The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-24


laws reported on Senate Bills Nos. s.,
43 and 70, stating that they had in
corporated the ideas in the three bills
in one substitute measure which was
introduced by Senator Mccarthy. In
the course of its report the committee
expressed its appreciation for the ser
vices and advice of Secretary Mott
Smith.
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signed in time to catch the flag, the
judiciary Committee recommending the
passage of the Alfonso bill to protect
the purchasers of real estate from fraud
ulent conveyances.
Told to Get Busy.
Long suggested. as the House was
through with all business in sight, that
the members visit the schools. The
Speaker, however, advised the various
committees to get busy on the bills IN
their respective hands.
Coney, of the Health Committee, gave
notice of a meeting of his committee
at the fshmarket to 60 into the Lobster
Bill. The Speaker agreed that this was
an appropriate place to go into the
merits of the measure.
The House took a recess at $40.
Afternoon Communications.
A number of routine communications
from the Senate were received after the
noon hour, among them being one trans
hitting Senate Joint Resolution 1. This
resolution is one to encourage early
rising and industry and makes the of
fee hours of all government depart
ments from $3.50 a. m. to p. m. on all
business days but Saturday, when the
offices may close at noon.
On motion OF Rice the resolution pass
ed first reading.
Departmental Appropriations.
The special committee looking into
the bill to provide additional appro-
priations for the departments for the
current biennial period, recommended
the passage of the bill as soon as pos
sible as the departments needed the
money. The report was adopted. This
is Senate Bill SO.
The Finance Committee recommended
the passing of House Bills "a and 127
and favored the tabling of House Bill
lis. The latter bill, dealing with the
of public money, is covered
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Furtado's Splendid Isolation.
Furtado was the lone upholder of his
bill to turn over the business of the
Bureau of Conveyances to the various
counties, which the Miscellaneous Com
mittee jumped on and proceeded to
strangle. His was the only hand raised
to save the measure, which was killed
dead and laid away in the House
morgue, where lie so many other little
dead bills. The report of the committee
said:
"In all matters connected with land
records the first object is that they
shall be kept safely. Under present
in the Counties of Hawaii,
Maui, and Kauai, there are no freproof
vaults for the safe storing of records,
and until such accommodations are had,
this change should not be undertaken.
"In the matter of expense it would
be found to be much greater when" di-
vided up under the counties than by the
present system, and from a segregation
of business handled from the different
counties we find on investigation that
Oahu business amounts to seventy five
per cent of the total, and that the bust
ness of the outlying counties would
therefore be run at a loss if this con-
templated change be made.
"The cost to the individual under
the proposed bill would in many cases
be much greater, for many documents,
such as powers of attorney, agreements,
affidavits, attachments and many others
would have to be recorded in all coun-
ties in order to fully protect the par
ties. This point is not properly covered
by said bill.
"Also. when deed or other transfer
conveying lands in more than one cOun
ty, 1t would be necessary to record said
document in each of the counties in
which the said lands are situated. This
would make it expensive in such eases,
and brings forward the point which is
not properly covered by the said bill,
namely: Does the recording of a docu-
ment conveying land in more than one
county, when recorded in only one coun-
ty, give notice to all persons in the
Territory of the existence of such
document, and would a conveyance of
portion of the same land in another
county take precedence if recorded IN
that particular county before the docu-
ment recorded in the other county? The
bill does not make proper provisions
for clearing the original record of mort
cages recorded under the Territory,
when releases of said mortgages should
be presented for record in another
county. This is also true of assignment
of leases, revocation of powers of at
torney, affidavits of foreclosure, and
many other documents. t
1.-The greatest confusion would result
from the operation of such system at
the present time, and would be the
means of making it hard to secure loans
from the banks and other moneyed in
terests.
Your committee has also investiga-
ted the present system now conducted
IN the office of the Registrar of Con
veyances and has been assured. that il
has been and is now the aim of that