JOINT RESOLUTION

FOR THE RELIEF OF THE ESTATE OF HIS LATE MAJESTY KAMEHAMEHA III.

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

The Minister of Finance is hereby authorized to settle the notes and accounts of His late Majesty with the Hawaiian Treasury, together with all claims and offsets of His late Majesty against said treasury, and remit the balance due from His late Majesty's estate, to the Executors of the same.

Approved this 27th day of June, A. D. 1855.

VICTORIA K. KAAHUMANU.

KAMEHAMEHA.

JOINT RESOLUTION.

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

That until the passage of the General Appropriation Bill, the Minister of Finance is authorized to pay all drafts drawn on him by the Minister of the Interior for the necessary expenses of the Fort of Honolulu, not exceeding the sum of Fifteen Hundred dollars.

Approved this 23d April, 1855.

VICTORIA K. KAAHUMANU.

KAMEHAMEHA.

JOINT RESOLUTION.

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

That the Minister of Finance shall be and is hereby authorized, until the passage of the Appropriation Bill for 1855, to pay in anticipation of the appropriations for support of military and police, such sums as may e required for their pay; provided, however, that such sums shall not exceed the monthly proportion of last year's appropria

tion.

Approved this 1st day of May, 1855.

VICTORIA K. KAAHUMANU.

KAMEHAMEHA.

INDEX.

ACT.

Appropriating Money for the Legislature of 1855,
Relating to the Port of Hilo,

To provide a Police Court for the Port of Hilo,
Relating to the Census,

To Incorporate the Honolulu Sailor's Home Society,
To Remodel the Department of Public Instruction,

To provide for the employment of Prisoners on the Island
of Oahu,

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To amend the law relating to the election of Represen-
tatives of the People,

For the Suppression of Prostitution,

To amend an Act relating to Bankruptcy,

To provide Revenue from Imports and to change and
modify existing laws imposing duties on Imports,

To institute Hospitals for the Sick Poor,

Declaring the period at which all subjects of the King
cease to be Minors and become of Legal Age,

To regulate the Pay of Tax Collectors, and to provide
for an Enumerator of all Persons and Animals lia-
ble to Taxation,

Revising a portion of the Act making the Ports of Hilo,

Kawaihae and Kealakekua on the Island of Ha-
waii, and Waimea on the Island of Kauai, Ports
of Entry,

To alter an act entitled an act relating to the Water
Lots called Waikahalulu, makai of the Fort of
Honolulu,

To amend the law relating to Appeals from the Board of
Commissioners to Quiet Land Titles,

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To transfer the Bureau of Public Improvements from the
office of the Minister of the Interior to the office of
the Secretary at War,

To authorize the Minister of Finance to negotiate a Loan,
To amend the Statutes regulating the proceedings in
Courts of Law,

To regulate the Shipping and Discharge of Native
Seamen,

Respecting the Reservoirs and Hydrants in the city of
Honolulu,

Providing for a New Market in the city of Honolulu,
Relating to the Public Health,

To regulate the Shipping of Foreign Seamen in the ports
of Honolulu and Lahaina,

ARTICLES

of Amendment of the Constitution of this kingdom,
JOINT RESOLUTION,

For the Relief of the Estate of His late

Majesty Kamehameha III,

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