The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-07-13
AN ACT
TO ENCOURAGE THE CULTIVATION OF
COFFEE.

De ~ e0dCteU OY me hnT ana me
Legislature of the Ha1cdiiHe
hingdOm:
Sec. /. The Minister of the In
terror with concurrence of the Cabi-
net hereinafter designated as the
Governments" is hereby author
ised to enter into contract with
any responsible person orpersons or
corporation, hereinafter designated
as the contractor" for the estab-
lishment and maintaining of a cof-
fee plantation at lsome suitable
place or places in the Hawaiian
Kingdom, for the purpose of thor
oughly testing the cultivation of
coffee as an article of export and
commerce.
Sec. 2. Such contract shall pro-
vide:
l. That the contractor shall plant,
and in q husbandlike manner, cult
vate and care for, during period
of not less than five years, not less
than 100, 900 coffee trees;
2. That the contractor shall within
such period place upon such planta-
ton proper machinery and other
appliances sufficient to properly take
off the crop to be raised upon such
number of trees, and shall erect
such buildings as may be necessary
and proper for the accommodation
of such machinery, the curing of
such crop and the housing of the
labor which may be necessary to
cary on such plantation.
3. That the Government shall pay
to the contractor the sum of S10,-
900 upon the Minister of the In
terri being satisfied that the con-
tractor has planted ,andis in aproper
and husbandlike manner, caring for
not less than 100000 coffee trees,
and has erected buildings sufficient
for the accommodation of the man
ager and laborers required upon
such plantation.
4. That the Government shall
pay to the contractor the further
sum of Sl5, 900, upon The Minister
of the Interior being satisfied that
the contractor has obtained and
erected the machinery, appliances
and buildings mentioned in the
above second requirement of this
Section.
3. That the Government shall
pay to the contractor the further
sum of $4,000 upon the Ministe
of the Interior being satisfied that
the contractor shall have raised on
said trees and cured with said ma.
chinery and appliances, not less
than 10000 pounds of coffee.
6. That the contractor shall keep
full, accurate and complete &C
counts, showing all receipts and
disbursements, under such heads
that the books will at all times show
the cost Of each branch or item Of
expenditure connected with, or Incl
dental to such plantation or bust.
ness.
z. That the contractor shall, a
the end of each quarter, during sucl
five years, and for so long a tim
thereafter, as the amounts paid t,
the contractor by the Governmon
shall not be repaid as hereinafte
provided, send complete state
ment of all of the transactions il
connection with said business, show
ing all receipts and expenditures
and making detail statement Of tn
work done and the status of tn
plantation and all If all other in
formation appertaiLrng to such plan
tation which the Minister of the In
terror may request, copy of whic
shall be filed in the Interior Office
8. That if the net proceeds of tn
contractor, over and above the nj
cessary running expenses of sue
plantation shall exceed nine pc
cent. upon the capital which sha
have been invested by the col
tractor, such excess shall be paid
the Government, until the aboy
named sums, amounting to $50, ZOO
| shall have been repaid to the Gov
I eminent.
7 o. That until such sum so ad
vanced shall have been SO repaid tn
Minister of the Interior, or such pei
| CON nc he NAV desipnata shall M