Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-02-10

linquents in the courthouse was aband,
oned in favor of motion by Mr.
Thurston that collector be employed
on percentage
Mr.. Weaver began talking on tho
TORI ems land registry system bill, say
ing the bill had been summarized in
/ the papers after last meeting. He was
called to order, the chair sustaining
the point.
Printing Again.
The suppression OF discussion on
merits of bills led to fresh outbreak
of>the question Of printing. Chairman
HaItwcll mentioned that the bill on
negotiable paper itself would make a
SoOd-si2cd book II was agreed that
the motion already passed be carried
out with regard to bills thus far sub
mitted
The meeting adjourned at ): 20, sub.
jec to the call Of the chair.
Code Commission.
Mr.. Judd presented the following re-
port of the committee TO consider the
ACCESSIBILITY Of the appointment OF a
Code Commission to the chair and tho
reporters:
Your committee appointed to con-
slider the advisability ot-providing for
a Code Commission ny legislative en-
actment reports as follows:
Your committee believes that the
changes wrought in this Territory by
the abrOgation of the Monarchy and by
annexation TO tie United States have
thrown the statute law of tits Terri
tory into such confusion as to render
as authoritative compilation OF such
statutes to conform to existing COndi-
lions. most essential. The necessity
of such a compilation is further shown
by the present difficulty of ascertain
ing tho law and by the fact that much
OF II Is not readily accessible to all
Your Committee, however. feels tina;
any method Of COdifcatiOn looking TO
an entirely new system either OF tho
substantive law or of pleading would
be detrimental to the best interests Oi
tend TO prevent the logical development
OF the law. Most of the substantive
law Is applicable as well as to present
as TO the past conditions and has stool
the test OF time. The system of plead.
ing now in vogue has become oStlb.
lirhed and any radical change would
in the opinion of your Committee, b,
inadvisahle.
;. Your Committee therefore recon-.
, mends merely codfCation OF statute,
existing ut the close of the coming SEES
sion of the Legislature and advises tina
: the following Act be submitted by on
I Association to the coming Legislature
tSgdD ALBERT $. JUDD.
) (SgdD s. Haskell DERBY.
} AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE AP
5 POINTMENT OF A COMMISSION
TO CODIFY THE STATUTE Laws
s OF THE TERRITORY OF HAWAII
5 BE II Enacted by the Legislature o
the Territory of Hawaii
. Whereas. the abrogation Of monar
D chy. the institution of a republican
B form of government and finally an
I IneXatiOn TO the United States Of Amer
. lea have caused many changes and I'm
c Ccrtainties in the body Of the statute
: laws of Hawaii;
And whereas, the statute laws shout
5 be collected in an authoritative volum
= easy of access TO all those by whom
s they must be obeyed;
y And whereas such code cannot b
A safely enacted without a careful com
v IpiIation first being made by expert
h trained in the law
!. Section l. Therefore n commission
i of three persons to be designated O
the Code Commission be and is hereb
o constituted and authorized to compil
i all the statute laws Of the Territory {
Hawaii as they shall exist after tn
h adjournment OF this session OF the Lee
Y tslature.
/. Section g In making such compile
d ton statutes obviously inconsister
l. with the constitution of the Unite
States or the Organic Act of the TER
n tory of Hawaii be not included an
/. that Of those of the statutes which al
O obviously repugnant to each other u
IS latter alone shall be included.
o Section 3. Where two or more Law
or parts thereof overlap each other {
substantially cover the same grouu
The latter only shall be included.
m Section I. Where a statute Is r.
pugnant to the constitution OF Il
le United States or the Organic Act
Pc part only It may be modified so as
Dnform thereto.
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