Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 163, 14 July 1894 — HAWAII'S “BLUE” LAWS [ARTICLE]

HAWAII'S “BLUE” LAWS

* C0NSTITUT10N and LAWS » Framed bv tbo Missionaries. W LAWS of the HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. . . I Wbenever a teacher is dismissetl ot dies, then his land, 1 house and yard shall revert to the King, and shall be nuder the care of the school comraittee. who shall give tbem to another teacher. Thongh if he built his own honae or paid bis own property for it. or if his houae was included in his wages whieh he recoived as teacher, then the house ahall not be given up. 12. It shall be the duty of the school comraittee to eni coarage the parents in whatever will promote tho education ; of their children, and shall also themse!vos encourago the * cbildren to go to school and acquiro bnowledge, aud shall aid the teacher in whatever is necess;iry for tho prosperity of the school. The school committee must do thoso thiugs gratuitously—they will receive no pay, for it is but a small amouut of labor whieh they will perform. 13. -There sball also be annually appointed certain men of intelligence as general school agents, as follows. one for Hawaii, one for Maui, one for Molokai, one for Oa!»u, oue i for Kauai, and one superinteudant of the whola. They shall be appointed by the legislatnre at tbeir annual meeting. These persons shall be the school agents for the year. 14. The business of the general schoo) agentsshall be to consist with the school committees and teachers in aeeoulanee with what is before stated. The general school agents ' shall superintend, manage and provide for the teachers, and i sball enconrage tbem and their scholars. They also shad be the Judges of the law in relation to scboola. The Supreme Judges are tbe only i)ersons abnve them. They sball report to tbeir superintendants their varions acts, and the resnlt of their observation, and the superintendant shall re- ; port to the legislature at the annual meeting. Their pay shall be as follows, when tbey are travelling to examino i schools, the land agents shall furnish them food and neeeasaries, and they sball be paid twenty-five dollars a year of ; government property, bnt not money. 15. Fnrthermore, those scholars whieh attond the Miai sion Seminary at Lahainaluna, shall be freed frora the ' money tax, and all public Iabor of the chief, and nll scholars that go to school to learn geography, aritbmetic. and other bigber branches tanght in the bigber schools, those scholars shall not go to the pnhlie labor of the chiefs and land agents till they become eighteen years of age. 16. The regn!ation of this section applies on!y tochil' ! dren born dnring the reign of Liholiho, and during the present reign of Kauikeaouli, but does not apply to thosc born previous to these reigns. No man born since the eommeneomeni of the reign of Liholiho. who does not understand reading. writing, geography and aritbmetic sball bold the ofl5ce of Governor, Jndge, Tax officer, nor land agent, nor hold any office over an other man, nor sball a man who is nnahle to read and write many a wife, nor a woman who is nnable to read and wnte m*rry a busband. Bnt this edict does not apply lo those who were born previoos to the reign of Liholiho. 17. If any one suffer a misfortane whieh is the cause of his ignorance, if his sigbt be defective, or if be lives in a solitary plaee distant from school, or is nnfortunste in any other manner, whieh is the reason of his ignorance. and still his or her mind is made up to marry a aife or husband. tben he or she may go to the Goveroor who sball make inquiry, and when it becomes clear to him tbat tbe penon'a ignorance is not the resuit of laziness bat a real misfurtone, it ahall then be the doty of the Governor to give him or her a certificate of marriage.

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