The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-08

less than five nor more than nine
| months in each year and defraying all
| the expenses of the same of every de-
| scription; for the purpose of repairing
and improving schoolhouses; of procur-
ing furniture, fuel, libraries and appar-
atus; and for all other necessary Incl
dental expenses in each district village.
or city, the directors shall be author
lied to levy a tax annually upon all
the taxable property OF the district.
village or city not TO exceed two per
centum for educational and three per
centum for building purposes Except
to pay Indebtedness contracted pre-
vious to the passage of this act), the
valuation to be ascertained by the last
assessment for Territorial and county
taxes.
BONDS.
Directors may borrow money and is
Sue bonds: For the purpose of building
school houses or purchasing school
sites. or for repairing and improving
the same, the directors of any school
district, when authorized by a major
ity of all the votes cast at an election
called for that purpose. may borrow
money, issuing bonds signed by not
less than two members of said board
of directors, in sums of not less than
oilS dOlidIS anu inter-
est al rate not exceeding eight per
centum per annum.
SCHOOL FUNDS.
The common fund of this Territory
shall consist of the proceeds of two
mill tax to be levied upon each dollars
valuation of the property in the Terri.
tory, annually. until otherwise PROVIDED
by law, the interest on what is known
as the school fund proper being three
Per centum upon the proceeds OF the
sales of the public lands in the Ter-i-
tory, one-sixth part excepted.
Territory to pay interest: The Terri
tory shall pay the interest mentioned
in the preceding section at the rate %
six per centum annually, to be paid
into and become part of said school
fund.
On the first Monday in January ar
ter taking the census of the Territory,
the auditor of public accounts shah as
certain the number of children in each
county in the Territory under twenty
one years of age, and shall thereupon
make dividend to each county OF the
sum from the tax levied and collected
under the provisions of the first Sec
ton.
All bonds, notes, mortgages, monies
and effects which have heretofore ac-
crued or may hereafter accrue from the
sale of the sixteenth section Of the.
school lands of any township
1r county, or from the sale Of any real
estate or other property taken on any
Judgment or for any debt due TO the
of any township or county
und, and all other funds of every de-
which have been or may here
after be carried to and made part of
he principal of any township or coun-
y fund, by any law which has here
ofore been, is now, or may hereafter
)e enacted, are hereby declared to be
md shall forever constitute the prin-
.ipal of the township or county fund.
COLLEGE AND
SCHOOL LANDS.
Sections numbered thirteen and thir-
y-three in every township shall be re-
erved and known as lands for agTicul-
uraI college and schools for the deaf. A
umb and blind children of the Terri ~
cry of Hawaii; said lands never 10 b.
CID and only the proceeds therefrcm 4
o be used, and exclusively for the ed
cation of said children
Sections sixteen and thi-ty-six in ev-
~ township shall be reserved, and ne
nown as school lands, for the benefit
nd use Of free schools of the Hawaii
n Territory, the income derived from
aid lands alone to be used.
1t shall be lawful for the trustees Of
rhools in townships to rent or lease
5ctions thirteen, sixteen, thirty-three
nd thirty-six or any other lands
ranted in lieu thereof. for an annual
ent to be paid in money to the treas
,er.
FINES AND FORFEITURES.
All fines, penalties and forfeitures I'M
osed or incurred in any Of the courts
record, or before any justice OF the
5ace of this Territory, except fines.
'rfeitures and penalties incurred or
nposed in incorporated towns or cities
n the violation Of the bylaws or Or
nances thereof, shall, when collected.
: paid TO the county superintendent 81
'hools of. the county wherein such
leS, penalties or forfeitures have beef 4
opposed or Incurred, and the said ccuEAtt
superintendent of schools shall givN}
$ receipt therefor to the person fro2sgf. !.
hom such fine, forfeiture or pen3lty~ ~
as received. The said county super
tendent shall annually distribute such
hes, penalties or forfeitures jn the
Ime manner as the common school |
nds of the Territory are distributed.