The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-05
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New Official Seal of the Municipality
(reduced one-half), Designed by
Viggo Jacobsen.
and Public Improvements Commit
tee.
l. 1t shall be the duty of the Com
mittee on Roads. Bridges. Garbage.
Parks and Public Improvements to ex-
anime into and report on the efficiency
and expenditures of the departments
committed to their charge, to consider
and recommend such work as may be
necessary for the care, building, repair
or improvement of all roads, bridges
and parks, or other public improve
ments.
?. To examine and report on the
condition of all stocks, implements,
carts, drays, engines and other mate
rial of the departments under their
charge. To submit such estimates of
expenditure as may be required or
necessary, and to recommend to the
Board from time to time such changes
as may tend to increase the efficiency
of the departments, and to engage all
employees under such department and
prescribe their duties.
XIV. Police Department Committee.
1t shall be the duty of the Commit
tee on Police Department to consider
and examine into the efficiency and
morale of the Police Department of
the City and County. To scrutinize
the expenditures and receipts of this
department. and to report from time
to time such recommendations as may
increase the effectiveness Of the force.
XIV. Committee on Fire Department
and Electric Lights.
l. It shall be the duty of the Com
mittee on Fire Department and Flee
trio Lights to examine into and con-
slider the efficiency of these depart
ments lin connection with the Board
of Fire Commissioners, to examine
and report on the condition of all ap-
paratus and supplies now in use or to
| be needed, to confer from time to time
with the Board of Fire Underwriters
with a view to improvements in the
| service and to hold to strict accounta-
bility all officers and employees of these
! departments.
| .. The committee shall report at
least monthly and make such recon-
mendations as may improve the depart
ments, and to engage all employees
under such departments.
XVI. Committee on" Sanitation and
Health.
| 1t shall be the duty. of this commit
| tee to confer from time to time with
| the Territorial Board of Health in mat
tiers pertaining to health and santa
ton in the City and County Of Homo
lulu, and to make such recommends
tions, through the Board, to the Terri
torial Board of Health as may improve
the health conditions of the city and
county aforesaid.
XVII. General Provisions.
l. Whenever a matter shall be re
ferred to any of the committees, il
shall be the duty of that committee to
make diligent inquiry into all of the
facts connected with the case II
necessary, witnesses may be summoned
and examined. documents and records
shall be searched and everything be
done to bring all of the facts before
the Board
3 All reports of committees shall
be in writing and shall be signed by
the members thereof. and shall state
findings of fact and conclusion there
on, together with a recommendation tt
t Ne Board as to the disposal of the
matter.
3. Whenever a committee shall fai
to agree, a majority and minority re
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GRAFTON of the Board.
XVIII. Voting.
l. On all matters connected will
the appropriation of funds, the ap
prevail of appointments or the author
ization of improvements, voting shat
be by an aye and no vote on the cal
of the roll, and a record shall be mad
by the clerk of the vote of each mem
! Der.
2. On all matters pertaining to re
ports of committees, passage of reso
lutions or adiournments, the vote shall
: be on a call from the chair for thos
, for and against.
3. The vote in each case shall b
announced by the chair.
4. No member shall refrain iron
voting, unless excused by the Board
5. No member shall vote on a mat
, ter wherein he may have a pecuniar
| interest or wherein his official conduc
shall be involved.
4 6. When the roll is called on tn
a ayes and noes, no one shall attempt t
4 explain his vote without unanimou
consent.
Z. After the announcement of til
e vote by the presiding officer, no men
+ Der shall be allowed to change his vot
] without unanimous consent.
d XIX. Petitions, Memorials and At
5 dresses.
: /. All persons may petition or &C
: dress the Board. Petitions or othe
memorials shall be in writing and sigI
I. ed by the petitioners.
?. All petitions, memorials or az
+ dresses shall be sent to the City an
. County Clerk for submission to til
= Board and shall he presented to tn