The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-09-17

+ His EXcellenCy Mr.. Creighton SAID tins
if the Hon. Mr.. Bishops amendment va
in order so was the Attorney General ;, q
p they were similar.
Mr.. Brown said the difference was tina
, the Hon. Mr. Bishop offered an amend
ment while the Attorney General offered
substitute bill.
His ExcelIency Mr.. Dare said that whel
the bill was last considered the amend
ments offered by Hon. Mr.. Bishop anC
Mr. Thurston were both pending. Tn
Chair had allowed Mr.. ThurstOn's amend
ment TO be considered, but ignored the one
offered by Hon. Mr.. Bishop. He desired
to see business done in a parliamentary
manner. He withdrew his appeal.
Mr.. Castle moved the section pass a
amended. Agreed 70.
The following is the complete section as
amended:
Section l. Section 1911 of the Civil Code is
/ hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 1911 The Minister OF the Interior
shall have the general charge OF the pipes
or couduits of water 10 supply the city and
/ harbor of Honolulu and other places within
the Kingdom. He may from time to time
! whenever such rates shall be changed
notice thereof shall be duly advertised not
I less than once a week for at least four
weeks in the Hawaiian and English lam
guages in two or more newspapers pub
Iished in Honolulu.
Applications for permanent supply of
water from any Government system or
source of supply shall be in writing, signed
by the applicant. Such application shall
be upon printed form, to be supplied by
the Minister of the Interior to the Super
intendent Of Water Works, and shall con-
tain statement of the terms and condi-
tons upon which water may be used. If
permission shall be granted, the applicant
shall be furnished with duplicate of the
form of application Water rates shall be
payable half yearly in advance, on the first
day of January and the first day of July
each year, at the office of the water works.
The superintendent of Water Works
shall at least two days before such water
rates shall be payable, notify all persons
then holding water privileges as aforesaid,
by advertisement in some newspaper pub
lished in the English and Hawaiian Ian
first day of January or July, as the case
may be, next following such notice.
If such rate shall remain unpaid for fif-
teen days after it is due, 10 per cent in ad
dition to the regular rate shall be charged
to and become due by the person holding
such privilege, and the Superintendent
may forthwith, without notice, shut off
the water from such privilege, charging
the expense for so doing to the person
holding such privilege.
Section ? The Minister of the Interior
shall, within two months after the passage
of this Act, send or deliver to each rate
payer having water supply at the time
from the Government, the duplicate form
of application provided in section l. He
NAV fr6i11rs dime to time make such further
rules and regulations for the Government
water supply system, and revise the same,
as shall be necessary, not in any case to
conflict with the provisions of this Act.
On motion of Mr.. Castle, the section
passed.
Section 3 All laws and parts OF laws
conflicting with the provisions of this Act
are hereby repealed.
Mr.. Castle moved to add, .and this Act
shall take effect from and after the date of
its passage"
The amendment was carried, and the
section then passed amended.
The bill then passed to engrossment, and
will be read a third time on Saturday.
THE CURRENCY BILL.
Second reading o an Act to regulate the
currency.
The report of the select committee was
read.
Mr.. Hayselden moved the bill be con-
sidered section by section. Agreed to.
Section l. The gold coins of the United
States of America are the standard and
legal tender at their nominal value in the
payment of all debts, public and private,
within the Hawaiian Kingdom.
On motion of Mr.. Hayseden, the section
passed.
Section ,. The silver coins of the Hawa-
sian Kingdom are legal tender at their
nominal value for any amount not exceed
ing ten dollars in any one payment
Mr. Thurston moved to insert after the
word Kingdom" the words land the
United States of America That would
make the law more practical. There was
no reason why American silver coin should
not be legal tender here, just the same as
it had been One result would be that ii
they ran short OF Hawaiian coin, it would
be impossible to obtain American
coin if it was not legal tender. They would
have to coin again, and the result would
be that "a capitalist would coin a percentage
on it. The actual value of the Hawaiian
dollar is 10 cents.
Hon, Mr.. Cleghorn moved the section
pass as in the bill. He was surprised at
the motion made by Mr.. Thurston 1t
was one continual ding in the ear that
there was too much silver here. By his
motion, if every passenger who arrived
here was to bring so in silver, they would
be flooded with silver. He was in favor of
Hawaiian silver money. There was plenty
of it in the country for the needs. There
might have been some mistake in getting
the first lot of silver coin, but it would not
occur the second time.
Hon. Mr.. Bishop said that if they were
not going to have another Legislative As
sembly for ten years there would be some
ground for Mr.. Thurston's fears. Every
one who knew anything about coinage was
aware that there is a superabundance OF
silver There is plenty of it. This amend