The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-19
A BILL

TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED IAN ACT TO PROVIDE
A GOVERNMENT FOR THE TERRITORY OF HA-
VAIL" APPROVED APRIL THIRTIETH, NINE
TEEN HUNDRED.
Be enacted by the Senate House Representatives
OF the United States of America Congress assembled That
Section OF Act entitled AN Act provide government
for the Territory of Hawaii approved April trtieh nine
teen hundred, is hereby amended to read as follows
Sec. s. That the Constitution and, except otherwise
provided all the laws of the United States including
applicable same force and effect within the said
Territory elsewhere the United States: Provided That
sections eighteen hundred and forone eighteen hundred
and nineyone, inclusive nineteen hundred and and
nineteen hundred and twelve Of the Revised Statutes and the
amendments thereto and Act entitled An Act prohibit
the passage Of local special the of the
United States to limit territorial Indebtedness and for other
purposes approved July trtieth eighteen hundred and
Hawaii
Sec; That section twenty-sx of said Act is hereby
amended read follows:
Sec. 60 That the members of the legislature shall receive
for their services addition mileage the of
regular session. payable in three equal insalmens and
after the first thet and fteth days of the session. and
hundred dollars each special session. Pro-
vded That they shall receive compensation for any
I Hc held under the provisions Of section ho"r Of this
g. That section ftxwo said Act is hereby amended
read as follows:
"Sec. So That appropriations except herein otherwise
provided, shall be made by the legislature.
Sec That section ftve OF said Act is hereby amended
that the part thereof relating to public indebtedness and
beginning with the words nor shall any debt shall read
by behalf of the Territory any political municipal
corporation thereof except pay the
upon the existing Indebtedness suppress Instruction
provide for the defense except that addition
any indebtedness created for such purposes the legislature may
authorize loans by the Territory any such subdivision
thereof for the erection OF penal charitable and educational
institutions, and for public buildings wharves roads and
Indebtedness incurred any year by the Territory any
such subdivision shall not exceed per centum of the
of the property the Territory subdivision
respectively by the then
whether such made by the Territory
the Territory shall any time be extended beyond
per of such assessed value of property in the Territory
and the total Indebtedness OF such subdivision shall not
time be extended beyond three centum of such
assessed value of property the subdivision but nothing in
time shall any such loan be made upon the credit
of the public domain thereof nor shall bond
made payable thirty years from the
of the issue thereof shall such bond Indebtedness
be issued incurred until approved by the President OF the
United States"
Sec : That section seventy of said Act is hereby
amended by adding thereto the following:
No person shall hereafter be entitled to receive any GER
tfcae of occupation right OF purchase lease cash freehold
agreement special homestead agreement who or whose
husband wife shall previously have taken or held any land
under such certificate lease agreement hereafter made
issued homestead lease or patent based
thereon who whose husband wife, or both OF them
shall then other land in the Territory the combined area
OF which and the land question exceeds egy acres or
he has declared his intention to become
citizen OF the United States provided by law nor shall any
person who having declared his intention shall hereafter
hold under any such certificate lease agreement
continue hold become entitled to homestead lease
patent Of the land unless he shall have become citizen
within after taking.
land which any such certificate, lease agreement
shall hereafter be issued part thereof interest therein
thereof SHALL without the written consent OF the
commissioner and governor thereafter whether before or
homestead lease has been issued thereon be
contracted he in any directly indirectly by
process Of law otherwise conveyed morgaged leased or
transferred acquired held by tor the
Of alien corporation; before after the
homestead lease before the issuance OF patent
the benefit OF other person. after the
issuance patent to by for the benefit OF person
who owns holds controls directly indirectly other land
thereof the combined OF which and the land
ProNded that these prohbl