The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-12-25
ORGANIC ACT 4
AMENDMENTS
Continued from Page One,

GERS. fra
''This change is one that has been
discussed through a long period and
widely agreed on. Surely this can not
come with the shock Of surprise. Nor
is the proposed amendment to section
"a an unheard-of matter. 1t is as fol-
lows:
Nor shall any Judge sit in any
case in which he may have been of
counsel or on an appeal from any de-
cision or Judgment rendered by him,
and the Legislature Of the Territory
may add other causes of Disqualified
ton to those herein enumerated
. Section 81 of the Organic Act is
to be further amended by adding
thereto the following:
"'fA And any such public property
taken for the uses and purposes Of the
United States by direction of the
President or of the Governor of Ha-
wall may be restored to its previous
status by direction of the President;
and the title given such public prop
erty in the possession and use of the
Territory for the purposes of schools,
cemeteries, parks, roads, wharves, wa
ter works, sewer works, electric works,
public buildings, or other public pur-
poses, or required for any such pur-
poses, may be transferred to the Ter
ritory by direction of the President,
and any such property may thereafter 4
be transferred to any city, county or
other political subdivision thereof by
direction of the Governor of the Ter
ritory, when thereunto authorized by
the Legislature"
dissection 90 Of the Organic Act is
1 III q
lows:
:" The following officers shall re-
ceive the following salaries, to be paid
! by the United States: The governor,
| ten thousand dollars; the secretary of
the Territory, five thousand dollars; the
chief justice of the supreme court of
the Territory, seven thousand five hun
| dred dollars; the associate justices of
the supreme court, seven thousand dol
lars each; the judges of the circuit
courts, four thousand dollars each the
United States district Judge, seven thou
sand dollars; the United States marshal,
three thousand dollars; the United
States district attorney, three thousand
dollars. And the governor shall receive
annually, in addition to his salary, the
sum of one thousand dollars for sta
tionery postage, and incidentals; also
his travelling expenses while absent
from the capital on official business,
and the sum of two thousand dollars
annually for his private secretary.
90 The following section is to be
added to section 100 of said Act:
"'All records relating to naturaliza-
ton, all declarations of intention to be-
come citizens of the United States, and
all certificates of naturalization filed,
recorded or issued prior to June TWEEN
ty-ninth, nineteen hundred and SIX IN
or from any circuit court of the Ter
ritory of Hawaii shall for all purposes
be deemed to be and to have been made,
filed, recorded or issued by court with
jurisdiction to naturalize aliens, but
shall not be by this Act further vail
dated or legalized.
g Section 70 of the Organic Act
, providing for high sheriff and dep
uties and defining their duties is To be
repealed.
Regarding the amendment limiting
the amount of Indebtedness that the
Territories or counties may contract,
Treasurer Campbell says "Maui coun-
ty wanted to issue bonds for public i'm
, provements The authority of the leg
> islature was secured and all other au-
thority required, and then the Supreme
Court said the bonds could not be is
J, sued under the Organic Act because
the county did not have the power of
= taxation. This amendment removes that
difficulty and makes possible county
:. bond issue whether the county has the
/, taxing power or not, so long as the
4 requirements of the legislature are COM
a piled with. q
- "Another thing, under the Organic
: Act as it stands bonds can only be
/, payable in fifteen. This makes short
a term bond not easily foated. The
:. amendment simply provides that bonds
:, can not be issued for a longer time
!. than thirty years. This will enable
"a the issuance of form of bond that
n has become very popular in the East
n This is called the one-twenty bond, oil
"a the onethirty bond. That is, if it il
10 twenty-year bond, one-twentieth OF
a each bond is payable every year. This
ar does away with the necessity of 6
q. sinking fund. If it is a thirty-yeai
d. bond, one-thirtieth Of each bond il
n. made payable each year. We won !
have TO issue bonds of this kind undel
III this amendment, but we can If We
ne want to.
id Still another thing to be secures
e. by the amendment IS to give the Ter
to ritory the power to refund its bonded
Of Indebtedness at a lower rate of inter
ne est. The Organic Act as it now stand
so gives the Territory the right to re
n fund existing Indebtedness That ha
a been construed by some lawyers Il
IL mean indebtedness existing at the tim
e. of the organization of the Territory
en- We have refunded some Of that indebt
edness already. But there is no NOR
he that we can refund. There is, how
id ever, a considerable amount of fou
Ia and az half per cent. bonds that ca
ne be refunded at lower rate of inter
nd est this year if this amendment
ch adopted, and we can save ten thousan
er dollars in interest year. The sectio
So as amended in this particular q
la proposed will read as follows;
mt but the total of such indebted
as ness incurred in any one year by tn
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