The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-03-27

The attention of parents and Guardians
of children of school aye 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 the school act of JAN. 10th, 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 to
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 Judge shall, upon proper
complaint being made by the school teach
er, the school agent, or the Inspector Gen
erai, 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 a minor, has not used prop
er diligence to enforce the child's regular
at school,, the said responsible
party shall be fined by the said Police or
Justice in a sum not exceeding five
dollars; and, in default thereof, be subject
ed to Imprisonment at hard labor for a
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 Retormatory and Industrial
School, for n term not less than six months,
nor more than two years, or otherwise sem
tence him to a fine not exceeding two dol
lars, or imprisonment at hard labor for a
term not exceeding ten days.
SEC. "a. Each teacher shall have power
TO administer necessary and reasonable pun
ishment upon the pupils of his school. and
snail not IN any way be punishable for do
ing so.
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 July 18th, 1870.
Sec. l.. All keepers of Coffee, Victual-
ing, Liquor and Billiard Saloons, and
Bowling Alleys, and 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 during the hours above
named, unless the same be accompanied by
its parent or guardian, shall be deemed guilty
of an offense, and shall be punished by a
fine, OF not more than Twenty Dollars,
conviction before any Police or Dis
trict Magistrate, and his licence may be re-
voked by the Minister of Interior, i'll his
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 remiseS of school 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 conStables
shall proceed TO apprehend all such chill
dren who shall not have proceeded to their
homes, and cause them to be detained in
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 of July DIST. 1870, to estab-
lished Industrial and Reformatory Schools.
Sec. 5. The Police or District Justices
are hereby authorized to commit all Offend
ers duly convicted before them, under ff-
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. The said Police or District Jus
ices, on the representation of any member
Of the Board of Education, it's Agents, the
General or his authorized deputy,
.he Marshal or his deputy, or the Sheriff or
SheriffOf any Island shall nave
power to hear and determine any case,
minority to some Industrial and Reforma-
,ory School, any child under fifteen years
If 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,
)r exercise salutary control over such child.
w. JAS. SMITH.
Secretary of the Board of Education. :
Education Office, March "a, 1880. st