The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-10-05

Hayselden, Keau, Lil1kaIani, Baker
Amara Kaulia, Pahia, Kaunamano
/ Wight, NahaIe, Nahinu, KaIua, Aholo
/ Kaukau, Richardson, Dickey, Kaai Pae-
haole, Kauai and PaIohau. The minutes
/ were read in Hawaiian and English and
! approved.
/ PETITIONS.
DR.. Wight presented a petition from the
/ Bishop of Honolulu, Revs. Wallace, Mack
intosh, Oggel Parker, Hyde, Waiamau.
Cruzan, Merritt and Forbes, and Mr.. F. w.
Damon, praying against an Act to license
the importation and sale of opium
Mr.. Keau moved the petition be laid
upon the table, to be considered with the
bill
Mr. Kalua moved the petition he referred
to the Sanitary Committee.
The petition was laid upon the table, to
be considered with the bill.
THE CURRENCY BILL.
Hon. Mr.. Bishop presented the following
report from a special committee on the
Currency bill:
Hon. J. S. Walker, President of the
Legislative Assembly-Sir: The commit
tee to whom was referred the fourth and
fifth sections of the Currency Act, beg
10 report that they recommend to the As
sembly to amend said sections to read as
follows:
Section 4. All outstanding silver certifi-
Gates and all certificates to be issued under
this Act, except the ten-dollar certificates,
whether they contain the words 'silver
COIN or not, shall be redeemed at their
nominal value on demand in United States
gold COIN and all certificates so redeemed
shall be forthwith withdrawn and can
celled by the Registrar of Public Accounts.
And it shall be lawful for the Minister OF
Finance to issue or cause to be issued from
the treasury, from time to time, certii-
Gates of deposit of the denomination of ten,
twenty, fifty and one hundred dollars re-
spectiyely, upon transferring from the gen
eral fund and setting apart as a special de
posit an equal amount of lawful coin of
the Kingdom as security for the redemp-
ton of such certificates, the whole amount
of such outstanding and new issue of GER
tificates as aforesaid not to exceed in the |
aggregate at any one time the sum of three |
hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, |
of which not exceeding thirty thousand !
dollars shall be in certificates of the de- |
of ten dollars. /
Section 5. The certificates provided for
in section 4 of this Act shall be signed !
by the Minister of Finance and cOun- |
tersigned by the Registrar of Public /
Accounts, and the special deposit of coin !
in the treasury for their redemption shall
be used only fer the payment and the re-
demption of such certificates, and shall be
kept as a special deposit for such purpose
and none other. CHAs. r. BISHOP,
l.. AHoLO,
S. 3. DOLE,
ROBT. J. CREIGHTON.
And we, the undersigned members of the
recommend the addition of a
new section to be numbered section 5, and
to read as follows, and that the former sec
ton be made section 6:
Section 5. The Minister of Finance may
receive deposits of the silver coin of the
Hawaiian Kingdom to an amount not less
than one hundred dollars, and issue there
for certificates of deposit of the denOmna-
ton of ten dollars payable to bearer on de
nand without interest in silver coin of the
Kingdom, such deposits and
certificates to be in addition to those pro-
7ided for in section of this Act
CHAs. r. Bishop,
S. B. DOLE.
On motion of Mr.. Keau the report was
-eceived and laid upon the table to be con
;idered with the bill.
BILLS ENGRossED.
Mr.. Richardson, from the Engrossing
Committee, reported the following bills as
the English version of an Act
o regulate the observance of Sunday; an
Act to prevent collisions at sea.
ELECTIONS OF REPRESENTATIVES, BILL.
Mr.. Dole presented the following report:
Hon. J. S. Walker, President Legislative
Assembly-Sir: Your Special Committee,
o whom was referred a certain bill en-
tiled An Act to regulate voting at cleo
ions of Representatives, " hereby report
IS follows:
We consider that the principle of secret
'oting provided for by this bill is essential
o the purity of elections, and that it must
,e secured by some positive regulation. 1t
Gems to US that the bill before US would
this, and we understand that
imilar provisions have satisfactorily effect
I'd these results III other countries.
Your committee, however, feel that the
,ill, being a long one and introducing
'adical change in our election machinery
nd proceedings, it will be difficult to give
t the proper deliberation and investigation
t this late stage of the session of the As
emily. and therefore, while they approve
f the provisions of the bill. they recon-
mend that it be referred to the commission
lready provided to revise the election