Chapter 53.
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CHAP. 53.— AN ACT To ratify, approve, and confirm an act duly enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii relating to certain gas, electric light and power, telephone, railroad, and street railway companies and franchises in the Territory of Hawaii, and amending the laws relating thereto. March 28, 1916.[[H. R. 65](/us/bill/64/hr/65).][[Public, No. 38](/us/pl/64/38).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the act of the Legislature Hawaii.
Act of legislature relating to public utilities commission, confirmed.of the Territory of Hawaii, entitled “An act relating to certain gas, electric light and power, telephone, railroad, and street railway companies and franchises in the Territory of Hawaii, and amending the laws relating thereto,” approved by the governor of the Territory April twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, be, and is hereby, amended, ratified, approved, and confirmed, as follows: Legislative act 135.
" “Act 135. “An act relating to certain gas, electric light and power, telephone, railroad, and street railway companies and franchises in the Territory of Hawaii, and amending the laws relating thereto. *“Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii:* Franchises made subject to public utilities commission. Vol. 33, p. 231, 227. “Section 1. The franchises granted by act thirty of the laws of nineteen hundred and three, of the Territory of Hawaii, as amended and approved by an Act of Congress approved April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four; act forty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and three of said Territory, as amended and approved by an Act of Vol. 34, p. 309.Congress approved April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four; act sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and five of said Territory, as amended and approved by an Act of Congress approved June Vol. 35, p. 607.twentieth, nineteen hunched and six; act one hundred and five of the laws of nineteen hundred and seven of said Territory, as amended and Vol. 35, p. 609.approved by an Act of Congress approved February sixth, nineteen hundred and nine; act one hundred and thirty of the laws of nineteen hundred and seven of said Territory, as amended and approved by said Act of Congress approved February sixth, nineteen hundred and Vol. 36, p. 845.nine; act one hundred and fifteen of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine of said Territory, as amended and approved by an Act of Congress approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten; act Vol. 37, p. 243.sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven of said Territory, as amended and approved by an Act of Congress approved August first, nineteen hundred and twelve; and all franchises heretofore 39granted to any other public utility or public-utility company, and all public utilities and public-utilities companies organized or operating within the Territory of Hawaii, and the persons and corporations holding said franchises shall be subject as to reasonableness of rates, prices, and charges and in all other respects to the provisions of act eighty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen of said Territory creating a public-utilities commission and all amendments thereof for the regulation of public utilities in said Territory; and all the powers and duties expressly conferred upon or required of the superintendent of public works by said acts granting said franchises are hereby conferred upon and required of said public-utilities commission and any commission of similar character that may hereafter be created by the laws of said Territory; and said acts granting said franchises are hereby amended to conform herewith: *Provided, however,* That nothing herein contained shall in any wise limit the jurisdiction or powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission under the Acts of Congress to regulate commerce: *And provided further,* That all acts of the public-utility commission herein provided for shall be subject to review by the courts of the said Territory.
“Sec. 2. This act shall take effect upon its approval by the Congress of the United States. “Approved this twenty-ninth day of April, anno Domini nineteen hundred and thirteen. “Walter F. Frear, “Governor of the Territory of the Hawaii.” " Approved, March 28, 1916.