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necessary to be done. The race course
cannot be permitted to absorb a large
part of the par.i area indefinitely. The
release of such area will make an i'm
portant addition to the park proper,
which will require kill and money
for its arrangement in conformity with
the surrounding grounds. A greater
attention to landscape effects than
heretofore is desirable. This means
more skill at a greater cost.
The report Of the Commissioners
shows forcibly the need of an increas-
ed outlay for watering facilities
among other things.
The Legislature of 1898 made PROV
ision for the appointment of Com
mission of three persons to investi
gate the subject of taxation and re-
port at the succeeding session. Mr.
William r. Castle of Honolulu. Mr.
Henry P. Baldwin of Maui and Mr.
Alexander G.. M. Robertson of Homo
lulu were appointed on this Commits
sion. Considerable preliminary work
was done, but the failure of a regular
session in 1900 together with the long
continued uncertainty as to the time
when legislature would sit, led to
cessation of the work of the Commits
sion. Just before the election of last
November, Mr.. Baldwin and Mr.. Rob-
ertson who had decided to become
candidates for election to the Legisla-
ture, resigned from the Commission.
l recommend legislation providing
for the appointment of Commissioners
of Deeds for the Territory in other
apf, Df f1o iyn fbr1 To-
relating to the Board of Health to al
low the President of the Board to re-
ceive salary, amending the statute
of vagrancy to include as Migrants all
persons conducting an Illicit business,
creating fire limits in the town of Hilo
and extending the fire limits of Homo
lulu. providing for merchandise licen-
SEES, repeating statute reserving belts
of trees along new forest roads,
amending the military law and Great
ing the office of Adjutant-General, en-
larging the list of articles exempt
from attachment, requiring building
permits within certain limits in Homo
lulu and Hilo and perhaps other towns
to be passed upon by an officer of the
Board of Health as to sanitary condi-
ton of the ground and sanitary char
acter of the plans, providing for the
election of Delegate to Congress,
amending the lien law to require
plaintiff to prove delivery and good
faith, restricting the sale and use of
opium, regulating the sale of spiritu-
GUS liquors, protecting the Territory
from the immigration of persons af-
flicted with contagious diseases, and
carrying out the recommendations of
the Attorney General in regard to the
status and punishment OF offenses,
and the jurisdiction of District Magis-
trates in criminal proceedings, the
custody of kerosene and gunpowder,
and chapter IS of the Penal Laws.
| also recommend legislation for
the protection and increase Of Ha-
waiian food fish.
shall submit IN few days brief
list of supplementary estimates.
Reports making recommendation
for appropriations from the different
departments and bureaus together
ments have been prepared and will be
submitted for your assistance. l com
mend them to your careful study as
giving a comprehensive statement Of
the conduct of all executive and judi
cial matters.
During the past year the Hawaiian
community has twice been called up
on to mourn the death of members If
the last royal line of the monarchy;
Her late Majesty Queen Dowager Ka-
piolani, widow of His late Majesty
King Kalakaua, and Her late Royal
Highness Princess Kaiulani, daughter
of Her late Royal Highness Princess
Likelike and the Honorable Archibald
S. Cleghorn.
State obsequies were rendered to
the remains of both of these esteemed
Aliis, and tie mourning for them by
all classes and nationalities was gen.
eral and sincere.
Public feeling was deeply aroused
by the death of Princess Kaiulani.
Her beauty and charm, the romantic
incidents of her short life in connec-
ticn with her brilliant political pros.
poets as heiress presumptive to the
Hawaiian throne, and their Illustration
by no fault of hers, her brave accept.
ance CT the new and difficult situation
and the tact and sincerity she dis
played in her changed relations with
the Government and the people, had
won for her a widespread interest and
the respect and regard of the commu
nifty. Her sudden death coming when
she had indicated her superiority to
| circumstances and had with sweetness
and gentleness turned her feet to the
| humber life, feeling that the best
| thinps yere still hers Tn live for and
people were past recognizing her no
bility of character, was most pathetic
and at the same time most favorable
10 the permanence of tender and af
fectionate memories Of her life and