The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-03-09
HARTWELL
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supreme court Chief Justice Hartwell
addressed the bar in substance as,
follows:
During the period of about sixty
years since the organization of this
court we have had six chief justices.
by Article 80 of the Constitution
of Kamehameha ILL.,, granted June IA,
1852, it was provided that the SUI,
preme court shall consist of a chief
justice and two associate justices,
and by Article SO, that the chez
justice of the supreme court shall be-
the chancellor of the kingdom Under
that constitution VIM. L. Lee was ap-
pointed in 1852 chief justice of the
supreme court and chancellor of the
kingdom. The jurisdiction of the
court is defined in an act relating to
the judiciary department approved
May 26, 1858, enacted by the King,
the Premier and Mobiles resident near
His Majesty taking effect, by section
"a, from and after the first Monday of
December, 1852 Mr. Lee had been
presiding judge of the court of Oahu
in 1916, and from 1S47 chief judge or
the superior court of law and equity
which had been established under the
third act of Kamehameha III, organic
ing the judiciary department, Done,
and finally passed at the Council
House at Honolulu, the 9TH day OF
September, 1S47.' Mr.. Lee died May
20, 1857, and his successor, Elisha H.
Allen appointed June 4, 1857, resign.
ed while Minister at Washington, Jan
uary 81, 1877, being succeeded by
Chas. G. Harris, first associate justice,
who died July 2, 1881. His successor,
Albert F. Judd, the last chief Justice
under the monarchy, as we'll as under
the Republic of Hawaii, who had been
attorney general with King Lunalilo
and associate justice from February
IS, 1874, died May 20, 1900, and was
succeeded BY Walter F. Frear, appoint
ed by President Mckinley July 5, 1900.
resigning August Is, 1907, to accent
the appointment of governor. 1t is
needless to remark that no incumbent
of this high office has ever sought for
1t either directly or indirectly.
"Mr. Lee had rendered such invalua-
Bile service to Hawaii in framing our
system of law mat no one else could
have been thought of for head of the
department of the judiciary. He en-
joyed the confidence and esteem OF the
! entire community to an extent which
perhaps has never been accorded to
any other public official in the Ha-
waiian islands. Mr.. Allen, a graduate
OF Bowdoin College, had been a prac-
ticing lawyer in New England and also
a member of congress from the State
OF Maine. A large portion of his time
While upon the bench was occupied
with important treaty negotiations in
Washington. Mr.. Harris, a Harvard
graduate, had also been Hawaiian
Minister to Washington and Minister of
Foreign Affairs under Kamehameha v.
The long and fine record of Mr.. Judd
and Mr.. Frear, each of whom was a
graduate OF Yale, is so we'll known to
all tnat it would be superhuous for me
to refer to it. When the Organic Act
had been passed by Congress and Pre-.
sident Mckinley asked me who should
be Chief Justice of the Territory.
named Mr. Frear who informs me that
upon leaving this office he named me
to President Roosevelt as his success
sor
ION February 2, last, suggested tC
the president that my resignation
which l then rendered him, be accept
ed to take effect at the end of the
month or at such later time as my
successor should be appointed anc
qualified. The appointment OF my
successor has been made and before
administering the oath to him, which
will be my last official act, desire t