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Contains a book of daily memoranda relating to the administration of the Census of 1890 by the General Superintendent of the Census, 3 enumerators' pocket notebooks (ca. 1890-1896), and undated notes relating to the correction of certain census schedule sheets.

The daily memoranda book contains a record of significant events in the administration of the Census of 1890, a ledger relating to the purchase of supplies, and the names of enumerators by location. The enumerators' notebooks are for Honolulu ca. 1890-1896. They tally the names of a limited number of persons resident in Honolulu with the sheet number of the census schedule on which their names appeared. The notebooks also show street names for the residents. The correction sheets are administrative notes relating to the correction of certain census schedules from several locations. They are undated. The enumerators' notebooks and the correction sheets are available on microfilm MFL63.

Contains cases 1 through 396 and 500 through 1114.
Files for cases 397 through 499 were not transferred to the Archives.

In order to seek abatement of public or private nuisance, to recover damages, to settle disputes which may include property claims, a plaintiff petitioned the First Circuit Court and after 1852, the Supreme Court to make and award a judgment, decree, order or injunction.

Case files generally contain petitions, summons, affidavits, subpoenas, pleas, proceedings, orders, masters reports, decrees, motions, bills, receipts, judgments, decisions, and appeals. If a case involved property claims, the file may contain information on land titles and family history of plaintiffs and defendants. Appeals from the district or police court contain the lower court records relating to the case.

Contains cases 1 through 84.

In order to seek abatement of public or private nuisance, to recover damages, or to settle disputes, a plaintiff petitioned the circuit court to make and award a judgment, decree, order or injunction. Case files generally contain petitions, summons, affidavits, subpoenas, pleas, proceedings, orders, masters reports, decrees, motions, bills, receipts, judgments, decisions, and appeals. If a case involved property claims, the file may contain information on land titles and family history of plaintiffs and defendants. Appeals from the district or police court contain the lower court records relating to the case.

Civil cases from 1850-1894 for the districts of Hamakua, Hilo, and Puna on the island of Hawaii are filed with the Third Circuit Court records.

Minute books were kept by the clerks of the several divisions of First Circuit Court and contain summaries of court proceedings. Entries contain court date; court orders; names of attorneys, defendants, plaintiffs, and other parties involved; judgments; and sentences in criminal cases. The records include minutes of cases heard both in open court and in the judge’s chambers. Open court matters include accident (workers compensation), annulment, civil, criminal, divorce, equity, law, probate and small estate cases as well as grand jury reports. Closed proceedings (matters heard in chambers) include adoption, probate (guardianship), paternity (bastardy) and special proceedings cases (which involve such things as habeas corpus applications, mandamus, petitions to initiate judicial actions, and water rights cases). Some of the cases are appeals from District Court or Land Court.

The volumes also contain administrative matters such as applications for licenses to practice law, appointments of judges to the bench, appointments of court clerks, trial jury drawings, orders for official mourning for deceased government officials, and for continuation and adjournment of court terms.

Adoption, guardianship, and paternity cases may provide names of biological parents, adoptive parents, and guardians, as well as background information. Annulment, desertion and marital separation cases were sometimes filed as divorce or equity cases. In the early 1950's, most law cases were redesignated as civil cases. Divorce cases sometimes include indication of the ethnicity of the parties.

Civil, equity, and law minutes note court actions to adjudicate property claims and provide legal remedies in disputes. Issues include actions for injunctions, adverse possession, partition of land parcels, breach of contract, damages, contested deeds and wills, disputes over land titles, ejectments and evictions from property, quiet title actions, tax appeals, and water rights. For example, the law cases include breach of contract civil lawsuits resulting from the inability of businesses to collect from insurance companies for damages incurred during the Chinatown fires of 1900-1901; the equity cases include matters regarding large estates and trusts such as Bishop, Campbell, Queen Emma, Lunalilo, McInerny and others. Probate and Small Estate cases contain proceedings dealing with distribution of property and wealth of the deceased.

Criminal proceedings contain charges filed by the government against the defendant, defendant’s pleading, minutes of the trial, verdict, and sentence. Criminal cases of gambling, work stoppages, riots and bigamy among Chinese immigrants are a source of local history and social customs in the Territory of Hawaii. Volume 27 contains minutes of a 1909 trial of agricultural workers involved in a Waipahu labor riot (Criminal case 4611). Minutes of the 1932 trial (Criminal case 11891/”the Massie Case”) of Grace Fortescue, Thomas H. Massie, Edward J. Lord, and Albert O. Jones are in volume 116.

Registration books of fishing boats, pleasure craft, and sampans. Include names of owners, date and number of registration, length of boats, and pier location. "Mooring Fees" includes the monthly fee paid by each boat. "Registry of Fishing and Pleasure Boats" contains the 1929 Registry of Sampan owners as well (in back). The "Sampan Daily Report" identifies the daily catch of fish in pounds, supplies used, and time of arrival and departure of each sampan.

Contains cases 1 to 7.

These case files were created as a result of judicial proceedings initiated by plaintiffs claiming fishing rights based on traditional Hawaiian practice. Such plaintiffs petitioned the court to rule that they had sole and exclusive fee simple ownership of sea fisheries extending into the ocean from the shoreline of their properties. Shoreline areas of Hilo, Puna and Waipio Valley are covered in the case files.

Case files contain the petition of the plaintiff, amendments to complaints and petitions, receipts for exhibits, stipulation by attorneys for the plaintiffs and defendants, defendant's answer to plaintiff's petition or complaint, summons, judgments, decisions and orders of the presiding judge, and related court documents such as orders to sell real estate and divide proceeds among the heirs.

None of the documents have been translated.

Earlier civil cases relating to fishing rights from 1850 to 1896 for the districts of Hamakua, Hilo, and Puna may be filed with the Third Circuit Court records.

Created or collected in the Division of Industrial Safety.
Consists of correspondence; memoranda; telegrams; notes; agendas and minutes of advisory and other committees; inspection, injury, visit and trip reports; speeches and official statements; press releases; schedules and programs of meetings and conferences; historical monographs; an interim safety manual; sketches and maps of work sites, including harbors; and charts, graphs and tables of data and statistics. A few non-permanent records, such as accident and inspection reports, have been retained as examples of function and process. The minutes include those of the Boiler Code Advisory Committee and the Industrial Safety Code Advisory Committee whose members, from government, private industry and labor, advised the Division on safety matters.

The records of the Governor’s Agriculture Coordinator’s Office include subject files, correspondence, legislative testimonies, reports, and speeches covering the years 1971 through 1974. The files relate to agriculture diversification, planning and policy in the post plantation era.

Organized in five subseries: Administrative, Legislative, Minutes of meetings, Outgoing letters, and Speeches and Conferences.

Records in the Administrative file relate to the establishment, internal functioning and dissolution of the Office. The Legislative files consist of staff reports, draft of legislation and testimonies related to agriculture and land use planning. Minutes of meetings contain an incomplete set of minutes to the Agriculture Coordinating Committee meetings. Outgoing letters consist of letters and memoranda from the Governor’s Agriculture Coordinator, the Research Analyst and the office secretary. Principal correspondents include the Governor, State and County agencies and members of the Governor’s Agriculture Coordinating Committee. Other documents found in the Outgoing Letters include announcements and agendas of the Governor’s Agriculture Coordinating Committee meetings and reports related to the preservation of agriculture and land development in the post plantation era. Speeches and conferences contain conference materials and speeches given by the Agriculture Coordinator.

Contains reports on inspection of ships by Capt. A. Fuller, Surveyor for Bureau Veritas. The Bureau Veritas is an international classification society which establishes standards of safety and sound construction of ships. It is the surveyor's duty to inspect a vessel and then place it in a category according to size, condition, construction and equipment. The surveyor also verifies damages done to the ship and its cargo, mostly for insurance purposes.