The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-17

Hon. J. A. Akina, Speaker of the House
of Representatives.
Sir: Your Committee on Public Lands
and Internal Improvements, TO wnom
was referred bill for AN Act making
appropriations for the departmental use
of the Government of the Territory of
Hawaii and providing for the payment
of the necessary current expenses of
carrying on the Government for the sue
ceeding biennial period as recommend
ed by your Committee on Finance, for
consideration, respectfully begs leave to
submit this report thereon.
Your committee in many respects
agreed with the recommendations pro-
posed by the Committee on Finance, ex-
cepting certain few items as follows, to
wit:
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS.
Under this heading your committee
finds that the duties of "bookkeeper
clerk" whose salary is 900, as set forth
in the bill, can be performed by the
first assistant clerk at salary of ST.
800. Your committee then recommends
that the duties of the office of the book
keeper clerk to be transferred to the
shrst assistant clerk" or in other words
to da away altogether with the office of
the salary bookkeeper cierk' in the De-
partment of Public Works.
+! The office of the fourth assistant clerk
and copyist your committee recommends
TO be abolished. The committee has been
made to understand that this office Is
for an inspector of weights and meas
ures' and that the law providing the
duties of the same failed to pass during
the late Legislature, it becomes then an
unnecessary "appendage' to the Depart
ment.
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ommended to have only one messenger
instead of two as given in the bill, and
such recommendation does not meet
with the approval of your Committee on
Public Lanos and Internal Improve
ments. The committee, on investigation
! finds that these two messengers have
each different works to perform. one
is for the office of the superintendent
and the other is for the office of the as
sistant superintendent This latter mes
senger is also performing some clerical
duties as in recording all building per-
rnits issued by the department.
Your committee finds no good reason
TO abolish the office of "roao. engineer"
as recommended by the Committee on
Finance.
The duties or works of this once per-
tain to surveying all new roads to be
opened by the Government in the whole
group.
1t has special work to do for the de-
partment. Your commi.tee may here
suggest that if the works of this office
can be transferred over to the surveying
department, subject to the orders or di-
rections of the Superintendent of Pubic
Works in regard to road surveying and
engineering. then this item be strick-
en- out.
1t has been recommended by your
Committee on Finance that the salary of
clerk, which is $500, 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 a clerk.
In regard to the road supervisor, Ho-
nolulu," your committee would recon-
mend that the item be read as follows:
Salary of two ~ road supervisors,
Honolulu, $780, One for the Fourth
District at 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, in the two districts in tue
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.
1t has been known that if the roads
east or 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 the Committee on FL
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 it has
recommended this item to be stricken
out, your committee recommends the
same measure. It must be presumed
that the money paid out for the pay
roll o. this steam tug "out-fankeo it's
table 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.
ne pluHDeT ana 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
ommends to raise their pay to $500, in
stead of $3.50 as in the Appropriation
bill
COMMISSION ON PUBLIC LANDS.
The office of patent clerk" has been
recommended by the Committee on FL
nance to be abolished, and that its du-
ties 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 onces of
the six rangers (of the First, Second,
Third Fourth. Fifth and Sixth Land