieS which have already been made at the
expense of the nation be placed in the Government
Library.