The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-29
GOVERNOR DOLE ASKS
JAS. H. BOYD TO
RESIGN
Continued from Page II

T. H Davies & Co. your verbal state
ment made after the receipt of your
letter, that two thousand five hundred
dollars of this amount was deposited
with Messrs. Spreckels & Co, and that
the balance of five hundred dollars,
was placed in the safe under your per-
sonal control in the Public Works Of
flee with n tag explaining the status OF
| this fund and referring to the balance
| deposited with Spreckels & Co. sub
stantialIy covers my specific questions
| relating 20 the same. Your statement
| however that the construction of the
work and deposit by Messrs. t. H.
Davies & Co. found its incipiency and
approval at a cabinet meeting the min
utes whereof I respectfully refer to
you" IS not borne out by the minutes
referred to, which are as follows:-'Mr.
J. H. Boyd read a communicate ton from
II. H. Davies & Co. asking to be al
lowed to give up their lease to lots Nos.
522 and 523 in Hilo and offering as COM
pensation, to 90 $4,000 worth of street
work in Hilo or give this amount of
money The meeting recommended
| that the street work proposition be ac-
copied"
l take pleasure in making acknowl-
edgement that this three thousand dol
lars has since been paid in to the Pub
lie Works office at about the same time
from you of two thousand, nine hundred
and ninety-five dollars OH account of
land sales; which had not been pre-
viously entered in the books of the Of
fee, and three hundred and twelve dol
lars and thirty cents as interest on de-
ferred payments.
1t is still necessary that a detailed
account be furnished by you of this
money paid in on account of land sales.
While your action in the payment of
these accounts was the best thing pos
sibIe for you to do under the circun-
stances and will so far to produce a
sentiment of leniency toward you in
the public mind, l do not feel that it
is in any sense an extenuation of your
conduct in Withholding public funds
collected by you as an officer of the
government, and failing to enter them
in the public accounts.
I take note of your explanation in
regard to the moneys. received by you
from T. H. Davies & Co. ard allow all
reasonable consideration in your favor
in this case, but the deposit of portion
count with Messrs. Spreckels & Co.
was, from my point of view, a matter
of grave improperly under the, circum-
stances.
The matter of the retention of the
funds received from land sales, and the
failure to enter the same in the books
of your Office, is a still mole serious
breach of public trust, and was wholly
Inconsistent with any reasonable the
DRY of your duties and responsibilities
as a public officer.
While therefore I appreciate your
action in facing the situation and doing
what remained for you to do in the
matter, my own responsibility TO the
Government of the United States and
the public interests of this Territory,
for the faithful execution of the laws
end the strict administration of the
public funds, makes it impossible for
me to overlook your official conduct
and further recognize your official
authority. 1 therefore with sincere re-
gret ask for your immediate resigna-
ton of The office of Superintendent of
Public Works.
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