The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-19
AFTERNOON SESSION.

The House reconvened as a commit
tee of the whole at lao, when the
question of the county commissioners
and coroner's salaries came up. The
salaries of the other officers were pro-
vided by the Act to be fixed by the
board of county commissioners.
Hoogs, seconded by Ayletr, wished to
fix all salaries then and there. EN-
meluth said that the committee had al
ready spent one evening over at
tempting to fix the various salaries,
without result. Aylett denied that
aries had been fixed by the committee.
and that he was surprised not TO find
them included in the bill.
The district magistrates fees FOR
marriage and making returns were re-
duced from So to 81.
much trouble in understanding the
true meaning of the suggested altera-
tons.
The fees for recording town plats.
collectable by the register of deeds,
were reduced from $40 for each plat of
100 lots or less, and s. for each addi-
| tional hundred lots, to IS and 81. So re-
| spectively.
Gilfllan wanted to raise the price to
81 lot, as only rich men would in
corporate 100 lots at once. II think
Emmeluth did not think of the mat
ter in this light" added the speaker
! A motion to reconsider the amend
mentS was carried.
| Mr. Dickey inadvertently called
Gilfillan plain mister to which the
member objected. Gilfillan and the
chair had a tilt over the rule of SUBJ
hitting an amendment to writing, Gill
| fillan questioning the chairs decision
on account of his having been alluded
I to without his handle.
: Gilffllan then asked whether plat
] JIrac rhn1n n
wanted to know how many plats went
| to a lot.
After considerable cross-fire contro-
versy of the '.joshing' order, the Sec
/ ton was finally amended to read 20
cents d lot for each lot plated.
/ The sections fixing commissioners
and appraisers fees were stricken out.
The. section fixing the jurors fees at
81 for each days attendance, con-
tains no provision for the verdict fee
of 81, now in use, but no amendment
was made on this point
Prendergast tried to raise the Jurors
! fees to IS, and Representative GilfilIan
started to give realistic description
OF the horrors of sitting on a coroner's
jury, but the narrowing tale turned
Chairman Dickey's sensitive stomach,
and the honorable member desisted
renarking that to serve on such a
jury was worth S. a day, considering
that one usually lost the contents of
/ his stomach at every viewing OF the
deceased.
| Robertson suggested that IS was tod
much to pay for the loss of a two
| bit meal.
Makekau-.You don't have to touch
the corpse?"
! Gilffllan-"You have to look ut II
when it is in an advanced state of
| decomposition-"
Makekau-"Tve seen a BODY six
days dead. I don't think that 81 was
too little for me-, Why, the fingers
Chairman-"Please don't"
In spite Of Makekau's apparent en-
1oyment Of such scenes the motion
was at first carried, but on a recount.
: lost and the fees still stand at 50.
A motion to raise jurors mileage fees
70 70 cents, instead of 10 cents, was
Prendergast suggested that the whole
/ bin be now read
The deferred sections were then TAX
en- up
A section providing that the pro-
ceed,ngs of the board Of county com
missioners be advertised in the news
papers. was stricken on motion of
Prendereast VI
! Considerable discussioa was held
over the question of the county sur