The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-10-19
PROPOSED BILL
IS GIVEN OUT
Continued From Page onc.)


biennial appropriations
To rive more latitude in redeeming
bonds;
TO discontinue high shcrirs office
by legislature IL desirable;
To disqualify judges in certain cases
under certain circumstances;
To regulate intertransfer of terri
torial and federal land;
To raise salaries Of federal officers;
To ratify circuit court naturalizations
previous to 1906, and
To amend the existing land laws as
follows:
Prevent repeating in homesteading;
Allowing only one homestead right
to husband and wife;
Preventing aliens homesteading;
Preventing transference of home
stead;
Providing forfeiture on failure to
comply with laws;
Providing disposition of homesteads
by drawing;
Providing preferences to improvers of
public lands;
Providing church sites from public
lands;
Limiting sales or exchanges by Terri
tory, and
Putting all public lands under one
department.
Amendments Announced.
| The conferences held daily in the of.
fee of Governor Frear, with the
amendment of the Organic Act as theiE
aim and purpose, have practically fin.
ished their task and the bill to amend
, that act is now in type and ready fol
criticism before being presented to
| congress to be passed upon by the law
, makers of the Nation. Both the bill
! and the explanations drawn up by the
> conference in regard to it are printed
on page nine of this issue of The AID
vertiser.
, Nine years Of government have
7 shown the officials intrusted with tn,
g management of the affairs Of the Ter
4 ritory and the citizens for whose ber
Q eft the Organic Act was drawn up til,
weak points in the act and the chance
for improvements. And, although th
Organic Act was drawn up when tn
needs and future of Hawaii were un
known to its draughters, compare
. lively few sections have been foun,
= wanting by the conference that sug
~ eests the amendments.
Prominent in the bill is an amend
;, ment giving the present land law
!, thorough and radical revision, a rev
II sion which will place the present III
q. satisfactory laws on sane and pfa'
n teal footing.
The principal clause in the land la
fevisions regulates an evil too prom
nent in the present homestead laws an
does away with the right of a hom'
steader to repeat. Providing the bi
:. passes congress, each homesteader wi
be allowed to take up but one hom'
stead, and this only providing that tn
wife or husband does not already ow
or occupy "a homestead and owns les
~ than eighty acres of land in the TIE
10 ritory.
t. This will wipe out one method b
or which the plantations have acquired
much land, as there will be no MOI
y Wholesale homesteading for the sal
OF of acquiring title to sell the land
nd The corporations.
of The amendments do not forbid Il
acquiring of more land by private pu
chase after the homestead has bee
W taken up, and another clause ALLOW
IT. those who have, or whose predecesso
cd in interest have, improved public Lar
ba and resided on ii for ten years or nor
:, to buy a reasonable amount of a
~ Joining land from the government at
IA price to be decided upon by COZ
ed mission of three disinterested porso
appointed by the Governor at first al
rIv ultimately by the legislature.
~ The Territory will also be prohibit
at from selling or exchanging more thu
ry forty acres of land or lots of grain
ly, land of more than $4,000 in value f
net other than homestead purposes unle
- the approval of two.thirds of boa
- as provided for in the amendments
- obtained. Other clauses regulate t
M drawing up of land patents I
On churches and other religious organic
tions.
20 Under the amendments REGULATE
~ territorial indebtedness, the Terrific
,Aae will not be permitted to incur in o
,ot year more than one per centum of
wv assessed value of property in the T
toa ritory. The Territory may hereaft
Wv still providing that the bill meets W
tho the approval of congress, build
gn. roads, wharyes, penal and charital
81 institutions, ETC., with loans authori2
IT, by the territorial legislature.
iii The amendment regulating the d
II l.. Il.