The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-16

| Lefeht Islands in order to encourag sc
small farmers"
| a report was introduced by the Mis-
cellaneous Committee recommending
that the question of repeating the leper
segrega ton law and the vaccination
bill should be considered in the House
IN connection with bills already in
| troduced
TO OPEN LANDS.
The Public Lands and Internal I'm
| provements Committee reported ON the
petition of number of residents of
kau. Hawaii asking the opening OF
the Hionaa and Kaalaiki lands for
! homesteaders. The matter will be
passed on to Land Commissioner ]. w.
Pratt Tor his action, the House APP
proving the petition.
Inc Following resolutions were in
troduced and passed on to the Refer
ence Committee:
For roads Hinole and Wailau, Kau.
$4,000; for a courthouse at Waiohinu.
$500. (GreenwelD
For constructing and macadamizing
a road from Volcano road to 13-mile
road known as II 1-2 mile road. Olaa
homestead, Puma. Lewis).
TO pay DR.. w. A. Schwallie for SER
vices rendered in post norton in Kau,
$50. (Holstein).
That members be furnished wi h
copies of the Special Session laws Of
1904 containing the appropriation bills
of that period ending June 80, 1905.
For constructing steps to the wharf
at Hoopuloa. S. Kona, 800. (Kaniho)
To reimburse Chow Lee for taxes paid
twice in 1900, SIT. (CoeIho).
For a water tank at the Kawaihae
school house, 5000. (Pulaa).
For mounted patrol and patrol wag-
ons at Hilo, $4,000. Csmfth).
For rock crusher at South Hilo. $4,000
(Smith).
To instruct the Superintendent of
Public Works to repair the Kaawa
school, recently burnt, out of any bal
ance of the appropriation for school
repairs as soon as possible. (Iahelona).
A resolution by Long to instruct the
Secretary of the Territory to supply
citizens with copies of the Revised
Laws at the price of So instead of $40
was side-tracked by Holstein's motion
to refer to the Committee on Public
Expenditures.
Coelho introduced a resolution to en-
ploy three physicians to visit the leper
settlement and examine such patients
as wish an examination. The matter
was referred to the Health Committee.
JUDICIAL COMMITTEES REPORT.
The Judicial Committee reported Oh
a number of bills as follows:
An act defining the crime of usury
and providing for the punishment
thereof (Coelho). Recommended with
the penalty reduced from $1,000 to $3.50
To amend Section 1903 of the Revised
Laws. (Sheldon). Recommended.
Relating to costs of court. (Andrade).
Recommended after striking out Sec
ton 1.
To provide procedure for partition of
real property. (Andrade). Recon-
mended.
An act relating to attachments. Can
drade). Recommended
To regulate the employment of gov
eminent employees. (Sheldon). Tabled.
To provide a docket fee for attorneys
in Circuit and Supreme Courts and be-
fore Circuit Judges at chambers.
dong). Recommended indefinitely
postponed
To amend Section 1915 of the Revised
Laws. (AchD. Recommended
To facilitate collection of certain
debts due the Territory. Dowsett).
Recommended.
To amend the laws relating to sum-
mary proceedings to recover possession
Of land. (AchD. Recommended
To provide for the filing of plans and |
of lands in the registrars Of |
fee. (Achi). Recommended
To amend Section Sc of the Revised |
Laws. (Cox). Recommended indefinite |
Iy postponed. Tabled by the House.
To amend Section 30 of the Revised |
Laws. (AchD. Recommended, but |
tabled by the House
To amend Section 1919 of the Civil
Laws relating to Widows Election of
Dover. Gewis). Recommended with
Harris introduced a bill relating to
he construction, maintenance and in
;pection of buildings in the district of
Honolulu and defining the boundaries
If that district. The bill was read a
irst time by title.
IN THE AFTERNOON.
At the afternoon session, before going
nto Committee of the Whole on the
Taxation bill, Holstein's bill to repeal
he so tax for selling salmon, passed
is third. reading.
The bill introduced by Cox to amend
he laws of 1896 relating to internal {
axes next came up. 1t provided for
each deputy assessor by
aging per cent on the amount col !
ected and that assessors shall be paid
uch compensation as the legislature I
nay from time to time designate. The :
i'll passed by % to l.
The Conference Committee on the du- :
les of the Registrar of Conveyances &
eported that it had been agreed to ac-
ept the amendment of the House
laking the fee for searching 25 cents
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