The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-03-18

The Advisory Councils held
short session Saturday forenoon.
The principal business done was
the passing of the Court of Claims
Act and setting an amendment to
the Chinese immigration Act on
it's way through the legislative
mill. The latter Act was intro
duced by Mr.. Bolte and reads as
follows:
An Act to amend Section l and Section
5 of Act "A of the Provisional Gov
eminent of the Hawaiian Islands,
entitled can Act Relating to Chi
nese immigration, Supplementary to
Chapter 80 of the Session Laws of
1892, Passed the 30th day of No
vember A. D. 1892, entitled, 'An Act
Restricting Chinese immigration "
Be it enacted by the Executive and
Advisory Councils OF the Republic of
Hawaii:
SECTION 1. Section l of said 4 ct is
hereby amended by striking out the
words tout of the wages due the labor
ers" and the words "his employer" and
inserting in the place of the latter the
words ''said laborers" so that said sec
ticn, as amended, shall read as follows
SECTION /. In addition to the condi-
tions named in Section 2 of Chapter
Xxx of the Session Laws Of 1892, upon
which permits may be granted to Chi
nese to enter the Hawaiian Islands to
engage as agricultural laborers in the
field, 1r in rice or sugar mills, such per-
mits shall only be granted upon the fur
ther condition that the srm of one dollar
and fifty cents at the end of each month
shall be paid by said laborer to the
Board of immigration, Ia such manner
and subject to such req atlons as said
Board shall direct, until such payments
amount in each case to the sum of thirty
six dollars, to be held as a fund to the
credit of the laborer for the uses and
purposes hereinaf er set fJTth.
SECTION 2. Section of said Act is
hereby amended by striking out the
words "every employer of Chinese adj
mitted into this country under permits
provided by said Act, who shall fail to
remit to the Board of immigration the
amount above provided out of the wages
of such laborers" and inserting in their
place the words: "EVery employer
of Chinese admitted into this coun-
try under permits provided by this Act
shall deduct each month from the wages
due such laborers at the end of each
mOQIn the sum OF one dollar and fifty
cents, and every employer who shall faA
to remit to the Board of Immigration the
amount above provided out of the wages
of such laboreTs, and every laborer who
shall refuse or neglect to pay such
amount" so that said section, as amend
ed, shall read as follows:
SECTION 5. Every employer of Chinese
admitted into this country under permits
provided by this Act, shall deduct each
month from the wages due such laboreT
at the end of each month the sum OF one
dollar and fifty cents, and every employer
who shall fail to remit to the Board of
I'm migration the amount above provided
out OF the W. ges of such laborers, and
every laborer who shall refuse or neglect
to pay such amount at the time and in
the manner directed by said Board, shall
be guilty Of a misdemeanor and liable TO
a fine of not less than ten nor more than
fifty dollars for each failure and the said
Board may thereafter refuse to grant the
application of such employer for permits
for Chinese to enter this country.
Provided. however, if any such en-
ployer shall within thirty days after each
failure show to said Board good and salts
factory reasons for such failure, said en-
alties shall not be imposed.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect
from the date Of its publication.
This bill passed the second read