The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-22
LANDS ARE
PROTECTED
Boyd Replies to
Charges of
Gill.
LAWS OF COUNTRY
STILL IN FORCE
Protest Against Opening Home
steads Which Does Not Stand
Against Opinions.
Especial Correspondence

ENE Saoro+,r,, (,Oopar of the Ter
"
rftOry of Hawai-, handed 10 Tue
cacra+ary of 1ha Interior TODAY cor
feSpondence III re the upliG L'ihUS "
+he Territory which has given the Off
-, 4,o,,o.,,+ ona which &c
SlaiS lieie "oiiio
esteemed by them to be mos Clear
"a o,,,,Ia+a sta+anoant of the condi-
'ii
lions there. The hrst letter, that euh-
to;,irr +ba nro+aS+ was sent nro fOrrna
to the Territory offlclais ana the answer
of the Land Commissioner is taken 10
nj, ,,.,,os,,o,,d
SeltIe an
ence is as follows
Inc Daily faPer
Oh the Iva mo-
Hawaiian ISLANDS.
Inc honolulu hepuoucaH.
tBy the Robert GrleVe FuoishlhS So'
Ltd
honolulu l. OF n Jul! 10, l'oi'
me hon. secretary VI me lh'ei'oi
washington, u -
SRI have the honor TO INFORM you
that Mr. h. >. BOYD, the Land CoIninls
sioner for this TERRITORY Is again auVer
Using the sale OF pubic lahds OF ha"aii
under what he terms homestead leases.
BY the terms of the NeWiands Act pro
vidng for the annexation of Hawan TO
the United States, all public lands, pulid-
inss and grounds were coded to the Unit
ed States government. Notwlthstahdlhg
this fact, the de facto government OF
Hawaii, which was continued unul
territorial government eoulu ne estao-
l1shed' proceeded TO dispose Oh the pubic
lands; but ATTORNEY Geherai 1risgs IN
september 1879 held thal All Oh tlese
sales, leases ana transfers were lie ga
anu Notu IN " oiu va Us
uo"h liie ma "aiiah oiiioidiS' e9'
was asked ana dld enact clause III tie
organic ACT conHrfnihg an safes, ieases
| ana transfers mace between the l1tii uaS
| OF August lS9S ana the Z9th day OF sep
Iealoer' 1873 rom thence ui u.''ll al 'e. :
! June lfth' lSUo, no olspoSdl VI any VI
the puohG iai,us was llidue py the nd
"alan oliicIalS' Later SeVeTdl saleS'
leases anu traues were mace; IN No ,.t
"e'' io' =; H'iier a. ~ i77s "a
ed the united states Distrlc' Al'oii'eS
OF TINS territory TO institute proceeoiiiss
TOR the setung aSlde OF an transfers vi
pubic lands made by the IerIltor.ai gov
eminent OF Hawar. Unfortunately, AS
sistant Secretary Ryan OF the interior
department seems 10 nave rendered an
opinion without consuming Assistant Az
torney General van DeVanter, that the
Territorial authorities mad the right 10
dispose of public lands, but In order &c
prevent any connect OF authority, 1t was
understood mere mat the "hole matter
was to be allowed to remain In statl
quo until congress should provide VIVA
should he done with the public Lands o
Hawaii
But recently the Territorial authorize:
have again begun the sale of lands.
is the belief of the majority of the PEG
pie OF this Territory that these safes
this time are greatly to the INJURY
the territory. Ihere II put niue Puoli
land of value left' and that niue shoul'
be hed Tor the beneht OF BONA nae nome
steaders, such as settied up tue slga
west beyond the MISSISSIPPI river
need thousands OF just such settiets d
TOOK up iahds IN hansas Nepi aShe'' "a
nor ma ana o'liel states VI ''-s
, Nest 11,,, 81,
ne oiu ldlu Id" So r, 49, -
witch THESE SAFES ie,SeS +.'iu .i'.i',7-
are are p ' in 1919 a haiaar Tbase home
- l'' - 49, ara now helm, ,dve,
- -, IN -, taa,,-,,, H. ,,ror
80 go srraaf coI.noration To Yer
{. - nj, ,tstenan+ T neea only ca1l Won
at+artio,, "a the fac+ mar t41 bomestea
', ~. - ,i.t.ist - +t,l TsIan
- Eay-ati were .solri several wears ag,
, md nracticaI1v every one of these an
-, ,v,,,od \, tho OIaa SMEAR Comma n,
~" aal,+rois to,o1 Of o,,er. ~ OOo acrt
"i',cn 80 Iar,S al ,,a,,,, T,ro7,,ctiI-
u an 80 cor,,barr C,ariforni.
o. -, lin .fTor,1 any, family n,
ana ten aoLe 49, 80, hI,t fair mart,
] ""iS s. -. fe'1,o,. ,,.,l,,, T,.eo, Gran