The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-11-29
THE COUNTY
LEGISLATURE
The Supervisors Had a
Meeting Last
Night.

brief session last night for the primary
purpose of passing the November war
rants. but, as usual, other matters
4 were considered by the board. The
salary warrants for November passed
by the board aggregated S19,914, which
with one special demand for material
for the Koolau road boards for 1856 so,
brought the total up to $20,17O.SO. The
item of $256S0 caused some discussion.
c. Bolte appeared before the board
and urged the payment of an old
claim of the Kaneohe Ranch Company
and Heeia Plantation Company for
that amount The bill had been in
Cured by the Territory for gravel
and lumber supplied Tor road work
before the county government had TAX
en- charge of the roads. This senti-
ment of the member of the board who
had investigated the claim was that
it was just one. Bolte suggested
that the board purchase sufficient
quantity of gravel at the rate of fif-
| teen cents cubic yard. to pay the
claim and agreed to furnish gravel free
after the board had purchased a suffi-
cient amount to pay his claim. This
! compromise was agreed upon and the
| claim was passed in a warrant for
material There was no report from
the committee appointed to investigate
the Keanu-Paele muddle, as Adams
! had been unable to get away. Adams
resigned from the committee in favor
, of Lucas as it was desired that the
: Investigate ton should be made today.
| Lucas and Moore agreed to leave early
! today for Kooau to make an inquiry.
| Paele called attention during the
meeting to the fact that a number
of the road employees in that pdrticu
! lar district had worked about three
days after he, Paele, had directed that
| they should discontinue work, as the
overseer had been suspended. The
| board decided to let the special COM
mittee pass on that part of the matter
and determine whether the men should
| be paid for the time they worked after
Paele had ordered the work discon-
| tinued. Paele stated that the work
| had gone over the appropriation for
the Koolau side
| A communication from Governor
Carter calling attention to a request
| from the Department of Agriculture
for information concerning roads in
every county was received. The gov
ernor urged that steps be taken by
| the board to appoint some reliable COR
respondent to supply the desired in
! formation to the department. On mo-
| ton of Adams all of the chairman of
the various road districts We're APP
pointed to report for each of their
divisions. with Lucas as chairman.
/ Frank S. Dodge for the Bishop Es-
tate presented a petition regarding the
! matter of the Improvement of Waikiki
road near the Hotel Annex. The COM
munication called attention to an
agreement that had been made in 1902
| between the Bishop Estate and the
superintendent of Public Works where
| by in exchange for Bishop Estate land
for the Improvement of the road the
/, Territory had agreed to fill in the pond
| and erect fence along the road by
| the Annex. This improvement had
not been made and Dodge, who was
present, asked that the supervisors
have the work done. After some dis
cussion the matter was referred to Su-
perintendent of Public Works Hol-
loway. A. Murphy of the house-num
bering department sent q report to
the board to the effect that the survey
ing work had been completed. An APP
preparation of $125 to enable the work
| to be finished UP was made.
/ President Pinkham of the Board of
Health sent a communication to the
board relative to certain regulations
that the Board of Health had passed
in regard to tuberculosis, expectora-
ton, garbage and clothes sprinkling
in laundries.
Chairman Smith directed that Road
Supervisor Johnson be asked to pro-
vide employment for j. K Kaikoo, a
native man who was two years in
arrears for taxes amounting to $45, and
desired the opportunity of working so
that he could pay the taxes on his
land.
In a communication H. P. Wood
urged that the estray ordinance be
lstrictly enforced
| Territorial Auditor Fisher was pres
ent and was asked regarding the pos
lsibility of some agreement being reach
ed whereby change in the form of
| warrant could be made He stated
| that he had talked with the treasurer
and auditor of Oahu county and the
auditor of Kauai county and those
i officials had expressed themselves sat
1sfied with the present form. Chairman
| Smith said that this was not the i'm
preston that they had given him. The
chairman said that the object in de-
string to secure a change from the
| present form was to avoid the necess-
| lty under the present form of having
$50 many signatures on every war
rant After some discussion, it was
! agreed that Moore and Adams of the
| special warrant committee confer with
the Territorial auditor with view to
| trying to secure some form that would
entail less labor on the part of the
members Of the Board of Supervisors
They will submit their idea OF
change to Fisher.
! The board adjourned, subject to the
call of the chair
| I. K. Hemenway, trustee of the Ho-
hoIulu Clay Co. Ltd. in the suit of
HeInehWay VS. The Honolulu Clay Co.
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