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

Sovereign decease, leaving a minor heir
and having made no last will and tesla
ment, the Cabinet at the time OF such
decease shall be Council of Regency,
until the Legislature, which shall be
called Immediately, be assembled and
the Legislature Immediately that it is
assembled together in convention, shall
proceed to choose by ballot, a Regent or
Council of Regency, who shall admins
ter the Government in the name of the
King and exercise all the powers which
are invested in the King, until such heir
shall have attained the age OF Is years,
which age is declared to be the legal ma
jority of such Sovereign.
Art. so. The Sovereign of the Hawaii
an Kingdom shall not absent himself
from the Kingdom without the consent
of the Legislature; otherwise he shall be
considered as having abdicated the
throne.
violable and sacred, and he cannot be
tribunal OF the Kingdom. The Ministers
are responsible. To the King and Cab.
met belongs the Executive power. All
laws that have passed the Legislature
shall require His Majesty's signature in
order to their validity, as provided in
Article 43.
Art. 80. The paramount duty of the
King is to preserve the absolute autono-
my and independence of the Kingdom,
and no partial or temporary cession OF
territory can be made without his con.
sent and the assent of the Legislature.
Art. 33. To the King belong the fol-
lowing prerogatlves:
(a) To call at his will meetings of his
Privy Council of State and of his Cabinet;
(b) To convene the ordinary and ex-
traordinary sessions OF the Legislature
at the seat of the Government, or at a
different place, if the former should be-
come insecure from an enemy, a threat
enlng rebellion or any dangerous disor-
der, and OF proroguing the same;
(c) To solemnly preside at the opening
and closing meetings, both Houses sit
ting together for the purpose, according
to ceremonial to be fixed by law;
(d) 10 receive and acknowledge
foreign ministers;
(e) To appoint ambassadors and other
public ministers abroad, who shall be
commissioned, accredited and instructed
agreeably to the usage and law of ma
tons;
ID To make treaties, with the advice
of his Privy Council but treaties involv-
ing changes in the tariff or in any law of
the Kingdom, must be referred for APP
prevail to the Legislature;
(g) To inform the Legislature, from
time to time, of the state of the King
dom, and to recommend to it's considera-
ton such measures as he shall Judge
necessary and expedient, and of address
ing proclauaations to his people;
(h) To, with the advice and approval
OF his Privy Council, grant reprieves and
pardons, after conviction, for all offences
except In case Of impeachment; and to
concede amnistles in extraordinary cases
warranted by the good of the country;
ID To grant to aliens Letters of Deni-
zation, according to law;
ID To coin money and regulate the
currency by law;
(k) To be Commander-in-Chief of the
Army and Navy and of all other military
forces of the Kingdom by sea and land
but he shall never proclaim war without
the consent of the Legislature, and no
military or naval force shall be organized
except by the authority Of the Legisla-
ture;
ID To place temporarily, in case of in
vasion or rebellion, the whole Kingdom
and with the advice Cgd dff ms PRIV Council
(m) All titles OF honor, orders and
other distinctions emanate from the
sovereign.
Art. "a. In every biennial budget, a
proper allowance shall be appropriated
for the use of the Sovereign to enable
him to live in accord with the dignity of
his station and the honor of the King
dom he shall also continue to receive
and enjoy the revenue accruing from the
crown lands, or just equivalent in value
for the same, as may hereafter be pro-
vided by law.
Art. 35. His Majesty KALAKAUA will
and his successors and the regents that
may be appointed, and the heirs appar-
ent when coming of age, shall take the
following oath: 81 solemnly swear in
the presence of Almighty God to MAIN
tain the Constitution of the Kingdom,
whole and inviolate, and to govern in
conformity Herewith" The Chief JUS
tice shall administer the said oath in the
presence of both Houses of Legislature
assembled
yI.-THE LEGISLATIVE.
Art. So. The legislative power of the
Kingdom is vested in the King and two
elective houses, sitting separately at the
same time, which shall be known as the
House of Representatives and the Senate.
Art. 81. Those two bodies shall be
styled the Legislature of the Hawaiian
Kingdom and shall assemble hisi,iIP' 4
in the month of Mar .o'all"s II
tinue in ordi-,>E I'M
than FOR THE Ssfry session for not NOR,
-a-n.1ety days. Extraordinary ses
T sions may be held for urgent. causes o.
great emergencies, lat the wish of the SOW
ereign in Privy Council at the request O
the Cabinet, or upon demand formu
lated by a majority of the representa-
tives, the Minister of the Interior givin!
thirty DAYS previous notice OF such ex
traordinary session. Any convocation o.
one House without the other shall b,
unconstitutional.
Art. 38. The two Houses shall sit to
gether, in convention, in the followin,
cases: LIST, of conflict between them OF
the passing Of any law, as provided by
Art AZ; I'd, of choosing new sovereign
as per Art. %; of extraordinary circum
stances threatening the we'll being
security or independence of the country
In all such conventions general ballo
shall fix whom Of the two President
shall preside at the convention.
Art. 80. The House of Representa-
tives shall alone have the power OF vot
ing the budget and all necessary appro
priations, and from time to time OF initia
ting and passing all manner of whole
some laws, not repugnant to this Consti
tuition or annulling old laws. 1t shall
also ascertain that, during the interval
of the sessions, there has been no viola
ton of the Constitution and nroYid