The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-04

r0unu tnat the money nad run out. A
part OF the Journal is in type but can
not be finished until the translation is
completed. Still this however has
finally been promised.
The chances are however that the
Journal of the House will cost the Ter
ritory somewhere in the neighborhood
Of $4,000 before II Is finished. The
House is paying $40 per page for the
printing alone. The Senate had its
work done for 1886 and $1.3s per page.
The Senate advertised for bids as is
required by the Territorial law in con-
tracts exceeding $500 in amount. Solo,
mon Meheula awarded the contract for
the House at $40 per page without
even asking for bids. In fact Solomon
made and signed q contract with the
Bulletin Publishing Co. at that figure
either before the House authorized II,
or at least so soon afterwards that
the contract must have been drawn up
in anticipation Of II.
This is the agreement executed be-
tween the Bulletin and Meheula on
April 2Sth, the last day of the session.
for the Journals of both sessions, be-
fore 1t was known definitely that Gov
ernor Dole would call an extra session:
This agreement, made and entered
this 2Sth day of April, 1908. by and be-
tween Solomon Meheula, clerk of the
House of Representatives. of the Legis-
lature of Hawaii. Session of 1903, for
and on behalf Of said House of Rep
resentatives, and the Bulletin Publish
ing Co., Ltd, of Honolulu, T. H., wit
nesseth; That the said Bulletin Pub
fishing Co., Ltd, Hereby undertakes
and agrees to print bind and deliver in
first class workmanlike manner 275
copies of the Journal of Proceedings of
said House of Representatives for the
regular and extra session of the Leg
lislature of 1903, to be bound in red
cloth, and IS copies of said Journal TO
be bound in Law Sheep, the styles of
composition, make up, binding, etc, TO
be the same as the House Journal OF
1901, the foregoing to be printed in The
English language on "A pound a grade
book paper and in small plea type;
also the Journal of the extra session of
which the same number of copies are
to be printed and bound as above bu.
in the Hawaiian language and in a
separate volume, and that the said
Solomon Meheula, clerk of the House
of Representatives aforesaid, and for
and on behalf of said House hereby I'M
dertakes and agrees to pay for said
Journals, printed, bound and delivered
as per above agreement at the rate of
Two ($2.l0) Dollars and Ten Cents per
page.
In witness whereof the parties to
these presents have hereunto set their
hands the day and year first above
and like instrument of even
date. H..
MEHEULA,
Clerk House of Representatives.
PUBLISHING. co, LTD,
By c. G. Bockus,
Business Manager.
The contract was required to be filed |
In the audit office before a warran. |
could be issued for the payment of The |
little bill of s2S55.SS which makes the
total the Bulletin received from the |
legislature 6.103.13
The resolution offered by Rep. Chill
ingworth on the closing right of the |
session, providing also for the printing
If the vouchers with the Journal was
killed by the Kuril-
ae Republicans. A second res )lution
the expenditure for the Jour
lal to $500 was treated III like m,I.-
Ter, and then just before midnight Ku-
nalae's resolution which placed no
INIT on the expenditure for printing
md translating the House Journal
'assed. And there seems to have been
% limit to the expenditure. The House
esolution treated only with the regu-
ar session. But Meheula signed con-
ract with the Bulletin for the Journal
f both sessions on the same day that
he resolution was introduced by ku-
nalae.