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CHAPTER III.
Powers of the Board of Education.

A
 SECTION l. In addition to the powers conferred by the general laws of the State, the Board of Education shall have power:
 T, To establish and maintain public schools as provided In this Article and to change, modify, consolidate or dis continue the same as the public well fare may require.
 g. To employ such teachers and per sons as may be necessary to carry into effect its powers and duties: to fix, alter and approve their salaries and compensation, and to withhold for good and sufficient cause the whole or any part of the wages, salary or compensa- tion of any person or persons employed as aforesaid; and to promote, transfer and dismiss teachers; but no teacher in the department at the time of: the adoption of this Charter, or who shall be hereafter appointed, shall be dis missed from the department, except for insubordination, immoral or unpro- fessional conduct, or evident unfitness for teaching. All promotions of teachers shall be based solely on merit and suc- cessful teaching. Nothing in this sec ton shall be construed to prevent the Board from. removing teachers holding only: special certificates or serving a proba sionary term. Charges against teachers must be formally made. by: the Superintendent after due investigation: and shall be finally passed upon by the Board after giving the accused teacher due hearing
 : B. TO grant, to renew and, for the causes mentioned in section one, sub division two, of this Chapter, to re- woke, teachers certificates.
 A. To establish and enforce all nec- essary rules: and regulations for the government and efficiency of the schools and for carrying into effect the school system; to remedy truancy; to compel the attendance at school of children between the ages of six and fourteen years who may be found idle In public places during school hours
 B. To investigate charges against any person connected with or in the employ of the School Department, and to take testimony in such investiga- tions.
 6. To receive, to take on lease and to hold in trust for the City and County any real estate belonging to or claimed trust all personal property that may have been or may hereafter be ac- duired by the School Department
 T. On or before the first day in April in each year, to appoint School Census Marshals, and notify the Superintend- ent of Common shoo Is of such appoint ments. Any Census Marshal found in- competent may be discharged by the Superintendent of Common Schools Should the Board fail or neglect tc fill the vacancy so caused within three days thereafter by the appointment of per son competent to perform the duties oi Census Marshal such vacancy may be filled by the Superintendent of Com Hion Schools.
 s. To sue in the name of the City and
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CHAPTER III.
Powers of the Board.

SECTION 1. The Board of Police Commissioners shall have power:
 l. To appoint, promote, suspend, qls- rate or dismiss any member or the De partment in the manner hereinafter provided.
 g. To prescribe rules and regulations for the government, discipline, equip ment and uniform of the Department and from time to time to alter or re peal the same and to prescribe penal ties for the violations of any or sucn rules and regulations. All such rules and regulations must be reasonable.
 3. To grant permits to any person desiring to engage in the sale of lquor in less quantity than one quart ana to grant permits to any person engaged III the business of selling liquor to pe drunk on the premises, and to reVoka any such permit when 1t shall appear to the Board that the business or the person to whom such permit was given is conducted in a disorderly or lH- proper manner. Without such permit none of such persons shall engage III the business of selling Hqucr IT the Board refuse to grant such permit, or propose to revoke any permit that mas been granted, the person who IS re- fused such permit or whose permit IL IS proposed to revoke, shall be entitled Io be heard before the Board in person. or through counsel, and to nave, Iree of charge, all reasonable facilities aI the hearing Such permits shall not De granted for more than three months at one time, and they shall distinctly state the name of the person to whom the same Is given, and the description or the premises where such business IS to be carried on. Such permits shall at aII times be subject to inspection by any member of the Department Coin- plaints to revoke permits granted Dy the Board must be In writing, signed by the person making the same ana filed with the Secretary Of the boaIu; and a copy thereof certified py the Secretary must be served upon ehe party complained against at least nVe days before the time set TOT the nedAinS of the complaint.
 f. At its discretion, upon the petl- tion of any person, firm or corporation to appoint, and at pleasure to remoVes special police officers. Such ofncers shall be subject to all the rules ana regulations of the Board. 5. To provide for the care, restitu- tion or sale at annual public auction or all unclaimed property that may come into the possession of the Property Clerk, and to direct the destruction or such property as shall consist or l1n- plements, weapons, property or any other article, matter or thing useo Ill the commission of crime.
 6. To appoint Police Matrons for the care of female prisoners and to pro vide rules and regulations for the gov ernment of the same.
 T. To appoint Police Surgeon who shall receive an annual salary or nf- teen hundred dollars.
 Sec. 2 The President may convene the Board for special meetings The Secretary of the Board shall be the oftl- ! cial custodian of all records and official documents of the Board.
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CHAPTER ".
Sewers and Drainage.

SECTION 1. The Board of Public Works shall devise general system of drainage, which shall embrace all matters relative to the thorough, sys- .tematic and effectual drainage of the City and: County, and shall from time to time make to the Supervisors such recommendations upon the subject of sewerage and drainage as it may deem proper.
 Sec 2. The Board shall prescribe the location, form and material: to be used in the construction, reconstruction and repairing of all public sewers man holes, sinks, drains, cesspools, and all other appurtenanees belonging. to the drainage system, and of every private drain or sewer emptying into public sewer: and determine the place and manner of the connection. :,t. : Sec: g. The Board shall recommend to the Supervisors rules and regula3 tions concerning the public and private sewers and drains in the City and County, and upon recommendation of said Board, the Supervisors are author ized to, pass an ordinance establishing the same and prescribing the penalties for any violation thereof.
 Sec. 4. No person shall connect with. or open or penetrate any; public sewer or drain without first obtaining a Der init in writing from said Board, and complying with the rules and regula- tions of the Board in reference thereto.
 Sec. 5. The Board may also recom- mend to the Supervisors the construc- ton of such canals, sewers, tunnels, ditches, drains, entertainments, reser- voirs. pumping works, machinery and other works necessary for the proper and effectual drainage of the City and County. together with plans for con- meeting the same with sewers and pri- vate drains already constructed or thereafter to be constructed.
 Sec. 6. The Supervisors may, upon the recommendation of the Board of Public Works, by ordinance passed by not less than fourteen affirmative votes, authorize the purchase of any personal property or the acquisition by purchase or condemnation of any real estate which may be necessary for the con struction of any sewer or the making of any improvement provided for in this Chapter.
 Sec. 2. The Board may, with the like approval of the Supervisors. agree with the owners of any real estate, upon which 1t is deemed desirable to con- struct any sewer or other improvement
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CHAPTER V.
School Tax Levy.

SECTION 1. The Board of Education shall, on or before the first Monday Of April in each year, report to the Super visorS an estimate of the amount which shall be required during the ensuing fiscal year for the purpose. of meeting the current annual expenses of public instructions in the City and County, specifying the amount required for sup plies to be furnished pupils, including text books for indigent children; for purchasing and procuring sites; for leasing rooms or erecting buildings; for furnishing, fitting up, altering, enlarg- ing and repairing buildings; for the support of schools organized since the last annual apportionment; for the sal ary of the School Directors, Supsrinten- dent, Deputy Superintendents, and all other persons employed in the School Department, and for other expenditures necessary for the administration of the Public School System: but the aggres gate amount so reported for any one year shall not exceed the sum of thirty two dollars and fifty cents for each pu- pill, who in the fiscal year immediately prior thereto actually attended the schools entitled to participate in the apportionment thereof.
 Sec. 2 The Supervisors at the time and in the manner of levying and col lecting other city and county taxes shall levy and cause to be collected for the Common School Fund a tax which added to the regular revenue derived from other sources, shall produce an amount of money which shall not ex- ceed thirty-two dollars and fifty cents for each pupil in attendance during the preceding fiscal year, as ascertained and reported by the Board of Educa- tion.
 Sec 3. In case of extreme emergency eI>xS 1{eor +Ac 1,A. fire, riot, earthquake or public enemy the Board of Education may, with the approval of the Mayor and Supervisors, incur extraordinary expenditures in ex- cess of the annual limit provided for in this Charter, for the repair and con- struction and furnishing of school houses in place of those so injured or destroyed The Supervisors may. by ordinance, cause to be transferred to the Common School Fund, from moneys in any fund not otherwise appropriated sufficient money to liquidate such ex- penditures, and provide for the same in the next tax levy of the City and Coun- fyy
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CHAPTER ".
Superintendent of Schools.

SECTION l.. The Superintendent of Common Schools of the City and Coun- ty shall be by virtue. of his office a member of the Board of Education, without the right to vote. He shall re- ceive ain annual salary of four thousand dollars. . :::'
 Sec. 2. The Superintendent shall ap- point four Deputy 'Superintendents The number of such deputies shall not be increased until the average daily at tendance shall have reached forty five thousand, when the Superintendent shall appoint: one additional deputy, and thereafter. he shall appoint one deputy for each additional eight thousand A hildren in average daily attendance. if from any cause a vacancy occurs in the office of Deputy Superintendent, such vacancy shall be filled by the Superintendent. =. :. Sec, g. Of the Deputy Superin- tendents first appointed, the Superin- tendent shall appoint two for two years and two for four years All Deputy Superintendents subsequently, appointed :: shall hold office for four years:
 Sec f. Such deputies must have had at least ten years successful experi- ence as teachers, and shall have been residents of the City and County at least five years preceding their ap- pointment.
 Sec. 5 Tn addition to the duties i'm posed by the general laws of the State, it shall be the duty of the Superin- tendent:
 l. To observe and enforce all rules and regulations of the Board of Educa- tion and to see that no religious or sec tartan books or teachings are allowed in the schools.
 2. To report to the Board of Educa- ton annually, on or before the twen- tieth day of August, and at such other times as the Board may require, all matters pertaining to the condition and progress of the public schools of the City and County during the fiscal year with such recommendations as he may deem proper.
 g. To inform the Board of the con- dition of the schools, schoolhouses and of other matters connected herewith and to recommend such measures as he may deem necessary for the ad- Yvancement of education in the City and County, and for the care and improve
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CHAPTER VI.
School Houses and Lots.

SECTION l.: When any locality in the City and County Is unprovided with sufficient school accommodations, the Board of Education may by reso- 1ution, make a requisition upon the Board of Public Works for plans and specifications and estimates for new school house, specifying the number of class rooms needed, the location of the proposed school house, the date on which 1t should be completed the amount of money in the School Fund available for the purpose, and such other information as will enable the Board of Public Works to prepare the necessary plans, specifications and esti- mates of cost for such school house.
 If such plans. specifications and esti- mates are approved by the Board of Education, they shall be endorsed Approved with the date of such ap- provaf, by the President and Secretary thereof, and returned to the Board. of Public Works, which shall proceed without delay to have such school house constructed and completed in ac- cordance herewith. - = :. ... = =. -:
 When such school house Is complet- ed, the. Board of Public Works. shall notify the. Board of Education to ex- anime the same, and if 1t has been built in accordance with the plans and specifications and within the estimated 
 shall accept and take. possession of it. . Sec 2. When an school house, build ing fence Or other property belonging to, or. connected with, or under the control : of,~. the Board. of Education, needs repairing, altering or :. improv- ing. the Board shall : notify the Board of Public: Works, specifying in general terms the work to be done. The Board of Public Works shall. cause the same to. be done forth with, if the cost thereof shall not eX- ceed two hundred and fifty dollars: otherwise the Board of Public Works shall submit plans, specifications and estimates of cost to the Board of Edu- cation for it's approval, and if approved as provided in section one of this Chap ter the Board of Public Works shall cause the same to be done, and if done in accordance with the plans and speci- fications. and within such estimate, the same shall be accepted and shall be paid for out of the Common School Fund.
 Sec. 3. When it Is necessary to pur- chase a lot for the use of the School Department, the price paid for such lot shall not exceed the market value of adjacent property of equal size and similarly situated. Any school build ing hereafter constructed shall have a clear space of at least ten feet around the same.
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ment of the property of the School De. 

ment of the property of the School De partment
 4. To visit and examine with the as- sistance of his deputies all the schools at least twice a year and determine their standing and classification. To recommend rules for the promotion Of pupils from grade to grade, from school to school, and for the transfer and the graduation of pupils.
 5. To recommend to the Board the courses of studies; the textbooks and books for supplementary use in the public schools and the purchase of such apparatus, books, stationery and other classroom supplies as may be required in the schools.
 6. To report to the Board once a month upon the standing of schools ex- amined by him and his deputies.
 Sec. 6. The Superintendent and his deputies shall constitute the City Board of Examination, and shall have power: prescribe a standard of proficiency, which will entitle the person examined to receive:
 a. A high school certificate, valid for six years, which shall authorize the mar, or high school in the City and County.
 b. A City certificate, grammar grade, valid for six years, which shall authorize the holder to teach any primary or grammar school in the City and County.
 C.. A City certificate, primary grade, valid for two years, which shall au- thorize the holder to teach any primary school in the City and County. They shall report the result of the examina- ton to the Board of Education, and the Board shall thereupon issue to the successful candidates the certificates to which they shall be entitled.
 2. To recommend applicants for special certificates valid for period not to exceed six years, upon such special studies as may be authorized by the Board of Education.
 8. For immoral or unprofessional conduct, profanity; intemperance, or evident unfftness for teaching, to recommend to the Board of Education the revocation of any certificates pre- viously granted by the Board.
 f. To recommend the granting of City certificates and the renewal thereof, in the manner provided for the granting and renewal of County cer- tif1cates by County Boards. of Educa- tion in section seventeen hundred and seventy-hve of the Political Code.
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CHAPTER Ii.
Schools.

SECTION 1. The School Department shall comprise all the public schools of the City and County and shall include primary and grammar schools and may include evening, department, technical, cosmopolitan, high and normal schools.
 Sec. 2. Adults shall be entitled to free instruction in the evening schools; but no child under fourteen years of age shall be admitted to such schools.
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CHAPTER VII.

Public Library and Reading Rooms.
 Reading Rooms of the City and County shall be under the management of a
 Board of twelve Trustees, one of whom shall be the Mayor of the City and Coun- ty, who shall be member of the Board by virtue of his office. The Board of Trustees of said Library and Reading Rooms In office at the time this Char
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shall be public, except that executive sessions may be held whenever deemed proper by the Board. The Board shall of the Police Department, or in case of public emergency at such place as the Board may select. The Secretary must keep minutes of it's proceedings; and in every case where a power Is exer- cised by the Board under this Article the ayes and noes thereon shall be en-
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CHAPTER V.

Subordinate Officers. SECTION 1. Subordinate officers of
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-04-07
some BIG UNIVERSITIES
RELATIVE SIZE OF DIFFERENT
INSTITUTIONS.
Harvard Stands Ninth in the List of
the Worlds Great Schools for High
er Education.

According to the seventh annual
number of the Minerva. the Trubner
catalogue of schools and universities
of the world the eight largest univer-
ties are those of Paris, Berlin, Vienna
Madrid, Naples, Moscow, Budapest
and Munich. in the old world; Har-
ward. the largest American university,
ranking in the ninth place. Compare
son of the relative position of Ameri-
can universities shows, according to
this work, that Harvard has risen in
the course of the last ten years, from
tenth to the ninth place, the Univer-
sity of Michigan from the eighteenth
to the seventeenth, the University of
Pennsylvania from the twenty-first to
the twentieth, Minnesota from the
Yale from the twenty-tifth to the
twenty-third, California from the
twenty-eighth to the twenty-fifth,
Columbia from the thirty-third to the
thirty-first, Chicago from the thirty
fifth to the twenty-eighth, Nebraska
from the forty-ffth to the forty-first,
while the University of the city of
New York has dropped from the for
ty-ninth to the siXty-first, and the
Washington University of St. Louis
from the forty-seventh to the fifty
first.
The University of Paris exceeds all
others in number of students, the
register showing 11.000 last year. Ber-
lin follows with $500; Vienna, 1925:
Madrid. 6,143; Naples, SOB; Moscow,
4,461. Harvard. with 1874 students.
is the ninth in the list but exceeds all
other American universities, Oxford
had 1906, and Cambridge, 1929 stu
dents. Edinburgh leads the Scotch
list, with a roll of 1850.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-04-07
CONTRACTS AWARDED.
Board of Health Acts on Number of
Matters.

At a meeting of the Board of Health
Yesterday afternoon the contract for
supplying beef cattle for six months
at the Molokai settlement was award
ed to the Trustees of the Parker Es-
tate at their bid of five cents per
pound dressed.
The contract to supply vaccine vi
rus tubes was awarded to Benson.
Smith & Co., Ltd. at 49% cents, Il
considerable reduction on the former
contract.
1t was reported that there is now
no government physician in the Kau
district. DR.. Capron having left, and
DR.. Mcmillan acting for the planta-
tions only. This led to the suggestion
that notice be given that hereafter
the purchase of a practice including
the post of Government physician
would not meet the approval of the
Board.
The death of twenty-three persons
unattended during March was report
ed to the Board.
The Maternity Home reported the
investment of $1,000 in the bonds of
the Oahu Railway and Land Compa-
ny.
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Hawaiian
EIectric
Company.

The cleanest, brightest safest and really,
In the long run, the cheapest and best light
for use in the family residence. is the mean
descent electric light. Safe: nothing could
be safer, few days ago prominent gen.
tleman of Honolulu came rushing down to
the office of the Electric Company and said:
"Give me figures for wiring my house. and
want it done at once; no more lamps for me.
Last night lamp tipped over and it came
so near setting fire to the house and burning
nv children and take no more risks"
This is the sentiment of quite number in
the past few weeks, who have ordered their
houses fitted with the perfect light.
just think it over and make up your mind
that you want the best and safest light send
for the Hawaiian Electric Company and tell
them what you wall.
We have complete stock Of everything in
this line and have just received a lot of the
very latest designs in chandeliers
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SELLING OUT At GREAT BARGAINS

Arrival of twenty tons of New Furni-
ture per 5. c. Allen, which will be
sold at Less Than Cost Price before
Mr.. Desky pulls down the store for
the new one.
New Wood seat Yellow Chairs reduc-
ed to soc; New Cane Seat Maple Bed
room Chairs, 75c; New Cane Dining
room Chairs, only 81; Oak Frame Mir
rors, reduced to 25c; Extra Large
French Plate Wall Mirrors, 46X3O,
only SO. worth $50, in Oak and Gilt
Frame: 100 Extra Large Feather and
Floss Pillows, 81; Fine Baby Carriage
Ga lot to choose FROM half price; Bed
steads given away with Mattress, only
So; Best Double Wire and Wool Mat
tress, $3.50 each; Single Wire and
Canvas Cot. with Wool Mattress, 81;
Extra ID Moss and Hair Mattress, So
and SO; Latest Style Carved Bed
Chamber Set, $3.50: Oak Extension
Table, 6 and feet. $3.50 and $50;
Small Parlor Center Tables, only 81
each; Full Assortment of Portierrc
Lounges. so. \ fine chance to Fur
nish cheap.
L. s. MATHEWS, Manager,
FORT AND BERETANIA STREETS.
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Honolulu Bicycle Go.
Tel. 900. 400 Fort st.


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