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INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE. 57 continuous use of the same as homes, and payment of taxes, and certain conditions of improvement. There is no rent and no purchase price. They are limited to eight acres in first class, and sixteen acres in second class agricultural lands. | The limit of first class agricultural land obtainable is one hundred acres. This amount is increased on land of inferior quality. Under the above conditions the -appli- cant must be eighteen years old, and obtain special letters of denization. Land can also be obtained from the various land and investment companies, and from private parties. All males between the ages of twenty and sixty pay a personal tax of five dollars,ynamely—poll tax, one dollar; road tax, two dollars; school tax, two dollars. Land pays a tax of one per cent. on the cash value, and per- sonal property a similar rate. Carts pay two dollars, brakes three dollars, carriages five dollars. Dogs one dollar, and female dogs three dollars. The sugar industry was first started in the Hawaiian Islands by its very earliest settlers. When they arrived there they found the sugar cane growing wild in great luxuriance, both in the valleys and on the flats. Captain Cook in his visit to the islands speaks of it as being “ of large size and of good quality.” In 1837 the white cane on the edges of the woods in Maui was at an elevation of from two to three thousand feet. There are several varieties of cane on the island, and four or five of them are natives. There is the Kokea, _ which is a greenish white cane; Papaa, a purple cane; Eomicbooks (e(0) m