The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-11
Cash on hand this date
1920 IS


expenses, Including mill
tarN aud items not appro-
pFated by the last I.egis-
lature.l
Memo, cash in Treasury;
Outstanding Certificates,
S2oS, pC0.VO.
Certificates withdrawn
from circulation and de-
posited for safe keeping
S+4,0O0.O0.
I Cash In Treasury to re-
deem certiticates............ SZoS, 600 %
Road Board fund in Treas.
qry ,......,..'.,,..,.,,..,.....,, 2aool %
I School Board fund in
treasury .,.-., ...........,..... 10, So Is
Z Available cash, As above. ll+,5I5 9S
Total cash Ina Treasury. 5 427,3l0 Il
Finance Department, Aug. ., 1895.
/ Minister Damon stated that when he
became minister OF finance he found
a gold deposit st the treasury Of So
600 which hal been deposited against
silver certificates issued. This meant
that $4,000 in gold had been with
| drawn, while $4,000 IN silver had
| gone into circulation. Ii was his
desire 20 devise some plan that would
give the public the benefit OF this
gold circulation withdrawn He had
ked the executive council 10 permit
the custom house 10 take . per cent. |
Of duties IL silver certificates. Ho |
stated This woQld allow OF the pur-
chase of the gold IN deposit with |
silver certificates az . rate that would !
warrant the paying Of 2 portion OF /
the customs duties in silver notes. /
He had given the subject consider
able thought, and could not see how
the plan. Il carried cut, would iujura
the government IN any way by the
percentage OF one fourth of the
duties being paid In certificates As
far way - meet the matter with
out infringing on the law, he an
nounced that the Customs depart
meut would be authorized to receive
hereafter p per cent OF the duties
IN certificates.
Conflicting. Mr.. Damon said that
on April 1st there were delinquent
taxes amounting to $1,000. Up to
date there bad been collected 1920 IS !
for K0na, Oahu. district returns
from other districts had rot vet been
received.
He said that a meeting OF the
finance committee had been held at
the finance Office on August 9. 1893, ,
at P II, at which were present ).
N. Damon, chairman ex-oficiO, Jas
F. Morgan, Z d Tenney. c. BJlte
and Z Suhr-
Upon motion OF E d. Tenney. sec
Onded by E Suhr, i5 was resolved 70
continue the subsidy TO the Paradise
of the Pacific from July 1. 1898.
Upon motion OF z D Tenney. sec :
onded by James f. Morgan, the min I
i=ter Of finance was authorized 10 pay
such bills against the government as I
be shall deem advisable
He had given orders today To pay I
bills due by the government to The
amount Of $500 T
Minister Damon then read the fol e
owing report from the postmaster t
general: g
GENERAL Posi- OFFICE,
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS,
HONOLCLC, Aug. 9, 1893.
His ExceIleucy s. VI. DAMON, Minis :
ter Of Finance.
SIR:-Agreeable to your instruc- :
ions, I have the honor to submit my {
'eport Of a trip made around the ISL :
and OF Oahu, for the purpose Of visit
ting the different post offices.
Leaving Honolulu on the 3lst Of =
July, I arrived at kaueOhe the same z
lay. q
The post office here Is in the court d
house. The only accom- mediation -
me lock box in q corner Of the room, .
which Is the receptacle for all letters =
% be mailed. Letters for delivery
lave 20 be left on a shelf above the
,ox, from which everyone helps them
elves. q
The postmaster, Z. :. Kahuakaiko, q
vas not 20 De found at the time OF my
risit.
Complaints were made to me that .
'Ir. Kahuakaiko only visited the Of .
Ice once a week, on Wednesday when
he mail arrives from Honolulu. "a
The duty Of this postmaster, IN adj
litiou 70 looking after the Kaneohe
nail, il TO carry the mail from Kane D
,he to Waimanalo and, after making
inquiries, learned that he had been
n The habit OF waiting from twenty =,
our TO forty-eight hours after its ar y
ival from Honolulu before leaving d
[aneohe to deliver it. Instructions
we're left by me for him to deliver the
Vaimanalo mail Immediately on It's 81
rrIVat az haneCne rom honolulu
nd further, that he was to be az his
flee at stated hours every day. + ~
ave heard since that he has carried =,
ut my first instruction, agreeabIy -
the WsimanalO people. -
Moving on to Heeia, 7 found the sc
Ost and money Order Office i'm charge u
Mr.. r. Buchhoitz. His accounts te
nd everything connected with the d.
flee was IN good order.
The people here have a slight griev- ar
nee, in that they have no opportun-
y Of answering letters the same .
EEK they receive them. -
On arriving It Waikane, found that %
n. I +. Papaii, the postmaster, uses &C
is own house for an Office, where ne
sceives and delivers letters and where an
2 may be found the greater part Of
he day. He also delivers letters for n
Taiahole. HakipuU and KualOa.
A { Punaluu 7 found the postmaster E.
al gone up in the mountains, but -
armed from the people that they sit
ere satisfied with mail matters. an
ale was my next stopping place, IA
here the Office il at the residence Of ST
r.. NOali, the manager Of Laie plan 20
tiOn. They are anxious at this vi
ace TO be connected with the Ka- III