CHAPTER VI. OF THE EXECUTIVE MINISTERS AND OF THE GOVERNORS. SECTION 30. No person shall be eligible to the office of Minister to the King, or Governor, who is not a subject or denizen, and of the full age of twenty one years. SECTION 31. Every minister or governor, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe an oath to support the Constitution and Laws, and faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties of his office. Such oath shall be placed and kept among the records of the Privy Council. SECTION 32. Every minister shall reside and keep his office at the Seat of Government, and shall not leave the kingdom during his continuance in office, except upon public business with which he may be charged by the King. CHAPTER VII. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. SECTION 33. There shall be, and is hereby, created a department of government, to be styled the Department of the Interior, which shall be presided over by a minister, who shall be called the Minister of the Interior. SECTION 34. It shall be the duty of the Minister of the Interior to have a general supervision over the internal affairs of the kingdom, and to faithfully and impartially execute the duties assigned by law to his department. SECTION 35. The Minister of the Interior shall keep, in appropriate books, a clear, distinct and full record of all the transactions of his department. SECTION 36. The said Minister shall have the care and supervision of all government lands and other property; of the internal trade and commerce of the kingdom; of internal improvements; of the internal police of the kingdom; of the post offices; of the government press; of the naturalization of foreigners; and of such other matters as may be placed in his charge. SECTION 37. The Minister of the Interior shall have the charge of the standards of weights and measures; and of all original manuscript laws enacted by the Legislature. SECTION 38. The Minister of the Interior shall promulgate such proclamations as may be made by the King, for the observance of days of fast or of thanksgiving, and all other proclamations which do not specially relate to the business of other departments. ARTICLE I.-OF THE GOVERNMENT LANDS AND OTHER PROPERTY. SECTION 39. The Minister of the Interior shall have the charge, custody, and supervision of all the lands surrendered and forever made over unto the chiefs and people by His late Majesty, Kamehameha III., the surrender and conveyance of which was solemnly accepted, and confirmed by an Act of the Legislature, passed on the 7th day of June, A. D. 1848; and also of all other government lands, buildings, vessels, and property whatsoever not expressly placed in the charge of some other officer. SECTION 40. The said minister shall be accountable for the preservation and safe keeping of the government property, and it shall be his duty to prosecute any person injuring, trespassing upon, or wrongfully taking the same, such as land, timber, streams, ponds, springs, watercourses, reservoirs, water-works, reefs, harbors, channels, wharves, lights, buoys, beacons, highways, bridges, markets, buildings, vessels, and other government property of whatsoever kind or nature. SECTION 41. The said minister, under the direction and with the approval of the King in Cabinet Council, shall have power to purchase lots upon which to erect public buildings, and other lands for the use of harbors, highways, wharves, water-works, and other internal improvements; also any other property necessary for the public service; and to pay for the same in such manner as the King in Cabinet Council shall direct-provided always, that the whole amount of existing debt incurred for the purchase of such lands or property, shall at no time exceed the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars; and provided further, that no moneys specifically appropriated by the Legislature for any other object, shall be applied to the discharge of the debt incurred as hereinbefore provided. SECTION 42. The said minister, by and with the authority of the King in Cabinet Council, shall have power to lease, sell, or otherwise dispose of the public lands, and other property, in such manner as he may deem best for the promotion of agriculture and the general welfare of the kingdom, subject, however, to such restrictions as may from time to time be expressly provided by law. SECTION 43. A Royal Patent, signed by the King, and countersigned by the Kuhina Nui and the Minister of the Interior, shall issue under the great Seal of the kingdom to the purchaser in fee simple of any government land or other real estate; and also to any holder of an award from the Board of Commissioners to quiet land titles for any land in which he may have commuted the government rights. SECTION 44. All Royal patents, leases, grants, or other conveyances of any government land or real estate, shall be prepared by, and issued from, the Department of the Interior; and it shall be the duty of the Minister of the Interior to keep a full and faithful record of all such patents, leases, grants and other conveyances. Said record shall be open to public inspection, and he shall furnish a certified copy, under his official seal, of any instrument therein recorded, to any person applying therefor, upon being paid at the rate of fifty cents for every one hundred words. Every such certified copy shall be received as evidence in any judicial court of the kingdom, the same as the original instrument itself. SECTION 45. It shall be the duty of the Minister of the Interior to cause such surveys, maps, and plans of the government lands, harbors, and internal improvements to be made as the public interests may require; which surveys, maps and plans shall be kept in his office for public inspection and reference. SECTION 46. The Minister of the Interior may appoint suitable agents throughout the kingdom, for the management and sale of government lands, which agents shall be paid a reasonable compensation for their services, in the discretion of said Minister, out of the proceeds of their sales or other avails arising from such lands. It shall be the duty of such agents to report to the Minister of the Interior all trespasses committed by any person upon the government lands in their charge. SECTION 47. Every such agent shall procure the lands sold by him to be correctly surveyed; and he shall not forward any such survey to the Minister of the Interior to obtain a Royal patent to be executed for the land sold, until the purchaser shall have first deposited in the hands of such agent the purchase money of said land, and the costs of the survey. SECTION 48. The Minister of the Interior is prohibited from selling the water ponds, springs and streams belonging to the government in or near Honolulu; that is to say, the pond of Kunawai, in the Ili of Kunawai; and the ponds of Kumuhahane and Kalaupalolo, in the Ili of Alewa, and all other government water ponds, springs and streams. wherever situated, which may be valuable for public use; and any sale in contravention of this section shall be absolutely null and void. ARTICLE II.-OF THE INTERNAL TRADE AND COMMERCE. THE COASTING TRADE. SECTION 49. The Collector-General of Customs, under the direction of the Minister of the Interior, shall grant a coasting license for one year, to any Hawaiian registered vessel, the owner of which shall have applied to him in writing, setting forth the vessel's name, with the date and number of her register, which license shall be in such form as may be approved by the Minister of the Interior. SECTION 50. The said Collector-General of Customs shall charge for every coasting license, the sum of one dollar per ton register upon vessels of every class up to and including twenty-five tons, and fifty cents for every additional ton over twenty-five tons; and upon granting any such license, he shall exact of the owner a bond, with at least one sufficient surety, to be approved by said Collector, in the penal sum of five hundred dollars, in such form, and upon such condition as may be approved by the Minister of the Interior. SECTION 51. Any vessel which shall engage in the coasting trade of |