About the Legislative Council
The Legislative Council, formerly the Council of Chiefs, met in Lahaina, Maui, until April 1845 when it first began meeting in Honolulu.
Some journals from the Republic of Hawaii are available at the Hawaii State Archives digital collection: https://digitalcollections.hawaii.gov/greenstone3/library/collection/legislat/browse/CL1.
House of Nobles
- 1855 Regular & Special SessionsManuscript (not typed)
- 1856-1860Manuscript (not typed)
- 1862Manuscript (not typed)
Legislative Assembly 1864-1892
- 1864Manuscript (not typed); First Session of the Legislative Assembly
- 1866Manuscript (not typed); Second Session of the Legislative Assembly
- 1867 Extraordinary SessionManuscript (not typed): Treaty of Reciprocity with the United States
- 1868Manuscript (not typed)
- 1870Manuscript (not typed)
- 1872Manuscript (not typed)
- 1873 Extraordinary SessionManuscript (not typed)
- 1874 Extraordinary SessionManuscript (not typed)
- 1874Manuscript (not typed)
- 1876Manuscript (not typed)
- 1878Manuscript (not typed)
- 1880Manuscript (not typed)
- 1882Manuscript (not typed)
- 1884Manuscript (not typed)
- 1886Manuscript (not typed)
- 1887 Special SessionManuscript (not typed)
- 1888Manuscript (not typed)
- 1890Manuscript (not typed)
- 1892 Vol. 1Manuscript (not typed)
- 1892 Vol. 2Manuscript (not typed)
House of Representatives
The number of representatives increased in 1850 with an "Act passed July 30. 1850, which in its preamble states : "Whereas the Constitution provides for an increase in the number of the representatives of the people; and Whereas, it is proper that His Majesty's subjects of every class, and all the various interests of the nation should be fully represented in the legislature, therefore: Be it Enacted," etc. This act increased the number of Representatives to twenty-four—six for Hawaii, five for Maui, one for Molokai. one for Lanai, six for Oahu, and five for Kauai and Niihau. Under it an election was held, January 6, 1851, which was the first election by ballot...." Robert Colfax Lydecker. Roster Legislatures of Hawaii, 1841-1918 [Electronic Resource] : Constitutions of Monarchy and Republic : Speeches of Sovereigns and President. Honolulu : Hawaiian Gazette Co., 1918, p 5. http://archive.org/details/rosterlegislatur00hawarich.
- 1841-1845Typed
- 1851-1853Typed.
- 1854Typed
- 1855 Regular & Special SessionsTyped. "[A]t the Regular Session of 1855, when the two houses clashed over the appropriation bill, and the breach became so wide as to prevent any agreement being reached, which resulted in the legislature being prorogued by the King and a special election ordered for a new House of Representatives, the sole duty of which was to pass an appropriation bill. Thus the year 1855 was unique in the legislative history of the country as having, in membership, two distinct Houses of representatives."
- 1856Typed
- 1858 & 1859Typed
- 1860Typed
- 1862Typed