Act 88. Stenographers, First Circuit Court. supply and file, without charge and within a reasonable time, a certified statement of such testimony as relates to the names, ages and genealogies of heirs; and provided, further, that the judges may, by rule of court duly promulgated, from time to time prescribe other appropriate duties for the official reporters to perform. Each reporter shall file his shorthand notes in a suitable filing-case provided for that purpose, and, when requested by either party to a cause and so directed by the court, or by the court of its own motion, must, within such reasonable time thereafter as the court may designate, furnish a certified transcript of his notes, or any portion thereof, taken in said cause, upon the payment of the fee hereinafter fixed. But the reporter may furnish a transcript of any of his notes, where the same is not intended for the purposes of appeal to the Supreme Court, upon the request of any party, without the order of the judge therefor first obtained. SECTION 3. Each reporter of such court shall receive for his services as above designated such salary as may be appropriated from time to time, as compensation for his services in court, and may charge not exceeding fifteen cents per folio of one hundred words for original transcripts of testimony, and seven-and-a-half cents per folio of one hundred words for carbon copies thereof, when such transcripts are prepared in their regular order for the purposes of appeal to the supreme court, and not exceeding twenty cents per folio for originals and ten cents per folio for carbons when transcripts are prepared daily, during the course of a trial. The fees for transcripts ordered by a party must be paid by the party ordering the same, and no reporter shall be required to perform any such service until his fees have been paid or the amount of the estimated cost of same deposited with the clerk of the court. Where the court shall, of its own motion, order a transcript to be prepared of the whole or any part of the testimony in a civil cause, it may, in its discretion, direct the payment of the charges Act 88. Stenographers, First Circuit Court. therefor, and the taxation of the same as costs, in such manner as to it may seem just. Where the attorney general, or the city and county attorney, may desire transcripts for their own official use, either original or carbon copy, the reporter may be paid for same by warrant upon the treasurer of the Territory, or the treasurer of the city and county, as the case may be. The reporter shall provide, at his own expense, all typewriting paper and carbon paper necessary to the preparation of all such transcripts. SECTION 4. No person shall be appointed to the position of official shorthand reporter of such court except upon satisfactory evidence of good moral character, and unless he shall be a citizen of the Territory of Hawaii, and without either (1) having had three years' experience as a court reporter, which fact shall be shown to the satisfaction of said judges, or of a majority of them, or (2) being first examined as to his competency by a committee of three persons, at least one of whom shall be a member of the bar, which commitee shall be named by a judge or judges of such court. The test of competency shall be as follows: The party examined must write in the presence of the committee at the rate of at least one hundred and sixty words per minute for five consecutive minutes, upon matter not previously written by or known to him, immediately read the same back without material error, and furnish a plain and accurate transcript of the same within a reasonable time thereafter. If he pass such test satisfactorily, the applicant shall be given a written certificate of that fact by the committee, which certificate shall be signed by at least a majority of the members of the committee and shall be filed among the records of the court. Provided, that nothing in this section contained shall operate as a bar to the appointment of a court reporter for not more than sixty days where the services of no person possessing the aboverequired qualifications shall be available. Act 88. Stenographers, First Circuit Court. Act 89. Licenses. SECTION 5. All laws or portions of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the date of its approval. Approved this 15th day of April, A. D. 1915. LUCIUS E. PINKHAM, Governor of the Territory of Hawaii. ACT 89 AN ACT FORBIDDING THE ISSUANCE OF LICENSES TO DELINQUENT TAXPAYERS, AMENDING CHAPTER 121 OF THE REVISED LAWS OF HAWAII OF 1915, BY ADDING THERETO A NEW SECTION, TO BE KNOWN AS SECTION 1965A. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii: SECTION 1. The Revised Laws of Hawaii of 1915 is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section, to be known as Section 1965A. "Section 1965A. No license shall be issued by any county or city and county treasurer, within the Territory of Hawaii, unless the applicant for such license shall have filed with such Treasurer a certificate showing the payment in full of all delinquent taxes, if any shall have become delinquent, after the passage of this Act, but not including, however, any taxes delinquent prior to January 1, 1915." SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. LUCIUS E. PINKHAM, Act 90. Property Taxes. ACT 90 AN ACT To AMEND SECTION 1236 of the ReviseD LAWS OF HAWAII 1915, RELATING TO GENERAL PROPERTY TAXES, BY ADDING THERETO A NEW SUBDIVISION TO BE KNOWN AS "3A," AND BY AMENDING SUBDIVISION 5 THEREOF. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii: SECTION 1. A new paragraph is hereby added to Section 1236 of the Revised Laws of Hawaii of 1915 to be known as Subdivision 3A, and to read as follows: "3A. A statement showing the balance unexpended and uncontracted for remaining at the end of the preceding calendar year from the amount collected during such year for school buildings and grounds in accordance with the provisions of the biennial school budget then operative." SECTION 2. Subdivision 5 of Section 1236 of the Revised Laws of Hawaii of 1915 is hereby amended by adding after the word "section" in line 40 the following: "less the amount reported under the provisions of subdivision 3a of this Section, also," so that said Subdivision 5 shall read as follows: "5. The treasurer of the Territory shall similarly prepare and transmit to the assessor an estimate of the amount, if any, payable to or retainable by the Territory out of the proceeds of this tax during such year in respect of such county or city and county for school, interest, sinking fund and other purposes, including the cost of assessing and collecting taxes in such county or city and county. The amount for school purposes, under this subdivision, shall be an amount which shall bear the same ratio to one-half of the amount specified for all school purposes in said biennial budget, plus the amount estimated to be required for that year in accordance with the salary schedule provided Act 90. Property Taxes. for in the chapter referred to in Subdivision 4 of this section, less the amount reported under the provisions of Subdivision 3A of this section, also less the amount estimated for school buildings and grounds under said Subdivision 4, and less the amount of school taxes (provided for in Section 1225), collected during the preceding year, that the aggregate value of property in such county or city and county as assessed for the purposes of this tax during the preceding year bears to the aggregate value of property in the Territory, as similarly assessed, exclusive of the property mentioned in the proviso of this section. The assessor shall thereupon estimate the rate per cent. at which the property, subject to be taxed under this section for the benefit of such county or city and county, shall be taxed in order to yield, during that year, the amount so estimated to be required for the purposes specified in each of the above Subdivisions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this section. In estimating such rates the aggregate value of property, as assessed for the purposes of this tax for the preceding year, shall be taken as a basis. If the rate so estimated for the purposes specified in Subdivision 1 shall exceed one-half of one per cent., it shall be reduced to one-half of one per cent. If the rate so estimated for the purposes specified in Subdivision 2 shall be such that the sum of that rate and the rate estimated for the purposes specified in Subdivision 1 shall exceed two-thirds of one per cent., it shall be reduced so that such sum shall be two-thirds of one per cent. If the estimates of the amount required for the purposes specified in Subdivisions 1 and 2 shall not be transmitted to the assessor on or before the last day of January in that year, the assessor shall estimate the rate for the purposes specified in Subdivision 1 at one-half of one per cent., and the rate for the purposes specified in Subdivision 2 at onesixth of one per cent. The sum of the rates so finally estimated or determined, for the purposes specified in said five subdivi |