The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-05-29
PEARL HARBOR
Text of Bill for Making
a Naval Station
Provides for the requirement Of
Lands and Rights and
for Dredging.

The following is the full text of the
bill introduced into the Senate of the
United States on April 20, by Senator
Hale
a Bill to provide for the requirement by
the United States OF lands and rights
therein necessary 10 the establish
meat of naval station in Pearl Har-
Dor, Island OF Oahu, Hawaii, and for
the dredging OF approaches to said
harbor.
BE 1t enacted by the Senate and
| House OF Representatives OF the United
States of America, in Congress assem-
bled, That the Secretary of the Navy
be, and he is hereby authorized to ac-
quire, Immediately upon the passage of
| this Act, by purchase from the owners
thereof, or by condemnation in pur-
snance of the provisions of chapter
ninety nine, eminent domain, civil laws
OF the Hawaiian Islands, for the pur.
pose of establishing a naval station in
| Pearl Harbor Island of Oahu, Hawaii
certain tracts of land, containing in the
aggregate one thousand eight hundred
and lightweight acres. more or less, as
may be required, said tracts being stu
shores of said harbor and upon the
shores of the entrance thereto, namely:
First, the island known as "Mokuu-
meume," or Ford Island" comprising
about three hundred and seventy acres;
second, the peninsula tract known as
"Waipio, comprising about eight hum
dred and twenty acres; third, tract
comprising about three hundred and
eiehtv-fve acres. living to the eastward
of and fronting upon the entrance to
said harbor; fourth, a tract comprising
about three hundred and five acres ly-
ing to the westward of and fronting
upon the entrance to said harbor; to-
gether with all riparian and fishing
rights and other easements in and upon
said properties necessary to be acquir
ed in order to the free and unrestricted
use of the lands for naval purposes by
the United States, and all rights of way
in and upon adjacent lands necessary
to provide convenient access to the
here nbefore- men toned tracts; and for
each and every purpose connected with
the requirement Of the lands aforesaid
the sum of one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, is hereby appropri-
ated out of any moneys in the Treas
ury not otherwise appropriated.
zee g That the Secretary of the
Navy he, and he is hereby authorized
Immediately upon the passage of this
Act. to establish port warden or harbor
lines in Pearl Harbor and the channel
leading thereto; to make such other
regulations as may be necessary for the
rro4oot'on or the interests Of the INIT |
ed States naval station in said harbor,
and to detail an officer of the navy as
supervisor of the harbOr whose duy 1t |
shall be to see that the harbor lines as
established, and such other harbor reg |
r''at'o~e nc NOV he made from time To |
time by the Department, are duly OBJ
Sc yea d d re pected.
Sec 3. That for the PURPOSE of d edg- !
ing and improving the channel leading
to Pearl Harbor. in order to provide |
safe eptr0nCe thereto for vessels of six
thousand tons displacement and under,
the sum of four hundred thousand dol
lars is hereby appropriated, out of any
moneys in tie Treasury not otherwise
appropriated. such sum to be eXpe" ded
under the supervision of the Navy De
partment, and to be in addition to the
sum of one hundred thousand do''arS
heretofore, by Act approved March Sd,
1899 Omitted States Statues at Large. |
vol. 90, page 1899, appropriated for
such purpose, which sum is hereby
transferred from the War Department
to the Navy Department for expendi-
ture in pursuance of the PROVISIONS OF
this Act Provided. That the aDpropri- |
ations made by this section for dredg-
ing shall not become available until the
lands required for the purposes o. a |
naval station in Pearl Hnrbor shall
have been condemned. or It'll" thereto
otherwise acquired By the United states
in pursuance Of the provisions of Sec
ton of this Act.