Harbormaster's Bookkeeping Records
- US HSA 092
- Series
- 1850-1921
Documents internal expenses and fees to various accounts for services rendered. Journals include daily lists of "Ships at Wharves" as well as fees collected.
Honolulu Harbormaster
Harbormaster's Bookkeeping Records
Documents internal expenses and fees to various accounts for services rendered. Journals include daily lists of "Ships at Wharves" as well as fees collected.
Honolulu Harbormaster
Harbormaster's Shipping Articles
Records of workers on Guano Islands (i.e. workers who harvested the waste material of seabirds for use as fertilizer). Includes seamen's accounts, bonds, permits to ship and miscellaneous papers concerning seamen. There are no records for 1880.
Honolulu Harbormaster
Incoming Letters of the Second Circuit Court
Part of Records of the Judiciary
Consists of letters regarding court expenses, fines, sentencing, administrative procedures, summons, applications to practice law, appeals from the police and district courts, appeals to the Superior Court and Supreme Court, jury duty excuses, transmittals of court documents, jury lists, court payments and receipts. Also includes miscellaneous items such as Oaths of Loyalty to Republic (1894), Petitions to Practice Law in the District and Police Courts, Court examinations for clerks and lawyers, Court Permission to Marry, Petitions to Impeach District and Police Court judges, and Court Calendar announcements.
Correspondents include district judges, police judges, marshals, sheriffs, practicing attorneys, Supreme Court justices, Superior Court judges, Judiciary Department clerks, island governors, government officials mainly from the Department of Finance, Interior Department, Education Department, Auditor General, and local businessmen.
Approximately 40 percent of the series contains materials in the Hawaiian language. This material is concentrated from 1849 to 1869 and from the 1880's to 1895.
There are gaps in the correspondence for 1908, 1910 and 1911.
Second Circuit Court
Incoming Letters to Staff Officers
Part of Citizens Guard
Routine letters to Marshall A.M. Brown, Adjutant General J. Batchelor and Senior Captain Frank B. McStocker from squad captains, sheriffs of Hawaiʻi, Kauaʻi, Maui and Oʻahu. Contains report of squad captains regarding officer elections and personnel matters, requests for arms and ammunition, corrunission lists, squad roster lists, target shooting results, enlistment requests.
Citizens Guard
Index to Appeals from Decisions of Director
Part of Records of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations
Lists case name and date of accident and notes disposition of appeals from decisions of the Director to the Appeals Board and Circuit Court; whether affirmed, reversed or modified.
Bureau of Workmen's Compensation
Part of Records of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations
Limited to City and County of Honolulu Industrial Accident Board/Bureau of Workmen's Compensation. Consists of listing of employers and employees who had cases heard or reviewed by the board (and later the bureau, 1940-1944). Each entry shows the consecutive hearing number, the employer or employee and file number.
City & County of Honolulu Industrial Accident Board
Interior Department Territorial Papers, Hawaii, 1898-1907
[Taken directly from NARA description] During the period 1898-1907 the Secretary of the Interior retained the responsibility for supervising Hawaiian Territorial affairs within his office. Territorial business was ordinarily referred to the Patents and Miscellaneous Division which, until its abolition in 1907, was part of the Secretary's Office. Only the incoming correspondence and a few duplicate copies of out-going letters relating to Hawaii are reproduced on this microfilm publication. Record copies of all outgoing letters of the Division are in a multi-volume series of letters sent, and because those relating to Hawaii are not readily segregable only a few have been reproduced in this microfilm publication. Also omitted from thi s publication is correspondence relating to the appointment of Territorial officials, which was handled by the Appointments Division of the Office of the Secretary.
Office of the Secretary of the Interior (US)
Intermediary Case Files of the First Circuit Court
Part of Records of the Judiciary
Contains cases 1 through 889 and one minute book. Files for cases 11-12, 19-20, 31, 39, 57-58, 64, 68, 79-80, 85, 124-127, 132, 135-136, 140, 142, 151, 154, 155, 157, 160-163, 166-167, 170-171, 174-175, 179, 181-182, 186, 190, 194, 206-207, 216-217, 243, 247, 256-257, 259-261, 264, 270, 287, 290, 305, 319, 322-323, 352, 354, 357-358, 369, 437-438, 445-446, 465-466, 487, 490, 493, 507, 511, 575, 587, 602, 666, 680, 682, 700, 702-703, 729, 739-740, 757, 764-765, 795, 810-812, 824, 840, 856, 860, and 866 were not transferred to the Archives.
Intermediary records are appeals from the District and Police Courts of the First Circuit. Case files generally contain plaintiff’s briefs, complaints, summons, subpoenas, depositions, certificates of appeal, amendments to declaration, motions for hearing, notices to set case for hearing, bills of court costs, stipulations, judgments, decisions, notices of appeal to the Supreme Court, evidence, and clerk's minutes. Evidence contains supporting documents such as agreements, contracts, financial receipts, land leases, inventories of real property, and inventories of personal property. Appeals from the district or police court contain the lower court records relating to the case. The minute book contains court clerk entries documenting actions of the judge in the appeals cases.
Cases heard before the intermediary court are civil and criminal appeals from District and Police Courts relating to adultery, assault and battery, assumpsit, breaches of contracts, claims to recover financial losses from theft, claims to recover possession of land, claims to recover possession of personal property, claims to recover rent due, larceny, replevin, and trover. If a case involved property claims, the file may contain information on land titles and family history of plaintiffs and defendants. Occasional cases relating to fishing rights and water rights can be found.
None of the documents have been translated.
First Circuit Court
Journal of the Nuʻuanu Valley Guard
Part of Citizens Guard
Contains rosters of and documents the guard duty watches of the Nuʻuanu Street Volunteer Guards and the Liliha Street Volunteer Guards from September 11 through September 26, 1895 during a feared cholera outbreak in Honolulu. Citizens Guard was called out by the Board. of Health president to monitor the movement of resident aliens in Honolulu.
Citizens Guard
Law Case Files of the Fifth Circuit Court
Part of Records of the Judiciary
Contains cases 1 through 737. Files for cases 10, 16, 87, 330, 331, 332, 352, 388, 458, 630, 689, and 719 were not transferred to the Archives.
In order to adjudicate property claims and to seek monetary compensation in disputes, a plaintiff initiated a law case in circuit court. Case files generally contain petitions, proceedings, receipts, plaintiff statements, summons, defendant briefs, evidence, bills of court and attorney costs, decisions, judgments 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.
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.
Fifth Circuit Court