Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-10-11

Judge from the county he is rep.
resented by Court Commission
or who has power to.graut all the
orders usually made by Judge
in chambers. There is also an
official known as Public Admin
istrator who takes charge of all
unclaimed estate and administers
thereon. He also acts as Coroner
but in his absence any Justice of
the Peace may act as such.
TERRITORIAL TAXATION.
Taxes are levied in all the ter
ritories for the territorial, county
and, in towns above certain
population, for municipal pur-
poses. There are also territorial
and county licenses required
for certain businesses, such as
saloons, which pay liquor
license to the United States and
also license, for the privilege of
doug business, to the territory,
county and municipality, but
these combined licenses do not
generally exceed $50 a month.
Taxation varies according to resi-
dence; territorial taxes are usually
limited to l per cent, county
taxes to l and municipal to J or
these figures are given from
memory-and it will readily be
seen that under a territorial form
OF government taxes will increase,
unless tax officials elected by the
people succeed in forcing more
equable assessment of property
than now prevails. The same
fight against the license system
prevailed in Arizona ten years
ago that does here today, but the
courts there held that it was not
double taxation.
In Arizona there used to be
and probably is now a poll tax
of 50 which went directly into the
school fund; and a road tax of
50 to the road fund; the latter
could be worked out on the roads
at SLIGO per day.
TERRITORIAL LANDS.
In most of the territories of the
United States at the time of form
alton certain grants of land, usual.
ly from 5 to 10 per cent of the
area, were reserved and set apart
to the territory forever. All
moneys derived from the lease or
sale of these lands are used solely
for school, university and other
educational purposes, so it will be
seen that the clause in the treaty
setting apart the revenue from the
crown lands for the use of the
people of Hawaii for educational
and other purposes" is merely
carrying out the principle en-
bodied in the government of the
older territories. A careful con-
sideration of the text of the treaty
with the statutes of the United
States regarding territories will
show how carefully it was drawn
and how those who drew it had in
mind continually the formation
of the new Territory of Hawaii on
the same lines as others.
While Article vi of the An
nexation Treaty provides that
"the President shall appoint five
Commissioners, at least two of
whom shall be residents of the
Hawaiian Islands, who shall, as
soon as reasonably practicable,
| recommend to Congress such
legislation concerning the Terri
tory OF Hawaii as they shall deem
necessary and proper" it car
hardly be expected that the Com
missioners will recommend any
radical departure from the gener-
al United States Statutes regard.
| ing the formation of territories
or that Congress would adopt any
such recommendation if they did
1t may safely be asserted thai
whatever legislation the Commits
sion may recommend will follow
closely that heretofore enacted fo
other territories, and hence j
may not be inopportune to com
mence studying the situation il
the older territories in order tina
we may become familiar with ou
status under the change tina
seems certain to come, and be il
position to 60 before the Com
mission and ask for such modifi
cations of the general territoria
laws as will best suit the peopl