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House Bill No. Sc, relating to the
powers of supervisors was reported on
as follows:
House Bill No Sc, entitled AN Act
to Amend Subdivision 5, Section 81. of
Chapter IA of Act SO of the Session
Laws of 1885,
Subdivision 5. Section 81 of the Coun-
ty Act relates to the powers of the
Board of Supervisors and gives power
ito regulate by ordinance within the
limits of the County, all local police.
sanitary and other regulations not in
conflict with the general laws of the
Territory or rules and regulations of
the Territorial Board of Health, and
fix a penalty for the violation OF such
ordinances
p The bill under consideration provides
that the penalty may be by fine or
imprisonment, or by both fine and inn
prisonment," and also provides that
in default of the payment of any fine
or costs the offender shall be fmprison-
ed until such fine or costs shall have
been discharged by operation of the
general law In such cases.
While we approve of the plan to
specify more particularly the nature
of the penalty and approve of the
power to impose fines, we hesitate
about recommending giving the power
to impose a penalty of Imprisonment
excepting only as there shall be de-
fault in the payment of fines and then
tbs Imprisonment to be only until the
fine Is discharged. We also are OF
opinion that a limit to the amount of
the fine should be fixed by law and
believe that the limit should not ex-
coed $500. And we therefore recon-
mend that Section 1 be amended to
read as follows: $685. - ~.-t'''-'.~
Section 1. Subdivision of Section
62 Of Chapter IA of Act 80 of the Ses-
sion Laws of 1905, is hereby amended
to read as follows:
"5. To regulate and prescribe by
ordinance within the limits of the
County all local police, sanitary and
other regulations not in conflict with
the general laws of the Territory, or
the rules and regulations of the Terri
torial Board of Health, and to fix a
penalty for the violation thereof, which
said penalty may be by fine not to ex-
coed $500, together with the costs of
court, and IN the event of default of
payment of such fine or costs of court
that the offender shall be imprisoned
discharged by operation of the general
law in such cases. and that the bill
as amended do pass.
He also reported as follows ON House
Bill 1877:
House Bill No. 1877, entitled can Act
to amend Chapter Isl of the Revised
Laws of Hawaii, by adding thereto a
new section to be known as Section
1866 A, and amending Section 1856 OF
said Revised Laws
The bill amends the law relating to
the acknowledgment of instruments
and provides a form of acknowledg e.
ment of instruments executed by Off
GERS of corporations or joint stock as
sociations.
Paragraph 2 OF Section 1866 A as set
forth in the bill reads:
I'm case the corporation or associa-
ton has no corporate seal, the words
and that the seal affixed to said In
strument is the coporate seal of said
corporation may be omitted, and the
words and that said corporation has
no corporate seal can be added at the
end of said certificate"
We recommend that the bill under
consideration be amended by striking
out this last paragraph of Section /,
for we believe that every corporation
or joint stock association should have
an official seal. It is claimed that the
e7isti116s statutes do not expressly re-