The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-12-24

The first draft of the section of the
new land law relating to inalienable
holdings has been completed. This
law has been under the advisement of
the Cabinet for some time past. 1t
comes from the hand of President
Dole. and is now made public that
citizens may become thoroughly con-
versant with the general scheme pro-
posed before it is submitted to the
legislature.
1t is proposed in the new Land Act to
place the management OF the Public
Lands in board of three commission
ers, one of whom will be the Minister of
the Interior, one the Surveyor-General,
and the third person to be appointed
by the President and who will be speci-
ally designated the Agent of Public
Lands; such board TO be represented in
each taxation district by person to be
designated the Sub-Agent OF Public
Lands.
1t is also proposed to classify the Pub
lie Lands somewhat as follows:
/. Town lots.
2. Agricultural land.
8. Pastoral land.
4. Observation-Disclosures land.
5. Forest land.
g. Waste land.
Town lots will include building lots in
towns and villages and their suburbs.
Agricultural lands-First class. Land
suitable for cultivation of fruit, coffee or
sugar without irrigation and irrigable
and irrigated lands. Second class.
Lands suitable for the cultivation of an
nual crops without irrigation. Third
class. Wet lands such as kalo and rice
land.
Pastoral land-First class. Land not
| in the description of agricultural land,
| but capable of carrying live stock the
year through.
Second class. Land capable OF carry
| ing live stock only part of the year, or
otherwise inferior.
Pastoral-agricultural land - Land
| adapted in part for pasturage and in
part for cultivation.
Forest land-Land more or less cover
| ed with forest trees and unsuitable for
Waste land-Land not included in the
| other classes.
INALIENABLE HOLDINGS.
The law relating to inalienable hold
| ings is as follows:
SECTION /. The Commissioners of
Public Lands are hereby authorized and
| instructed to cause to be surveyed and
set apart from time to time, suitable
portions of the Public Lands for the oc-
| cupation of such persons as may desire
| to obtain homesteads under this part OF
| this Act. Such lands shall be selected
only from agricultural and pastoral
lands, and shall be laid out In lots OF
| not over eight acres in first class agrl-
| cultural land, not over sixteen acres IN
second class agricultural land, not over
| one acre in wet land, not over
| thirty acres in first class pastoral land,
| and not over sixty acres in second class
pastoral land. Convenient roads as to
| grade and direction shall be surveyed,
connecting such lots with public road.
! SEC. =. Upon the completion ofany such
survey the surveyor shall furnish the
Commissioners with copy OF the chart
| thereof and a copy to the Sub-Agent OF
Pub ic Lands for the district in which
the surveyed land is situated. The
| Agent of Public Lands shall thereupon
give public notice by advertisement In
the Hawaiian language in some newspa-
per published III Hawaiian, and if he
deem it advisable, in any other lam
guage in which newspapers in the Re
public are published, declaring the said
lard 10 be open for settlement according
| to the provisions therefor set forth in
this ACT.
eLC 3. Such charts of survey shall be
open to public inspection during business
hours without charge. All applica
tions for any OF said lots
shall be made in person by
the applicant at the office o. the sub
agent, and shall include sworn declaT-
alton substantially according to the form
of schedule a. The applicant shall pay
to the sub-s gent fee Of one dollar at the
time cf making the application. Upor
receiving any such application and the
| said fee, the sub-agent shall endorse
upon the application the day anc
hour Of receiving tie same and the re-
| ceipt Of the eaid fee. In ca q two or mare
persons apply for the samr lot, the one
" hose application is first received shal
! hav.- the pr-f-Ierre No application
not including Il 0eC ara.iOn o. Qua!lflcA
ton as above tquil ed or not accompa-
MED with the said ie4 sail be r' ceiveC
or considered.
| SEC. 4. Any citizen by birth or nat
uraliZation and den'Zen ant person wht
has received special rights of citizenship
over eighteen years of axe, who is unde
no civil disa bility for any offense, who i
not delinquent in the payment OF ts xes
who has not made false declaration II
applying for land under this Act, who
not the owner in his own right Of an.
land in the Hawaiian Islands and who i
] not an applicant for any other interest IL