Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-05-02
ABOUT KAPIOLANI PARK.
THE BILL TO PROVIDE FOR ITS
PERMANENT SETTLEMENT.
To be Made Into Permanent Public
Park and Recreation Ground and
Controlled by Commission.

Following is a copy of Senate
Bill, No. 30, an Act to Provide for
the Permanent Settlement of IA
piolani Park, the preamble and
body of which explain its objects
fully:
Whereas the Kapiolani Park
Association, chartered corpora
ton of the Hawaiian Islands,
holds certain premises in the dis
trict of Honolulu, including the
lands known as the Kapiolani
Park and certain lots adjacent
thereto, by lease from the Crown
Commissioners having upwards
of twenty-five years to run, and
by a lease from Allen Herbert,
having upwards of ten years to
run, and by deed Of conveyance
from the trustees of the Lunalilo
Estate recorded in the Hawaiian
Registry of Deeds in Book SO,
pages l35 and following:
And whereas William G.. Irwin
is now the owner of the fee of the
premises leased by said Allen
! Herbert as aforesaid:
And whereas a number OF
house-lots within said premises
and on the outskirts of the said
Park have been laid out by said
Association, and by it leased and
sub-let to persons, some of whom
have improved and occupied the
same, the said William G.. Irwin
now holding under such leasing
and leasing thirty-seven Of
said lots, to wit; nineteen on the
beach and eighteen mauka, the
aggregate area Of seid thirty seven
lots being 1902 acres:
And whereas the said William
G.. Irwin has proposed to the Ex-
ecutive Council to convey that
part of his said fee simple pre-
misses now under lease to the Ka-
piolani Park Association that lies
within the Park proper, Except
35-.lO0 of an acre thereof reserved
by him. containing 1855 acres,
to the Government upon the con-
sideration that the Government
shall by sufficient proceedings
cause the Park proper, that is to
saw, all the said premises hereto
fore known as Kapiolani Park,
and used as public park, except
as aforesaid, to be permanently
set apart as a free public park and
recreation ground forever, and
also shall without further con-
sideration or cost furnish him,
the said William G.. Irwin, fee
simple title to the thirty-seven
lots, held by him as aforesaid, and
shall also surrender to him, the
said William G.. Irwin, the lease
upon that portion of his said fee
simple land lying outside of the
boundaries of the Park proper:
And whereas the said Associa-
ton is ready to do all things ne
cessary for it to do to carry out
the said permanent establishment
of said Park, including a surrend-
er, release and conveyance to the
Government of all its remaining
interests and rights to all the pre-
misses aforesaid, subject only to
the rights of third parties in the
lots aforesaid, and delivery of all
its tools, carts and other personal
property used in the care of said
Park:
Now therefore be it enacted bv
the Legislature of the Republic
of Hawaii;
Section /. The President, with
the approval of the Cabinet is
hereby authorized to arrange with
the said William G. Irwin and the
said Kapiolani Park Association
a plan to create the said Kapio-
lani Park into a permanent public
park and recreation ground, and
to accept conveyance of the said
1865 acres from the said William
Il. Irwin, and the surrender, re-
lease and conveyance from the
Kapiolani Park Association aforc-
said, subject to the rights of third
parties In any of said lots, and to
convey to said William G. Irwin
the lease upon that portion of his
said fee simple land retained by
him as aforesaid, and thereupon
to convey the remainder of the
premises, including the 1866 acres
and not Including any Of the said
adjacent lots, by trust deed to Six
persons to DO selected as bareinEt