Mar. 4, 1911. [S. 9954.]

[Private, No. 259.1

CHAP. 291.-An Act For the relief of Lincoln C. Andrews.

(Compensation for loss of his horse by Quartermaster's 36 Stat. L., pt. Dept. at Santiago, Cuba. See p. 90.)

2, p. 2024.

Mar. 3, 1911. [H. J. Res. 291.]

[Pub. Res., No. 65.]

36 Stat. L., Pt. 1, p. 1458.

RESOLUTION.

[No. 15.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive Batista, of Cuba. for instruction at the Military Academy at West Point Mr. Melchor

(See p. 75.)

HAWAII.

SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION.

CHAP. 1.—An Act Making appropriations for expenses of the Thirteenth Decennial Census, and for other purposes.

(Applicable to Hawaii. See p. 217.)

CHAP. 2.—An Act To provide for the Thirteenth and subsequent decennial censuses.

(Applicable to Hawaii. See p. 217.)

July 2, 1909. [H. R. 1033.] [Public, No. 2.] 36 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 1.

CHAP. 6.-An Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes.

(Applicable to Hawaii. See p. 230.)

Aug. 5, 1909. [H. R. 1438.] [Public, No. 5.] 36 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 11.

RESOLUTIONS.

[No. 2.] Joint Resolution Making appropriations for the payment of certain expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty-first Congress.

(For stationery for Delegate from Hawaii. See p. 376.)

28872°-S. Doc. 306, 62-2-9

Apr. 23, 1909.

[H. J. Res. 45.] [Pub. Res., No.

2.] 36 Stat. L., pt.

1, p. 182.

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Feb. 25, 1910.

SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION.

CHAP. 62.-An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent defi[H. R. 18282.] ciencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, [Public, No. 62.] and for other purposes.

36 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 202.

(Naval station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. See p. 42.)

Apr. 26, 1910.

TS. 6131.]

CHAP. 191.—An Act For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded Paris greens, lead arse[Public, No. 152.] nates, and other insecticides, and also fungicides, and for regulating 36 Stat. L., pt. traffic therein, and for other purposes.

1, p. 331.

(Applicable to Hawaiian Islands. See p. 391.)

CHAP. 199.-An Act Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven.

(Relief and protection of American seamen in Hawaiian Islands. See p. 392.)

CHAP. 230.—An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes.

(Mail bags. Purchase of material and manufacture of equipment. See p. 392.)

May 26, 1910.

CHAP. 256.—An Act Making appropriations for the Department of [H. R. 18162.]__ Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hun[Public, No. 190.] dred and eleven.

36 Stat. L., pt.

1, p. 416.

Agricultural

Department appropriations.

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*

*

*

(General expenses Weather Bureau in Hawaiian Islands. Maintenance of experiment station in Hawaii, and sale of products grown thereon. See p. 393.)

May 27, 1910.

[S. 3360.]

CHAP. 258.—An Act To amend an Act entitled "An act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii," approved April Public, No. 192.] thirtieth, nineteen hundred. 36 Stat. L., pt 1, p. 443.

Hawaii.

Government in.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section five of an Act entitled "An Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii," approved

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April thirtieth, nineteen hundred, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Proviso.

R. S., secs. 1841

"SEC. 5. That the Constitution, and, except as other-General laws of wise provided, all the laws of the United States, including laws carrying general appropriations, which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory as elsewhere in the United States: Provided, That sections eighteen hundred and Territorial proforty-one to eighteen hundred and ninety-one, inclusive, visions excepted. nineteen hundred and ten and nineteen hundred and 1891, pp. 326-333; twelve, of the Revised Statutes, and the amendments secs. 1910, 1912, p. thereto, and an Act entitled 'An Act to prohibit the passage of local or special laws in the Territories of the United States, to limit territorial indebtedness, and for other purposes,' approved July thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and the amendments thereto, shall not apply to Hawaii.'

SEC. 2. That section twenty-six of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows:

337.

Legislature.

of members in

"SEC. 26. That the members of the legislature shall Compensation receive for their services, in addition to mileage at the creased. rate of ten cents a mile each way, the sum of six hundred dollars for each regular session, payable in three equal installments on and after the first, thirtieth, and fiftieth days of the session, and the sum of two hundred dollars for each special session: Provided, That they shall receive no compensation for any extra session held under for appropriation the provisions of section fifty-four of this Act."

Proviso.

Extra sessions

bills.

SEC. 3. That section fifty-two of said Act is hereby Appropriaamended to read as follows:

make.

"SEC. 52. That appropriations, except as herein other-Legislature wise provided, shall be made by the legislature."

powers.

to

Indebtedness

restricted.

SEC. 4. That section fifty-five of said Act is hereby Legislative amended so that the part thereof relating to public indebtedness and beginning with the words "nor shall any debt" shall read as follows: "Nor shall any debt be authorized to be contracted by or on behalf of the Territory, or any political or municipal corporation or subdivision thereof, except to pay the interest upon the existing indebtedness, to suppress insurrection, or to provide for the common defense, except that in addition to any indebtedness created for such purposes the legislature may authorize loans by the Territory, or any such subdivision thereof, for the erection of penal, charitable, and educational institutions, and for public buildings, wharves, roads, harbor, and other public improvements, but the total of such indebtedness incurred in any one year by the Territory or any such subdivision shall not exceed one per centum of the assessed value of the property in the Territory or subdivision, respectively, as shown by the then last assessments for taxation, whether such assessments are made by the Territory or the subdivision or subdivisions, and the total indebtedness of the Territory shall not at any time be extended beyond seven

Maximum.

per centum of such assessed value of property in the Territory and the total indebtedness of any such subdivision shall not at any time be extended beyond three per centum of such assessed value of property in the subdivision, but nothing in this Act shall prevent the refunding of any indebtedness at any time; nor shall any such loan be made upon the credit of the public domain or any Term of bonds. part thereof; nor shall any bond or other instrument of any such indebtedness be issued unless made payable in not more than thirty years from the date of the issue thereof; nor shall any such bond or indebtedness be issued or incurred until approved by the President of the United States: Provided, That the legislature may by general act for public uses. provide for the condemnation of property for public uses, including the condemnation of rights of way for the transmission of water for irrigation and other purposes. SEC. 5. That section seventy-three of said Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following:

Proviso.

Condemnations

Public lands.

Issue of certifieates, leases, and ited.

"No person shall hereafter be entitled to receive any agreements lim- certificate of occupation, right of purchase lease, cash freehold agreement, or special homestead agreement who or whose husband or wife shall previously have taken or held any land under any such certificate, lease, or agreement hereafter made or issued, or under any homestead lease or patent based thereon; or who or whose husband or wife, or both of them, shall then own other land in the Territory, the combined area of which and the land in question exceeds eighty acres; or who is an alien, unless he has declared his intention to become a citizen of the Citizenship re- United States as provided by law; nor shall any person who, having so declared his intention, shall hereafter take or hold under any such certificate, lease, or agreement, continue so to hold or become entitled to a homestead lease or patent of the land, unless he shall have become a citizen within five years after so taking.

quired.

Transfers

corporations

or

to "No land for which any such certificate, lease, or aliens restricted. agreement shall hereafter be issued, or any part thereof or interest therein or control thereof, shall, without the written consent of the commissioner and governor, thereafter, whether before or after a homestead lease or patent. has been issued thereon, be or be contracted to be in any way, directly or indirectly, by process of law or otherwise, conveyed, mortgaged, leased, or otherwise transferred to or acquired or held by or for the benefit of any alien or Before issue of corporation; or, before or after the issuance of a homestead lease or before the issuance of a patent, to or by or for the benefit of any other person; or, after the issuance of a patent, to or by or for the benefit of any person who owns, holds, or controls, directly or indirectly, other land or the use thereof the combined area of which and the land in question exceeds eighty acres: Provided, That these prohibitions shall not apply to transfers or acquisitions by inheritance or between tenants in common.

patents, etc.

Limitation.

Proviso.

Inheritances,