The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-29
Preference Rights of HaWaiians
Secure Patents to Their
HomesteadS.
CONCERNS PUNCHBOWL LOTS
Under Law McCandless Would
Kill to Detriment of Every
Portuguese Citizen.

Land Commissioner Campbell, with
the approval of Governor Frear, has
just issued these patents to thirteen of
the residents of Waiohinu, Kau, Ha-
wall in accordance with one of the
recent amendments of the Organic Act
relating to public lands. These patents
are the first issued under the provision
comforting preference rights to obtain
titles TO homes and their issuance is
of the greatest Importance, especially
TO the Portuguese residents on Punch
bowl
These are the first patents issued
under that provision of the Organic
Act amendments which is designed to
give preference rights to obtain title
to their homes to persons who or whose
predecessors in interest have since the
passage of the Organic Act lived upon
public land without title to the same
and have improved it.
This granting of the thirteen land
patents mentioned above is of interest
to those Portuguese living on the slopes
of Punchbowl who hope in the near fu-
ture to be able to obtain title to their
homes 1t is an evidence of the good
faith of the administration, assuring
them that, by complying with the sim
pie requirements of the law, they may
soon own their homes in fee, provided
the Trainer of the Democratic platform
be beaten at the polls.
IT Link McCandless, Democratic can
didate for congress, Is elected and sue
ceeds in getting congress to pass the
bill which he some time since asked
the territorial Legislature TO endorse
and which is endorsed emphatlcally by
the McCandless platform, no such pa
tents viii be issued in many eases in
the country districts where residents
are now entitled to them, while all the
Pune hbowl Portuguese, as well as
many Hawaiians and others throughout
the Territory, would forever lose gall
hope of acquiring title to their homes.
The Punchbowl lands are now under
lease to the Kapiolani Estate, but the
lease expires within comparatively
short time and it is the intention OF
the administration to give the occu-
pants of the lands who have improved
the property the preference right to
: purchase the homes they have made
This Mr.. McCandless wants to pre-
vent. He has announced his intention
of trying to get congress to pass the
bill which he asked the legislature TO
endorse and which would deprive every
one of the present occupants of the
land on Punehbowl of all hope or
owning it. McCandless' bill gives only
those who have continuously resided
on the land in the country since the
passage of the Organic Act the prefer
entail right of purchase, whereas the
Republican bill. which was enacted into
law by the last congress, gives the
preferential right of purchase not only
10 those who have continuously resided
on the land and improved it since April
IL, 1900, but also to their heirs and
successors iii interest, while the Me
Cardless Land Bill specifically excerpts
city property from any preference
rights whatever
Soon after the present amendments
were passed the Governor and the land
eommisS oner took steps to prepare the
necessary form for carrying out thus
provision, and for some time past have
been collecting the necessary data for
issuing patents in cases covered by the
Jaw There are many such eases
throughout the Territory.
Among them are a number of town
lots occupied hv HawaiianS in the vii
iage OF Waiohuu. district of kau, Ha-
wall These were surveyed before the
passage of the amendments but then
sale was postp oned until afterward so
as TO enable their occupants to obtain
uties 10 Their homes without having
70 compete with others for them at auc-
ton. Proof has already been made IN
a number Of these earses, and. as pre-
NouSly stated. patents have now been
issued in thirteen of the eases.