The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-11
ONE OF THE LOCAL BILLS
NOW BEFORE THE HOUSE
Complete Text of the Measure Amending the
Organic Law Which Delegate Kuhio intro
duced By Request of Local Parties.

lot box. 10 be marked on the outside
General tickets" and shall also pro-
vide sufficient number of places,
/ booths, or compartments, at or in which
voters may conveniently mark their
ballots, so that in the marking thereof
they may be screened from the obser-
walton or others, and a guard rail shall
be so constructed and placed that only
such persons as are inside said rail can
approach within six feet of the ballot
boxes and of such booths or compart-
ments The arrangements shall be
such that neither the ballot boxes nor
the box booths or compartments shall
be hidden from the view of those Just
outside the said guard rail. The num-
Der of such voting booths or compart-
ments shall not be less than one for
every forty electors qualified to vote in
the precinct. No person other than
electors engaged in csceiving, preparing
or depositing their ballots shall be per-
mitted to be within said rail before the
closing of the polls, except by authority
of the board of election, and then only
for the purpose OF keeping order and
enforcing the law. Each of said Yot-
ing booths or compartments shall be
kept provided with proper supplies and
conveniences for marking the ballots,
and the election officers shall especially
see that the stamps and ink pads re-
quired are a all times in such booths
and In condition for proper use; and
all officers upon whom is imposed by
the law the duty of designating polling
places shall supply each polling place
with several stamps and several ink
pads for each booth and such stamps
shall be so made tina: a cross (X) may
be made with either end of such stamp.
and the same must be so constructed
that the portion with which such cross
% is to be made shall not be fastened
on by any glue or like substance which
may loosen when wet. but the said
stamp shall be one solid piece
Strike out eight of the clock upon
the morning and insert in lieu there
of seven of the clock upon the morn
ing in section eighty.
Strike out the words ballot boxes |
in section eighty-one wherever they
occur and insert in lieu thereof ballot |
box
Strike out the word in and insert
in lieu thereof ON in section seventy
six.
TN section one hundred and twelve
strike out interior department and in
sert in lieu thereof office of the secre- !
tary of the Territory
I'm section one hundred and fourteen
strike out the word Republic wherever
it occurs and insert in lieu thereof
Territory
I'm section one hundred and fifteen
strike out the words minister and
minister of the interior and insert in
lieu thereof treasurer and strike out .
all after the word refreshments
Strike out sections eighty-five,
eighty-seven, lightweight, :
eighty nine. ninety, and ninety-one and
insert in lieu thereof the following:
Sec. There shall be provided at
each polling place at each election at
which public officers are voted for but
me form of ballot for all the candidates
or public Office, and every ballot shall
contain the names of all the candi-
iates whose nominations for any office
specified on the ballot have been duly
made and not withdrawn, as provided
n this Act. together with the title of
he office arranged in tickets under the
tiles of the respective political parties
S certified in the certificates of nomi-
lation. The arrangement of the ball
OF shall in general conform as nearly
s practicable to the plan hereinafter
-iven. The list of candidates of the
everal parties shall be printed in para
el columns each column to be headed
y the party name in such order as the
ecretary of the Territory may direct,
recedence, however. being given to the I
arty which poiled the highest number
f votes for Delegate to Congress at |
he last preceding general election for
UGH officer, and so on. The number
f such columns shall not exceed the I
lumber of separate tickets of candi- S
ates to be voted for at the polling
lace for which the ballot is provided, / S
kept as otherwise provided in this s
ection. The party name shall be ! /