The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-08-16
THE LEGISLATURE.
SIXTY SIXTH DAY.
TUESDAY, Aug. 18th.
Morning Session.

Prayer at 10. Minutes road at
lO;l5, and approved as usual
Noble Williams, from the Printing
Committee, reported Bills No. 169,
10, III and 172 printed, and they
were ordered distributed.
Noble Baldwin, from the Finance
Committee, presented report on
Bill 1873, entitled an Act to amend
Chapter A of the Session Laws of
1886, relating to the division of the
district of Honolulu into five dis
tricts for the purposes of taxation,"
and to the effect that to carry out
the Bill would increase the expense
of the assessment and tax depart
ment of Honolulu without adding
to the efficiency of the service. They
see no good reason for making the
change and recommend that the Bill
be tabled. Report received and
tabled for consideration with the
Bill.
The same member also presented
report from the same Committee
on Bill 6S, to provide for and autho-
rize the raising of a revenue by taxa
ton to be applied to and used for
the support of the several fire
departments of the Kingdom, as
follows:
Hon. j. S. WALKER, President Legis-
lative Assembly:
SIR,-Your Committee on Finance,
to whom was referred Bill No. 6S,
entitled an can Act to provide for
and authorize the raising of a Reve
nue. by Taxation to be applied to
and used for the support, mainte-
nance and carrying on of the several
Fire Departments of the Kingdom"
beg leave to report that we have had
the same under careful consideration.
The object of the Bill is to make
each district in the Kingdom pay for
its own Fire Department, and as the
town of Honolulu is the only place
that has a Fire Department, or that
is likely to have one for years to
come, il seems evident to your com
mittee that the Bill was drawn up to
apply directly to the Honolulu Fire
Department.
The proposition that the tax pay
ers of Honolulu should pay for theil
own Fire Department, is evidently
based on the supposition that this
town is receiving per capita moro
= than their proportion of Government
j. expenditures.
In order to determine the truth o
a this supposition and deal with this
, question justly, your committee have
obtained full figures from the Asses
sor-in- Chief showing for the pas
period the amount of taxes paid pc
capita on each island separately, anc
also the taxes paid by the resident
: of Honolulu. To Offset this the ex
t penditures have been carefully cal
culated that have been spent solel.
for the benefit of each island, ant
T. also the expenditures solely for tn
benefit of Honolulu.
There are certain sources of reve
L nue. and expenditures that are com
. mon to the islands as whole. Thes
II items of revenue and eXpenditur
have not been included in making
n up these figures, nor has any az
: count been made of the road an
Ii school tax which belong to each dis
trict where collected. In maxim
$ up these figures receipts from Hone
IS lulu Water Works amounting t
ii $S4, 5000, receipts from electri
lights S9,556.40, receipts from Homo
=, lulu Fish Market $l3,295.S5, hav
=, been deducted from the expend
Fl lures in Honolulu. These are item
of revenue paid into the Treasur
by the citizens of Honolulu tina
lie they should have credit for
al We give herewith the figures az
j. cording to our calculation:
Male Exp. ench EX
- Island Populatn. Island. pc
e- Capt.
n A Aomalulu Oahu 1898 254,l5l.77 IS.
so Hawaii ........,,..17 1867 2lS,7S6.l6 -.
NJ Maui. .,..,.,.... l2,S79 lli,SOO,4S s.,
~ Kauai ..,......,... S,l6i 75,7O2l1 o.,