Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-05-10
in Congress assembled.

high seas and other waters; sections
j95 and COZ to COS, inclusive, Jurisdic-
ton; section G2S, Procedure; sections
100 and 701, Imports; section us, Auc-
ion license; section 7iJ, Commercial
travellers; sections 7iS to 755, inclusive,
firearms: sections 1876 to 500, inclusive,
Joasting trade; sections 81 and Sl2
'eddling foreign goods sections Sl3 tC
is, inclusive, Importation Of live
stock; section $40, Imports; sections
Sc to 906. inclusive, Quarantine; sec
ion 1877, Consuls and consular agents;
hapter G7, Whale ships; sections 1tii
ll79, inclusive. and 1905 to 1909, in
,lusive, Arrival, entry and departur,
( vessels; chapters s. TO rs, inclusive
navigation and other matters withii
he exclusive jurisdiction of the Unit
d States; sections 1874, and 13iS,
fraudulent expectation; chapter 7S,
lasters and servants; chapter SO, I'M
Iigration; sections 1904. 1908, and
jl2, Agriculture and forestry; chapter
5, Solutions offenses, and chapter 30,
,ailing regulations.
Session Laws: Act 10, Elections:
Yet 26. Duties Act 81. Exemptions
rom duties; Act 32, Registry of YES
els; section of Act 81. Importation
T live stock; Act As, Pacific cable; Act
So. Consolidation of public debt; Act
&c, Ports Of entry, and Act 6S, Chinese
immigration.
Certain Offices Abolished.
Section s. That the Offices of Presi-
lent, Minister Of Foreign Affairs, Mill
ster of the Interior, Minister of II
nance, Minister of Public Instruction.
Auditor General, Deputy Auditor Gen.
>ral, Surveyor General, Marshal and
Deputy Marshal Of the Republic OF
Hawaii are hereby abolished.
Amendment Of Official Titles.
Section 0. That wherever the words
President of the Republic Of Ha-
wait" or Republic of Hawaii" D,
Government of the Republic of Ha-
waii," or their equivalents, occur III
the laws of Hawaii net repealed by this
Act, they are hereby amended to read
Governor of the Territory of Ha-
waii," or Territory of Hawaii" or
Government of the Territory of Ha-
waii," or their equivalents, as the con-
text requires.
Construction of Existing Statutes.
Section 10. That all rights of action,
suits at law and in equity, prosecu-
tons and judgments existing prior t.
the taking effect of this Act shall con-
tinue to be as effeCtual as II this Ac,
had not been passed; and those In IA
yor Of or against the Republic OF Ha.
wall aLI not assumed by or transferred
to the United States, shall be equally
valid In favor Of or against the govern
ment of the Territory Of Hawaii. All
offenses which by statute then in force
were punishable as offenses against the
Republic of Hawaii shall he punish
able as offenses against the govern
ment of the Territory Of Hawaii, unless
such statute is inconsistent with this
Act or shall be repealed or changed
by law. No person shall be subject to
Imprisonment for non-payment Of
taxes nor for debt. All criminal o.
penal proceedings then pending
in the courts Of the Republic
of Hawaii shall be prosecuted
to final judgment al execution
in the name Of the Territory
of Hawaii; all such pro-
ceedings, all actions at law, suits in
equity, and other proceedings then
pending in the courts OF the Republic
of Hawaii shall be carried on to final
judgment and execution in the cores
ponding courts Of the Territory of Ha-
wall, and all process issued and SEN
fences imposed before this Act takes
effect shall be as valid as IL issued or
imposed in the name OF the Territory
OF Hawaii: Provided. That no suit or
proceedings shall be maintained for the
specific performance of any contract
heretofore or hereafter entered into for
personal labor or service, nor shall any
remedy exist or be enforced for breach
of any such contract, except in civil
suit or proceeding instituted solely to
recover damages for such breach. Pro-
vided further, That the provisions of
this section shall not modify or change
the laws Of the United States appli-
cable to merchant seamen.
That all contracts made since August
12th 1898, by which persons are held
for service for q definite term, are
hereby declared null and void and ter
and no law shall be passed
to enforce said contracts In any way;
and it shall be the duty of the United
States marshal to at once notify such
persons so held of the termination OF
their contracts.
That the Act approved February
Goth, 1855, "To prohibit the importa-
ton and migration OF foreigners and
aliens under contract or agreement to
perfor mlabor in the United States, It's
Territories, and the District of Column
bia," and the Acts amendatory thereof
and supplemental thereto, be, and the
same are hereby, extended to and made
applicable to the Territory Of Hawaii,