The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-06-26

regular and legal conviction thereof in
Court having jurisdiction of the case,
nor will be required to answer again for
any offense for which he has been duly
convicted, or of which he has been duly
acquitted.
Art. Is. No person shall be held to
answer for any crime or offense, except
in cases Of impeachment, or for ofenses
within the jurisdiction of Police or Dis
trict Justice, or in summary proceedings
for contempt, unless upon indictment
fully and plainly describing such crime
or ofense and he shall have the right
to meet the witnesses who are produced
against him face to face; to produce wit
nesses and proof in his own favor; and,
by himself or his counsel. at his election,
to examine the witnesses produced by
himself and to cross-examine those pro-
duced against him and to be fully heard
in his own defense. No person shall be
compelled, in any criminal case, to be a
witness against himself, and, in all cases
in which the right Of trial by Jury has
therefore been used it shall be held invio-
liable forever, except in actions of debt or
assumpsit in which the amount claimed
is less than fifty dollars.
Art. ID. No person shall sit as a
judge or juror, in any case in which his
relative, by affinity or by consanguinity
within the third degree, is interested,
either as plaintiff or defendant, or in
the issue of which the said Judge or
juror may have, either directly or
through such relative, any pecuniary in
terest.
Art II. Each member of society hav-
ing right to be protected in the enjoy
ment of his life, liberty and property
according to law, therefore, he shall be
obliged to contribute his proportional
share to the expense of this protection
and to give his personal services, or an
equivalent, when necessary. Private
property may be taken for public use,
but only upon due process of law and
just compensation; but in time of war or
instruction, the Government may take
temporary occupation OF private pro-
perty, proper indemni6cation being SUBJ
sequently allowed.
Art. 18. No subsidy, duty or tax, OF
any description, shall be established or
levied without the consent of the House
of Representatives, and no public money
shall be expended without its having
been previously appropriated by the
same House.
Art. 10. The Public Debt and all
legitimate obligations of the State are
sacred and cannot be repudiated.
Art. 20. The Military shall be subject
to the laws OF the land; and no soldier
shall, in time of peace, be quartered in
any house without the consent of the
owner; nor in time of war, but in a
manner prescribed by the Legislature.
Art. 81. Involuntary servitude, ex-
cept for crime, is for ever prohibited in
this Kingdom. Whenever slave shall
enter the Hawaiian territory, he shall be
FREE
Iu.-FORM OF GOVERNMENT.
Art. %. The Government of this
Kingdom is that of Constitutional
Monarchy, under King or Queen, who
is Sovereign of all the people.
Iv.-oF POWERS.
Art. %. The Supreme Power of the
Kingdom, in its exercise, is divided into
the Executive, Legislative and Judicial !;
these shall always be preserved distinct,
and no judicial or executive officers
except Ministers OF State,- any EN-.
ployee OF the Government, nor any con-
tractor or any person in receipt of salary
from the Government, shall be eligible
to election to the Legislature of this
I've e"i member Be- Of the same. And no
member of the Legislature shall, during
the time for which he is elected, be ap-
pointed to any civil Office under the
Government, except that of a Cabinet
Minister, unless an exception be speci-
ally made by vote of three-fourths OF
the elective members of the House of
Representatives.
Art. "a. The Government derives it's
just powers from the assent of the peo-
pie, and is conducted, NOT for the pro-
fit, honor or private interest of any one
man, family or class of men,-but for
the common good, and for protecting
and maintaining the rights, safety, pros
perity and happiness of all the people.
v.-THE KING-HIs PRERoaATIvEs.
Art. Is. The Crown is hereby per-
manently conferred to His Majesty Ka-
lakaua and to the heirs of his body law
fully begotten, and to their lawful des-
cendants in direct line; failing whom,
the Crown shall descent to Her Royal
Highness the Princess Liliuokalani and
after her, to Her Royal Highness the
Princess Kaiulani and to the heirs of her
body lawfully begotten, and their lawful
descendants in direct line. The sue
cession shall be to the senior male child
and to the heirs of his body; failing
male child, the succession shall be to
the senior female child and to the lawful
heirs of her body. In case there is no
heir as above provided, the successor
shall be the person whom the sovereign
shall appoint with the consent of the
Privy Council, and publicly proclaim
during the sovereign's life; but. SHOULD
there be no such appni
elamat ATTIC Ben Ringer 1sthmant and nro
.sSn, Sd dam By Old aSS s throne should be
: a1 Mline vacant, then the Cabinet immedi
ateIy after the occurring of such vacancy
shall cause meeting of the Legislature
who,-sitting together in conventions
shall elect by ballot, some native Ali o
the Kingdom as successor to the throne
and the successor 80 elected shall become
new STRIPS for a royal family; and tn,
succession from rhe sovereign thu
elected, shall be regulated by the sam,
law as the present royal family of Ha
wall.
Art. 26. No person shall sit upon tn,
throne, who has been convicted of an,
infamous crime, or who is insane, or al
idiot; if Sovereign becomes PHYSICAL,
or mentally incapacitated, and if 81
recognized by majority of the two
Houses of Legislature in convention
convened by the Cabinet, then Regen
shall be appointed to act in his place a
long as the incapacity continues, but
the heir apparent is over Is years of age
he shall by right assume the Regency.
Art. q. 1t shall not be lawful for an,
member of the Royal family Of Hawai-
who may succeed to the Throne, to con
tract marriage without the consent OF tn