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Wills

The Wills of the First Circuit date from 1893 to 1916. They contain will numbers 1 through 615 and total two cubic feet.

The Wills of Other Circuits date from 1852 to 1916. They contain will numbers 1 through 678 and total two cubic feet.

Information provided in wills are names of heirs, financial successors, appointed executor or guardians, and possessions inventory. Included are witness signatures and circuit judge certification proving will to be correct.

Wills admitted to probate may be located within probate case files.

First Circuit Court

Waikiki Project Files

Working papers of beach reclamation, dredging, and improvement projects for Waikiki beaches. Comprised of blueprints, estimates, notes and tabulations, weekly reports, permits, proposals, and plans and specifications for construction. Includes a scroll of cross-sections of Waikiki beaches for 1929-1930.

Board of Harbor Commissioners

Transcripts of Executive Proceedings of the Territorial Government

[Taken directly from the NARA series description] These transcripts were to be submitted semiannually to the President of the United States in accordance with section 69 of the act of April 30, 1900. The proceedings are in the form of lists arranged by type of action concerning the official acts of the Governor. Also included are copies of proclamations, lists of appointments, official visits, pardon letters, commutations of sentences, and election notices

Timebooks

Lists Citizens Guard members who were on duty during the 1895 Rebellion in both volumes - January 1895 Timebook and First Division Supplementary Payroll. The January 1895 volume contains a record of Honolulu Harbor incoming and outgoing vessels, 1895-1898.

Citizens Guard

Tax Officer Records

The earliest record in the census collection is a tax officer's account book to lands and people of the Waialua, Oahu area, 1840-1842. Includes lists of names. Other name lists are found in Poalua Books (Tuesday Tax) or School Tax books for N. Hilo, 1850 and Maui, Honuauaula area, 1854. The rest of these records, covering Oahu for 1843, are statistical reports or tables showing totals for the island and districts by various taxable or exempt categories, such as male, female, parents with three or more children, elderly and infirm, and even the number of cats and dogs.

Tax Officers

Survey Questionnaires

Created or collected in the Bureau of Research and Statistics.

Consists of completed questionnaires, titled “EXPENDITURES OF FAMILIES OF WAGE EARNERS AND LOWER-SALARIED CLERICAL WORKERS IN HONOLULU, T.H.” A few questionnaires have amplifying information appended. The questionnaires are from two separate surveys. One was conducted in Honolulu in 1943. The 43 questionnaires from that survey have the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (USDOL/BLS) letterhead. The other survey, despite having the same title on its questionnaires, was conducted on the neighbor islands in 1945. Its 69 questionnaires have the Territory of Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Bureau of Research and Statistics (DLIR/BR&S) letterhead. The 28-page questionnaires contain raw demographic and economic data, such as family size, ages, ethnicity, employment, income, and expenses for various items of food and clothing. The data were analyzed and statistics were compiled. The results of the 1943 survey were published by the USDOL/BLS, in the April 1944, issue of their “Monthly Labor Review.” This serial is available at several libraries in the University of Hawaii system. The results of the 1945 survey were published by the DLIR/BR&S, as its Bulletin no. 18, Family Income and Expenditures on the islands of Hawaii-Maui-Kauai, 1944. A copy of this bulletin is available in the Archives library.

Bureau of Research and Statistics

Statistics of Hawaiian Commerce

Includes a brief history of the Customs Office, imports and exports, shipping records, a list of Hawaiian Registered Vessels (1870-1872), lists of pilots and officers of the Customs House, and personnel data from 1841-1893.

Collector General of Customs

Special Proceedings Case Files of the Fifth Circuit Court

Contains cases 1 through 190. File for case 166 was not transferred to the Archives. Case file jackets provide the case number, names of the plaintiff(s) and defendant(s), subject of the case, date, and cite the minute book volume and page numbers of the court proceedings.

Special proceedings cases were heard before a circuit court judge in chambers. Case files generally contain appeals, bills, complaints, court costs, defendant's response to complaint, depositions, judgments, minutes, petitions, receipts, subpoenas, summons, warrants, and writs. Special proceedings cases concern civil matters such as arbitrations, attorney malpractices, claims for road damages, contempts of court, disputes over labor contracts, impeachments of district court judges, insanity commitments, licenses to practice law, and police malfeasance. Labor contract disputes constitute the bulk of the case files. Nineteenth century contract disputes between indentured agricultural workers and plantations are documented in the case files. Appeals from the district or police court contain the lower court records relating to the case.

Records in this series dated before 1892 may be identified as Fourth Circuit Court documents. Kauai and Niihau were designated as the Fourth Circuit prior to 1892.

None of the documents have been translated.

Fifth Circuit Court

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