The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-02-14
ANOTHER CODE FOLLY PROJECT.

Another code commission project been sprung This time
by minority of committee OF the Bar Association AS the
project proposes year jobs for three awyerour perhaps
as there no provision that lawyer may not be secretarthe
real wonder perhaps is that the scheme proposed by
majority instead of by minority of the committee.
This minority of the committee includes in report the draft
OF bill which approprate $4,000 the goo for the salaries
and expenses OF the proposed code commission The commission
itself to be composed of three abebOded lawyers the
report has it. three members of the Bar in good standing ap
pointed by the governor for two years They are to get ten dol
lars day when they work. and they are to have secretary who
to $I5 month when he works supreme circuit
judge is eligible for the position
The commission when works is to take the laws as finds
them the end Of the legislative session which is about
and arrange them according titles and subject
ter and divide them into chapters and secon put marginal
notes the photography each section references such dec
sons the supreme may tend explain the
same; and then to index the whole thing
And what all this for? The minority of the committee says
$50 that the laws and enacments compiled be enacted
the the Territory Hawaii the legislature
shall so determined
If the legislature shall determine why far the
minority of committee proposes this thousand dollars
worth of work will notng-eXcept voucher for
And why does the minority Of the committee say all this should
be done Because the law exists today be gathered
from the OF the Legislature during its several sessions
held substantially bennay from the year 1859 the present
day. together with such interpretations, amphcatoh alterations
and additions as have been made from time to time by the
supreme court s. "' .'r". "a
If this sound then congress has been crmnay
negligent eas of the United States have been cod
fed, and the edefa law exists today to paaphrase the
language OF the minority IF the committee must be gathered
from enactents Of Congress during its several sessions held
substantially annually from the year 1899 to the present day. to-
additions have been made from time by the supreme
court ,,a... -~,ra. r .,- ....
The minority of the committee there has been authoriz
ed codhcaon of the laws 1859 of the penal laws
But while this is technically true hardly fair statement OF
the confusion which the minority of the committee alleges
S. NJ Balou prepared edition Of the both civil
and penal bringing them down 1897 which he did exactly
what the minority of the committee propose the code commission
shall do His work revised edition of the statutes and
technically code 1t has depend for reputation S. NJ
BaOu reputation for capacity and caeuness in doing the
work The reputation his work has enjoyed would indicate that
he has reputation capacity and equal that
almost lawyers the could appoint the code
mission In that there would really need of the code
going back of Balous work, 1897. And really for
that it seems like $4,000 little high. ..
The truth that under form of government the law in
force territory of the Union al
be exactly what the minority of the committee the law
here New editions the become necessary
frequent intervals and in each edition what has been
peaed should be omitted and eXactments should be pub
shed in connection W former enaCtmentS the subject
This exactly what is dOnen OF the Union and with
regard the federal laws and such publications known gen
orally Revised Statutes They codes technical
sense but for all practical purposes they good codes and
IN respects better for code itself would need revision in
exactly the way after every Legislative Private
tepre elsewhere and far here the needs this respect
Then why spend thousand dollars for work that is already
largely DONE and that wouldn't Revised
ues let alone code unless the legislature adopted s
throughout America it would do about thousand