Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 162, 13 July 1894 — HAWAII'S “BLUE” LAWS [ARTICLE]

HAWAII'S “BLUE” LAWS

C0NSTITUTI0N aml LAWS Frained bv the Missionaries. V I LAWS of the HAWAIIAN I ISLANDS. 6. It i» not proper that all teachers should l>e paid alike. A ven,’ wiso teacher who is exceeding!y laborious in his basiness, and has many pnpila, shoold be paid a high price, while he who is less wise and less laborious in his buainess should be paid a lower pnee. But no person is by this law considered a teacher unless he have a teacher's certificate from tbe general school ageut. 7. If the scbooI committee perceive that tho avails of tha land given by the Kiug to the teacher are more than they agreed that the teacher should have, then they shall taka the charge of the surplus for the beuefit of somo other schools, and if the property be snch as that the caro of it is a burden, then the school committe shall receive one tenth : iu payment for their care. 8. At all placos where the children are iu waot of a school hou.se, the tax officer shall notify the penplo, nud they shall build it under tbe direction of iho aehōol eommittee. And inasmucb as the labor is not such as concerns the chiefs only, but is alike for tho bencfit of tbepeoploaud the rulers, it sball be considered as nalional work, then even transieut persons and servants shall labor. 9. The proper nges for childten to go to school nhall bo considered to be from fonr years and upwards to fourteen years of age. If any man have a child of a suitablo ago to go to school, but below eight years of ago, and do not eonstantly send him to school, then that parent ahall not bo treed from the puhlie labor of the King and tho land agent, on the labor days, whatever may be tho nnmber of his ehildren, neitber sball bis portion of land be increased, nor sball he be permitted to cut on the mountains such kinds of tim- . ber as the King gives to tbe people. All those kind of tiraber are taboo to those parents who send not their children to school. Nor sball thoso parents fish on tho«d fishing grounds whieh the King gives to the people. Those parents , have a preference for darkness, thereforo let the tahoo’s of those times of darkness apply to them. But if a cbild be more than eight years of age and do not go to school. then the fanlt ahall not bo considerod as tbe parent's only, but tbe child’s also. That child shall go to the puhlie labor of the King and land agents on all labor days. No child (over eight years of age,) who does not go to scbool, sball be freed from pnblic labor; they sball all go to work. 10. Children when at schooI are reqoired to be quiet, and i listen to the instroction of the teacber. But if any ono ig miscbievous, the teacher shall be allowed to admiuister to him proper correction, bat not improuer. If tbeschoolbe- . comes disorderly and the teacher is tried tberoby. or on | account of tbe misconduct of some particular pupil, then i tbe teacher and school eommiliee may consult togetber and . act according to tbeir mutual judgment In time of school it is not proper for children to go a distance from home. In time of vacation tbey e&n go and when the school begins aoew then return. Tbough if a child be afllicted by tbe sickness of a parent or some near relation, (or some other cause,) he may go, by giving previous notice to tbe teacber. But it sball be il)egal for the teachers to binder those of their pupils who deaire to eni-x into the roarriage reUtion, or thosa who wisb to remove to anotber plaee with their parents, but when they thus remove, they must enter the : scbool at that plaee. 11. If a teacber fail of doing his doty. and heeome neg Iigent or guilty of a enme, tben be sball bobrooght to trial , before the scboo! commit(ee and general scbool agent of the plaee, and they shali decide respecting him. If it is their judgment to diminish his wages, or even take away bis office as teacher and withhold his whole wages, they ahail hsve a right to do it. (To Be Coaiinutd.j *