The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-11-04
IN The SENATE
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that the bill be laid on the table. /
Similar reports were made on Co
elho's bills to exempt small fishermen
and peddlers from license fees and
appropriating $4,000 for the relief
of persons released from the Leper
Settlement, Knudsen dissenting as
in the first case.
With regard to the license bill the
committee says: Your committee
believes that the loss of revenue to,
the Territory would be so small that
it would not be noticed, whereas the
enforcement of the law in such cases
might create a real hardship and
drive all the sellers of flowers and
leis out of business"
The. various reports were laid on
the table to be considered with the
/ respective bills.
House bill No. u providing for SEES
sional expenses of that body passed
first reading.
LAHAINA LANDS.
Coelho with a speech presented the
following concurrent resolution, which
was referred to the committee on
public lands:
Whereas, prior to, and at the time
of, the Grand Mahele of Lands in the
Kingdom of Hawaii, and thereafter
during the labors of the Commits
sioners to Quiet Titles appointed in
pursuance of the Act to Organize the
Executive Department Of the Hawaii
an Islands, approved April 81, 1916,
certain of the lands of the Hawaiian
Kingdom, situate at Lahaina, Maui,
which were intended to have been
awarded to private claimants under
said Act, but which were not speci-
fically so awarded were used and oc-
cupied and have ever since continued
to be used and occupied as private
holdings under claims of ownership
therein by private parties; and
Whereas, the parties then respec'
lively so using, occupying and claim
ing the same, and their successors
in claim and estate have, in many
instances, continued, thence to the
present time, to exercise all the func-
lions of private ownership therein,
and to pay taxes thereon to the gov
eminent, as assessed from year to
year during many years last past;
| and
Whereas, such said claimants re-
spectively have in good faith held,
and paid taxes upon such lands in the
belief that they were legally entitled
to claim and hold the same; and
Whereas, the Governor of the Ter
), ritory has directed the Attorney Gen
eryal of the Territory to institute
proceedings Of ejectment against the
parties above referred to; and
Whereas. it would be inequitable to
now disturb them in their possession
thereof and claims therein, and 1T is
desirable that their rights therein
should be recognized by law:
Now therefore, Be 1t Resolved that
It is the sense Of the Legislature OF
the Territory of Hawaii in Special
Session assembled that the parties
holding the lands as hereinabove re-
ferred to he not disturbed in their
possession thereof and claims therein
until the present land laws are modi-
fed or amended so as to enable them
to perfect their title under more
favorable and just considerations
Be it Further Resolved, that certi-
fed copies of this Resolution be
transmitted to the Governor of the
1 Territory, the Attorney General ana
the Commissioner of Public Lands.
PAY OF OFFICERS.
Brown presented a resolution APP
portioning the pay of officers OF the
Senate as follows: Clerk, $12 day;
assistant clerk, SO day; sergeant-at'
arms, SIS a day; messenger, SO day;
janitor, SO a day; chaplain, $40 the
session.
President Smith called attention ia
\ the fact that the pay proposed LOT