AN ACT RELATING TO THE ENLISTMENT OF NATIVE SAILORS. CONTENTS. SECTION 1. Alteration of master's bond. 2. Masters to pay certain sum to the governor. 3. Sailors freed from taxes during their absence from the kingdom. AN ACT TO REGULATE BOATS PLYING FOR HIRE IN THE HARBOR OF HONOLULU. CONTENTS. SECTION 1. Minister of interior may grant licenses to owners of boats. 2. Licenses and boats to be numbered. 3. Rates of fare prescribed. 4. Luggage or goods. 5. Fine for refusing to take a passenger for the lawful fare. 6. Boats may be forfeited for certain offenses. 7. When boats may be required for the King's service. 8. Boats plying without license. 9. Minister of the interior may alter the fares. AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO THE ISSUE OF PASSPORTS. CONTENTS. SECTION 1. Minister of foreign relations may appoint agents. 2. His chief clerk may sign passports. 3. All passports to be numbered and registered. AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO THE LAND TAX. AN ACT RELATING TO THE LABOR TAX ON ROADS AND LIKE PUBLIC WORKS. CONTENTS. SECTION 1. Amendment of former law. 2. When the public labor days and the labor days of the landlord are the same. G 3. In case a person fails to perform the labor at the time appointed. 4. Who are exempted from labor tax. 5. Duties of those liable to labor tax 6. Governors to appoint supervisors. 7. Duties of supervisors. 8. The labor tax may be commuted by payment in money. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A CIRCUIT JUDGE FOR THE ISLAND OF MOLOKAI. CONTENTS. SECTION 1. Appointment of circuit judge for Molokai. 2. Power and duties of said circuit judge. AN ACT TO RENDER UNIFORM THE DISTRICTS FOR EDUCATIONAL AND TAXATION PURPOSES, AND FOR SUBDIVIDING SAID DISTRICTS INTO TOWNSHIPS. CONTENTS. SECTION 1. Hawaii, Maui, Oahu and Kauai divided into districts named therein. 2. Amendments of former acts relating to districts. 3. Districts may be subdivided, when and by whom. 4. Such subdivision of districts to be sanctioned by the governor of the islands. 5. Each township to receive a separate name. 6. Local laws may be enacted by the inhabitants of each township. AN ACT RELATING TO THE REGISTRY OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES. CONTENTS. SECTION 1. A register of births, deaths and marriages to be appointed for each township. 2. How said register is to be compensated. AN ACT CONFIRMING CERTAIN RESOLUTIONS OF THE KING AND PRIVY COUNCIL, PASSED ON THE 21ST DAY OF DECEMBER, A. D. 1849, GRANTING TO THE COMMON PEOPLE ALLODIAL TITLES FOR THEIR OWN LANDS AND HOUSE LOTS, AND CERTAIN OTHER PRIVILEGES. CONTENTS SECTION 1. 2. Fee-simple titles to be granted to natives occupying certain lands. 3. Land commission empowered to grant fee-simple titles. 4. Certain government lands on each island to be offered for sale. 5. House lots not to exceed one quarter of an acre. 6. Grants of kalo ground to be limited to actual cultivation by each claimant. 7. Certain rights reserved to natives. AN ACT AMENDING THE LAW RELATING TO THE KING'S CHAMBERLAIN CONTENTS. SECTION 1. Duties of the King's chamberlain enumerated. 2. All fish for the King to be delivered to the King's steward. 3. Powers conferred on chamberlain by previous acts, repealed by this. 1 PENAL CODE OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. AN ACT ESTABLISHING A PENAL CODE. BE IT ENACTED by the House of Nobles and Representatives of the Hawaiian Islands in Legislative Council assembled, in manner following, that is to say: THE PENAL CODE OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. CHAPTER I. DEFINITIONS OF SOME OF THE TERMS USED IN THIS CODE. CONTENTS. SECTION 1. The term offense defined. 2. The terms felony and crime defined. 3. Malice defined. 4. The terms or and and. 5. Words in the masculine gender, words in the singular or plural num ber, and words importing adults. 6. Words importing persons. 1. The term offense, as used in this code, means the doing what a penal law forbids to be done, or omitting to do what it commands. |