The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-08-18
TUESDAY, August 18th.
AFTERNOON SESSION.

AFTERNOON SESSION.
The house resumed at as.
Consideration of the tax bill in
committee of the whole, Noble Judd
in the chair.
Sec. Is, amending sec. SO, pro-
viding public notice being posted
in eight places by the Assessor, Of
the time and place at which his tax
list shall be open for inspection, was
read and, on motion of Rep. Hay
selden, passed.
Sec. 10, amending sec. 40, relat-
ing to appeals against assessments,
was read.
Rep. Hayselden moved it pass.
Noble Kapena moved for the cor
rection of a verbal error in Hawaiian,
which carried.
Rep. Wight moved an amendment,
so that instead of lodging notice of
appeal with the tax assessor on or
before the 10th day of October, the
appellant shall notify the tax col
lector on or before the 10Th day of
December. His object was to have
the appeal board sit after the col
lection of taxes instead of before.
Rep. Hayselden supported the
the section in the bill, saying the
amendment of Rep. Wight was a
return to the old law prior to 1882,
which worked badly.
Rep. Thurston discussed the sec
ton and amendment, coming to the
conclusion that the latter would eN-
tend the time inconveniently for the
final settlement of taxes.
Rep. Dickey supported the amend
ment, holding that it met such diff
culties as often arose of persons
being taxed after having been pre-
viously exempt.
Rep. Richardson moved to strike
out the section, because it only
allowed twenty days notice, which
was not enough. The section gave
the assessor over three months,
while giving the tax collector only
two months for more work.
Rep. Hayselden said 1t was neces-
sary that the section should pass,
and gave various reasons why so.
Rep. Thurston suggested an
answer to the objections of Rep.
Dickey, saying that if man was
illegally taxed the taxes could not
be collected from him.
Rep. Dickey referred to the cases
of persons being taxed who had not
$500 worth of property.
Rep. Thurston said that trouble
in such cases was due to persons
not giving attention to the tax list.
As to Rep. Richardson's objection,
they did not care for the tax collec-
tor, but wanted to take care of the
taxpayer. With certain amend
ments to subsequent sections he was
in favor of this one.
Rep. Aholo took issue with Rep.
Thurston, as the books as amended
by the appeal board went to the
Governor, who gave them to the
collector, so that the latter did not
have two months.
Reps. Hayselden, Wight and
Aholo further discussed various
points.
Rep. Richardson withdrew his
motion to strike out, substituting
therefor an amendment from the
10th to the 9Th of October.
Rep. Paehaole favored the amend
ment of Rep. Wight.
Rep. Hayselden spoke of the last
speakers argument as being absurd.
Rep. Dole considered the difficult
ties about the section arose from the
importance of notice to taxpayers,
and mentioned the trouble natives
had in understanding assessments.
The present law would work well if
assessors had their books ready in
the time prescribed by law. By
having the books ready taxpayers
were liable to be swindled by dis
honest assessors or collectors. He
thought first that the 18th Dec, as
proposed by Rep. Wight, was put
ting the settlement off too far; but
on second thought he believed that
would be the lesser of two evils.
Therefore he felt that they might
try that amendment for the next
two years.
After further discussion by Reps.
Aholo and Dickey, the amendment
of Rep. Wight was put and lost.
Rep. Richardson's amendment car
lied, and the section as amended
passed. i.
Sec. 20, amending sec. 43, pro.
vides for posting notices of increased
valuation or disallowed claims of ex.
emption, to non-residents of parti.
cular districts, residing in the king
dom, before the first day of Septem
Der.
Rep. Hayselden moved it pass.
Rep. Dickey moved to strike on
certain words, so as to require sucl
notice to be given to residents o
districts.
Rep. Hayselden opposed tn,
change as unnecessary and calculate;
to be inconvenient.
Rep. Dole moved the section b
struck out, as it mentioned non
residents "who have made return
to the assessor according to law,
Al.