The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-12-22
To BUY THE
VOLCANO FROM
BISHOP ESTATE

terday in the Governors Office be-
tween Governor Frear and the COM
missioners who were appointed to OBJ
tain full information regarding the
proposed National Park at Kilauea.
The map that had been prepared
was carefully examined, and it was re-
solved to make a number of changes
in the boundary lines. These, how
ever, will not appreciably lessen the
area Of the proposed park that was
sought to be set aside under the orr
ginal plans, namely $4,000 acres. The
Kilauea crater is to be connected
with that OF Mokuaweoweo on Mauna
Loa by road that will form a TWEEN
ty-mile drive
A rough draft of the proposed bill
has been prepared. This, however, is
subject to change. A copy of this
draft is as follows:
"Be it Enacted by the Senate and
House of Representative of the Unfit
ed States of America in Congress As
sembled, That the tracts of land in the
Territory of Hawaii hereinafter de-
scribed shall be perpetually dedicated
and set apart as public park or pleas
ure ground for the benefit and enjoy
ment of che people of the United
States, to be known as Kilauea Ma
tional Park; provided that the parts
thereof which are not included with
in the public lands shall be secured,
and the secretary of the interior is
hereby authorized and directed to Sc
cure the same for this purpose by pur-
chase, condemnation or otherwise, at
cost not to exceed. .... dollars,
which sum is hereby appropriated for
this purpose out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Said tracts of land are described as
follows: Description now being pre-
pared.)
Sec. 2. That said park shall be
under the control of the secretary of
the interior, whose duty it shall be, as
soon as practicable, to make and pub
lish such rules and regulations as he
may deem necessary or proper for the
care and management of the same.
Such regulations shall provide for the
preservation from injury of all tim
Der, birds, mineral deposits and ma
tural curiosities or wonders within
said park, and their retention in their
natural condition as nearly as posi-
BILE.
"The secretary may, in his discre.
ton, grant leases, for terms not ex-
ceeding twenty years, at such annual
rentals as he may determine, (of par
cells of land in said park of not more
than twenty acres in all to any one
person, corporation or company for
the erection and maintenance of build
ings for the accommodation of visit
ors; but no such lease shall include
any of the objects of curiosity or in
terest in said park, or exclude the
proach thereto, or cOncey, either ex-
pressly or by implication, any exclu-
sive privilege within the park except
upon the premises held hereunder
and for the time granted therein; and
every such lease shall require the les
see to observe and obey each and
every provision in any act of con-
gress, and every rule, order or regu-
lation of the secretary of the interior
concerning the use, care, management
or government of the park or any OBJ
ject or property therein, under penalty
of forfeiture of such lease.
"The secretary may, in his discre-
tiou, grant to persons or corporations
now holding leases of land in the park,
upon the surrender thereof, new leases
hereunder, upon the terms and stipula-
lions contained in their present leases,
with such notifications, restrictions
and reservations as he may prescribe
All of the proceeds of said leases and
other revenues that may be derived
from any source connected with the
park shall be expended under the di-
rection of the secretary in the manage
ment of the same and the construction
of roads and paths therein.
"The secretary may also, in his dis
erection, permit the erection and main
tenance of buildings in said park for
scientific purposes, and grant railroad
rights of way into or across said park
upon such terms and conditions as he
may deem proper. He shall cause to
be made a complete survey and map
of said park, showing its topography,
roads and paths, natural wonders and
other matters of interest, and shall
construct such additional roads and