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Lists name, rank, and unit assignment of members who defended the Republic of Hawaiʻi

Contains court minutes to adoptions, appeals, bankruptcy, civil, criminal, divorce, guardianship, miscellaneous, naturalization, and probate proceedings. Volumes 12 through 34 contain indexes to the proceedings. Minute book entries contain court date, defendant and plaintiff names, names of attorneys representing defendants and plaintiffs, court proceedings, judgments, sentencing in criminal cases, and appeals. Civil cases were filed in circuit court to adjudicate property claims and to seek monetary compensation in disputes. Criminal proceedings were taken in the courts against persons charged with some violation of the criminal laws. Divorce entries may also contain separation and permission to marry again proceedings.

The minutes of the meetings of the Honolulu board run from its inception in 1915 through 1939, when its functions were taken over by the Bureau of Workmen's Compensation. Regular weekly hearings of the Bureau are included from 1940 through 1941. There is a six-month gap in 1917 when the board's activities were suspended pending a court ruling on the constitutionality of the law.
These records are contained in the 13 bound volumes, comprising 31 linear inches, and include fairly detailed summaries of claims before the boards, their disposition and awards, and names of parties present; rulings on the scope and extent of the law; definitions and interpretations of the law; procedural guidelines; rulings on forms of insurance policies; actions taken on self-insurance applications and delinquencies; entries on protests and appeals; notes on opinions solicited from the City & County attorney; notes on correspondence; early news clippings; some statistical data; and internal business matters, such as personnel and funding, etc. Records created after the functions of the Honolulu board were taken over by the Workmen’s Compensation Bureau are less detailed. Also includes copies of the first and second annual reports bound in vol. 1 for the six months ending Dec. 1915 and year ending 1916.

The minutes of the meetings of the Hawaii County board include notes on all cases and hearings, parties present, and issues, facts and findings. Also includes notations on self-insurance applications and delinquent employers. Other matters noted include correspondence and discussion on procedural inquiries and administration. Monthly vouchers and accounts payable are listed. These records are much less detailed than the Honolulu board minutes and are contained in one folder of .75 linear inches.

Meetings conducted by Marshal A. M. Brown, commander of the Citizens Guard or Senior Captain Frank B. McStocker and attended by captains and lieutenants. Documents shooting matches, drills, inspections, parades, and disbandment of the Citizens Guard. Minutes for 1900-1902 document the organization's attempts to set up a memorial to Charles L. Carter. O'ahu Squad Rosters reflect Citizen Guard organization prior to the 1895 reorganization. Rosters list officers for 1896-1898, firearm inventories which contain manufacturer and serial numbers of rifles issued to the Citizen Guard from 1895-1900 and documents firearms and ammunition distribution to Citizens Guard companies on all islands.

Proceedings of Hawaii Bicentennial Commission meetings. Contains information on decisions regarding funding and/or endorsement of Bicentennial projects.

Contains the minutes of regular meetings and occasional special meetings of the Board. Included are decisions for the authorization of repairs and payment of bills, awarding of contracts and building permits, purchase of land and materials, granting of permission to use piers or waterways for sporting, fund-raising or celebratory events, setting and changing of fees for use of harbor facilities, etc.

Includes the appointment of the first Librarian of the Public Archives; the title of the new archives building, plans for the fire-proof archives building, ground-breaking, and completion of the building; librarian's annual report to the governor; revision of the Hawaiian dictionary; expansion of the building; archives in the reorganization of the state government; recommendation to establish a records center; proposal to establish a central microfilming unit, and request to raise the educational level of the archives staff. One folder consists of memo directives to the Archives staff.

Created by the State Manpower Services Council, its successor the State Employment and Training Council, or by the county manpower planning councils or their successors, the county employment and training planning councils of the neighbor island counties. Collected in the Office of Employment and Training Administration, DLIR, or its predecessor, the Office of Manpower Planning.

Contains agendas and minutes, as well as attachments to the minutes, such as by-laws, correspondence, notes, memoranda, comments, statistical program summaries and reports. Documents the origin, composition and operations of the councils. Includes information on programs administered pursuant to the federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and the State Comprehensive Employment and Training (SCET) program.

The minutes provide comprehensive documentation of the Hawaiian Homes Commission activities and decisions since its inception in 1921. They consist of minutes of the public portion of the commission regular meetings held monthly at various homestead communities throughout the state. Include minutes to public portions of special commission meetings held once or twice a year. Meeting notices, agenda, staff reports and recommendations, and exhibits are filed with the minutes. The Commission’s decisions regarding lease activity, capital improvement projects and infrastructure improvements, development plans, management plans, land exchanges, licenses issued for utility and access easements, government loan applications, lot subdivisions, departmental personnel, and Commission finances are documented in the minutes.

Contains cases 1 through 115. Files for cases 52 through 80 were not transferred to the Archives.

The bulk of the records are administrative court documents that were jacketed and assigned miscellaneous case file numbers by the Fifth Circuit Court. Miscellaneous cases are civil in nature and include arbitrations, bankruptcies, disputes over land, money, and water rights, insolvencies, and labor contract enforcement. Administrative records include appointments of magistrates to district court, commissions of district court magistrates, court financial reports, criminal and civil calendars, jury lists, minutes to chamber proceedings, prison reports to the court, and summons. If a case involved property claims, the file may contain information on land titles and family history of plaintiffs and defendants. Case file jackets contain citations to circuit court minute book entries to individual miscellaneous cases. Also contains occasional correspondence between the Fifth Circuit Court judge, district judges and judges of other circuits, the marshal, sheriff, and plantation owners. Case file 10 contains census, school, and tax collection records of Edward P. Bond, who served as both a circuit court judge and Kauai school treasurer. The native and foreign jury lists, jury pay records, and prisoner lists found throughout the records contain names and places of residence of people from Kauai and Niihau. 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.