The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-11-14
STOP ROAD WORK
AND CUT POLICE
SUPERVISORS
SUPERVISORS TEMPORARILY
HOLD UP STREET IMPROVE
MENT

may with feelings of gratitude remem-
Der the Board that is soon to go out
and chiefly because it has not the
money to spend. the present Board at
its meeting last night called halt on
County road work and took the first
step toward knocking $1,000 per month
off the police departments allowance.
Last nights meeting was withal a
harmonious function and it was graced
by the presence of numerous Demo-
Gratis, rather an usual occurrence
but natural enough in view of the
Democrats elected to the new Board.
Supervisor-at-Large Frank Harvey
was there. One of the first actions of
the meeting was to invite Supervisors
elect to attend the meetings of the re-
firing Board.
It was upon H. T. Moore's motion
that it was decided to stop road work
pending the knowledge of how much
money the Territory's treasurer would
be able to give the County. Lucas sec
onded. S. c. Dwight asked why Ka-
piolani park got O7OO instead of $500 and
Lucas remarked that he'd rather pay
for the park than a lot of detectives
Archer hesitated at $3.50 for coroner's
expenses but it was shown that a coro-
ner could not help what happened in
deaths EXPENSE account Archer
thought the police cost too much and
moved that $4,000 be Topped off. 1t was
decided to let the police committee con-
suit with the Sheriff and report at the
next meeting, Monday, the 18th inst.
Estimates showed that the expense
for County work until the end of the
year would be 1873, with an income
of $6S, 200 The County expects to re-
ceive $4,000 early in January, so the
new Board will have nearly 5000 of the
old account to begin with.
County Attorney Douthitt, in re-
Spouse to a communication from H. T.
Moore requesting an opinion on Section
Ga, Chapter IA, of the County Act,
handed in an opinion to the following
effect
The section in question reads as fol-
lows:
"The Board shall not, for any pur-
pose, contract debts or liabilities which
exceed in any fiscal year the income
and revenue provided for such year.
81 understand the communication of
Supervisor Moore to mean that the
$4,000 in question will be the balance
due and payable to the County of Ca
hu within the first fifteen days of Janu-
arv 1907. as provided by Act 90 of the
session Laws of 1905. The amount in
question 81. in my opinion, such an
1906. as contemplated by Section "a OF
Chapter IA of the County Act, but not
payable until January 1907
The present Board of Supervisors
will not go out of office until the
seventh day of January, 1907, at noon
and until that time the Board has the
power of disbursing public moneys
which have already been provided
for" for the year 1906. I can see no
reason why the present Board OF Su-
nervisors could not contract debts or
obligations to be paid out Of this re-
serve fund which is payable within the
first fifteen days Of January lSo''
Otherwise it would simply mean that
considerable amount of necessary
public work would have to stop FOR
the lack of funds, a condition which
was never co,l'1''' tt =. a,,ostiop was
laIure MNe" INC
framed v,-,r o.,o+o n saw
surveyor w. r. ''I ,5 90 P1ini1i
that the o"I'e'S VI .,,ra,,,ido
Manoa Nalle!' were "p'"' &c
the tract and otter II loI SAFE - -
lots out of "a acres or WI" &c 5Io,,o
over to streets, II MeV'a'i anu ~ ~
street extensions are ACQUIRE" oS
! government it Will give 'he N"'.VE
cult connections. The owners VIII "e> "
these streets to the Territory II the
County will macadamiZe and MAINTAIN
them. The letter avs referred to the
County Engineer.
Engineer Gere reported that before
undertaking work on the construction
of a road through Kawailoa, Waialua,