[§6E-33]  Captain Cook Memorial Fund. All moneys in the Captain Cook memorial fund or which may be paid into the samefrom the proceeds of sales or which may be received by way of gift or otherwisefor any of the purposes provided by this section, the acceptance of such giftsand the receipt of such funds being authorized, shall be expendable by thecomptroller from time to time for any of the purposes provided by this section,and any original historical documents or other articles, or copies, facsimiles,or replicas thereof, so collected, and copies of publications made under thissection shall be deposited in the archives of Hawaii to constitute a collectionto be known as the "Captain Cook Memorial Collection".

The comptroller may purchase or otherwiseacquire original books, mementos, pamphlets, documents, or other articles ofhistorical value relating to the life of Captain James Cook, or connected withthe history, discovery, and exploration of the Hawaiian Islands, or copies,facsimiles, or replicas thereof of other data relating thereto, and prepare andpublish in the comptroller's discretion books, documents, pamphlets, or otherpublications relating thereto.

The comptroller may distribute free copies ofsuch publications to libraries, museums, and other places of references open tothe public in the United States or in other countries, not to exceed, however,one-third of the number of copies of each published.  The remaining copies maybe sold at such reasonable prices as may be fixed by the comptroller, theproceeds of such sales to be paid into the trust fund. [L 1976, c 104, pt of§2; gen ch 1985]