The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-05-17

. tie,t vtuae sahB Do uaa. ss spt fift.
ln ihr $3.50 TOW hu Performed tt a..
. ffsi tsriHHHi rirrt ni a salary uf o.
- NHnf committee then frcuWmt bill.
iiHt thu iutIsa uf ihr IN of th, hnUt
trripf D'rrh tu No. transferred fo ih,
"hrsi assistant ciefk ~ lu other eofd,
tu ~ uWHN huuspthpf with tht office uI
tho "sslar, bubkkrrtrf cisfk In ihy be-
. paftnsrt ~ Public works
4 The ofiie, az thr fourth assistant sIeft
and rop,ist youf rommltir" recommend
to be abolished Tito committee has hcDu
made Go undDutund that this office ia
for an Inspector uf weights and fuph.
urN' aud that thu law providing ~,
duties " tho same failed to pass during
the late Legislature 20 hcrom,H then au
unnecessary 'Hrp'niugv' Co the Depart
mont
Your Comm tee ou Fnauc, hns rec.
commended to have only one messenger
instead of two "a. given iu the hli. aud
such recommendation doe. not meet
With the approval of your Committee ON
Public lAuus ana Internal Improve
mcnts. The committee. ON investigation.
finds That thrs" two messengers have
each different works 90 perform. en-.
IL FOR the office Of tuc superintendent
and the other IL FOR the Office Of the as
sistnnt superintendent This latter mes
scngcr Is nlso performing some clerical
DUTIES n- i'm recording all building per
mits issued Ivy the depart tent
Your committee finds no good reason
to abolish the Office Of "roa engineer
as recommended 10y the Committee on
Finance.
I The duties or works OF tnts once per
tain to surveying all new roads to be
opened by the Government In the whole
group.
II has a special work to do for the de
partmeut, Your commi,,ec may here
suggest that II the works OF this office
can be transferred over to the surveying
department, subject to the orders or di-
rectons of the Superintendent OF PuUAc
Works in regard to road surveying and
engineering then this item can be strick
en- out.
II has been recommended by your
Committee on Finance that the salary of
clerk, which is s2,4O0 be stricken out.
Your Committee on Public Lands and
Internal improvements has been made
to know that this office is under the di
rect control of the assistant superintend-
ent and to do away with 1t is to leave
that office without clerk.
In regard to the road supervisor. Ho-
nolulu." your committee would recon-
mend that the item be read as follows
Salary of two (2) road supervisors.
District at "A salary of $4,000, and one for
the Fifth District at $500. Your com
mittee thinks that by having two road
supervisors for the District of Honolulu
would give better work on road making
or repairing. Ia the two districts in t"e
City of Honolulu. Past experiences as
far as the road-making in this City is
concerned for over twenty or more
years, and even now have awakened the
necessity of having two road supervisors.
It has been known that II the roads
east south of Nuuanu street are on
the move for repair, the roads on the
west or north of Nuuanu must patiently
wait for year out and year in. the good
pleasure Of the one road supervisor.
In regard to the pay roll. steam tug"
recommended by lne Committee on H.
nance to be stricken out, that your
Committee on Public Lands and Inter
nal improvements would say Is the
duty of the Committee on Finance
TO take care of all propositions relating
to Government revenues; and as 1t has
recommended this item to be stricken
out, your committee recommends the
same measure. 1t must be presumed
that the money paid out for the "pay
roll o. this steam tug "out-fiankeo its
proGeeas, thereby rendering 1t an unprof-
liable investment OF moneys belonging
to the public
BUREAU OF WATER WORKS
Your committee do not approve the
proposed change made by the Committee
on Finance to do away with the office
of the assistant clerk. because outside
of his usual work Is to collect all mon
eys due from ships for water rates.
The plumber and assistant" are two
useful employees, and that the pay they
receive for works for tapping and other
works pertaining to Government water
pipes sufficiently pay the Government in
return for what they receive for their
services; therefore your committee rec
omrnends to raise their pay to s., 100, in
stead of $3.50 as in the Appropriation
bill. '.i.r
COMMISSION ON PUBLIC LANDS.
The office of patent clerk" has been
recorpmen6cd by the Committee on FL
nance to nc abolished, and that It's du-
t'es' and works to be performed by the
clerk of the bureau; your Committee on
Public Lands and Internal Improvements
agrees with this recommendation.
Your committee recommends that the |
office of an assistant clerk" be done |
away with
That the "pay OF clerk. First Land |
District" to be stricken out, as his |
duties can be performed by the sub
agent.
Your committee do not find or see any |
good reason of abolishing the omces of |
the six rangers (of the First Second. |
Third. Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Land |
Districts). Their several duties are to
inspect all Government lands now held
under the Homestead Act. and see that
the contracts made In consequence there
of are faithfully carried out.
FIRE DEPARTMENT, HONOLULU.
Your committee would say. as far as
the pay roll In this department is con-
cerned. is to leave the same undisturb-
ed. The report of the Superintendent of
Public Works has given an itemized pay
roll In this department that much side
light can be obta ned from the same and
the House can be properly
guided in Its consideration pertaining to
this matter