The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-05-29
MONUMENT OF
Mr.. THRUNS OFFICE.
Complete Revision of IndiCes in
Registrars Office.
RESULT OF NINE YEARS LABOR.
ThIrty-tyvo Volumes OF Index Work.
No Trouble to Find Transfers-A
Boon TO Lawyers Checked
and Re-checked by Clerks.

The Bureau of Conveyance
had a red letter day on the 27tl
instant, and a fresh bottle of inl
was opened to celebrate the com
pletiOn of the full set of new svs
TEN induces of its miscellaneOus
records from the commencement
Of the office, in 1915.
Some one has facetiOusly term
ed this Mr.. Thrum's Monument
Of Office" and with a semblance
of justice, as may be seen. Doubt
less the legal fraternity, searchers
of title, and others, having bust
ness with the record office, will
welcome this intelligence, for to
them, especially, the value of this
work is readily understood and
duly appreciated.
The full set of induces comprises
thirty-twO large canvas covered
volumes, whose pages measure
fourteen by eighteen inches. The
first series of the set take the first
twenty-five years records, or
from 1915 to 1869 inclusive. while
the later period of twenty-siX
years, covering more frequent
transactions, it has been neces-
sary to divide into four series of
from five to seven years each.
This finished work shows but a
mOiety of the labor of years of
two clerks, frequently interrupt
ed through pressure of current
work, and once delayed several
weeks for want of funds till two
friends of the system came to its
rescue. at about the eleventh hour
of the session Of 1894, and secured
Il grant for its continuance. The
unseen work embraces the alb
stract in short form from the rec
Ords themselves, of every record
ed instrument therein, in the
form desired for the index, but
not in alphabetical order
When Il number Of records were
abstracted in this way, they were
compared and checked, ready for
index entry. The abstract sheets
thus checked, as copy" for both
the first and second party index
clerks, one following the other in
consecutive order as to date of
record. of course entering every
thing in its proper alphabet sub
division. When all was done, the
work was again compared by the
records themselves, one party |
off, and one checking in |
each index and correcting any
errors or omissions, after which
they were ready for public use.
Under the old system the in
dices simply showed the class of
name of first and sec
ond party-One entry in each
and the liber and folio of the
recorded instrument. This was
Ill sufficient in the days when
realty transactions were so light
that the good memory of Regis
-rar Brown could aid the honest
enquirer in information sought.
With the changed business con
IitiOn of the islands toward the
lose of the seventies. complica-
ions of title may said to have
.apidIy multiplied. so that search
work was aided by the addition of
date column. and the vowel sys-
EN- of indexing further facilitat-
a by a better division under sew
raj letters of the alphabet to ac-
Hawaiian and Chi
IeSe names.
While an aid in some respects .
[ did not avail much in identity
no an instrument as TO whether
{ was the one required or not, to
scertain which it was necessary
O note and call for all records
instruments between
he parties sought against, and
examine each till the
light one was found. This was t
OF only a tax on valuable time S
9th to the public and the office, c
ut was deemed by the new regis
rar an unnecessary strain and =
ear upon the records. hence his
of this new system, +
hitch began with 1889, to show,
5 much as possible, the essential H
,atures of each recorded instru-