The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-06-15
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
Fourteenth Day.

| Rep. KalaukOa presented petition
| praying, % that the present Board o.
| Health be removed, (2) that Board be APP
pointed that will show more kindness in
the way of doing business, (3) that persons
who profess to be able to cure leprosy be
allowed the opportunity to do so, ca that
people be prohibited from taking crabs
ETC., from the reef opposite the leper settle
| ment, (5) that DR.. Emerson be prohibited
| from the practice of medicine in the King
dom.
Referred to the Sanitary Com mittee.
Rep. Paehaole presented petition from
| Molokai praying, (D that the law relating
to leprosy be amended, (2) that new doc
tors be obtained from abroad to cure
lepers, 81 that no leper hospitals be erect
ed on the other islands.
Referred to the Sanitary Committee.
Rep. Kamauoha presented a petition
that no law be enacted authorizing the sale
of Crown lands.
Laid on the table to await the report of
the Committee on Crown Lands.
Rep. Kawainui presented a petition from
Honolulu, with 127 signatures, praying
that the Government allow John LOpes,
John Kealoalii and S. H. Meekapu the
opportunity to cure lepers, that they be
allowed a period of 420 days for the pur-
pose, and that they be allowed to select II
lepers each to be cured.
Referred to the Sanitary Committee.
Rep. KamauOha presented a petition
from James Keaa for $40 for work on roads
in KOna.
Referred to the Finance Committee.
MEEKAPU's REPORT.
Noble WaterhOuSe introduced a dOcu-
ment which he could not describe as being
altogether a petition or a report, but is
partly both, from s. H. Meekapu, being
detailed report of his treatment of leperS
and asking the attention of the House to
his methods, and to judge of results by
examination of the persons who had been
under his treatment.
Referred to the Sanitary Committee.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Rep. Kinney read the report of the SAM
tary Committee on the petition presented
bv Rep. KamauOha that no lepers be sent
of the Legislature. Committee are of
opinion that the Legislature has no author
ity to suspend the operation of any exist
ing law. By law lepers are required to be
segregated, and until that law is repealed
it is as binding upon the Legislature as
upon any individual.
(Signed): w. A. Kinney, w. E. Foster,
W. H. Daniels, Chas. Motley.
The report was accepted.
DentiStrY.-The same member read the
report Of the Sanitary Committee on the
bill to regulate the practice of dentistry in
he Hawaiian Islands. Committee submit
new bill essentially the same the
other, except that they add new section,
providing for license fee of $25 year,
The report and new bill were referred to
the committee appointed on Wednesday to
consider the general question of licenses.
Maikaaloa's 81. Minister Thurston,
to whom was referred the petition
of Joseph Maikaaloa, for 81 for work
done by him in Hilo in 1890, re-
ported as follows In view of the
long lapse of time since the alleged
mourning of the bill; of the fact that the
claim has not been presented to the Inte-
that it is already outlawed by the statute
of limitations, respectfully recommend
that the petition be laid on the table.
The report was adopted.
Police Building AccOunts.-NOble Young
read the report OF the special committee
appointed November 49, 1887, to investi-
gate the cost of the Police building in
Honolulu.
The committee had employed Mr.. R. s.
ScrimgeOur, an expert accountant, and
Mr.. H. w. Mcintosh, an expert architect,
to examine the accounts and contracts
with said building.
Following are the principal parts of the |
report: The total appropriation for build |
ing was $91 ,240 80. The amount charged |
to the appropriation is $91 ,219 20. The |
lot was 5,519 20. The amount spent on
other purposes, but charged to this appro- |
priatiOn is $50, 700. Of this sum, $13, 900 |
was drawn out of the Treasury. March 81, |
1884, and made special deposit of, to- |
gether with other moneys drawn in like |
manner from other appropriations. The |
items for which the special de- |
post was spent were: Hayselden estate |
for work on Custom House warehouse, |
900 Lucas, for Kapuaiwa building, |
S24, ia; Pacific Bridge Company, sundry |
works, SIS 800.
La addition to the $13, 900 so diverted to |
other purposes, the accounts show over
payments to q. Lucas, 5000, and e. B. |
$500.
The Over-payments are thus accounted |
;or:
January II, 1886, Mr. Lucas received on
account of contract for hanging blinds, |
5000. This sum was not drawn from the |
Treasury, but by order of the Minister of |
Interior, paid from cash in the Interior
Office. May l. 1886, Mr.. Lucas account
or the entire amount of blinds contract
was rendered and paid. No credit is given
for amount previously drawn.
April 81, 1884, Mr.. Thomas made writ
EN- contract with the Government to do
'I6,599. May Z, 1885, he received on ac-
count thereof from the Treasury direct,
without any check being drawn from the
Interior Department, the sum of 81 800. A
'ecelpt Tor this amount was gwen by Mr.. |
Thomas to the Registrar of Public Ac-
counts Such receipt is endorsed, as fol-
ows: The above payment is made from
he Treasury by direction of Chas. L.
iulick, Minister of the Interior, (signed)
. S. Pratt, Registrar of Public Accounts"
there is no record of this transaction i'll
he Interior Office.
June 81, 1885, Mr. Thomas received
/ 900 more under similar conditions ex-
ept that Minister Gulick receipted to the
,
eipted to Minister Gulick for the money.
This transaction likewise has no record in
he Interior Office.
November %, 1886, Mr.. Thomas pre-
ented his whole bill for the contract price,
Is 500 and extras amounting to Sc, 146 %,
in all to $50, 745 %. This bill
hows sundry payments of cash amount
ng to $19660 As and showing balance of
3 ,O84 II. June l, 1887, Mr.. Thomas drew
his amount and receipted therefor No