The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-31
OAHU COUNTY WITHOUT
LEGAL ROAD BOARDS
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Inc following communication from
County Treasurer Trent was read:
Gentlemen: The County Treasurer
begs respectfully to ask for advice as
to the method intended to be followed
by the Supervisors in the matter of
making appropriations of moneys for
various accounts.
This advice is now asked for the rea-
son that d number of warrants have
been presented to the Treasurer for
payment, designated as ehargeable to
accounts for which no appropriations
have been made, so far as the Treas
urer has been advised.
The following memoranda will show
In a condensed form some of the ac-
counts against which warrants have
been issued, but which show no appro-
priation credits in the Treasurer
books:
Supervisors-Fu rniture and fix
lures 3oU.OU
Attorneys Office-Stenograph-
er, clerk, furniture and fix
lures, stationery, telephone.
Total Observation-Disclosures. 1870
Clerks Office = Stenographer,
CleTh, furniture ana nXIureS,
stationery, advertising, office
expenses. Total .. S4490
Auditor Office-Clerk, furni-
ture ard fixtures, stationery.
Total 1920
Treasurer Office-Clerk, sta
tionery l66.75
Messenger 1855
Road Supervisor ... 5000
Police and Fire System $500 45.73
Inasmuch as the Treasurer is re-
CURED by law to so keep his books
that the amount paid out
on account of separate funds or
specific appropriations shall be exhib
tied in separate accounts | beg also
to respectfully call your attention to
few little discrepancies in the naming
of accounts in your appropriation reso-
lutions, which have evidently escaped
your notice; and which, if literally fol-
lowed, would cause confusion in ac-
counts and statements.
The sum OF $500 was appropriated
for July for an account ''to be known
as Police Expense. A later resolution
appropriated $472.59 additional for an
account ITO be known as Police De-
partment-July Expense And still
later resolution set aside $50 additional
for an account to be known as Police
Department-Pay Roll' 1t will read
ily be seen that the Treasurer will
either have to open separate account
for each of these appropriations, al
though they all were apparently in
tended for one account, or else ignore
the titles of accounts Us fixed by the
Supervisors, which he is not willing to
do.
The Auditor will be requested in is
suing his warrants to follow closely
the wording of appropriation resolu
tions in so far as they fix the names
of accounts, so that the danger of con-
fusing and mixing different appropria
tions will be reduced to minimum.
The communication was referred to
the Committee on Public Expenditure
The county treasurer asked that his
Office be furnished with a Burroughs
adding machine, costing $50. Referred
to Committee on Public Expenditure.
Auditor Bicknel reported the usual
periodical batch of garnishee suits
against minor employees.
A communication from County At
auiry on the part of the board as to
the present status of the Road Board
and Board of Fire Commissioners, was
read.
The county attorney expressed him.
self that as far as the members of the
road board are concerned there is no
definite term of Office as far as he was
able to observe.
The communication read in part:
In order to constitute the members
of said road boards a legal body. the
appointment by the Governor contem-
plated in Section so of the Organic Act
must be confirmed by the Senate of the
Territory of Hawaii. When once con-
firmed, however, they would hold office
for the term specified in the laws of
tie Territory of Hawaii
l have carefully gone over the Jour
nal of the Senate for the years 1901,
1902, 1908, 1904 and 1905, and | cannot
find any records of the confirmation by
the Senate of any member of the Road
Board or of the Board of Fire Commits
sioners
In accordance with the provisions of
Section Col of the Revised Laws of
Hawaii, the Road Board for the District
of Kona has long since been abolished
Therefore, there being no Road Board
for the District of Kona, and the men,
bers of the various road boards for the
various districts throughout the Island
OF Oahu not having been appointed OF
confirmed in the manner provided by
law, it follows that there is no leg
road board in existence.
But in connection with the investi- |
cation of the powers of the road |
board. I find that the following sums
were on deposit in the Treasury of the |
Territory of Hawaii on the Goth day of |
April. 1905, namely. the day on which |
the County Act went into effect, as dis |
free from the amounts on |
deposit to the credit of the road boards |
the districts on the 18th day |
Of August 1905, as follows:
Apr 20, Aug. %,
1905 1865.
Honolulu ..........S Sd, 09S.S7 1851 |
EVA and waianae.. 9,356.4O 1884 81
Waialua . 2.51702 34.34
K oolauloa .. 1.25O97 351.39
1890. ALA -.....-.
In other words, there was, on said |
Il