The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-22
HERE IS NEW
SUNDAY LAW
The Bill Now in the
Hands of Governor
Carter.

AS it has gone to the Governor, the
| new Sunday law makes several very
material changes in the law at present
| on the statute books, and at that may
| be said to be a trifie ambiguous be
cause there are some grammatical err
| rors in it that perhaps should have
| been changed by the revision commit
fee of one house or the other of the
legislature. However, the intent Is
plain enough.
Under the old law, barber shops can
be kept open only until a. m, where
as the new law permits them to run
until IL O'Clock Meat and fish, by
the old law, may be sold until
clock, and the new law extends this
time one houI. Milk may now be sold
and delivered until a. m, and after
3 p. IN. The new law permits milk
to be sold and delivered ali day, and
bread, ice and fruit are also put on
the free list. Slaughter houses will
be run ali day under the new law,
whereas under the old they must close
at a. M, and remain closed until 3
p. m.
The new law permits hotels, restau-
rants inns, cigar stores, ice cream par
Iors, soda water stands, and livery
stables to be open all day. Hackmen
and shore boats may likewise run, and
baggage may be hauled to and from
steamers. Newspapers may be issued
and sold, ana Sunday sports carried
on.
There are a number of other
changes, the bill as it has gone to
the Governor being IN its text as fol
lows:
Section /. Section $3.50 of the Re
vised Laws of hawaii is hereby
amended so as to read as follows:
''Section $3.50. All labor on Sun
DAY is forbidden, excepting works of
necessity or mercy, IN which are in
Guided all labor that is needful for
the good order, health, comfort or safe
ty of the community, or for the pro-
lection of property from unforeseen
disaster, or danger of destruction or
injury, or which may be required for
the prosecution of or attendance upon
religious worship, or for the furnish
ing of opportunities of reading or
study; provided. however, that this
section shall not apply to newspaper
printing offices, steamship companies,
railroads, teiegraphs and telephone
companies, hotels, inns, restaurants,
cigar stores, ice cream parlors, soda
water stands, drug stores, livery
stables, hackmen, owners and oper-
ators of licensed shore boats, news
depots, graziers and ranchmen, cleo
trio light plants, gas works and
slaughter houses; and provided further
that personal baggage may be convey
ed to and from vessels leaving ana
arriving at Port on that day, and to
and from any railroad stations; that
on Suntav the leading and unloading
of vessets engaged iii inter-island, in
ter-state or foreign commerce shall be
permitted, but no freight, except live
stock and goods OF a perishable ma
ture, shall be drayed or conveyed from
the dock, pier, wharf, or landing up
on which it is unloaded; that during
the entire day milk, bread, fruit and
ice may be sold and delivered; that
until 10 O'Clock in the forenoon fresh
meat, fresh fruit, and fresh vegetables
may be sold and delivered, and laun-
dry men and laundries may deliver and
collect laundry and washing, and that
barber shops may be kept open until
IL clock in the forenoon
Section ?. Section 3191 of the Re
vised Laws of Hawaii is hereby
amended so as to read as follows:
"Section 3191. No person shall pros
ecute, conduct or take part, on Sun
day, in any recreation, amusement,
sport or game in such manner as to
commit a common nuisance
Section g. This Act shall not be
construed as permitting the conduct
ing of any show, theater, circus or
entertainment on Sunday other than
aquariums, museums, geological gar
dens, and outdoor athletic sports.
The bill reached Governor Carter s
hands yesterday, and has not yet been
signed. The Chief Executive was en-
gagged during any spare time he could
get in a careful study of its provisions.