The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-02-03

Hfttlunr need efus rtfnent ara pfuntnfl
such " the hn,,eas corpus statute ans
many others Then. passing 20 other
matters. W should have a new iudici-
aty building, WITH IRE proof vaults %
hold our records. Tho library should
would have double the room We have
now. for books and tables 30 b. used IN
consultations"
Judge Froar sat down. amid .ouad
Of applause. and Judge lIattwah asked
hlI' " he had already done tiie WORK
necessary TO bring about the changes
b. had suggested.
There are 600 sections 90 be chang
ed said Judge Frear. II have drafted
many bills. and Judge DE Bolt has
drafted some Others"
Judge Siliman said that he had I'M
: derstood that an elaborate compilation
had been made by Judge FreaI fDr the
guidance OF the last session Of the Leg
islature.
Judge Frear replied that lie did not
know how elaborate IT was, hu: 1t had
been made. He did no. think. how
ever, that IL was practicable TO adopt
a compilation at this session, ana
thought It was better TO go 10 work
piecemeal. compilation would take
too much time and no one person should
de- IL.
Mr.. Thurston thought that number
of the things outlined by Judge Frear
were of such nature that the whole
force of the Bar Association should be
brought to bear to secure their adop-
ton. But the work mus. De done in
diligently, so as not to swamp the Leg
islature with work. "And we should
Of tha -
Judge Frear alone" Mr.. Thurston
said If the President of the Association
would meet the Chief Justice. or appoint
committees to meet with him in this
work, committees strong enough to car
ry 1t through, we could then get the
necessary bills drawn up to throw the
whole report recommending their pas
sage before the Legislature on the first
day of the session, giving ample time
for the action it was desired to take.
The changes proposed by Judge Frear
were not new laws. 1t was merely a
kind of compilation to put an end to
condition that lawyers and laymen
both found to be intolerable. 70 me
end that action might be taken Mr.
Thurston proposed the following mo-
tom
II move that the Chief Justice be
requested to lay what bills he may de-
sire to present to the Association before
the chairman, and that thereafter the
chairman be given authority to appoint
such committees as he may think neces-
sary to consider these bills, and report ,
them at a later meeting for recommen- !
dation or otherwise"
Mr.. Rawlins seconded the motion. and
Mr.. Achi moved as an amendment that
hn ,.l,n ir,, Ai,,t t,xyA
of three each, one for civil and one for
criminal laws. This was seconded also,
but was lost and the original motion
prevailed after Mr.. Thurston had ex-
planned that he would have accepted
the Achi amendment had not the bills
1t was proposed to consider been so
numerous that two committees could
hardly handle them in the time remain
ing.
Mr.. Weaver then submitted the fol-
lowing resolution with reference to the
Torrens land law:
Resolved that whereas a system of
registering titles to land has been in
force in Australia, in it's various colo
MES for a quarter of a century, known
as the Torrens system, and whereas the
Canadian provinces OF Manitoba, and
Ontario have enacted since in 1885, SINH
lar statutes and whereas of late years
the system has been adapted to the
needs of the states of Maine, Massa-
chusetts, Illinois, Minnesota, Washing |
ton and California, and whereas by va I,
rious judicial decisions of the highest
courts of various states such a sys-
TEN has been upheld as constitutional, !
and whereas the Massachusetts, stat
,,ta ha nrt
of that State and of the United States
and upheld. Now therefore,
Resolved, that a committee of three
be appointed by the chair within one
day from date, TO investigate the sub
ject of the adopting the system of land
registering in this Territory and to
recommend as far as possible the de- :
tails to be contained in the bill. That
the committee be required to report to |
a subsequent meeting hereof with
draft of the bill"
The resolution was seconded by Mr.. !
Dickey, and was adopted. the commit
tee appointed consisting of Messrs.
Weaver, Dickey and Hartwel.
Mr.. Gill moved the appointment of a
committee to draft a bill to provide
for q Code Commission. Judge Sill
man seconded the motion, giving as his
reason an apprehension that Congress ,
would appoint such Commission If the
Territory did not and after some dis =
cussion, Mr.. Hartwell saying he had
no fear of action by Congress and was
opposed to the code system. Anyway, |
the committee was appointed consisting ,
of Messrs. Gill, Silliman and Derby.
The Association then adjourned for
one week. Those present at the meet I
ing were A. S. Hartwell w. N. Arm
strong, A, @. NJ. Robertson, j. NJ. Da-
wilson, Lorrin Andrews. L. w. Mlver-
ton, \. G. Correa, w. T. Rawlins. c. |
ii. Dickey. Frank Andrade. A. +. Judd.
Charles Dole, W. L. Whitney. r. d. Sill
liman. l.. Dickey,. Phil. Weaver. w. c.
Parke, Charles Achi Il. S. Gill, c. c,