Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 159, 10 July 1894 — HAWAII’S “BLUE” LAWS [ARTICLE]

HAWAII’S “BLUE” LAWS

C0NSTITUTI0X and LAWS Framed bv tbe Missionaries. * LAWS of the HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. Bat laws respecting roads, fences, animals. and all snch | like things they may pass. 2. All private individuals also shall onjoy the same privilege. Anv man may make a law whieh ahall be applicable | to his own premises, and if a man makes the law of his land, his yard or his house clearly understood before hand, tbat law is binding, and whosoever violates, shall pay the penalty according to the reqnirements of the law, though no »ach law ean be at variance with tho general spirit of the laws of the nation. nor ean there be an oppressive law nor one of evil tendency. These eilicta having been passed by tho Nobles, we havo hereunto set our names this ninth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousaud eight hundred and forty. at Lahaina, Mani. (Signed) KAMEHAMEHA III. KEKAULUOHI. CHAPTER V. OF POLlCE 0FF1CERS AND CONSTABLES. 1. It shall be the duty of the soveral Governors to appoint constables and Peaee officers for the protoction of the people and villages. The Governor sball act in this thing according to his own discretion. If tho village be large, there mast bo a greater number of constables. If tho village be smaller. there may be a smaller namber of constabIes, at the discretion of the Governors. lf tbe Governor bo embarrassed in any respect, and therefore think it best to appoint a new officer over any kind of business, he may do it at his discretion. The badge of the constables shall be a littlo stick, made ; ronnd, with the name of the King at the top of it. And it shall be hisduty always to carry the badgo, that he may l>e known as a constablo. If he does not carry tho badge, it will be improper for him forcibly to seize a man, lest it bo thought that he is not a constable, and a qaarrel ensae. | In snch a case the blame will attach to the poliee officer. But if he carry his badge and any ono resist him and hurt him, then the blame will attach to the man, and tho officer will be faultless. 2. It shall be the duty of the poliee officers to watch. spy out and detect criminals, carry thera to, and deliver them up to the jadges, who will bring them to trial. It shall be their daty to seize all persons who violate tbe law», and in eaao of a qaarrel or a mob, it shall be their daty to restore or demand peaee, and seize the guilty persons. lf any peaee officer know of a person’scommitting a crime, and do not seize him nor make it known to tbe jadge, he shall ; bo panished to one balf the amounl whieh the criminal would have been. And if they merely hear of di«order or mischief, it shall be their duty to go and see, for the parof qaelling it If any one of them receive a bribe, and therefore eoneeal crime, he ahall be fined to foar times the amount of the bribe whieh he received; then if tbe bribe he received was one dollar, his Iegal fine sfcall be foar dollars. j 3. If any man, not being a poliee officer, sball carry the badge of one, he shall be fined five dollars. If a poliee officer sball seize a man entirely wiihoui groands or withoot any reasonable groand of snspicion, he sball be naed ten dollars and pay all damages sostained by the penon thos : gronndless!y seized. If a poliee officer attempt to seize a man and he maiai, the man shall be fined ten dollars. even though he do not wpond the officer. But if the officer be , WO onded by him fae ahall then be fined in the same manner , as all others guilty of aasanlt ) 9

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