two years, unless sooner removed by the Minister of the Interior, and shall receive such reasonable compensation as said Minister may deem just, to be paid out of such moneys as may be appropriated by the Legislature, from time to time, for that purpose.

SECTION 172. The road supervisors may appoint deputies for their respective districts, not exceeding one for every fifty taxable persons in the district, whose only compensation shall be exemption from the road

tax.

SECTION 173. Every road supervisor shall, on the 31st day of December of each year, render to the Minister of the Interior, in writing, a detailed report of his transactions during the year preceding, stating the number of persons liable to the road tax in his district; the number of days worked by them; the amount of cash received from the governor and Minister of the Interior; the amount of cash on hand at the commencement of the year; the amount expended, and the amount on hand at the date of the report; the number and condition of Government tools on hand, and the number of days of his own personal service.

SECTION 174. Any road supervisor who shall fraudulently free any person from road labor, not exempted by law, or who shall not cause the persons liable to the road tax to work the full number of days and hours prescribed by law, shall, on conviction thereof, before any district justice, be fined five dollars for each such offense; and all such fines shall be expended as part of the road tax of such district.

SECTION 175. It shall not be lawful for any road supervisor to compel the people of any neighborhood to go more than five miles beyond their residence, to labor on any road, unless by a vote of the people of the district, expressed in a public meeting, called for that purpose by the road supervisor.

SECTION 176. The road supervisors in case of refusal to work, or disorderly or mutinous conduct, on the part of any workman, shall have the power to authorize and require any constable to apprehend the offender, and take him before any district justice, who shall, unless good cause be shown to the contrary, sentence such offender to a fine not

exceeding five dollars, or imprisonment at hard labor not more than five days.

SECTION 177. It shall be the duty of every man liable to the road tax to appear punctually at the time appointed for work, with suitable implements, and to work diligently as directed by the supervisor, otherwise he shall be subject to a fine not exceeding five dollars.

SECTION 178. Should any one find it inconvenient to work in person, at the time appointed, he may employ a substitute, or he shall pay to the supervisor fifty cents for each day on which he fails to work.

SECTION 179. It shall be lawful for the several road supervisors to commute for the labor tax on roads with the employers of all persons, employed by the month or year, either to complete a certain amount of work on the roads, or to work by the day, with carts, plows, or other implements, as may be agreed upon.

SECTION 180. It shall be the duty of each road supervisor to surrender to his successor in office, all accounts and other papers relating to the office, and all public moneys he may have on hand, together with all implements belonging to the government which may be in his posses

sion.

SECTION 181. It shall be the duty of the several road supervisors, so far as practicable, to use part of the road labor at their disposal, in keeping the public roads clear of oi, kikania, wild indigo, and other noxious weeds and plants.

SECTION 182. Upon a written complaint being brought before the Minister of the Interior, signed by at least twelve of the inhabitants, of any district, setting forth that the road supervisor of the district is guilty of a breach of the law, specifying the particular charges against such supervisor, it shall be the duty of said minister to give such complaint a hearing, and upon proper cause being shown, to dismiss said supervisor from office.

SECTION 183. Every person who is liable to the road tax, shall be

liable to work out such tax, within ten months after the enumeration shall be placed in the hands of the tax collector, in the district where he may be located on the labor day appointed by the road supervisor for that district, unless he be provided with a certificate from some road supervisor, that he has already performed his labor, or, from the tax collector, that he has paid his commutation for the year, in some other district.

SECTION 184. Upon the request of fifty or more poll-tax payers, of any district, to the Minister of the Interior, that a new road be opened, or that an old road be shut up in that district, said minister may appoint a jury of twelve persons, to decide on the propriety of the measure proposed, and their decision, when agreed to by at least nine of said jury, shall be acted upon by the road supervisor of such district.

SECTION 185. In laying out any new road, or highway, respect shall be had to the private vested rights of property, which any individual may have in the land over which said road or highway shall be intended to pass. It shall be the duty of the road supervisor, immediately after such new road or highway shall have been determined upon, to cause notices to be posted along the line of the same, advertising the fact, and calling upon all parties interested therein, to bring forward their claims to the nearest Circuit Judge; and it shall be the duty of said Circuit Judge, to forward a list of all such claims to the Minister of the Interior.

SECTION 186. Upon the receipt of such claims, the Minister of the Interior may appoint a commission of three disinterested persons, to assess the value of the private property so required for the public use, and also the damages, if any, likely to be sustained by the owner, whose decision shall determine the price to be given by the Government for such private property; and said commission shall send a certified copy of their decision to the Minister of the Interior, and another to the party making the claim.

SECTION 187. Upon delivery of said decision to the owner of the land, the property assessed shall revert to the Government for the public use intended, without further conveyance; and the holder of such decision shall present the same to the Minister of the Interior for adjustment, pursuant to the provisions of the next succeeding section.

SECTION 188. The Minister of the Interior shall have power to compound with the holder of any such decision, in any way he may deem most advantageous to the Government, by the substitution of other land, in lieu of that appropriated for the public good; and he shall have the power to draw upon the Minister of Finance, for the payment of any awards he may not have been able to cancel by substitution, out of any moneys which may have been appropriated for that purpose by the Legislature.

OF HARBORS, CHANNELS, BUOYS, BEACONS, WHARVES AND WATER

WORKS.

SECTION 189. It shall be the duty of the Minister of the Interior to superintend all harbor improvements; the demarkation and improvement of channels; the erection of all public lights and beacons; and the construction and repair of all public wharves and piers throughout the kingdom.

SECTION 190. The said Minister of the Interior may, under the direction of the King, improve the water-lots in Honolulu, known as Waikahalulu, by causing a retaining wall to be erected at a suitable depth of water seaward, and by filling up said lots, in such manner as that warehouses may be safely built thereon. He may also build out from said retaining wall such wharves as the public wants may require.

SECTION 191. The Minister of the Interior shall have the general charge of the pipes or conduits of water to supply the town and harbor of Honolulu. He may, from time to time, regulate the rates of supply to ships, and to parties on shore, and establish all such rules as may be needful for the public interests.

SECTION 192. The said Minister shall appoint some discreet and capable person, to be superintendent of water-works, whose duty it shall be to keep the conduits or pipes for the conveyance of water in repair; collect all water rates from ships and persons in Honolulu, or its vicinity, and perform such other duties in connection therewith, as the said minister may prescribe. 7

SECTION 193. The superintendent of water-works shall receive for his compensation such sum as may be fixed by the Minister of the Interior, not exceeding however fifteen per cent. of the gross amount of water rates he may collect. He shall make under oath a quarterly return, or at any time when required by the said minister, of all his receipts and expenditures.

OF PUBLIC MARKETS.

SECTION 194. The Minister of the Interior, under the direction of the King, is hereby charged with the designation of suitable places to be used as public markets, and with the construction, repair and regulation of all such markets.

SECTION 195. Said minister, with the approval of the King, may appoint a clerk of the markets at Honolulu, and also clerks of the markets at other places, whenever the public good may require the same.

SECTION 196. Every clerk of a market thus appointed shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, execute a bond in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, with sufficient surety or sureties, to be approved by the Minister of the Interior, payable to said minister for the use of the public exchequer, and conditioned for the faithful performance of his official duties.

SECTION 197. Every clerk of a market shall faithfully collect the market fees and fines, as they may be prescribed, from time to time, by the Minister of the Interior, with the approval of the King, keeping an account of the same in a suitable book or books, and shall quarterly render a true and faithful account of all moneys received by him in virtue of his office, and pay the same over to said minister.

SECTION 198. It shall be the duty of every clerk of a market to designate and declare to what uses and purposes the stalls and stands of said market shall be appropriated; and from time to time to lease the