The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-06-14

selection not being regarded as bar
| ring the member from offering other
| names. The amended motion was
| adopted and the speaker named Reps.
| Robertson, Kamauoha and Richards
| to serve on the committee.
| Minister Damon asked leave to in
| trOduce the following appropriation
| bills which were read for the first
| time and ordered translated and print
ed in Hawaiian and English:
An Act Making Supplementary APP
prOpriations for the Use of the
Government of the Republic of
Hawaii for the two years ending
March 81, 1896.
Be it Enacted by the Legislature of
the Republic of Hawaii:
Section /. The following sums,
amour ing to Sl56, $50, are hereby ap-
prOpriated from the Public Treasury
in addition to the sums heretofore APP
prOpriated for the following purposes,
| namely:
Legislature. of the Spe-
| cial Session of the Legislature, 1895,
$4,000.
Permanent Settlements.-Kai
for the twelve months commencing
April /, 1895, $4,000
vi IOI6lSh AIdlIS-
Band, $500; support of military, Sl5,-
600.
Attorney Generals Department.
Pay of Police, Oahu, $4,000; pay of
jailors, guards and lunas of prisoners,
$4,000; support and maintenance of
prisoners, $4,000; incidentals, civil
and criminal expenses, $4,000.
Bureau of Public Instruction.-Sta
tionery, books and incidentals for
office and schools, $4,000; repairing
school houses, $4,000.
Interior Department.--EX Expenses of
Land Act of 1895, $4,000; landings
and bridges, Puma, $4,000; roads and
bridges, IZau, $1,000; roads and
bridges, Hama, $500; water works,
running expenses of the pumping
plant, $1,000; water works, Lau-
pahOehoe, $3.50; water works, KOlOa,
$4,000; Fire Department, Honolulu,
$4,000; new court house, KOna (substi-
tuted for Waiohinu), $500.
Telegraphic connection between
North KOna, South Kona and Kau,
$4,000.
Total, $156, $50.
Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect
from and after the date of its publica-
ton.
An Act to Regulate the Currency.
Be it Enacted by the Legislature of
the Republic of Hawaii:
Section 1. 1t shall be lawful for the
Minister of Finance to redeem all GER
tificates of deposit issued under the
provisions of Chapter 80 of the Session
Laws of 1886 and the amendments
thereto, now outstanding, at their
nominal value on demand, and all
zoe cd oh % hn n
with withdrawn and cancelled by the
Registrar of Public Accounts, in such
manner as the Executive Council
shall direct.
Sec. 2. The Minister of Finance
NAV issue or cause to be issued from
time to time gold and silver certifi-
Gates of deposit, payable TO bearer on
demand without interest upon setting
apart as a special deposit an equal
amount of gold coin of the United
States of America and silver coin of
the Hawaiian Islands or of the United
States of America as security for the
redemption of such certificates res
pectively.
Sec. 8. The certificates issued upon
the gold deposit shall be of an uniform
color and of the respective denOmina-
tions of five, ten, twenty, fifty and
one hundred dollars. The certificates
issued upon the silver deposit shall be
of another uniform color and of the
respective denominations of five, ten,
twenty, fifty and one hundred dollars. !
Sec All such certificates shall |
be signed by the Minister of Finance !
and cOuntersigned by the Registrar of
Public Accounts, and the special de- |
pOsits of gold and silver coin in the !
Treasury for their redemption shall be |
used only for the payment and re- !
demption of such gold and silver Ger
tificates, and shall be kept as special !
deposits for such purpose and no !
other.
Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect |
from and after its approval, and all |
laws and parts OF laws inconsistent |
herewith are repealed.
An Act Making supplementary Ap-
prOpriatiOns for the Use Of the |
Government Of the Republic Of /
Hawaii for the Two Years Which /
Will Eud With the Thirty-frst |
Day Of March, 1896.
Be in Enacted by the Legislature of
the Republic of Hawaii
Section l. The following sums
amounting to S32, 800. are hereby |
appropriated out Of any moneys which !
shall be received by the Treasury dur
ing the Biennial Period ending March
81, 1896, from the loan authorized by |
the Act approved January II, 1898,
and by Act IS of the Provisional Gov
ernment, approved February IS, 1898,
from any surplus receipts from de
pOsits in the Postal Savings Bank,
and from current revenue; provided,
however, that any moneys advanced
from current revenue, or from de-
pOsits in the Postal Savings Bank for
the objects named, may, as soon as
practicable, be reimbursed from mon
eys obtained from such loan:
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT..
New wharves, sea wall, dredging
Honolulu harbOr and bar, retaining
wall, Haaliliamanu stream for wash
houses, 50, 800.
D,aIa EriI tyau md I.pIi,,r-y !