The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-01-29

Governor Dole yesterday received
second cablegram from ]. G. Pratt ex-
planning the first message in giving
the fire claims bill which passed Con-
gress. This was the Foraker Senate
Bill No. 6216, which. as Governor Dole
understands it, gives to him and the
Secretary of the Territory the right 20
issue bonds without action on the part
of the legislature.
The following are the two cablegrams
sent to the Governor by Mr.. Pratt, and
which are self explanatory:
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 25.-To
Dole, Governor, Honolulu.-If Territory
desires me to represent it in arranging
issuance and sale of bonds and payment
of fire claims, cable Secretary Interior
and me accordingly. 1 suggest no fur
Their payment be made from Territorial
Treasury. Balance of interest money
can be held to adjust insurance claims
of Territory later, if so determined.
Advise me exact amount Of claims
unpaid so can tell how many bonds re-
quired. PRATT.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 2S-To
Dole, Governor, Honolulu: Act signed
Identical with Foraker Senate bill GIG.
Copies there. PRATT.
The bill No. 6216 referred to by Pratt
in his second message is as follows:
A BILL
To pay in part judgments rendered I'M
der an act of the legislative as
sembly of the Territory of Hawaii
for property destroyed in suppress
sing the bubonic plague in said
Territory in eighteen hundred and
ninety-nine and nineteen hundred.
and authorizing the Territory of
Hawaii to issue bonds for the pay
ment of the remaining claims.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
states of America in Congress assem-
bled. That the sum of one million dol
lars is hereby appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise
to pay in part the judg-
ments rendered under an act of the
legislative assembly of the Territory of
Hawaii by the fire claims commission of
that Territory for property destroyed in
the suppression of the bubonic plague
in said Territory in the years eighteen
hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen
hundred.
Sec. 2. That the governor and sec
rotary of said Territory are hereby au-
thorized to issue the bonds of that Ter
ritory in such sum, not exceeding five
hundred thousand dollars, as, together
with the money hereby appropriated,
Said bonds shall be payaDlel
in gold coin of the United States of
America of the present standard weight
and fineness, shall bear interest at the
rate of four per centum per annum,
semi-annually, and be redeem
able in not less than five years and
payable in not more than fifteen years
from the date of issuance. The princi- |
pal and interest of all bonds shall be
exempt from any and all taxes, and I
the payment thereof shall constitute a
charge on the revenues of the Territory |
of Hawaii. Said bonds shall be sold at
not less than their face value, and the 1
proceeds thereof shall be applied to the !
n
and to no other purpose, and they shall .
be of such form and denominations and .
be issued and sold under such rules and .
as the Secretary of the In
terror shall prescribe.
Sec. 3. That under no circumstances
shall any such Judgment claimant, or
anyone claiming through him. be re-