AN ACT

TO REGULATE THE SHIPPING OF FOREIGN SEAMEN IN THE PORTS OF HONOLULU AND LAHAINA.

BE IT ENACTED, by the King, the Nobles and Representatives of the Hawaiian Islands in Legislative Council assembled:

SECTION 1. That it shall be the duty of the Governors of Oahu and Maui from year to year to grant to any person applying therefore, a license to establish a Shipping Office for foreign seamen at the ports of Honolulu and Lahaina.

SECTION 2. Before granting a license to keep a shipping office the said Governors shall receive at the hands of the applicant the sum of forty dollars for the use of the Royal Exchequer, as license money, and they shall receive at the hands of the said applicant a bond with at least two good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the said Governors, in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, which bond shall be in the following form, and upon the following condition:--Know all men by these presents that we

-, sureties, residing at

principal, and

in the Island of

Hawaiian Islands, are held and firmly bound unto His Excellency

Governor of

for the use of the Hawaiian Government in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, lawful money, to be levied of our respective joint and several property, in case the condition herein setforth shall be violated. For the just and full pay ment of which we hereby jointly and severally bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators.

Sealed with our seals, and dated this

day of

185.

The condition of the above obligation is, that whereas the above bounden principal, has this day obtained a license to keep a shipping office for foreign seamen for the term of one year from the date hereof; now if he shall not during the continuance of his said license demand or receive more than three dollars as a shipping fee, nor more

than ten per cent. of the amount advanced as a surety fee from any sailor shipped at his office; and if he shall at no time make default in repaying to any and every captain and agent the amount advanced by them on account of any sailor, who has failed to sail on board their vessel, and for whom he may have become surety; and if he shall in no instance ship a sailor who has not a permit from the Harbor Master, then this obligation to be void; otherwise, upon proof being made to a Police Justice, without the intervention of a jury, as prescribed in the "Act to organize the Judiciary Department," the penalty mentioned in the above bond shall be forfeited, and the license on which it is predicated revoked.

SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of every shipping master to demand and receive the Harbor Master's Permit from every seaman whom he may ship, and place the same at the disposel of the Marshal of the Hawaiian Islands or his Deputy; and the shipping master shall deliver to such seaman a certificate of his shipment, stating the name of the ship on which he has engaged to serve, and the time at which he is to render himself on board; provided always that nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to forbid captains of vessels from shipping foreign seamen for their own vessels, without the intervention of the shipping masters provided for in this law.

SECTION 4. Whoever shall ship a foreign seaman without a license as herein provided, shall be subject to a fine of one hundred dollars for each offense upon conviction thereof before a Police Justice. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect from and after the first day of September, 1855.

Approved this 23d day of July, 1855.

VICTORIA K. KAAHUMANU.

KAMEHAMEHA.

ARTICLES

OF AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THIS KINGDOM PROPOSED AND AGREED TO, PURSUANT TO THE 105TH ARTICLE OF THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE 1. Article 27 is hereby amended in the native version only, by striking out the words "Alihikaua," and by inserting the words “Ka Luna Nui," so that the article as amended will read as follows:

"O ke Alii ka luna nui, maluna o na koa a me na manua a me na mea kaua e ae ma ka moana a me ka aina; a nona ka mana ma ona iho, a ma o kekahi Luna Koa, a mau luna paha ana e koho ai, e ao a e hooponopono i ua mau mea kaua nei mamuli o kona manao e pono a e malu ai ke aupuni. Aka, aole e pono ia ia ka hapai i ke kaua me ka ae ole o kona Ahakukakukamalu."

ARTICLE 2. Article 29th is hereby amended by striking out the words "session of next year," and inserting in the same article, term of two years,' so that the article as amended will read as fol

lows:

"The King, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, convenes both Houses of the Legislature at the seat of government, or any different place, if that should become dangerous from an enemy or any dangerous disorder; and in case of disagreement between the two Houses, or between His Majesty and them, He adjourns, prorogues or dissolves them, but not beyond the term of two years; under any great emergency, He may convene both or either of them to extraordinary sessions."

ARTICLE 3. Article 32nd is hereby amended by striking out the words " appoint and," so that the article as amended will read as follows:

"He has the power by and with the advice of His Cabinet, and the approval of His Privy Council, to remove at His pleasure, any of the several heads of the Executive Departments, and he may require in

formation in writing from any of the officers in the Executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offi

ces."

ARTICLE 4. Article 43d is hereby amended by striking out the words "whose titles shall be Highness," and inserting the words "shall be addressed by the birth title, or such title as may have been conferred by His Majesty," so that the article as amended will read as follows:

"The King appoints some Chief of rank and ability to be His Kuhina Nui, who shall be styled the Kuhina Nui of the Hawaiian Islands, and shall be addressed by the birth title, or such title as may have been conferred by His Majesty."

ARTICLE 5. Article 54th is hereby amended by striking out the words "an annual," and also the words of " January next preceeding," and inserting the words "day of the fiscal year, so that the article as amended will read as follows:—

"Each of them shall make a report to the Legislature, made up to the first day of the fiscal year, of the transactions and business of his department, within one week after the opening of the Legislature."

ARTICLE 6. Article 61st is hereby amended by striking out the word "annually," and inserting the word "biennially," and by striking out the words "in the first week in April, and," and also the word " other," so that the article as amended will read as follows: "The Legislature Body shall assemble biennially, for the purpose of seeking the welfare of the nation, at such time, and in the place that the King may judge necessary. This body shall be styled the Legislature of the Hawaiian Islands.”

ARTICLE 7. Article 70th is hereby amended by striking out the words "year in which it shall have been made," and inserting in the same article, the words "term for which they shall have been elected," so that the article as amended will read as follows:-

"The Members of the House of Representatives shall receive for their services, a compensation to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the public Treasury, but no increase of compensation shall take effect during the term for which they shall have been elected; and no law shall be passed increasing the compensation of members beyond the sum of five dollars per day."

ARTICLE 8. Article 100 is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "The Legislature votes the appropriations biennially after due consideration of the revenue and expenditure for the two preceding years, and of the estimates of the revenue and expenditure of the two succeeding years, which shall be submitted to them by the Minister of Finance."

ARTICLE 9 Article 72 is hereby amended by inserting after the words "during life," the following, "unless in case of resignation," so that the article as amended will read as follows:

"The King appoints the Members of the House of Nobles who hold their seats during life unless in case of resignation, subject to the provisions of Article 67, but their number shall not exceed thirty." Approved by the King this 23d day of July, 1855.

VICTORIA K. KAAHUMANU.

KAMEHAMEHA.