The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-02-18

1907 and also copies of the law appor-
tioning one half of the license receipts
of the County, to supply the members
of the House.
Cohen put in a resolution that the
Governor be requested to furnish at
the earliest possible date information
relative to public lands not per
manently, alienated or in definite pro-
cess of alienation, or public lands leas-
ed to sugar plantations, which infor-
nation shall be tabulated and sum
married. island by island and district
by district and the information shall
be so tabulated that it may be recog-
nized identified and compared with the
present published list of public lands,
covering these points
1. Areas known to be suitable for
practical agricultural operations.
2. Water supply, rainfall or irriga-
ton, source Of supply, adequate, avail
able or diverted.
8. Character OF land and soil.
4. Clearing, If necessary, whether
from rock or vegetable growth
And resolved that the Governor be
requested to secure and transmit In
formation, within &c days, from off,
GERS of sugar plantations leasing public
lands, tabulating and summarizing
and covering arsas leased to each plan
tation; areas 0: cane and estimated ad-
ditional area of leased public land suit
able for sugar cane not yet utilized.
Castro resolved" that $4,000 be
itemed in the appropriations from the
loan fund for the erection and cons
| truction of a reinforced concrete school
building in Kewalo, Honolulu.
Moanauli introduced a bill, passed
by title, relating to costs of court and
transcripts in felony cases.
Kinney put in a resolution for an
appropriation item of $11,5O0 for new
court houses, Jail, etc, for Waialua
Public improvements committee.
Kaleiopu's bill to amend the Act
creating the City and County of Oahu
provides:
Striking out all of Section 10 of the
Act (11S) relating to the presiding Of
ficeI of the Board of Supervisors;
striking out all of Section 16 relating
to final passage of bill. And Sec
ton 90 is amended to provide that bills
ard resolutions which pass the board
shall be presented to the Mayor for
| approval the Mayor to return sIch 20
the Board within ten days and it
shall become an ordinance if le ar
prove it; he shall specify his cOjet-
tons if he disapproves; if he does not
return such within ten days it snail
take effect with or without approval;
the Dill shall become an ordinance it
recons'dered and passed by Ave mcia-
mers of the board after the Mayors
disapproval T.
Sheldon's bilYto provide for the pub
LEGATION of the decisions of the United
States District Court for Hawaii pro-
/ vides that the sum of $1,000 be appro-
priated for the compilation and publ
cation of not less than 500 copies CT
the reports of the decisions of the
United States District Court for Ha-
wall provided that the judge of said
| Court shall assign to the Territory all
right to publish, sell and distribute the
decisions so published. and shall pre-
pare and furnish for such publication,
free of cost, such decisions, and the
syllabi thereof, to the Secretary of the
Territory, who is authorized to make
all contracts for carrying out the pNr-
poses of the bill The printing of
such decisions in book forms or sigma
lures Of the requisite number may be
begun as soon as the Secretary shall
deem advisable. and be continued Ms
Such decisions are furnished with their
I syllabi from time to time, and may be
bound, together with the index, when
a sufficient number of forms or sigma
lures for binding in volume form shah
have been printed; and such forms OF
signatures, either as part OF or in addi-
ton to the 500 copies, as well as the
bound volumes may be sold and dis
tributed by the Secretary in the same
manner as the Session Laws of the
Territory
A gubernatorial message recon-
mended that $2,27O be appropriated to
compensate for the taking by the
Board of Health, during the year 1907
of the property Of certain persons on
the Federal Reservation in the County
of Kalawao, as above noted the cir
cumstances under which the property
was taken being as follows: Under
an Act Of Congress approved March 8
1905, provision was made for the es-
tablishment OF a leprosarium at the
leper settlement upon land to be coded
by the government of Hawaii to the
United States. There were upon the
required land certain buildings which
had haen pOnstructad NV partain nar.