The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-04
SUPERVISORS, DUTIES.

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SUPERVISORS DUTIES.
The supervisors supervise the official
conduct of all county officials control
public roads and works, excepting
such as are left with the Territory,
maintain hospitals, care for, INDECENT
and sick. can acquire real estate or
water rights, must provide county
jails, hospitals and other buildings,
audit county books, levy taxes, regu-
late public pounds, equalize assess
ments, fix salaries, rot otherwise fixed,
fill vacancies, appoint health officers
under the supervision Of the Board of
Health, provide for the destruction of
mongoose and other wild animals,
noxious weeds, etc, provide. for work
ing of prisoners, and must enforce all
police and sanitary regulations. The
Board has judicial power in summon
ing witnesses and is prohibited from
contracting liabilities in excess Of its
income for the fiscal year. The Board
of Supervisors is also the equalizing
board and acts with a Territorial
board in the same connection.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
The county treasurer takes the place
of the Territorial treasurer in each
county, receiving and paying money on
certificate of the auditor. The sheriff
practically assumes the duties of the
various island sheriffs in the respective
counties. He is also ex-off1cio county
coroner. The district attorney is the
prosecuting officer OF the county and
is also made deputy Of the Attorney
General. County recorders act as
clerks to the Boards of Supervisors
and also take the place of the Regis
trar of Conveyances. The assessor
takes the place of the present Teri
toriaI officials of the same name, re-
porting monthly to the county treas
urer The auditor audits all county
books.
RAISING REVENUE.
Method of raising revenue is pro-
svided as follows:
Section 1S6. There shall be levied
and assessed upon the taxable real
and personal property within this Ter
ritory in each year, the following tax
es:
First:-For Territorial revenue, five
mills on the dollar. where no rate is
directed by the Territorial Board of
Equalization before the date IN each
year when the tax ought to be levied
and assessed.
Second:-For County revenue for all
purposes there shall be levied annually
tax for the Board Of Supervisors. of
such a number of mills on each dollar
of the assessed valuation Of the tax
able property of the County. as shall,
together with the income tax, the poll
tax and the specific tax on personal
property and the income from all other
sources, raise sufficient revenue for the
payment of the expenses of the Coun-
ty for such year, provided, however,
that until the number of mills on each
dollar shall have been enacted as pro-
vided in subdivision 8 of this Section
at the rate of tax to be assessed by
the Board of Supervisors of each Coun-
ty shall not exceed the rate of five (5)
mills on the dollar.
Third 1t shall be the duty of the
next regular session of the Legislature
of the Territory to enact a limitation
of the number of mills which may be
levied by the Territorial Board of
Equalizat ton in each year for Terri
torial purposes, and by the Board of
Supervisors in each year for County
purposes.
section 1Si. All laws OF the Terri
tory now in force, prescribing what
persons shall pay taxes, on what
property taxes shall be levied, and
what property shall be exempt from
taxation; and all laws of the Terri
tory now in force relative to any spe-
cif1c tax, and the amount thereof from
persons, or on personal property, with
out reference to valuation; and all laws
of the Territory now in force relative
to the manner of fixing the value of
property for the purposes of taxation,
except as otherwise provided in this
Act, shall for those purposes remain in