The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-25

Waiwaiole s bill, No. A, a private
Maui measure.
The Health and Police Committee
recommended that Resolution "a, ask
ing for $1,000 for a hearse for the Set
Element, be laid on the table to await
the appropriation bill.
Second Readings.
Twelve printed bills were distributed
for. second reading.
House Bill ,, Alfonso, to encourage
the coffee industry, was referred to Ag-
Ticultural Committee. This bin exempts
20 acres of land and all property, real
and personal, thereon, actually and
solely used for coffee cultivation, from
all taxation.
House Bill 8, Alfonso, amends the law
relating to income tax, placing the rate
at two per cent and raising the amount
exempted to $4,000. This bill went to
Finance Committee.
Tenement House Bill.
House Bill Il, Douthitt, being the
Tenement House Act, was referred to-
the Judiciary Committee. The main
clauses of this bill, which are amend.
ments to the Municipal Act, are:
The powers of the Board of Super
yisors are enlarged to ''prescribe and
regulate the method and style of con-
ssructlon of carpenter, machine, black
smith and other workshops, boundaries,
bakeries and other factories, laundries,
poi-shops, abattoirs, fshnlarkets and
places where noisome trades or manu-
features are carried on, hotels, tene-
ments, lodging houses, theaters, halls
and places of public resort.
"'To prescribe and regulate the places
where and the conditions under which
carpenter, machine, blacksmith and
other workshops, foundries, bakeries,
and other factories, laundries, poi-shops,
abattoirs, fshmarkets, and places where
noisome trades or manufactures are car
ried on, hotels, tenements, lodging
houses, theaters, and halls and places
of public resort may be erected, main
tanned, used or operated
ITO enact and to enforce all ordi-
nances necessary to protect health. life
and property, to prevent and summarily
remove nuisances and to preserve and
enforce the good government, order and
security of the City and County and its
inhabitants
g Whenever any ordinance shall be
enacted any general statute of the Ter
ritory of Hawaii in conflict with such
ordinance shall cease to be operative
within the City and County, so long as
such ordinance shall remain in force. "
House Bill 81, Coney, dividing the
Territory into five judicial districts,
was referred to the Judiciary Commit
tee.
House Bill 40, to compel the payment
of sewer rates and empower the De-
partment of Public Works 20 shut off
sewer connections if the rates are not
paid went to Public Lands Committee.
/! House Bill 50, providing for tenders
for public supplies, was referred to
Miscellaneous Committee.
House Bill 50, providing for the pub
lication of laws in English and Hawai-
ian papers and in book form, went to
the Accounts and Public Expenditures
Committees.
House Bill 4, putting the salary of
the Hawaii county clerk at $4,000 a
/ year and the deputy sheriff of Hama
kua at $500 year, went to Miseel-
laneous Committee
House Bill 6, to alter the boundaries
of senatorial districts so as to give
Hawaii two districts, went to Miscel-
laneous Committee.
House Bill 40, to further ameliorate
conditions due to leprosy, went to Po-
lice and Public Health Committee. This
bill Incorporates the new leprosy policy
of the Administration.
House Bill 81, the measure to estab-
fish a juvenile court, was referred to
judiciary Committee.