The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-01-12

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and completion of Jail Buildings, as
follows:
Jail at Kohala, Hawaii $1,000
Jail at Hamakua, Hawaii........... 1000
SECTION . This Act shall take
effect from the date of its publication.
The Acknowledgement moved that
the bill pass its first reading. Car
ried.
The Attorney In regard
to the report of the Committee on
Education, there are some things In
that report that should be considered
by the new Board, when appointed.
/ have an Act here, which will pre-
sent, in this particular. 1t is as fol-
lows:
An Act to amend Chapter of the
Laws of 1887, relating to the Blu
reau of Education.
SECTION 1.-Section of Chapter 6
of the Laws of 1887, relating to the
Bureau of Education, is hereby amen
ded to read as follows:
Section 2.-There is hereby created
an Executive Bureau, styled the Bu-
reau of Public Instruction, which
shall be superintendent and directed
by a board consisting of six members,
and styled the Board of Education.
The members of the Board of Edu-
cation shall be appointed by the exc
cutive, in three classes of two MEM
bers in each class, for the terms of
one, two and three years respectively;
and as the terms of such classes shall
expire the vacancies shall be filled by
new appointments for terms of three
years; so that thereafter there shall
be a continual succession of such
classes, each one having tenure of
office of three years, and one class
going out of office each year.
In case of a vacancy in the member
ship of the Board from any cause other
than the legal expiration of the tenure
of office, such vacancy shall be filled
by appointment, and the tenure of
office of such new member shall be
the remainder of the term to which
his predecessor was appointed.
One of the members of the said
Board shall be appointed President of
the Board.
All of the members of the Board
shall serve without pay.
No person in holy orders or a min
lister of religion shall be eligible to
membership. Women shall be eligi-
BILE to not more than lone half of the
positions on the Board at any one
time.
In the absence of the President of
the Board at any meeting thereof, the
members present shall choose one of
their number as chairman, who shall
preside at the meeting.
Four members shall constitute a
quorum for the transaction of bust
ness.
SECTION 2.--This Act shall take
effect from the date of its publication.
The Attorney General then moved
that the bill pass its first reading.
Carried.
The Attorney General then intro
duced the following act, in referance
to the Insane Asylum:
An Act Giving to the Board of Health
the Management and Control of
the Insane Asylum.
Be it Enacted by the Executive and
Advisory Councils of the Provis-
ional Government of the Ha-
waiian Islands:
SECTION 1. From and after the |
passage of this Act the Board of |
Health shall have the management |
and control of the Insane Asylum; !
and all the powers and duties hereto |
lore by law vested in the Minister of |
Interior in relation to the care of in
sane persons and the discharge of |
those who have been insane but |
have been restored to sound mind,
shall be vested in and discharged by
,he Board of Health.
SECTION 2. This Act shall take
effect from the date of its publication.
This bill also passed its first read
ng.
The Attorney General also read the
resolution in regard to de-
,laring the 18th national holiday:
HEADQUARTERS, VOLUNTEER !
FORCES Prov. GOVT, HAWAIIAN
ISLANDS, HONOLULU, Jan. s, '94. J
NO. II. SoPER, Colonel N. G. III.
SIR:-The following is a copy of a
esolution unanimously passed by the
Board of Officers of the National
1uard of Hawaii, at regular meet
ng held this Sth day of January, 1894.
''That it is the sense of this meeting
nd opinion of the officers of the regi-
nent that the 18th of January be de-
Jared a National holiday"
Respectfully,
j. w. JONES,
Sec'y Board of Officers, n. @. III.
Mr.. Emmeluth introduced the fol-
owing resolution:
Resolved, that the Minister of the
Interior gazette the 18th of January
s legal holiday.
Mr.. Young; ! am not in sympathy
18th this resolution, for several rea-
ons. First, there are great num-
or of holidays already; second, this
the busiest time of the year for the
and I, for one, protest
gainst a holiday being celebrated
ow.
Mr.. Emmeiuth: There are at least
We holidays that have occurred dur
10 tho mast few years that will NOT