An Act to enable the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of Honolulu to issue certain bonds for flood-control purposes
PL 82-380 (H.R.4801), enacted 06/09/1952

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PUBLIC LAW 380-JUNE 9, 1952 
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ized to appoint a second deputy recorder in accordance with the civil-
service laws and re<;ulations and to fix his compensation in accord-
ance with the Classification Act of 1949. The second deputy recorder 
may do and perform any and all acts which the Recorder is authorized 
to do, and all such acts by the second deputy recorder shall have the 
same legality, force, and effect as if performed by the Recorder. The 
Recorder of Deeds shall appoint all other employees of his office in 
accordance with the civil-service laws and regulations and fix their 
compensation in accordance with the Classification Act of 1949, The 
number of such employees shall not be in excess of the number actually 
necessary for the proper conduct of his office." 
SEC. 4. The Civil Service Commission shall confer a competitive 
civil-service status upon those employees of the office of the Recorder 
of Deeds of the District of Columbia performing service in such 
office on the date of enactment of this Act who are citzens of the 
United States, and who, within six months after the date of enactment 
of this Act, are certified by the Commissioners of the District of 
Columbia, upon recommendation of the Recorder of Deeds, (1) as 
having been appointed from among the highest available eligibles 
from an appropriate register of the Civil Service Commission or (2) 
as having rendered active service in the office of the Recorder of Deeds 
prior to the date of enactment of this Act, and who qualify in such 
appropriate noncompetitive examinations as the Civil Service Com-
mission may prescribe. Any employee in the office of Recorder of 
Deeds who fails to meet the requirements prescribed by this section, or 
who is not certified by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, 
or who fails to take or pass the noncompetitive examination prescribed 
by the Civil Service Commission, may continue to serve for a period 
of not more than thirty days after the end of such six-month period 
or after the establishment of appropriate registers, whichever is the 
earlier. 
Approved June 9, 1952. 
June 9, 1952 
[H,R.4801] 
Public Law 380 
CHAPTER 374 
AN ACT 
To enable the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii to authorize the Board of 
Supervisors of the City and County of Honolulu to issue certain bonds for 
flood-control purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Fi o°<J'd-"'o^'tVoi United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Legislature 
bonds. 
of the Territory of Hawaii, notwithstanding any provision of the 
statl^io^s! ^^^' ^^ Hawaiian Organic Act to the contrary, may authorize the Board of 
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Supervisors of the City and County of Honolulu to issue general 
obligation bonds in the sum of $1,000,000 for flood control and related 
purposes. 
SEC. 2. The bonds issued under authority of this Act may be either 
term or serial bonds, maturing, in the case of term bonds, not later 
than thirty years from the date of issue thereof, and, in the case of 
serial bonds, payable in substantially equal annual installments, the 
' " * first installment to mature not later than five years and the last install-
ment to mature not less than thirty years from the date of such issue. 
Such bonds may be issued without the approval of the President of 
the United States. 
SEC. 3. Act 204 of the Session Laws of Hawaii, 1951, pertaining to 
the issuance of public improvement bonds, as authorized by this Act, 
is hereby ratified and confirmed. 
Approved June 9, 1952.