The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-12-12

window WIS iiNbeu w ih" N"'t Htiih
ins b.
q. noiie. for Mr. Msndonch, said
that recently a wagon dropped some
stones on queen street and one broke
one ~ Davies windows and new
window had been supplied by the au-
thorities.
And then what about The skylight7 -
asked Bolte. They chopped the sky
light out, too. Mr.. VIDA didn't say
anything about that"
Mr.. Adams said the skyllght was
broken by the gamblers escaping
Boite said Furthermore the gamblers
had gone free in police court because
the county's law had not been prop
erly passed.
The chair reminded Mr.. Bolte that
the case was thrown out of court on "A
techncality Mr.. Bolte said that, In the
middle OF November. Mr.. Mendonca
had some barred doors In the build
ing.
Mr. Douthitt said that gambling and
the paraphernalia was there. The only
thing not proven to Judge Whitney was
that the ordinance had been properly
passed by the Board.
"The minutes of the Board passing
that ordinance will be presented before
| the court In every other case of that
kind" said Mr.. Douthitt. Had those
minutes been In court then those gam
blers would have been convicted"
The matter went over to a future
meeting for settlement.
Deputy Attorney General Prosser
said he appeared for sixty residents of
| Prospect and Hackfeld streets. Hack
| field street was the only one in that
entire section which was not macadam-
lied. The steam rollers were in the vi
cinity now, and could be used on this
Hackfeld) street. In rainy weather II
is impossible Mules couldn't draw the
garbage wagons up the street. Mr..
Prosser asked the Supervisors to ma,
cadamize. He believed he could get the
residents to supply the curbing.
Lucas said residents in the same VIZ
cinity had supplied curbing along their
frontages
A communication from County Treas
urer Trent was read as follows:
TRENT'S POSITION ON WARRANTS
Honolulu. December s, 1905.
d. Kalauokalani, Jr Esq, Clerk, Coun
ty of Oahu, Honolulu.
Dear Sir: ] have the honor to ac
knowledge receipt of your communica
ton of December 9th, reading as tol
lows:
"At the meeting of the Board OF
Supervisors held the 9th inst. in then
, office, Mcintyre Building, ] was direct
! ed to acknowledge receipt of you
communication relative to a request fo
= payment by the Board of the sum o
G two hundred (S200.O0) dollars for pre-
t fessional services rendered by Judg
: Whiting in re Blanket Warrant Tes
. Case. ] am also direct ed to inform yo
= that the Board of Supervisors can no
i appropriate county uicney for pei isons
Q bills.o
: While not desiring to enter into
controversy touching the wholly Ill
It justified and insulting insinuation col
It tanned in the sentence last abov
o quoted, which ! understand to be I'll
language of the instructions und'
e which your communication WAS wri
g ten, feel it incumbent upon me to Ell
l. tighten the members of the Board o
# to certain points in connection with tn
IS question at issue, a full understandin
g of which / am sure would have save
d them from taking such ungracious az
Il tion as your letter reports.
The Andrew Adams "blanket' wa
a rant was passed at a meeting of tn
o Board of Supervisors held on Sept,
% According to newspaper reports of I'll
"A meeting (Which have never been d.
,r MED, so far as l know, a itt
,e "scrap' was INDUCED in between s.
lie pervisors Adams and Lucas as
to whether the warrant should be ISSUE
III in "blanket' form or not. / quo
ar from the report of the meeting as
appeared in the Advertiser:
"Chairman Smith hastened to sta
that if the Board wished to issue
IL (blanket) warrant it could do
N There was the mandamus method
lie pursue if any individual (meaning Il
1t Treasurer) did not like IT."
=, Wishing to avoid any clash with u
to Supervisors, if possible, i made an /
lie vestigation and found that all the pa
ties whose claims appeared on the A
Id drew Adams warrant had signed the
tn names to the warrant as having
OF ceived from Mr.. Adams the respecti
amounts due them; and was furth
as informed by one of the Supervise
It (erroneously, as it afterwards dev
oped) that Mr.. Adams had actual
ga paid the money out Under these C
he cumstances l thought the warrant
proper one to pay, and was so advis
r. by my private counsel. That my W
he lingness to pay this warrant wol
be meet with the approval of the Cour
m Attorneys office ! had not the LEI
reason to doubt, for at the time b
vi before me Attorney Douthitt's opln
to. on "blanket' warrants as rendered
the Board of Supervisors just sh
ION while before. To treshen your mem
IAN a bit on that opinion, l beg to gu
from it as follows:
be "When warrant is issued upon
ard County Treasurer by the County Al
ap- tor. il then becomes the duty of
County Treasurer to honor and
est such warrant; and in this behalf
ric might be added that the duty of
the County Treasurer in paying such
ate rant is purely ministerial, the Cou
to Treasurer not having
on discretion in the premises, such po
ian baipg vested in the Board of SUI