The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-11-02

SldIeS VI america III Congress assem-
bled, That Section 5 of an Act entitled
An Act to provide a government for
the Territory of Hawaii" approved
April thirtieth, nineteen hundred, is
hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 5. That the Constitution,
and, except as otherwise provided, all
the laws of the United States, including
laws carrying general appropriations,
which are not locally inapplicable,
shall have the same force and effect
within the said Territory as elsewhere
in the United States: Provided. That
sections eighteen hundred and forty
one to eighteen hundred and ninety
one, inclusive, nineteen hundred and
ten and nineteen hundred and twelve
of the Revised Statutes and the amend
ments thereto, and an Act entitled AN
Act to prohibit the passage of local or
special laws in the territories of the
United States, to limit territorial in
debtedness, and for other purposes
approved July thirtieth, eighteen hun
dred and eighty-six, and the amend
ments thereto, shall not apply to Ha-
wall"
Section 2. That section twenty-six
of said Act is hereby amended to read
as follows:
Section 26. That the members of
the legislature shall receive for their
services, in addition to mileage at
the rate of ten cents a mile each way,
the sum of six hundred dollars for each
regular session, payable in three equal
lnstallments on and after the first,
thirtieth and fiftieth days of the SEES
sion, and the sum of two hundred dol
lars for each special session: Provid-
ed, That they shall receive no compen-
Station for any extra session held I'M
der the provisions of section fifty-four
of this Act
Sec. 3. That section fifty-two of
said Act is hereby amended to read
as follows:
Section 50. That appropriations,
except as herein otherwise provided,
shall be made by the legislature"
Sec 4. That section fifty-ffve of
said Act is hereby amended so that
the part thereof relating to public
Indebtedness and beginning with the
wrods nor shall any, debt shall
read as follows: Nor Shall any debt
be authorized to be contracted bv or
on behalf of the Territory, or any
political or municipal corporation or
subdivision thereof, except to paw the
interest upon the existing Indebted
ness, to suppress instruction, or to
provide for the common defense. ex-
cept that in addition to any indebted
ness created for such purposes the
legislature may authorize loans by
the Territory or any such subdivi-
sion thereof, for the erection of pe-
nal, charitable, and educational insti-
tutions, ana for public buildings.
wharves, roads, and harbor and other
public improvements, but the total
OF such Indebtedness incurred in any
one year by the Territory or any such
subdivision shall not exceed one per
centum of the. assessed value of the
property in the Territory or subdivi-
sion, respectively, as shown by the
then last assessments for taxation
whether such assessments are made
by the Territory or the subdivision
or subdivisions, and the total indebt.
edness of the Territory shall not at
any time be extended beyond seven
per centum of such assessed value of
property in theTerritory and the IN.
tal Indebtedness of any such subdi-
vision shall not at any time be ex-
tended beyond three per centum Of
such assessed value of propertv in
the subdivision, but nothing in this
Act shall prevent the refunding of
any Indebtedness at any time: nor
snail any such loan be made upon the
credit of the public domain or anv
part Thereon; nor shall any bond or
other instruments of any such indebt-
edness be issued unless made payable
IN not more than thirty years from
the date of the issue thereof: nor
snail any such bond or indebtedness
be issued or incurred until approved
by the President oil the United
States"
Sec. 3. That section seventy,three
or said Act is hereby amended by
adding thereto the following:
mo person shall hereafter be en-
Titled to receive any certificate or
occupation, right of purchase lease.
cash freehold agreement, or special
homestead agreement, who or whose
husband or wife shall previously
have taken or held any land under
any such certificate, lease, or agree
ment hereafter made or issued, or
under any homestead leas or patent
based thereon; or who or whose nus
band or wife, or both of them, shall
then own other land in the Territory,
the combined area of which and the
land in question exceeds eighty
acres; or who is an alien, unless ne
has declared his intention to become
citizen of the United States as pro-
vided by law; nor shall any person
who, having So declared his inten-
ton, shall hereafter take or hold I'M
der such certificate, lease or agree