The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-03-24
BY AUTHORITY
ACT SO.
An ACT TO PROVIDE FOB a CoNsTITU-
TIoSAL CONVENTION.


TIoSAL CONVENTION.
Be It Enacted by the Executive and Adrisory
Councils Of the Provisional Government
Of the Hawaiian Islands:
Section There shall convene at
the call of the President a convention
to frame a constitution. Said conven-
ton shall consist of the President, the
Executive and Advisory Councils and
eighteen delegates, to be elected as
herein provided.
Sec. .. The election shall take
place on such day as shall be pro-
claimed by the Minister of the lnte-
rior.
Sec. 3. For the purposes of this
election there shall be four electoral
divisions, viz: a. The island OF
Oahu, from which shall be elected six
delegates; ~ the island of Hawaii,
from which shall be elected five dele
gates; (3) the isla nds of Maui, Molo-
kai and Lanai, from which shall be
elected four delegates; a. 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, Amer
| lean or European birth or descent,
| who shall have taken the oath 10y this
| Act provided; who shall have paid his
taxes for the year 1893, unless exempt
| ed by law from paying taxes; who
shall have attained the age of twenty
| wears; who shall have been domiciled
| i'm the Hawaiian Islands for one year,
! and shall have caused his name to be
| entered OH the list of voters of the pre-
| cinct in which he resides, and who is
not insane or an idiot, or who shall
not have been convicted of felony,
unless pardoned, shall be entitled to "a
vote for the delegates to be elected
from the island on which such voter
| resides.
Provided, that the payment of taxes
for the year 1898, and residence for
one year shall not apply to any per-
son otherwise qualified who, on offer
ing TO register, may produce a certif-
icate from the Colonel of the Nation
al Guard of Hawaii or the Marshal OF
the Hawaiian Islands setting forth
that the person was duly enrolled as
| a member of one of the lawfully or
ganized bodies of the military or police
force prior to January LIST, 1894.
Sec. s. Each voter for delegates
may cast as many votes as there are
delegates to be elected from the divis
ion in which he resides, and may cast
one vote for each delegate, or cas-
| them all for one delegate, or may
otherwise divide his votes among the
several delegates.
The required number of candidates
receiving the highest number of vote
in the respective divisions shall be TIN
delegates for such divisions.
: Sec. 6. The election shall be b.
= ballot. The ballot shall be printed b.
the Minister OF the Interior at Gov
; eminent expense, and shall conform
i'm size, quality and general form t.
, the ballots required for mobiles unde
the election law of 1890. No other form
of ballot shall be received. Each vote
shall place a figure after the name c
the candidate or candidates for whom
, he votes, showing how many votes b
!, casts for each candidate. Any ballo
containing more votes than tn
total number of delegates appol
i toned for the electoral division i
which said ballot is cast shall be II
jected.
p INSPECTORS OF ELECTION.
Sec. Z. The Minister of the InteriC
u shall appoint three inspectors OF ele'
~ tons for each polling place heretofol
:. established by law for the election
n representatives. Any two of such il
ar spectors may act; and, in the case
III disability of two of such emberS,
ID their refusal to act, the remaining II
ut spector may fill the vacancies in ca
it occurs so near that date of II
terror cannot make an appointment
The inspectors of elections shall no
y ut least two meetings i'll their respeC
10 i've precincts for the purpose of enrol
- | ment of voters not less than ten, II
Of more than twenty, days prior to Il
b. date fixed for said election, and sha
I'D 1--WE notice of the same by a post
Us notice or by publication in new
al paper. The inspectors shall prepare
o. list of all persons who have register
, and are entitled to vote, and shall pc
~ a copy of the same in their respect
~ nre oinotS not loss than six daZS pri