Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-02-16
Board Of Aldermen May Create
Loans and Issue Bonds
for Specific Improve
mentS.
Designating Common JailS.
Duties and Powers Of Board
Are Clearly Defined
In the Bill.
Designating Common JailS.
Bonds for Specific Public Improve

ments.
Sec. 20. The Board shall have pow.
err to provide by ordinance for the &C
QUESTION and construction of parks,
parkways, boulevards and drivewaya
and for the building of bridges; for
the building of docks, wharves or
piers and for acquiring land by pur.
chase or condemnation for said pur.
poses; for acquiring or constructing
public buildings, including school
houses and sites therefor for the use
OF the city; for the repaving OF streets,
and for any Of the foregoing purposes
may create loans and authorize the is.
sue Of bonds, or other evidences of in.
debtedness, to pay for the same, pay.
able at such time and in such manner
and at such rates of interest as 1t may
by ordinance prescribe: provided, the
same is unanimously recommended by
the department Of estimate and appor.
tionment, and not inconsistent with
any Btuela sthIulS'
Duties Of the Board Defined.
Sec. "a. The Board of Aldermen
shall have the administration of the
fiscal, prudential and municipal af.
fairs of said city and county and the
whole legislative power and govern
ment thereof and the management and
control of the finances, and all the
property, real, personal and mixed be.
longing to the corporation, and shall
likewise have power within their juris.
diction within the said city and county
by ordinances, first, to define the du.
ties Of all officers appointed by the
said board not herein defined; second,
to provide reasonable remuneration
for all services performed by any
such officer not receiving any salary
under the terms OF this act or by any
person whomsoever. not being a mem.
Der of the said board, for which no
other provision shall have been made
by this act; third, to prevent the re.
moval OF any stone, gravel, sods, sand
or earth from any street, road or
highway within the said city and
county or the digging or the making
Of any hole in any such street or high.
way without the license of the said
Board OF Aldermen or the Commission.
er Of Public Works of the said city
and county; fourth, to prevent the en-.
numbering of any street, sidewalk or
highway or crossing within the said
city and county and to protect any
such street. sidewalk. road or highway
from encroachment and injury, and to
provide for the confiscation, sale, re.
moyal or destruction of every such en-
cumbrance thereon and to impose pen
alties in respect thereof; fifth. to pro
vide for the making, paving, tagging,
planking and repairing OF streets, side
walks, crossings, roads or highways
and also for the building. repairing and
keeping in good order of the bridges,
wharves, docks and slips within the
limits of the said city and county;
sixth, to provide for the removal OF
all fences, houses, steps, erections, pro-
jections or distractions whatsoever,
which may now or shall at any time
hereafter project into or over any pub
lie street, road, sidewalk or highway
in the said city and county, or any part
thereof which may so project, at the
expense of the owners or lessees Of
the property In connection with such
erection, projection or obstruction may
be used or found; seventh, to provide
for places of deposit for ashes, clean
ing OF yards and streets and other
filth and ordure, and to compel the
owners or occupiers OF property with.
in the said City or County to remove
all such ashes, cleanings, filth, ordure
to such places of deposit; eighth, to
abate and cause to be removed all pub
lie nuisances, and all filth and en-.
cumbrances on the streets, sidewalks,
roads and alleys within the said City
and County, and places adjacent there.
to. and to prevent the spreading OF
contagious or infectious disorders;
ninth. to regulate the manner of sell
ing meat, fish, vegetables, grain, hay,
straw, fodder and to grant licenses
for the due weighing and admeasure.
ment thereof; tenth, to restrain and
regulate the purchase and manner of
selling of vegetables, fruit, country
produce poultry, or of animals openly
exposed for sale or in market and all
other articles and things by buck
sters and runners living within the
City or County; eleventh, to regulate
all vehicles, vessels and other things
in which anything may be exposed for
sale or marketed in any street or pub
lie place, and to provide for SELLING
and destroying all tainted and un.
Wholesome meat. Doultry fish or other