The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-06-25

work should be completed in manner satisfactory 10
the Minister or his deputy This offer refused and
the contract above stated awarded to JAS G. Hays
eden for the sum OF Sl4,500
If the contract prices Paid for the other bridges men,
toned above, bear the relation to the prices for
which they could have been contracted in this case
the country has been defranded of over $4,000
by an incompetent or dishonest official Your Commit
tee sorry to have to say that in view of the manner
nected Herewith they do not how they can avoid
the conclusion that these contracts would not have been
awarded at such prices unless profit accrued there
from to the Minister who signed them.
There many other instances of contract work
which seem to have been paid at the extravagant
rate. contract was awarded to Jas G. Hayseden to
make addition to wash houses for the sum of $3.50
The first wash house building contained l6 rooms Il
was built in previous period at cost of $52lS 10
which included the cost of large redwood tub in each
room and the cost of the piping The addition built by
Mr. Hayselden was three-fourths the size of the Old
building, containing only IL rooms and in addition to
the contract price, the piping put in at cost of
1854 IS
Out of the appropriation OF Repairs to Government
Buildings $l0S92 20 spent for buildings on Palace
Walk in the of the Palace for the use of persons
connected with the Palace and 1884 a. on account of
completing new Palace. Such large proportion hav-
ing been taken, many other public buildings have gone
without much needed repairs
The Custom House had needed extensive repairs and
the appropriation was made partly for this purpose
but save Tor paltry sum expended nothing has been
done upon it.
of the sum of SS4424 3awhich was expended ON ar
tor large lot OF water pipes and hyrants the most of
which have far proved of value whatever for the
increase OF the water supply of Honolulu. The pipes
still lay stretched along the Nuuanu road and piled
around the Custom House and wharves Thus a large
of money which sadly needed for the purpose for
which it appropriated has been locked up by an i'll
advised expenditure, made without due consultation
with competent engineer.
Under this appropriation is one item of $500 for
Purchase of Artesian Welf from His Majesty. This
was purchase OF the Pualeanl we'll at price con-
Sideraby above the cost and at the same time right
to considerable portion of the water reserved by
| His Majesty,
! From the appropriation for Police Court Public
Works Water Works, Tax Assessors &C. Buildings for
the of $4,000 paid for the purchase of land ON
Merchant Street Honolulu for the site of the Police
Court: this purchase was wholly unauthorized More
over further sum of 81 $50 was paid to Ioveioy Co
for cancellation of lease the same premises And
from the appropriation for Buildings and Repairs of
Court Houses and Lock ups, we find that the sum of
$500 was paid in March last attorneys fee to r.
F. BckertOn for negotiating the purchase of the land
This seems to be utterly nexcuSable for at the time
there was an Acknowledgement whose duty it was to at
tend to all legal work of this nature and besides he was
at the time employing a lawyer a large salary to
to assist him. and he had clerk full pay
THE POST OFFICE.
The very full and valuable report of the Postmaster
General renders any extended notice of this important
branch of the Government service unnecessary it may
suffice to say that the books examined and the
accounts found in order
4 The Report of the Minister of Finance however
states that the income for the late biennial period was
only S56bo2 So. whilst reality 1t S6O14S So the
difference of S2465 81 being the receipts for the last
nine months of the year which not paid into the
Treasury in time to appear in the financial statement
although the amounts forwarded from the Post
Office the 9th of April; and it rather strange
that all the drafts against PoStOfice appropriations
which taken up at the same time should have been
drawn from the Treasury, whilst the credit of $24065 81
was held over and will appear "POstOfice Receipts
for the next period.
The Finance Report Is also misleading with reference
to the lncidentas account which in Table B. page % is
stated to be overrawn S2S02 So whilst in reality it
has been overdrawn S4,S63 So the additional amount
of $1,000 80 appearing in what is called an Indemnity
account, page 49, A sum of 1850 so has been paid
out of the appropriation for Incdentals of this Bureau
which by rights ought to have been charged to Repairs
of Government Buildings the disbursement was for
repairs and alterations to the PostOfice
}, The working of the Postal Money Order system was
looked into and find that whilst the domestic branch
of this service yields fair profit the foreign branch
IN consequence OF the high price of exchange caused BY
the dsorganzaton of the money market, is carried on
at great disadvantage to the Government the actual
loss from the 9TH of Jany 1884 to the 10Th of Nav 1884
! being no less a sum than 81 602 06.
Il The POstmasterGeneral has asked for additional
clerical assistance, which recommend be granted
HEALTH.
1t will be noticed that the amounts stated to have
been dsbursed in the Report of the Minister of the
Interior account of the appropriations for Govern
ment Physicians and Building and maintaining Hos
ptals do not agree with the Report of the Minister Of
Finance In the first named appropriation the differ
ence is 800 which was caused by draft of the Minis
ter of the Interior for pay of Government physician
having been charged in to the appropriation for
Building and Maintaining Hosptals" the error vvos