The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-09-11
Afternoon.
Re-assembled al LIS.

Afternoon.
Re-asSembIed al is.
Appropriation bill, continued.
Minister 1hurSton moved 10 amend the
| item, expenses, bureau OF surveying, to in
sert instead OF $37 900, $4l 600. Additional
/ clerical services will be required to provide
I the maps needed 10 carry out the terms OF
| the new assessors and collectors Act. Car
/ ried.
Noble Smith moved TO amend the item,
1 Portuguese interpreter, 81 go, by Substitu-
/ ting $, 400. Carried.
Noble Richardson moved to amend the
I item, roads and bridges, contingent, SIS, 900,
1 by putting it S35 900.
Minister Thurston said s prominent citi-
! zen of Wailuku had met hun the other day
with the remark, what in thunder did you
put that $4,000 for 3 road between Wal
| luku and Lahaina into the Appropriation
! bill for?" He told the gentleman it was
| Noble Baldwin who had introduced the
item. There are many places in the
! islands where there is much more need OF
money for roads He suggested that the
| SIS 900 be added to the contingent fund to
/ be expended where il is most needed.
Rep. Horner was opposed to the with
drawsl OF the grant for the Lahaina- Wal
/ luku road.
Noble Richardson's amendment. roads
{ SDO pIluSeSt contingent, SOOioOSs WIS
amended and passed $4,000.
Noble WstsrhouSe moved 10 change the
wording of the item extension Of Queen
street. 5000, to Road hskaskO 10 Wal
! XXI, IS, 0l0. Carried.
Noble Richardson moved to amend the
/ item, lighting streets throughout the King
! dom, 81, Q55 p, by substituting 5000.
Rep. Z. Brown moved the Appropria-
/ ton bill be indefinitely postponed, and
1 that every member bring in an appropria-
I ton bill OF his own.
I Item passed Is in the bill.
Noble Wight moved TO amend the word
| ing OF the item: road Honoksne 10 Wal
/ pic $500, by inserting instead: survey
/ and laying out bride path, Honokane 10
i'Waipio, s. 900
Noble Smith said he wished to distin-
/ guish himself, now in the last days of the
! session, and would move the previous
! question.
Noble Wight-My motion was in ahead.
/ Noble Wight's motion carried.
Noble Townsend moved 10 strike ont the
/ item rosd, Wailuku TO LshaIna, SIS 900.
/ Carried.
The Appropriation bill. the aggregate Of
/ the items being ,37g,7l3 80, passed to en-
] grossment, TO be read q third time on
+ Friday.
AMENDMENT To THE CONSTITUTION.
The following amendment to the Consti-
tuition, submitted lst inst, by special COM
/ mittee, was taken up and considered:
1 Be 1t resolved by the Legislature Of the
Hawaiian Kingdom: That the following
Article be and hereby is proposed as an
amendment TO the Constitution
The Legislature may by law name or
/ limit the occupation or employment OF
4 every kind whatsoever in which Chinese,
! or any body or class Os Chinese may law
/ fully engage or continue 10 pursue; the
i estate and interest in land they may &C
Y ouire, or acquiring, hold, and the duration
/ thereof: and the number OF years, not less
/ than SIX, during which any Chinese may
| lawfully reside in the Hawaiian Kingdom
/ and may provide for the registration and
/ identification of Chinese; Provided, how
/ ever. that no law shall be passed which
| shall operate to diyest any Chinese of the
/ ownership Of any real or personal property
/ owned by any such Chinese at the date OF
/ the final adoption OF this amendment. nor OF
/ which they may thereafter lawfully become
/ the owner or owners; and provided fur
/ ther. that no law shall be enacted which
! shall operate 10 prevent any Chinese from
/ continuing 10 engage in any lawful EN-
\ ployment in which he shall be bOna-fide
] engaged at the date OF the final adoption
/ OF this amendment: Provided further. that
/ no law shall operate 70 make il unlawful
I for any Chinese 10 engage in the cultiEs-
/ ton or manufacture Of rice or sugar,
/ or in the cultivation OF any other
1 product OF the soil; and provided
I further. that no Chinese within the
Hawaiian Kingdom when this amendment
| becomes part OF the Constitution shall
/ thereafter be compelled to depart the same,
/ except such Chinese as shall be legally SEN
] fenced to transportation or deportation for
/ forgery.
The Legislature may enforce the pro-
! visions OF this amendment by appropriate
I legislation; and no such legislation shall
| be declared unconstitutional because con-
fined in its operation to Chinese or any
I body or class thereof.
In thi. amendment Chinese means
/ any person OF persons, male or female,
I wholly Of Chinese or Mongollan birth or
Z descent, whether born in China or else
I where, and whether citizens OF subjects
/ Of China OF any other country, and shall
1 include and apply 10 all and every person
| or persons wholly OF Chinese or Monaghan
| birth or descent who are now or hereafter
may be citizen or citizens. subject OF sub
! iects Of the Hawaiian Kingdom; Provided,
I however that the provisions OF this amend
melt shall not be construed 10 include OF
/ apply 10 persons Of japanese birth or
! descent; nor 70 Chinese who were natural
/ lied subjects Of he Hawaiian Kingdom on
the first day Of July in the year Of our
| Lord one thousand eight hundred and
elghty-eight; Enor TO children and descend
ants Of Chinese born il the Hawaiian King
| dom who have not departed from the
Kingdom
Minister Ashford said hope this
amendment VIII pass. l do not recognize
IN II the presence Of the wrongful
and unjust features alleged against
IT, 1t nrst proposes 10 permit H.
tGre Legislatures TO name and limit
the occupations ID which Chinese mag en-
gage, or continue 10 pursue. but this au-
thouty Is checked BY the extensive pro-
Tisos which guarantee TO al Chinese the
absolute right 70 engage II any agricultural
pursuits, and which prohibit legislative
Interference with their right 70 pursue