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that it shall, within one year from the date of the grant, be prepared to manufacture and furnish such electric light and power at any point within two thousand feet of the court-house in Hilo: Provided, however, That it shall not be required to build and maintain any line for the transmission of such electric light and power unless the number of lights or amount of power agreed to be taken for not less than one year shall be sufficient to warrant the construction of such line.

§ 625. The use by the company of public streets, places, or other public property shall be subject to such reasonable rules and regulations, to be provided by the superintendent of public works, as shall at all times provide for guarding the rights of the general public in the use of streets and public places.

§ 626. The superintendent is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into a contract with said company, upon such terms as he shall deem proper, for lighting the streets, public places, and public buildings in the said town of Hilo.

NOTE TO CHAPTER 46.

§§ 622-626 are S. L., 1895, act 5.

[CHAPTER 47.]

[§§ 627–635.]

[CHAPTER 48.]
[§§ 634-643.]

CHAPTER 49.

INSANE ASYLUM.

§ 644. There shall be erected in Honolulu, at such place as the board of health shall direct, a suitable building for the reception of all insane persons, to be styled an insane hospital.

§ 645. The board of health shall have the power to make such arrangement for management of said hospital as he shall deem requisite and necessary.

§ 646. The judges of the circuit and district courts shall have the power to commit any person to the said hospital on a satisfactory complaint being made before them that such person is insane, and that the public safety requires his restraint until he becomes of sane mind, or is ordered to be discharged as hereinafter provided.

§ 647. The judges of the circuit courts shall have the power to discharge any person confined in said hospital upon application to them, if upon examination they shall be satisfied that said person is of sound mind.

§ 648. Any person indicted for any crime who shall be acquitted by reason of insanity or mental derangement, the court before whom such trial shall be heard shall have the power to commit such person to the insane hospital, there to remain until restored to his right mind or discharged, as provided in section 647.

$649. The property of all persons committed to the said hospital shall be liable for the expenses attending their confinement; and the attorney-general shall institute suits for the recovery of the same when requested to do so by the board of health.

$650. Whenever the physician of the hospital shall certify to the board of health that any person committed to the hospital is either restored to a sound mind or that he has recovered so far that he has ceased to be dangerous to the public safety, the board aforesaid shall

have power to discharge such person, provided that his friends stand ready to receive him.

§ 651. The physician of the hospital shall keep a register of the name, age, and sex of each person committed, the date of his admission and discharge from the hospital.

§ 652. The treasurer is hereby authorized to pay to the board of health a sum not to exceed seven thousand dollars to carry out the above-mentioned object.

§ 653. The board of health shall have the management and control of the insane asylum; and all the powers and duties heretofore by law vested in the minister of the interior in relation to the care of insane persons and the discharge of those who have been insane but have been restored to sound mind shall be vested in and discharged by the board of health.

NOTE TO CHAPTER 49.

§§ 644-652 are S. L., 1862, C. L., p. 507, as amended (§ 650) by S. L., 1870, ch. 31. § 653 is P. G. act 78.

The following laws extending aid to eleemosynary institutions and other enterprises have been omitted in this compilation:

Queen's Hospital (land). S. L., 1860. C. L., p. 500.

Queen's Hospital (passenger tax). S. L., 1882, ch. 20. C. L., p. 666, and S. L., 1892, ch. 40. See Hospital v. Collector, 9 Haw., 579.

Catholic Mission (land). S. L., 1886, ch. 67.

Lunalilo Home (land). S. L., 1888, ch. 47.

Indigent Foreigners (land). S. L., 1888, ch. 71. See Re Cabinet, 8 Haw., 568. Sailors' Home (land). S. L., 1892, ch. 31.

Honolulu Library (light, water, etc.). S. L., 1892, ch. 69.

Laysan and Lisianski Is. (lease). P. G. act 22.

Chinese Hospital (land). S. L., 1896. act 30.

PARKS.

Kapiolani Park. S. L., 1896, act 53. S. L., 1896, act 74.
Hilo Parks. S. L., 1896, act 63.

TITLE V.

DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE.

CHAPTER 50.

THE MINISTER OF FINANCE.

$ 654. There shall be an executive department, styled the department of the treasury, which shall be presided over by an officer called the treasurer, who shall reside and keep an office at the seat of government.

§ 655. It shall be the duty of the treasurer to have a general supervision over the financial affairs of the Territory, and to faithfully and impartially execute the duties assigned by law to his department. He is charged with the enforcement of all revenue laws, the collection of taxes, the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys, and with all such other matters as may by law be placed in his charge.

§ 656. It shall be his duty to make a biennial report to the legislature of the transactions and business of his department, showing the revenue and expenditure for the two preceding years, and giving a full and detailed estimate of the revenue and expenditure for the two succeeding years.

§ 657. He shall keep, or cause to be kept, in appropriate books, a clear, distinct, and full record of all the transactions and business of his department.

§ 658. He shall, from time to time, instruct the collectors of taxes, assessors, and other officers of his department in relation to their duties and business.

§ 659. The treasurer shall be personally responsible for the safe-keeping of all moneys paid into the public treasury, and for the proper disbursement and appropriation thereof, pursuant to the laws: Provided, however, That in case of the larceny or embezzlement of any such moneys by any officer of his department, or other persons, said minister shall be allowed to give that fact, and that he had no collusive knowledge thereof, in evidence, and the establishment of such facts shall discharge him from personal responsibility.

§ 660. Said treasurer shall appoint, on his own faith and responsibility, a registrar of public accounts, removable at his pleasure. Such registrar shall, before entering upon his duties, give a bond, with good and sufficient sureties, for the benefit of the government to the treasurer and his successors in office in the penal sum of not less than five thousand nor more than ten thousand dollars, conditioned that he will well and faithfully keep the accounts of the treasury; that he will not embezzle, or in any other way wrongfully convert to his own use, or to the use of another, any of the public moneys, and that in all respects he will faithfully discharge the duties of his office.

§ 661. Said treasurer shall have power to administer all necessary oaths connected with the duties of his department.

§ 662. Said treasurer shall have power to certify, under the seal of his department, copies of vouchers and other documents deposited in his

office, and such copies so certified shall be as valid evidence in any court as the originals.

§ 663. The head of each department shall be responsible for the correctness of all drafts or orders drawn by him upon the treasury, in pursuance of appropriations, and for the proper disbursements of all appropriations for his department. The same rule shall apply to the superintendent of public instruction. The responsibility of the treasurer in such cases shall be limited to the payment of the aggregate amount of appropriations made by the legislature. All moneys received by any department or officer of the government on public account shall be promptly paid into the treasury, and there held subject to disbursement in accordance with law: Provided, however, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to the school tax, which shall be collected by the tax collectors of the several districts and deposited with the school treasurers of the several districts for the support of the government schools.

§ 664. No draft or order drawn by any district magistrate, assessor, or tax collector upon the treasury for salary or compensation shall be regarded as valid, or paid by the treasurer, unless the same be countersigned by the chief sheriff or sheriff of the island on which said district magistrate, assessor, or tax collector may reside. Such counter signature shall be evidence of the genuineness of any such draft or order, and the chief sheriff or sheriff countersigning the same shall be responsible therefor. In order to secure uniformity and a proper security to the treasury in the payment of salaries and compensation to persons entitled to receive the same, the treasurer shall have power to prescribe the form of all accounts, drafts, or orders relating to such salaries or compensation.

NOTE TO CHAPTER 50.

$6654-664 are C. L., §§ 468–478. § 663, see Chapter 53.

[CHAPTER 51.]
[§§ 665-675.]

CHAPTER 52.

TERM TREASURY NOTES.

§ 676. The treasurer, upon the approval of the governor, may issue, at par, upon public tender, to any person or corporation, term treasury notes in the name of the Hawaiian treasury.

§ 677. The said treasury notes shall be issued in sums of one thousand dollars or multiple thereof, and shall not exceed at any one time one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

§ 678. The rate of interest shall not exceed seven per cent per annum, free of tax, and be payable at the due date of the note.

§ 679. The tenders for the said treasury notes shall state the rate of interest for gold tenders or for silver tenders, and whether to be repaid in gold or silver coin.

§ 680. The term for which any treasury note shall be issued shall not exceed seven months.

§ 681. The form of said treasury notes shall be as follows:

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WHEREAS to meet the requirements of the Territory for the purpose of public works and enterprises, immigration, the promotion of industrial developments and of education, it will be necessary to effect loans from time to time by means of the issue of bonds; AND WHEREAS it is advisable that all loans to be effected hereafter, otherwise than for the purpose of converting any loans existing and outstanding, should be effected, and that the bonds to be issued therefor should be issued, and the authority to effect such loans and issue bonds in respect thereof should be given in a uniform manner; Now, THEREFORE, for the carrying out of the purposes above mentioned, Be it enacted, etc.:

§733. The treasurer, with the approval of the governor, is hereby authorized to issue from time to time bonds of the Territory of Hawaii, either payable to bearer or the order of the treasurer, with interest coupons attached thereto, to an amount not exceeding in any one year one per centum upon the assessed value of the taxable property of the Territory as shown by the last general assessment for taxation, and not exceeding in the aggregate two million dollars, the principal.and interest to be paid in gold coin of the United States of America, or its equivalent at its present standard of weight and fineness, in the manner, upon the terms, and for the purposes in this chapter stated.

§734. No such bonds shall be issued except in pursuance of any act of the legislature authorizing such issue.

§ 735. All bonds, when the issue thereof is authorized, may be issued from time to time as the treasurer, with the approval of the governor, may deem expedient, and shall bear interest, payable semiannually, at such rate, not exceeding five per cent per annum, and be redeemable at such date, not less than five nor more than twenty years from the date of issue thereof, as the treasurer for the time being, with the approval of the governor, may determine.

§ 736. The principal and interest of all such bonds shall be exempt

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