The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-03
THE CABINET.
Sewer Contract Let on Short Tender.
Court of Claims.

The Cabinet met yesterday morning
at IL o'clock There were present
President Dole and Ministers Mott
Smith, Young, Damon and Cooper.
The question OF the sewer awards
was brought up and after careful dis
cussion IL was voted that the contract
for the construction of the sewerage be
awarded 10 Messrs. Vincent & Belser
on their short time tender.
The action of the President was ap-
proved, appointing Messrs. j. Alfred
MagOon, George A. Davis, LOrrin An
drews, a. Noa Kepoikai and Albert +.
Judd, Jr., as a Court of COmmiss ioners
to take evidence of losses caused by
the burning of Chinatown, in Honolu-
iu, either by the direct orders of the
Board of Health or incidental thereto,
and to make awards and judgments on
such losses, in accordance with the au-
,hOrity conferred by President McKin-
ley. The Cabinet also approved oil the
rules and regulations, issued as an ex-
ecutive order by the President, calling
INTO force the commissioners as organ
lied as a Court of Claims for Losses
Caused by the Board of Health in the
Suppression Of Bubonic Plague"
1t was decided that the Executive
Council request the Council of State
to appropriate the sum of $4,000 for
the expenses of the Court of Claims,
ETC., according to the following items:
Finance Department-Pay of Com
missioners of the Court and incident
ais, $4,000.
Attorney Generals Department
Pay Of counsel for the Government,
So 900.
| These items are based on estimates
| for expenses for the forthcoming six
months and are as follows:
| Five Commissioners at $40 per day
each.
| One clerk at $50 per month.
Two stenographers at s125 per month
each.
Three interpreters at So per day each.
| One janitor and messenger at $40 per
month.
Counsel for Government, $500 retain
er fee and 81 for each case adjudicated
on its merits.
II was voted that the Executive
| Council request the Council of State
10 appropriate $2,500 for the further
maintenance of Relief Camps / and 2
1t was voted to adopt the opinion OF
the Attorney General OF April I'd, that
| she petition OF 500 Japanese to be re-
| ieyed from payment of taxes for the
| current year, owing TO their inability
| TO meet the same on account of dis
| ,ress arising from the loss of their
property in the fire of January 10th
cannot be granted according TO the
| present law providing for the assess
| ment and collection of taxes, and that
the power TO repeal this law Is not
| vested In the Council of State.
| In the matter OF the petition OF Mr.
II. Zerbe for $726.26 in payment oi
wages claimed by him for services In
| the Appraisers office from August 5th
| 1896, TO October goth, 1897, Mr.. Cooper
stated that he was In favor OF the pay
ment OF the claim from the fact that
Mr.. Zerbe ad been continued in Office
and the Custom house had accepted
his services for fourteen months and
that he had performed the duties oi
the appraiser during that time. IL was
decided that the Executive Council re
port TO the Council OF State that II
considers this a matter for the Legisla-
ture to act upon hereafter.
The Cabinet decided TO insert ar
item OF $500 In the appropriation bill
now before the Council of State tC
cover the amount paid into the treas
ury by Mr.. NJ. T. Bluxome for a ship
ping masters license, which was after
wards revoked by the Interior Depart
ment on account OF Its not being in ac-
cordance with section 1860 Of the Penal
Code, which requires that there shall
not be more than two licenses granted
for the port of Honolulu.