The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-11

ties after such divorce shall be regu-
lated by the existing laws concerning
separation.
All proceedings for divorce shall
be commenced by libel to be signed
by the libelant and sworn to; and the
same shall set forth the marriage of
the parties and the cause for divorce,
with sufficient particularly to consti-
tute case for judicial action.
'9Such libel shall be fled in the of
flee of the clerk of the Circuit Court,
and upon the fling thereof. writ of
summons with the libel annexed shall
be issued under the seal of the court
by the clerk, directing the High Sher-
off or his deputy, or the Sheriff of the
county or his deputy, to summon the
libelee to appear thirty days after SER
vice before the Cirenit Judge at cham
bers to answer the libel.
'sSuch summons and libel shall be
served by delivering certified copies
thereof to the libelee personally.
s'The Judge shall not entertain jul
risdiction of the libel until at least
thirty days after such personal service
shall have been completed, except as
provided in the following section.
New Bills Presented.
Waiwaiole introduced bill to
amend the County Act, to allow an APP
peal from the decision of the Board
of Supervisors on the proceedings IN
impeachment proceedings.
Medical Practise Bill.
Douthitt presented a bill relating to
the practise of medicine and surgery.
The measure hedges the profession
about with greater protection, and pro-
vides among other things that exam
nations for licenses must be conduct
ed in the English language and be IN
whole or In part in writing.
Christian Scientists, Mormon layers
on of hands, osteopaths and other not
placed under the ban in the second sec
ton, which says:
"No person shall practise medicine
or surgery in the Territory of Hawaii,
either gratuitousIy or for pay, or shall
offer to SO practise. or shall advertise
or announce or hold himself out either
publicly or privately as prepared to so
practise, without having first obtained
from the Treasurer of the Territory
of Hawaii a license.
Such license shall only be granted
upon the written recommen-
dation of the Board of Health, pro-
vided that in no instance shall the
Board of Health make such reeommen-
dation to the Treasurer unless the
Board of Medical Examiners shall first
recommend the issuance of
such license.
What the practise Of medicine is, is
defined as follows:
'::The practise of medicine shall be
held to include the use of drugs and
medicines, water, electricity, hypno-
tism, and any means or method and
any agent, either tangible or intangi-
| BILE, for the treatment of disease, in
Jury or deformity of human beings
provided, however, that moth
| ing herein contained shall be con-
strued as to inhibit the sale of surgi-
| cal. dental and optical appliances; or
shall be held to forbid the rendering
of service in the case of emergency,
or the domestic administration of fam
| lily remedies. 80
Every Day'n Be Sunday.
The Military Committee reported
again on the Lincoln Day holiday bill.
which had been amended to include
March II, again favorably. The bill
| went on the order of the day for to-
day If it passes, the list of public
legal holidays viii include:
| The first day of January.
The twelfth day of February.
The twenty second day of February.
The seventeenth day of March.
The thirtieth day of May.
The eleventh day of June.
| The fourth day of July.
The first Monday in September.
The third Saturday in September.
The twenty-ffth day of December.
This will give, including Sundays
sixty-two days of the year during
| which no business can be done, while
| Thanksgiving Day also comes regular
ly along by proclamation.
County Registrars.
Furtado offered an amendment to the
County Act and another of similar i'm.
port to the Municipal Act, which says
in the last instance:
| ION and after the first day OF De
tober, A. D. 1909 1.-The City Treasurer
shall perform the duties heretofore i'm
| posed upon the Registrar of Convey
auces under Chapter 151 of the Re
vised Laws of Hawaii as to all deeds
eonveyances and instruments affecting
title TO land or property within the
City and County of Honolulu; which
| said deeds, conveyanees and instru-
ments shall hereafter be recorded only
in said City and County of Honolulu
''The Registrar of Conveyances on
the first day of October, 1909, shall
surrender to and deliver over to the
| Treasurer of the City and County of
Honolulu, for the time being, all books
records and papers whatsoever apper
tanning to said office of Registrar OF
| Conveyanees, which thereafter shall be