The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-05-24

= irving in the country from abroad. LTh
tax, in both cases, is 10 be in addition t
all other taxes now imposed or 10 be i'm
posed upon Chinese by law.l Sections
and 1 authorize the Government TO col
lect this special tax, and after deducting l,
per cent for expenses OF collection, to pay
over the balance to the Chinese Benevolen
Society, "a corporation organized anc
existing under the laws of this Kingdom
under the corporate name of Chin Wa HUI
| Quon." Section holds the Chinese Be
nevolent Society responsible, under penalty
of forfeiture of its charter, to support and
take care of all INDECENT and infrm Chi
nese in the Kingdom, without charge OF
expense TO such INDECENT and infrm per
sons, provided that the said Benevolent
Society may receive gifts, requests or en-
dowments when donated or made to it in
! accordance with law. Section subjects
all Cinnamon failing to pay this special
tax to a fine not exceeding $40 or imprison-
ment not exceeding twenty days. with or
without hard labor. The minimum pen
atty is not defned.l Section enjoins an
annual accounting, under oath, to the
Minister of the Interior, on December 1st,
OF the receipts and expenditures under the
| Act.
MARRIED wOMEN's PROPERTY.
| A bill to amend section ,2S6 of the Civil
! Code passed to second reading on May
! 18th. 1t adds the words with the consent
! of the wife" in the third paragraph of the
| existing law The effect of this amend
ment would be to prevent husband sells
| ing any movable property which belonged
| to his wife before or which accrued to her
after marriage, without his wife's consent,
unless otherwise stipulated by express mar
! rage contract.
RELATING To CERTAIN SPECIFIC RIGHTS.
\ bill to amend section /, All, chapter "a,
OF the Civil Code, passed to second reading
May 10Th. The amended section would
read: "Where the landlords have obtained
or hereafter obtain allodial titles to their
lands, the people on each side of their
lands shall not be deprived of the right to
take firewoOd, house timber, aaho, cord,
thatch, fence material, stone, earth, sand,
lime bamboo and Xxi leaves from the land
on which they live for their own private
use, but they shall not have right to take
such articles to sell for profit. The people
also shall have right to drinking water,
and running water and the right of way.
The springs of water, running water and
roads shall be free to all on all lands
granted in fee simple; provided, that this
shall not be applicable to wells and water
courses which individuals have made for
their own use" All laws or parts of laws
in conflict with this provision are to be re-
pealed.
REGULATING TUITION IN GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS.
On May Goth a bill passed to second read
ing TO amend sections and of the Penal
Code, relating to the Bureau of Public
Instruction. In the third section it il for
hidden to teachers of day schools for the
education of Hawaiian children to grant a
release to any child under seventeen years,
without written consent of the parent or
guardian of such child and the approval of
the School Agent of the district. At pres
ent fifteen Is the limit of school age in
native Hawaiian schools. A similar change
is made in section 4, where the word eff
teen" occurs.
A fine not exceeding $40 is to be imposed
upon any school teacher violating the pro-
visions of this Act.
REGULATING PROCEEDINGS IN BANKRUPTCY.
Bya bill which passed to second reading
May Goth it is proposed to amend
sections l, and Is, of an Act
approved August %, 1884, and to
add a new section, to be called section
I5A The first amendment enables any
creditor or creditors, the total of whose
claims shall amount to $780, to file petit
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and have any person owing debts to the
amount of $500 declared bankrupt, who |
shall fail or refuse to make payment of his |
Just demands after the same shall mature, |
or who shall do any of the things specified !
in the existing law for the purpose OF de- |
frauding his creditors. The second amend |
ment requires the person so adjudged |
bankrupt to Immediately file a schedule of |
all his creditors, secured and unsecured, |
and an inventory under oath of all assets, |
including such as may be exempt by law. |
The following addition is made to section |
10 of the existing law: "If any bankrupt |
shall refuse to deliver or surrender up to |
the assignee or ass1gnees of his estate any |
of his effects, books, property or papers, or |
shall refuse to answer any question that |
may be legally put to him upon any exami- |
nation had in his proceedings i'll bank |
ruptcy the Justice before whom such pro- |
ceedings are pending may commit such |
bankrupt to prison until he makes such |
delivery or surrender, or answer such |
question" The new section (15A) reads |
as follows; ANY person being insolveni |
or bankrupt, or who in contemplation OF |
insolvency or bankruptcy, shall secrete or
otherwise dispose of his property for the |
purpose of hindering, delaying or defraud- |
ing his creditors, or who shall Knowingly |
make any false statement in any schedule !
of creditors or assets, shall be liable to a
fine of not more than $500 and imprisOn-
ment with hard labor for more than two
wears; and the Justice before whom the
proceedings are pending may in his dis
erection take summary jurisdiction of such
offense."
DEFINING FISHING RIGHTS.
A short bill passed to second reading on
Nav Goth which is intended to make the |
fisheries and streams belonging to KOnO- !
hikis free for the equal use of all persons |
for ever, provided that the law shall not |
apply to any one kind of fish which the |
Konohikis may set apart for their own ex-
elusive use or to ponds. All laws and parts |