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The Secretary of the Board of Health handled the business matters of the Board.

On October 8, 1840, Kamehameha III granted the first constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom, which vested the judicial power of government in a Supreme Court, consisting of the King as chief judge, Premier (kuhina nui), and four individuals appointed by the representative body. Island courts held by their respective governors functioned as circuit courts on their respective island. The island governors were given powers to appoint judges who functioned as district magistrates for the island. Chapter XLVII of the Laws of 1842 mandated that the Supreme judges assemble in Honolulu each June and in Lahaina each December to try cases appealed to them. Selection criteria for foreign and native juries were provided for in the Laws of 1842. The Third Act of Kamehameha III in 1847 titled "An Act to Organize the Judiciary Department of the Hawaiian Islands" created four levels of courts - the Supreme Court, the Superior Court of Law and Equity, four circuit court jurisdictions, and district courts.

Shipʻs port of registry was San Francisco. A. Wallace served as master of the bark in October 1900.

Joint Resolution 6 of the 1909 session of the Territorial Legislature was approved on April 28, 1909, by Governor Walter F. Frear, giving him the power to appoint a 3-man "School Fund Comnission," which was to examine the methods of raising and apportioning school funds in different places, to consider ways and means for the revision and betterment of methods employed in the Territory and to draw up any necessary bills.
Wallace R. Farrington, William Alfred Bowen and Professor Edgar Wood were appointed to the commission in June and instructed to report to the Governor not later than July 1, 1910. The Reverend C. N. Pond of Oberlin, Ohio, who was approached by Secretary Bowen assisted in the work of the commission without pay. A Concurrent Resolution passed in November, 1909, further requested the commission to investigate methods of endowing the College of Hawaii (University of Hawaiʻi) and report its conclusions and recommendations and "such bills as
may seem necessary" to the Governor by July 1, 1910. Under the chairmanship of Mr. Farrington, the commission's plan of study was divided into 5 areas. The first was to work for a suitable Federal appropriation, but this was dropped because of the many complications that arose.
The second involved a publicity campaign for the information of the people. Articles giving facts, opinions and circular letter asking for suggestions for solutions to the problem which was also sent to one thousand representative men and women throughout the islands were published in the papers. The commission also carried on an investigation of means and methods of raising and apportioning educational funds elsewhere and of conditions existing in the Territory of Hawaiʻi. The fifth area involved recommendations for the solution of the educational
problems in Hawaiʻi.