Such leases are sold at public auction, and require rent in advance quarterly, semi-annually or annually.
The conditions of general leases are made at discretion of the Commissioners, and may be made for any class of public lands.
CHAPTER VII.
MISCELLANEOUS.
POPULATION.
The population of the Islands according to the census of 1890 was 89,991, or in round numbers 90,000. A census of the population has just been taken, but the results cannot be exactly known for some months. An estimate recently made based upon the knowledge of general increase from various sources gives the population as follows:
| Hawaiians | 35,000 |
| Part Hawaiians | 10,000 |
| Chinese | 15,000 |
| Japanese | 24,000 |
| Portuguese | 9,000 |
| American and European | 14,000 |
| Total | 107,000 |