The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-04-10
SCHOOL LAWS.

The attention of parents and Guardians
of children of school age is respectfully
called to the following statutory provisions
relating to the attendance of children at
school, and their own obligations, under
the laws, on the subject.
From he School Act Of January 10, 1865,
as amended
OF ATTENDANCE.
SEC. 20. 1t shall be incumbent on all
parents, guardians and adopters of children,
to send such children, from their sixth 10
their fifteenth years, to some lawful school,
public or private, to be instructed in good
morals and elementary learning.
SEC. p. If any child shall persist
in absenting himself from school,, any
Police or District Justice shall, upon proper
complaint being made by the school teach
er, the school agent, or the Inspector Cen
eral, cause the father or mother. or guard
ian or adaptive parent OF the child, togeth-
er with the child, TO be arrested and, upon
its being proved that the person responsible
for the child, as q minor, has not used prop
er diligence to enforce the child's regular
attendance at school, the said responsible
party shall be fined by the said Police or
District Justice in a sum not exceeding five
dollars and, In default thereof, be subject
ed TO imprisonment at hard labor for q
term not to exceed fourteen days and, In
case the child shall prove the offending
party, the Police or District Justice shall
send him to a Reformatory and Industrial
School, for a term not less than six months,
nor more than two years, or otherwise SEN
tence him to q fine not exceeding two dol
lars, or imprisonment at hard labor for q
term not exceeding ten days.
Z SEC. "a. Each teacher shall have power
to administer necessary and pun
ishment Upon the pupils of his school, ana
shall not in any way be punishable for so
doing.
! SEC. 26A. The scholars in the Govern
ment Schools shall be supplied by their
parents or guardians with the books and
stationery requisite for their use.
From the School Act Of July Is, 1870
Sec. /. All keepers of Coffee, Victual-
ing, Liquor and Billiard Saloons, and Bowl
ing Alleys, n also Sugar Mills, are here
by strictly forbidden to allow any school
children, boys or girls, to remain upon
their premises any time between the hours
of sunset and sunrise, unless the same be
accompanied by their parents or guardians.
Any Keeper of a Coffee, Victualing, Liquor
or Billiard Saloon or Bowling Alley, upon
whose premises any school child, boy or
girl, may be found between the hours above
named, unless the same be accompanied by
its parent or guardian, shall redeemed guilty
of an ~offense, and shall be punished by a
fine, of not more than Twenty Dollars,
upon conviction before any Police or Dis
trict Magistrate, and his licence may be re-
voked by the Minister of Interior, in his
discretion.
Sec. 2. If any keeper or keepers Of any
OF the public places enumerated in Section
One of this Act shall find difficulty in clear
ing their premises OF chool children,
the same may call in the assistance of the
police or constables, who shall first order
all such school children to return TO their
homes and, if such order be not obeyed by
the said children, the police or constsbles
shall proceed to apprehend all such chill
dren who shall not have proceeded to their
homes, and cause them to be detained in
the lookup over night, to be brought be-
fore the Police or District Magistrate on the
following morning, to be punished accord
ing to the provisions of the law relating to
truancy.
From the Act fully q, 1870, to establish
Industrial and RefOrmotory Schools
Sec. 5. The Police or District Justices
are hereby authorized to commit all offend
ers duly convicted before them, under fif-
teen years of age, to said Industrial and
Reformatory Schools, in all cases where
they shall deem such sentence to be more
suitable than the punishment otherwise
authorized by law.
Sec. 6. b said Police or District JUS
tees, on the representation of any
of the Board of Education, its. Agents, the
Attorney General or his authorized deputy,
the Marshal or his deputy, or the Sheriff or
Deputy Sheriff of any Island shall have
power to hear and determine any case,
and to sentence for any term within their
minority to some Industrial and Reforma-
tory School, any child under fifteen years
of age, who lives an idle or dissolute life,
whose parents are dead, or if living, from
drunkenness or other vices or causes, shall
neglect to provide suitable employment for,
or exercise salutary control over such child.
w. JAS. SMITH.
Secretary of the Board of Education.
Education Office, March "a, 1880. 3t