The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-05-15

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lating to alcohol pass as in the bill
Carried.
Section 16, relating TO $50 fee on stock
and loan business. Committee recon-
mended that fee for carrying on stock
and share business be 800. Report OF
committee adopted.
, Section so. relating to butchers and
/ dealers in beef. License for Honolulu
500; all other districts, $40. Passed.
Annual fee for selling beef in the dis
trict OF Honolulu, $40. Carried.
Rep Kamauoha said there were a
number of people on the other Islands
/ who had a few cattle and who made
| jerked beef The law as it now reads
would affect them. He asked that the
bill be amended so as to fix a ten dollar
license on those people.
Rep. Rycroft thought it was an excel
lent amendment, There is tendency
now to clean out the wild cattle in the
neighborhood of the plantations. A
small license might be charged these
people, while heavy one would be a
hardship.
Rep. Robertson said the members
were out of order, as the section had
passed and there was no business be-
fore the House. So ruled.
Committee reported on ear marks and
brands. recommendations adopted.
License to slaughter hogs and carry
on pork shops, $40 for Honolulu and $40
for outside districts. For selling pork
in the district of Honolulu the license
will be $40. Passed.
Section 81, providing for conviction
of physician or surgeon for malpractice
Committee recommended striking out
the section. Carried.
Section regarding the presence of fire
arms. When found in a dwelling are
decreed TO belong to persons occupying
dwelling.
Section So for conducting hotel or
boarding house, recommended by COM
mittee and adopted. Nothing in the |
act may be construed as interfering |
with family taking three boarders. |
Carried.
Section 102, $50 fee for sale of tobac-
co, cigars and cigarettes, was amended
by the committee to read $40. Report
adopted.
Rep. Richards, under suspension of
the rules, asked that Section 79 be re-
This section makes the fee
1n sales of merchandise amounting to
$4,000 per annum $50, above that
amount license equal to three-eights
If one per cent. Passed.
On motion of Rep. Kamauoha, the
'ules were suspended and he introduced
! section providing for fee of S1O
or the sale of salted or jerked beef.
Minister Damon-I want revenue and
he member is trying to help me, but
want to be fair. If a man has license
o sell beef he must, under this section.
)ay an extra license for salt or jerked
)eef.
Rep. Richards thought it was unfair
o charge a license fee of 500 on the
utter districts and then give another
nan license to sell salt or jerked beef
nder $40 license. Believed the $40
ee should cover all.
Rep. Kamauoha said there was where
he trouble was. Men paid a license to
ell fresh beef, but they were interfGed
With by persons who paid no license
tut who slaughterd cattle and jerked
r salted the beef and sold it.
On motion of Rep. Robertson, the
mendment offered by Rep. Kamauoha
vas indefinitely postponed. Section
3thdrawn by the introducer.
Rep. Richards moved the bill with
mendments pass second reading.
Rep. Robertson moved that as it had |
assed second reading it be sent to the ,
'rinting Committee to be typewriter.
nd that that committee have authority
D renumber sections. Carried.
Senate bill No. 81 was taken up for
econd reading. This provides for the
ransfer by the Minister of the Interior
f two acres of land in the district of
iona, Oahu, for the use of Chinese as a
ospital. AS the location for the insti-
ution had not been named, Rep. Ry-
roft suggested Emma Square, Thomas
quare of Kapiolani Park. Another
lember suggested that the title of the
ct be changed to read can Act to es-
ablish an opium joint within the dis
'ict of Kona, Honolulu"
Neither was acted upon and the bill
assed second reading,
Adjourned at 8 p. m.