The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-03-09


Outstanding Certificates...$ 1000 90
Certificates withdrawn
from circulation and de-
posted for safe keeping-$ 28,000 90
Cash in Treasury to re-
deem all outstanding
Certificates. 2S4,OO0 %
Total amount certificates.$ $4,000 90
Cash on hand Postal Saw
ings Bank............. .....".$ 3I,263 S2
Balance to credit OF twen-
ty-six Road Boards, in
Treasury. :. .................. ss,09e so
Balance to creditof School
Boards, in Treasury. 1851 IS
Account..~..............,...... 25s,O2s OIL
Total cash........ IS sss,as7 81
Due current account from
advances to loan fund ...$ 5S,831 OF
Due current account from
advances to Postal Saw
ings Bank k.......... ........... 27,e57 Os
MISCELLANEOUS.
Public Grounds......... go
Subsidy to steamers to Mo-
lOkai, etc. -. .......... 200 90
Incidentals, Homesteads.. 55 -
S 257 62
Mr.. Hatch, for the Judiciary Com
mittee, reported unfavorably on the
petition for the pardon of Kun Wun,
as he was under indictment for trial.
The petition was laid on the table.
Mr.. Hatch also reported, again for
the Judiciary Committee, in favor of
the petition of Anna GertZ for the
pardon of her husband, Christian
Gertz, who is under sentence of six
mo nths at hard labor and $500 fine.
The petition was for the latter PEN
atty.
Mr.. Emmeluth asked whether
Gertz had $500 worth of private prop
erty
The Attorney -General-"There are
two sides to this question. The cases
of merchandise that the opium came
in were liable to confiscation by the
Government, and on this account we
have thought that the finJ was unjust
GertZ is an old man, and the severity
of a sentence of six months at hard
labor was enough, and the COMMITTEES
has recommended that he be pardoned
when his six months has expiredn
On the vote taken on the matter all
voted in favor of the pardon except
Messrs. Emmeluth and Morgan.
Minister Hatch reported that the
committee appointed to draft an act
for the calling of constitutional con-
vention had prepared the bill. 1t was
read by the Secretary and, on motion,
passed it's first reading.
The bill is as follows:
ACT -.
An Act TO provide for a Constitutional
Convention.
Be it Enacted by the Executive and
Advisory Councils OF the Provis-
ional Government of the Hawaii
ian Islands:
Section l. There shall convene at
the call of the President convention
10 frame constitution. Said conven-
tion shall consist of the President, the
Executive and Advisory Councils and
eighteen delegates, to be elected as
herein provided.
Sec. 2. The election shall take
place on such day as shall be pro-
claimed by the Minister of the In
terror.
Sec. 3. For the purposes o< this
election there shall be four electoral
divisions, viz: ID The island of
Oahu, from which shall be elected six
delegates; (2) the island Of Hawaii,
from which shall be elected five dele
gates; (3) the islands of Maui, Mo-
l0kai and Lanai, from which will be
elected four delegates; (4) the islands
of Kauai and Niihau, from which
shall be elected three delegates.
QUALIFICATIONS OF ELECTORS.
Sec. 4. Every male resident of the
Hawaiian Islands, of Hawaiian,
American or European birth or de-
scent, who shall have taken the oath
by this Act provided; who shall have
paid his taxes for the year 1893, unless
exempted by law from paying taxes;
who shall have attained the age OF
twenty years; who shall have been
domiciled in the Hawaiian Islands for
one year, and shall have caused his
name to be entered on the list of