The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-05-22
TWILL make PARSONS
TOE THE CHALK Line
Marriage Reports Must Be Filed
Immediately Or License
viii Be Revoked

War is TO be declared on parsons and
others authorized 70 solemnize the mar.
rage service who do not report imme.
diately to the circuit court and the
board Of health the marriages perform
ed by them.
The regulation is that such marriages
shall be reported Immediately, but the
|fegdlatioHe has been a dead one With
several, even many Of the church minis
tiers and agents authorized to perform
the marriage service.
Beard Of health officials and Palmer
|P. Woods, agent to grant marriage
licenses, have decided to cooperate in
|fhis campaign and unless the delin-
uuent ones come to time and file imme-
diately the necessary reports their per-
init to marry people will be revoked
without loss Of time. They are TO be
given until the end Of the present
month. II they do not make amends be-
fore that time the pro rata Of marriages
performed win be increased among
those who comply with the regulations,
meaning that those who do not will not
be given further chance to marry peo-
Pile and fail or delay unduly long in
reporting these marriages.
woods Shows Records
~ have here the records of eight
licenses issued, some Of them as long
ago as a month, said Agent Palmer P.
Woods yesterday. "Unofiicially we.
know that the couples mentioned in the
licenses have been married, but oficial-
ly we know nothing, for no reports have
been filed with the board Of health by
the ministers and others performing the
marriage.
owe have had extreme difficulty
along these lines for some time, and
something drastic win be done to bring
to book those who think regulations
mean nothing and are not to be fol
lowed. The guilty ones (and use the
term advisedly), will be dealt with
summarily If they don't come TO time
before the last Of this month
"The vital statistical records Of the
board of health cannot be complete
while even only one person fails to obey
the laws or regulations in force and,
Therefore, are useless for the purposes
they are intended. There win be no
prominent parson may be in this com
munity II he fails TO act according to
Hoyle ] understand he will be treated
the same as a mere agent to perform
| the marriage service"
Charge Much Lasity
There has been altogether too much
laxity In the matter Of reporting mar.
Ifinges TO the board Of health, II Is CON
tended. Certain church ministers have
been asked time and again to be prompt
lin their remittances; remittances In
this case meaning reports of the mar
riages performed by them, but still they
seem to turn deaf ear to the Just re-
quests of the department. This will
now be stopped, it is claimed on good
authority. ~ s
A case in point is that Of certain
prominent pastor Of Honolulu who has
since left the Islands, who performed a
marriage a week or two before going
| on a mainland vacation tour. He took
his vacation, which lasted about six
months, and after his return fled the
report. but only after considerable urg-
ling
Changes IN the Law
tuNtnkc i-iccnSe agent WOODS Also
calls attention to the fact that the last
Legislature made changes in the law
governing the granting Of marriage
licenses. The marriage license agents
have been granted the power to admin
lister oaths, and persons applying for
marriage licenses win be sworn to an
swer truthfully to the necessary ques-
tons put to them by the agents, under
liability Of being prosecuted for per-
jury. II will also be necessary for both
persons to a marriage to appear in per-
son before the agent at the time of Sc
curing the license. Heretofore any one
could secure license without the pres
ence Of those who were to be married.
From now on both groom and bride will
have to show themselves TO the agent
granting the-Hdarria0e licensa