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Provisions for the establishment of county governments were made by the Territorial Legislature in 1905; and in 1907 the island of Oʻahu was incor­porated in the City and County of Honolulu. Subsequent legislative sessions made amendments affecting the operation of county government. In 1917 a bill to establish a charter revision commission for the city and county of Honolulu was passed by the legislature, but was vetoed by the governor. During the Nineteenth Regular Session of the Territorial Legislature in 1937, Act 218 was enacted which authorized the creation of a charter revision commission for the city and county of Honolulu. The 15-member commission was charged with making a "study and analysis of the existing governmental structure of the city and county of Honolulu for the purpose of securing such factual data as will enable it to draft, and the commission is hereby directed to draft a proposed new charter, adapted to the requirements of such city and county and designed to provide for the people of such city and county a more efficient and economical form of government." Mayor George F. Wright appointed former governor Lawrence M. Judd as chairman of the commission. The commission held 47 meetings between November, 1937 and February, 1939, twelve of which were designated as public hearings. They heard testimony from members of the Board of Supervisors, department heads of the city and county of Honolulu, members of the territorial legis­lature, and from civic organizations. The terms of office of the commissioners expired with the convening of the Twentieth Regular Session of the legislature in 1939, during which the commission submitted a proposed charter. After extensive amendment by the legislature, the proposal was passed as Act 242.

Visited the "South Seas" as chaplain aboard the U.S. ship Vincinnes 1829-1830 and published "A Visit to the South Seas in the U.S. ship ʻVincinnesʻ 1829-30, with Scenes in Brazil, Peru, Manilla, the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena."

1864 b. Honolulu, Nov. 30, son H.A.P. and Sybil Carter.
1887 Univ. of Michigan law school graduate
1888 m. Mary S. Scott or Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 11
1895 special commissioner to Washington
1894 prominent in framing constitution of Republic
1895 shot Jan. 6 during Wilcox Rebellion
1895 Jan. 7 died in Honolulu.

Naturalized as a Hawaiian Kingdom Subject on 23 September 1850. He was elected to the Hawaiian Kingdom Legislature and served from 1854-1862. He served as Attorney General of the Hawaiian Kingdom 26 August 1862 – 21 December 1865.

Charles Augustus "Cabby" Brown was born in Worchester, Massachusetts on June 25, 1856. He arrived in Honolulu on March 12, 1877 and worked as a bookkeeper at Wailuku and Olowalu plantations. In 1878, he entered Bishop & Company banking house and worked there until 1887. On September 3, 1886, he married Irene Kahalelaukoa Ii but later divorced. Brown and Ii had three children: George Ii Brown, Francis Hyde Ii Brown, and Rose K. Davis. From 1887 through 1916, Brown managed and developed land holdings of John Ii estate. On June 27, 1900, Brown married Gertrude Lawrence Brown. He died in Lowell, Massachusetts on May 3, 1937.

The granting of charters of incorporation is one of the oldest functions of the government. The oldest corporation on record in Hawaii is Kaneohe Church, which was registered in 1849. Kohala Sugar Company is the oldest profit corporation on record. Its charter was granted on February 3, 1863 by Lot Kamehameha, Minister of the Interior.

The Minister of the Interior of the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands also had the duty of registering partnerships, trade names, trademarks, prints and labels. Partnerships were first registered in 1880. Benson, Smith & Co. registered the first trademark on October 25, 1888 for Buhac insect powder. Upon annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States as a territory, the powers and duties of the Minister of the Interior were vested in the Treasurer of the Territory of Hawaii.

Today, these functions are carried out under the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs by the Business Registration Division.