APPENDIX. II. 469 FINANCIAL STATISTICS. From the Annual Report of the Minister of Finance, p. 23, 24, 1852. Since the appointment of the Treasury Board, the receipts of the government have been, in round numbers, as follows: For year ending 31st March, 1843. $41,000 00 The receipts for 1852, compared with those of 1851, show a decrease of $50,000; a fact not very creditable to the Minister of Finance. THE RECEIPTS FOR 1853 MAY BE ESTIMATED THUS: For the Civil List as before, less the extraordinary leaving $29,339 84 toward the payment of former appropriations. If the above estimate is correct, the government can not safely undertake any public improvements without additional funds, which I can not recommend to be raised by a loan without a definite prospect of a future increase in the receipts of the government, which shall be competent to repay all the money thus borrowed, with the interest. Money is not to be had in these islands except in small sums, for short periods, and at a high rate of interest. It will be an important question, therefore, for the representatives of the people to consider in what way the funds necessary for carrying on public improvements, and for a permanent increase of the revenue, shall be raised. The property tax authorized by the law of 1846 was intended for an emergency like the present, but that law is so deficient in the details, so unequal in the application, and so impracticable in the execution, that I hope you will, in case you deem a property tax advisable, substitute a new law for that of 1846. A property tax, owing to the peculiar circumstances of the islands, will be a difficult and expensive one to collect. GOD PRESERVE THE KING. G. P. JUDD. III. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE. The town of Honolulu is in lat. 21° 18′ N. and long. 158° 1′ W. from Greenwich. The climate is subject to little variation. The opposite Table, taken from several others recording the weather during several years, is an average and accurate specimen of Sandwich Island climate at a few feet above high tide. WINDS. WEATHER. GENERAL TABLE OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AT HONOLULU FOR THE YEAR 1838. RAIN. APPENDIX. Year 1838. Maximum. Minimum. 30.068 30.092 30.155 30.028 73.0 21 83 71 80.1 76.9 82 71 76.5 76.6 73.7 80 67 73.5 73.3 79 62 72.2 78 68 73.0 20 75.0 22 74.0 29 77.0 25 80.5 30 85 73 79.0 70.5 4 25 POLDTQLCoco o Southerly-Days. IV. STATISTICS ON CRIME. Table showing the whole number of Convictions for Criminal Offenses on the Island of Oahu during the Year 1852. Of the 659 persons convicted of drunkenness, 537 were foreigners and 122 natives, principally sailors. Of the 228 convicted of fornication, 124 were foreigners and 104 natives; while of the 95 convicted of adultery, only 4 were foreigners and 91 natives. Of the 50 convicted for larceny, 10 were foreigners and 40 natives. The amount of fines imposed by the police and district justices of Honolulu during the year 1852, is as follows: By C. C. Harris, Esq., Police Justice By J. Kaaukai, Esq. . By J. W. E. Maikai, Esq.. $8,775 50 1,761 00 630 00 The offenses for which convictions were had, before the district justices of Honolulu, during the year 1852, are as follows, viz. : From the report of JAMES W. AUSTIN, Esq., the District Attorney of the district composed of the islands of Maui, Molokai, and Lanai, I am enabled to lay before you the following statistics of crime in those islands: The whole number of persons prosecuted in 1852 was. 916 66 The whole amount of fines imposed in 1852 was..... .$9425 52 The offenses for which these fines were imposed were as follows: -From the Annual Report of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for 1853. |