The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-01-28
PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
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Session OF 1864.
OF The
AN ACT

CARE y EDUCATION OF HELPLESS
AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN, As ALSO,
FOR THE REFORMATION OF JUVENILE
OFFENDERS.
Be 1T ENACTED, by the King and the Legis-
Iative Assembly OF the Hawaiian Islands,
in the Legislature of the Kingdom assem-
bled
SECTION i. The Board OF Education is
hereby authorized to establish on the Island
of Oahu, an Industrial and Reformatory
School, and such school 10 be conducted I'M
der the direction and supervision Of said
Board of Education.
SEC. 2. The purposes of said RefOrma-
tory School are hereby declared to be solely
the detention, management, reformation, ed
ucatlon and maintenance of such children
as shall be committee or surrendered there
10.
SEC. 3. The director and supervisors of
said school shall have power 10 receive and
detain in said Industrial School, children
under the age of fifteen years as NAV be
thereto committed by a Police or District
Judge, as vagrdnts, living an idle or diSsolute
life or who shall be duly convicted of any
crime or misdemeanor, shall be found to be
under thirteen years of age, and TO have
done an act, which, If done by a person of
full age, would be a crime or misdemeanor;
and the said Board of Directors shall have
power to place the said children committed
to their custody during the minority of said
children, to such employments, and cause
them 10 be instructed IN such branches of
useful knowledge, as may be suitable to their
years and capacity; and they shall have
power, at their discretion, to bind out the
said children, with their consent, as appren-
tees, during their minority, to such persons,
and at such places, to learn such proper
trades and emplOyments as In their Judge
ment, will be most conducive to their reform
alton and amendment, and will tend to the
future benefit and advantage of such chill
dren. =
SEC. A. The Police or District Judges
are hereby authorized and empowered TO
commit all offenders convicted, under fifteen
years of age, to said Industrial School in all
such cases where they deem such commit
ment TO be more suitable than the punish
ment now authorized by law. And if, upon
any trial, it shall appear TO them that the
person on trial IS under the age of thirteen
years, and has done an act, which, If done
by a person of full age, would warrant a
conviction of the crime or misdemeanor
charged, then they shall have power to COM
nit said child 10 the said Industrial School.
And the said Judges, on the application of |
any member of the Board of Education, or
their agents, the Attorney General or his
Deputy duly authorized, the Marshal, Sher-
if, or Deputy Sheriff on any Island, or of
any three subjects of this Kingdom, shall
have power upon the hearing of the matter,
and upon proof TO the satisfaction of said
Judges, to sentence TO the said Industrial
School any child under fifteen years of age, |
who lives an idle or dissolute fife, whose pa
rents are dead, or, if living, from drunken
ness, or other vices or causes, neglect to
any suitable employment, or exercise
any salutaTy control over such child and
the children thus committed, shall be kept, |
governed, and disposed of, as herein provi-
ded; and no child shall be reclaimed, or
from said school by his or her parents,
or any other person or persons, without leave
Of the Court, or Judge by whom such child
committed. And whenever, upon the
trial of such person before said Judges, said
person shall be duly convicted of the crime
Or misdemeanor charged, and it shall appear
that such is under the age of fifteen years,
or when, on such trial, it shall appear that
such person has done an act. which, if lone
by n person of full age, would warrant a
of the crime of miSdeameanor
and that such is under thirteen
years o. age, then, and in that case, the said
judges may IN their discretion sentence such
person to be confined in the correctional de-
partment of said Industrial School for any
not exceeding six months and any
parson so sentenced, shall be restrained of
MS or her liberty, and shall be kept in a
ward TO be provided therefor separately from
he body OF said school, during the term of
such correction, before being admitted TO the
general privileges of the School.
SEC. D. All commitments shall be direct
ID to the Board of Education, or Its agents,
nd they shall be charged by such commit
nents with the detention and custody of the
committed TO the school, and with
he execution ofall orders and process of any
Court respecting such children, and shall
lave the same power, under, and by virtue
II such commitment, order. or process of
Court, as the Sheriff has, or might have un-
Ter such commitment order, or process OF
Court If directed to him.
SEC. g.. The said Judges, upon the appli-
alton OF the Board of Education. and upon
heir certificate that it is expedient TO do so,
hall have power 10 discharge any child
ommitted TO said Industrial School. who is
lot bound out as an apprentice, or adopted.
And the said Judges may, In a like manner,
discharge such child upon the application in
writing OF the parents or guardian of such
and after ten days notice in writing
o the Board OF Education, if, upon the hear
ne of the application, said judy res shall con-
ider that such discharge is expedient.
SEC. T. The Board of Education shall
lso especially have power 10 accept from
ne parents or guardian of any child, the sur
ender OF such child during minority, and all
ne rights OF parents or guardians TO keep,
ontrol, educate, employ. indenture or dis