For the Polynesian


Translated from the Hawaiian.
Iatus of the WaWaiidn tsIduns.
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respecting the system of taxation. These
seven sections which follow, are designed
to explain and enforce what has been
previously said.


l6. Respecting the variations in taxes.


The first year after the promulgation of
this law, throughout the different islands
of this group, the poll shall pay but half
tax, thus: Il man, half dollar, a woman,
IA quarter Of a dollar, child over fourteen
years of age. one eighth of dollar. On
that year the lands shall pay a full tax.
But on the second year, the lands shall
pay but half tax. The fathom hog shall
be but yard in length, the three cubit
bog shall be cubit and half, and the
bog Of yards length shall be only one
Fubit long. In failure of the yard hog,
five dollars in failure Of the cnbit and
half, three dollars and three quarters; in
allure of the one cubit, two dollars and
half. The rule shall be the same if the
lax be paid in any other property than
he two articles mentioned. On that
year, the poll shall pay full tax, and
his yearly variation shall be perpetual
{ the poll pay full tax, the lands shall
bay but half tax, and if the lands pay
n|l tax, the poll shall pay only half in
hal year.


II. The business ofth chiefs.
\ Ye chiefs of the nation, reflect we'll on
hese fundamental laws Of the kingdom.
rom this time change your course of
Procedure. A change in accordance with
his law, will be both more just ard be re-
lily better for yourselves. The multitude


people who live with US in idleness, or
but little, which we falsely supposed
be business style Of living, let that
ease. The perqnsjtes of your office
|eld in this country from of old, are to
the avals Of your lands obtained on all
our working days Those are yours
$50 one tenth part Of the yearly taxes
plected from your lands, is yours, not
owever the poll tax. But the chiefs who
0 not belong to the council, are not in


uded their standing shall be that of


ndlord, though by improvement in their
banner Of conducting business they will
sc to the same rank, by seeking the well
ire Of the laboring classes, that they may
pjoy full protection, and also by promo
ing the happiness of the weak, and OF
hangers from other lands.


10. Respecting Landlords.


Reflect well, all ye landlords of the
ingdom, on all the regulations of this
Nv, lest you be disposscssed, according
the principles Of the eleventh section.


earch for your wealth on your own labor
kvs, search out such kinds of business as


jill enrich the country, and those tenants


ho live upon the lands under you, that
be high and the low may be under the


ke subiection to the same laws enacted
the chiefs for the protection OF the
. inydom. On the second year after the
fomulgation of this law, which is the
Ear on which full poll tax is paid, those
|. (ndlords who do not belong to the ma


Onal council shall pay to the king one
y nth part Of all the avails of their labor
y ays On the year which pays but half
r x on the poll, the landlords shall pay to
al e king one fifth of their income, and