Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 161, 12 July 1894 — HAWAII’S “BLUE” LAWS [ARTICLE]

HAWAII’S “BLUE” LAWS

C0NST1TUTI0N and LAWS | Framed bv the Missiouaries. w LAWS of the HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. — • • 4. For the purpose of carrying into exeoution the above regulations, it sball be the daty of the several (Jovornors to I set apart a Board of Health for eaeh of the harbors of tha 1 Saudwich Islands. And said Board of Healih sha 11 have full power to enact sach laws aud regalations as ruay be necessary to protect the heahh of thoir several places. They (the Governors) shall also ap|>oiut heahh officers, whose duty it shall be to examine every vessel suspected of having a contagions disease on board, and the health officer shall be entitled to receive from tbe master of every vessel thus examined by him, five dollars. Done ai Honolulu, on this 29th day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. (Signed by the King.) CHAPTER VII. A STATUTE FOR THF REGULATION OF SCHOOLS. The basis on whieh tho kingdom rosts is wisdom and knowledge. Peaee and tran<inility cannot woll provail in the land, unless the people are taagbt in letters, and in tbat whieh constitutes prosperity. lf the children aro not taaght. ignorance musi be perpetual. The children of the chiefs canuot prosper, nor any other children, therefore be it enacted, 1. Wherever there is any number of parents having fifteen or more children of a suitable age to attend school, if . thoy live near eaeh other, in the same village, or in the same township, it shall be their duty to procare tbemselves a teacher, whieh they shall do io the following manner. The tax officer sball give notice by a crior of tbe timo an<l plaee at whieh all tho male parents of the townsb!p, district 1 or village shail meet, and they shall choose three of their number as a schooI committee for that plaee. If tho number of childron in any villago be less than fifteen, then their fathers shall unite witb anotber company near by. 2. Said school committeo shall then apply to tbe general i school agent, apoken of below, and tbey together shall look 1 out a teacher for tbat plaee. If there are but few children, thon there ahall be but one toacher. if moro, then two teachers. and if tbe cbildren aro very numerous, theu there sball be tbree or more teacbers as they sball think best. 3. When tbe teacher is obtained, theu tbe general agent the teacber and the scbool committee ahall agreo as to ihe wages. If tbe teacher bave no iand and thev sball agreo in tbe opinion, that it is important tbat be sbouId bave some. tbeu tho general school agent sball endeavor tosocuro aome whieh is not occnpied. and that Iand ahall be given to the teacber, but not in perpetuity. When he sball eeaae to act as teacber thon tbe land shall revert to government. But if the Iand do not atford the tescher a full sapport, then tbey ehall fumish him with as mueh more as they shall agree to be necessary. It shall be fnrnished from the avails of tbe King’s labor davs and from tbe yearly tax, bnt not the poll tax. The general land agent sball bave power to take tbe unoccupied Iands of the landIords, but be shall give previous notice to tbe landlord», that there may be a motual onderstanding between thezn. 4. Fnrtfaermore. it sball be the dnty of the cbildren to be generoos to their teacber, and aid him by working on bis land, according as they shall agree, or according to their good will, 5. A fnrther reward to the teachers of schools ahall be freedom from all pnblic labor for tbechiefsand land agents, ■ and neiiher tkey nor theix wives sball pay any poll tax I while they are acting as teacbers of schooIs. ' (To Be Coniinued.)