The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-17

mails, navy yards, light houses, range
and beacon lights, quarantine stations,
pest houses, hospitals, wharveS, docks,
piers, dams, bridges, cemeteries, reser-
voirs, roads, canals, bitches, fumes, aq-
ueducts, pipe lines and sewers as may
be proper or necessary to or for the eff
ficient maintenance of said naval sta
ton and harbor and channel defense,
and to and for the uses and purposes
therein of said Government and of its
said Navy Department; and that the
foregoing public use is the public use
for which the aforesaid tracts and par
GELS of land, and their said appurte-
nances are required by your petitioner,
the United States of America.
Your petitioner further shows that the
necessity for the acquisition, purchase,
requirement, condemnation and holding
in and by fee simple estate of . the
aforesaid tracts and parcels of land,
and their said appurtenances, by your
petitioner for the aforesaid public use
is and arises from that certain Act of
the Congress of the United States of
America approved March Sd, 1901, and
adopted at the second session of the
Fifty-sixth Congress in the year 1901,
and entitled Chapter S52-An Act max
ing appropriations for the naval SER
vice for the fiscal year ending June Goth,
1902, and for other purposes said Act
being printed and published by the Gov
eminent of the United States in that
certain official volume entitled Stat
utes of the United States of America
passed at the Second Session of the
Fifty-sixth Congress. 1900-1901, and re-
cent conventions. treaties executive
proclamations and concurrent resolu-
lions of the two Houses of Congress.
Edited, printed and published by au-
thority of Congress under the direction
of the Secretary of State. Washing
ton: Government Printing Office, 1901.
and found between pages 1107 and 1888
of said official volume; and also from
the present rapid development of the
commerce of the Pacific Ocean and the
singular location of said Pearl Lochs,
sometimes called Pearl Harbor. with
reference to said commerce. relative to
it's value as a place of refuge, repair,
instructions to masters. protection TO
shipping, refuge for merchant vessels IN
time of war, land-locked, deep-water
anchorage, capacity for successful de-
Tense from outside attack and capabil-
tiles as the only defensible harbor with
in the said District of Hawaii; and al
so from the imperative need in naval
station of dry docks. work and repair
shops, coaling station of large capacity
with sheds, coal pockets, chutes ana
sheltered anchorages and berthing
space for tugs, lighters, barges. coal
hulks, etc, extensive grounds for ma
rine barracks, parade grounds, and
still larger area for drilling large bod
les of sailors and marines, ample camp
ing grounds for any naval force that
would be rendezvoused in time of war,
hospital accommodations with sur
rounding grounds, cemetery facilities,
ample and suitable space for magazine
purposes, and such other purposes and
needs as are or may be proper or Incl
dental to the maintenance of such ma
val station-all of which must be ca
pable of expansion as the future naval
needs of the Government of the United
States of America may demand; and
also from the judgment and decision or
the Honorable, the Secretary Of the Ma
wy Of the United States of America, de-
Gliding that the aforesaid tracts and
parcels of land, and their said appur-
tenances, were the most fit, proper, adj
equate and suitable tracts and parcels
of land wherein to establish and main
tain the aforesaid naval station and It's
appurtenances; and in this behalf this
petitioner alleges and shows that the
taking by the United States of Amerf-
ca of the aforesaid tracts and parcels of
land, with their said appurtenances, is
necessary to the aforesaid public use;
and petitioner further shows that the
necessity of and for said taking for said
public use, is hereinabove fully set forth
and alleged.
Your petitioner further alleges and
shows that, through that portion of said
tracts and parcels Of land aforesaid,
hereinabove described, which Is desig-
mated herein as Portion AZ under the
heading First and described as being