The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-10-28
Boyd Hands Over Coin For Land
Sales and Interest. The Super
tendent Is Not Through
" Explaining
$3,OOO-r1Oney received from Theo. H. Davies & Co.
2095-On Account of Land Sales.
3l2-Interest on Deferred Payments

Superintendent of Public Works ]. H.
Boyd yesterday paid in to the Depart
ment the sum of 1907 representing
money due the government and part
of it being the $4,000 he received from
T. H. Davies and Company, for Hilo
road work, but which could not be
traced on the books of the department.
The other payments were for land sales,
and interest on deferred payments. The
payments are a result of the letter to
Boyd calling for explanations"
After turning over the $4,000, Boyd
paid over S2,995 on account of public
land sales by the public works depart
ment, and 1912 for interest on deferred
payments. Just where the $6,307 has
been, or what had been done with it, is
not known, and the governor still de-
clines to say Just what the prospects
are as to settlement of the difficulties
There were reports this morning that
all matters had been settled, and that
Boyd was about to be reinstated When
asked as to the superintendent taking
charge again the governor this morn
ing stated that he was not yet ready 10
talk about the matter. Whether this
means that there are other "eXplana-
tions' to be made, or that the governor
and his associates have not yet de-
cided what to do in the matter, is not
known.
The Executive Council held a meeting
this morning, and the Boyd matter was
discussed a good deal but no result-of
the discussion was given out. 1t is
supposed that a final determination of
the matter will await Boyd's final reply
to the governors letter setting forth
the matters that were to be explained.
The money turned over yesterday
was in the form of coin and was hand
ed over by Boyd personally. There were
a number of conferences between the
governor, and Cooper and Boyd, and
the result, with the payment of money
was a report that Boyd had been placed
In charge of his department again.
The payment into the territorial trea-
sury as a government realization, by
James II. Boyd of the $4,000 received by
him from T. II. Davies & Company as
a consideration for the cancellation for
that form of an Improbable lease. has
been the subject of much discussion
throughout the city today. 1t has been
far and away ahead of party politics
as a general theme of conversation
when men met With the discussion
of the payment of this money by Boyd,
there was always the question, lis the
governor going to put him back?'
Wherever the subject was discussed
there was a strong undercurrent of
feeling that the matter was one too
grave to be disposed of without the
fullest investigation and the fullest
publicity, not only as to what had been
done or left undone in the past but as
to what had been found irregular or
wrong If anything. The feeling was
vigorously expressed that there should
be no condoning of matters that was
wrong, if there were any such. And
that whatever conclusions the governor
came to, and whatever action he decid-
ed on, not only should the conclusions
and the action be made public but the
facts on which they We're based and the
reasons for them should be made pub
/ lie.
As it was expressed by one, "If Boyd
! is innocent he ought to be put back i'm
his office promptly, but If he isn't, no
amount of money paid into the treasury