The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-19
MORE COUNTY ACT REPAIRS.

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The Senate tried several times dur
ing the session yesterday to get action
on Senate Bill 139, which is the Dick
ey bill providing money for the coun-
ties, and late in the afternoon adopted
the report of the Ways and Means
Committee, which passes on third read
ing the Dowsett substitute for the
Dickey bill.
The new bill, in its essential fea-
lures, has added to it a new section,
which provides that the road taxes
shall form separate fund in the Ter
ritorial treasury, to be drawn upon
only for road purposes, and then only
by the counties paying in the several
amounts in the fund. In other words,
it is planned to spend in each county
the road tax collected in such county.
The bill follows:
Section /. Fifty per centum of the
total amount of poll and school taxes
and taxes on property and income col
lected in each county shall be paid bv
the Treasurer of the Territory of Ha
waii to the Treasurer of such county
in the following manner:
1. The Auditor of the Territory
shall on the last legal day of each and
every month issue a monthly warrant
on the Treasurer of the Territory in
favor of each County Treasurer, such
monthly warrants for the half year
from July to December, 1905, inclusive,
shall be in an amount not less than 10
per cent, and thereafter in an amount
not less than Is per cent of the esti-
mated tax payable to each county
within every half year, and within the
first fifteen days of January and July
of each year, the said Auditor of the
Territory shall issue a warrant on the
Treasurer of the Territory in favor of
each County Treasurer for an amount
equal to the balan:a IN .avoT of each
county less the amounts CT the war
rants issued ana interest paid for such
warrants, during the last preceding
six months.
.. When any such warrant is pre-
sented to. the Treasurer of the Terri
tory for payment, if there is money i'll
the Treasury for the purpose, he shall
pay the same and write or stamp on
the face thereof ''Paid,'' the date of
payment and sign his name thereto,
but when the same is not paid for
want of funds, the Treasurer of the
Territory shall first register the same
in book to be kept for that purpose,
shall then endorse - Not paid for want
VI IuHho. Win bNe tidl6 VI pItSGuid-
ton, and sign his name thereto and
return said warrant to the party pre-
senting the same. From thar time I'M
til paid the warrant shall bear Eve 90
per cent interest per anlum, and it
shall thereafter be paid in order of its
registration out of funds properly
chargeable Herewith.
INTEREST ON WARRANTS.
3. When there are sufficient moneys
in the Treasury to pay the warrants
drawing interest, the Treasurer of the
Territory shall give notice for one
week in some newspaper published in
each county. or. if none is published
therein. by written notice posted upon
the court house door at the county
seat for the same length of time, stat
ing therein that he IS ready to pay
such warrants. Ten days after the first
publication or posting of such notice,
such warrants cease to draw interest.
/. When the Treasurer pays any
warrant upon which interest is due.
he shall note on the warrant the
amounts of interest paid therein. and
enter on his account the amount of
such interest distinct from the prin-
cipal.
Section . The funds from such
warrants shall be applied by each