The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-01-24

Srcr,ox , All the military forces OF the Kingdom
and all public property used tor and IN connection with
the same and the expenditure of all moneys approp
aed by law for military purposes shall be under the
general control and supervision of the Minister OF the
Interior who shall have authority by and with the con-
sent of the Cabinet to appoint and remove the Bgaer
General aforesaid or to remove any officer of the regular
force to reduce or disband the military forces or any
portion thereof and to establish and prescribe such rules
and regulations not inconsistent with any law now IN
force tor the organization control and discipline OF the
military forces.
SECTION S Nothing in this Act contained shall be
construed as resembling any Constitution or bylaws here
oore adopted by any OF the organizations herein named
not inconsistent with any existing law
SECTION 9 ANY and all expenditures authorized in
this Act may be paid upon the order of the Minister of
the Interior from any moneys available the appropr
ations for the Kings Guard for aid to Volunteer
Military Companies and purchase of arms ammunition
etc. for the military forces of the Kingdom, contained
in the Appropriation Bill of October IA, 1886.
SECTION TO- This Act shall take effect and become
Law from and after its approval and hereupOn the fO
lowing Laws and parts of Laws below and all other
Laws in conflict herewith shall be and the same
hereby repealed. that is to say:
So much of Section 81 of the first Act of Kamehameha
III to organize the Executive Ministry of the Hawaiian
Islands as relates to the duties of Governors in respect
to the charge of the island forces and munitions of
Section s. l. s. and of Article ), Chapter l. part
first of the Act organize the Executive Departments
of the Hawaiian Islands
Section 3 and of Article g. Chapter 4 of the same
Act
Section of Chapter 3 part second of the same Act
relating to the Secretary of War and of the Navy
Cbapter % of the Laws of 1886 entitled An Act to
organize the Military Forces of the Kingdom
hereby certify that the foregoing Act having passed
Its Third Reading in the Legislature of the Hawaiian
Kingdom on the ninth day of December 1887 was pre-
sented His Majesty the King through the Cabinet on
the fourteenth day of December 1887 that the nine
teenth day of December 1887, it returned to the
Legislature by His Majesty the King unsigned together
with message setting forth certain why he re-
fused to sign the same: that it appeared that such
message was not countersigned by Minister and that
His Maestys Act returning the done with
the advice and of the Cabinet that there
after the Legislature adopted resolution that said Act
of the King not being countersigned by Minister ami
having been done without the advice and consent of
the Cabinet could not be considered refusal to APP
prove the Act within the meaning of Article IS of the
Constitution which action of the Legislature was duly
communicated to the King and | do hereby further
certify that than ten days, Sundays excepted
have elapsed since said Act presented to the King
and that Except aforesaid the same has not been
returned to the Legislature and that the Legislature
had not adjourned prior the expiration of said period
of ten days.
Dated Honolulu, December 18th, A. D. 1881
WILLIAM R. CASTLE
President of the Legislature