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The 1847 Act organizing the Judiciary Department designated the district and police courts as the island courts not of record. District and police court determinations were subject to appeal in the circuit courts on their respective island. District and police justices had jurisdiction to determine all civil and criminal cases. Police justices were assigned to the ports of Honolulu and Lahaina and had jurisdiction over both minor civil and criminal as well as maritime cases. Police justices also had jurisdiction over foreigners over the entire island or circuit in which his district was situated.

In 1892, the Judiciary reorganized. The islands of Kauai and Niihau were designated the Fifth Circuit. The jurisdiction of the Fourth Circuit encompassed the districts of Hamakua, Hilo and Puna on the island of Hawaii. In 1943 the Fourth Circuit was abolished and the entire island of Hawaii was again designated the Third Circuit.

The 1892 Judiciary reorganization designated all police justices as district magistrates, holding powers formerly exercised by police justices.

The district courts' jurisdiction remained the same when Hawaii became a territory of the United States in 1900. The exception was maritime cases which were not heard in the district courts after 1900.

Traffic violations, previously handled by the county police departments, were criminalized and heard in the district courts after 1960.

1947-1960 division in the Workmen’s Compensation Bureau of DLIR (Act 64 SLH 1947).
1960-1973 separate division in DLIR (Act 1, 2nd Special Session, 1959, and Governor’s Executive Order no. 1 dated January 5, 1960).

Created under the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, after statehood the word "territorial" in it's name was changed to "state" and it was briefly under the new Department of Agriculture and Conservation in 1960. It was placed under the Department of Land and Natural Resources later the same year.

The Division of State Parks was renamed the Division of State Parks, Outdoor Recreation and Historic Sites effective June 30, 1969.

Established by Act 001, Section 21, Session Laws of Hawaii, Passed by the First State Legislature, Second Special Session, 1959. An Act Providing for the Reorganization of the Executive Administrative Offices, Departments, and Instrumentalities of the State Government.

Collected and collated information, coordinated activities, stimulated research, prevented duplication of effort and determined priorities relating to economic development. In 1960, functions transferred in part to the Department of Economic Development and in part to the Department of Planning and Research.

Born in Massachusetts. His will mentions brothers William, Nathan, and Thaddeus, sister Nabby Buckley, and niece Nabby Priest, wife of Asa Priest, of Littleton, Massachusetts. Dates for his arrival in Hawaiʻi vary from 1801 to after the War of 1812, but early enough to have know the Winships. From at least 1815 to 1825 he was master of several vessels active in the sandalwood, fur and general mercantile trade. Had a general store on lower Nuʻuanu Avenue. Formed a partnership with Josiah Thompson, Eliab Grimes & Co., terminated Dec. 15, 1842. Formed E.H. Grimes & Co. with his nephew Hiram Grimes, dissolved after his death according to his will. He married a Hawaiian woman, Uʻilani.
After 1844 he lived in California, where he died in 1848.