The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-09-11

for School Lands and School Sites sold
by the Board of Education.
WHEREAS by Section ] of an Act entitled
"An Act to provide for the better support
and greater efficiency of the Public Schools"
passed July 9th, AID. 1850, it is enacted as
follows, wiz
Section /. That there shall be set apart
certain lands amounting as nearly as can be
ascertained without actual measurement to
the One Twentieth part of all the lands now
belonging to the Government, not otherwise
appropriated, for the general purposes of
education. And whereas by Section 2 of
the said Act it is enacted as follows, viz !:
Section 2. It shall be the duty of the
Minister of Public Instruction in consultation
with the Minister of the Interior to designate
said lands which designation when approved
by the Privy Council shall be valid.
And whereas by Section 3 of the said Act
il is enacted as follows, viz:
Section 8. The Minister of Public In
struction shall be authorized to dispose of
said lands for the purposes above mentioned.
either by sale, lease or otherwise, as in his
judgment and that of the Kings Cabinet,
shall best subserve the interests of education
on the Islands. And again, in Section 30
of an Act entitled I" An Act to repeal Chap
ter 10 of the Civil Code, and to regulate the
Bureau of Public instruction. approved
January 10th, AID. 1865, it is enacted as
follows, viz:
Section 80. The Board of Education is
hereby authorized to dispose by sale, lease
or otherwise. of any of the lands which have
been or hereafter may be set apart for the
general purposes of education.
And whereas, in pursuance of the provis-
ions of Sections l and 2 above recited, of
the Act of July 9Th, 1850, before mentioned,
the Minister of Public Instruction in consul
tation with the Minister of the Interior, did
designate and set apart for the general pur-
poses of education, certain lands and school
sites which, approved by the Privy Council
on the 23rd day of December, AID. 1850, in
the following resolution, viz
Resolved That in accordance with Sec
ton first of the late School Act to provide
for the better support and greater efficiency
of the public schools, the following lands be,
and are hereby appropriated for the general
purposes of education on the Islands, to be
disposed of as provided in said Act. And
all lands now occupied by the Government
Schools and known as having been appropri-
ated to their use, either by individuals,
Chiefs, or by the Government. g
And, whereas, owing to changes of popu-
iation and of centres of industrial and agri-
cultural pursuits throughout the country, it
has become necessary in many cases to
exchange the former original school sites
for sites better adapted for present school
purposes. ..ai x.-ssl
And, whereas, many of the sites so ex-
changed are in localities where their use for
the permanent improvement of contiguous
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perfect title to them, therefore apparent.
Therefore, d
Be it enacted by the King and the Legis-
lative Assembly of the Hawaiian Islands in
the Legislature of the Kingdom assembled :
Section /. That the Board of Education
shall be and is hereby authorized to make
acquisitions, in writing, on the Minister of
the Interior for the issuance of Royal Patents
to the said Board, or to such grantees as the
said Board shall name in its acquisitions for
such school lands, school sites, or school
reserves as it shall, from time to time, dis
pose of under the provisions of existing
Statutes relating thereto. @ Z
Section 2. Royal Patents signed by the
King and countersigned by the Minister of
the Interior, shall issue under the Great Seal
of the Kingdom to the Board of Education
or to such grantees as the said Board shall
name in its acquisitions on the Minister of
the Interior for such school lands as it shall,
from time to time, dispose of and as shall
have been set apart and designated as such
by the resolution of the Privy Council of
December 23rd, A.D. 1850, or by any sub
seeuent Act or authority, and also for all
original school sites and school reserves as
shall nave been set apart and surveyed as
such, and as shall nave been approved by
the Minister of Public Instruction and the
Minister of the Interior, pursuant to the pro-
visions of the School Act of July 9th, AID.
1850, before mentioned, or by any subsequent
Act or authority relating thereto. 4... \
Section 3. This Act shall become law
and take effect from and after the date of its
approval.
Approved this 18th day of August AID.
1880. rsa KALAKAUA r.
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