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tions as shall be approved by the Department. (Sec. 246, Amended by Act 150, S. L. 1911.)

TRANSFER TO JAIL.

66. Whenever it shall be found that the continued detention or custody of any inmate of any industrial and reformatory school at such school shall be subversive of the order and discipline of the school, or injurious in any way to the other inmates of the institution, it shall be lawful for any district magistrate, on representation to that effect being made by any member of the department of public instruction, its authorized agents, or the principal teacher of any such school, to hear and determine any such case, and if proved to his satisfaction, said magistrate is hereby authorized, in the place of further detention or custody at such school, to order that such minor if he be of the age of fourteen years or more, be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, at some public jail for any term not exceeding the unexpired residue of the time for which such inmate shall have been last committed to such industrial and reformatory school. (Sec. 247.)

TRANSFER BACK OR DISCHARGE.

67. If at any time after the commitment or transfer, as in Section 247 authorized, of any inmate of an industrial and reformatory school to a public jail, it shall be found that such minor by his conduct gives reasonable proof of reformation, or for other good reason that shall be made to appear, it shall be lawful for any district magistrate, after receiving satisfactory evidence thereof, to order the discharge of such minor from jail, or to return him to the custody of the department of public instruction at some industrial and reformatory school, whenever requested so to do by a member of the department of public instruction, or by its authorized agents. (Sec. 248.)

COSTS.

68. All costs incurred under the provisions of Sections 247, 248, shall be paid by the department of public instruction out of any funds appropriated for industrial and reformatory schools. (Sec. 249.)

AGE OF MAJORITY.

69. All male persons residing in this Territory who shall have attained the age of twenty years, and all females who shall have attained the age of eighteen years, shall be regarded as of legal age and their period of minority to have ceased. (Sec. 2285, Chap. 148.)

CHILDREN'S DUTIES; PENALTY FOR DISOBEDIENCE.

70. It shall be the duty of all children within the years of legal majority to obey all the lawful and moral commands of their parents, respecting first, as most obligatory, those of the father, and next those of the mother; and if adopted, as by law allowed, the lawful and moral commands of the parents by adoption; and in default of natural or adopted parents, the lawful and moral commands of the guardians appointed according to law; and in case of continued, wilful and obstinate disobedience on the part of a child, it shall be lawful for any district magistrate, upon complaint being made by any parent or guardian, to cause the said child to be arrested and brought before him; and should it appear to the said magistrate that such child is guilty of continued, wilful and obstinate disobedience, he shall sentence the said child to imprisonment at hard labor for a term not exceeding ten days; provided, however, that no child under ten years of age shall be amenable to the provisions of this section. (Sec. 2289.)

PARENTS' CONTROL AND DUTIES; BINDING OUT OF CHILD BY JUDGE.

71. Parents, that is to say, first the father and then the mother, or, in case they be both dead, guardians, legally appointed, shall have control over the actions the conduct and the education of their children within the years of legal majority; they shall have the right at all times to recover possession of their children by habeas corpus, and to chastise them moderately for their good; and it shall be the duty of all parents and guardians to set a good example before their children; to provide, to the best of their ability, for their support and edu

cation; to see that they are instructed in a knowledge of the Christian religion; to use their best endeavors to keep them from idleness and vice of all kinds; and to inculcate upon them habits of industry, economy and loyalty; and it shall be lawful for any judge of any circuit court of this Territory, on a complaint being laid before him against any parent, that he or she is encouraging their children in ignorance and vice, to summon such parents before him; and, upon its being proved to his satisfaction, to bind out such child, within the years of legal majority, to some person of good moral character, to be well supported, trained to good habits,, and taught at least the rudiments of knowledge. (Sec. 2290.)

CURFEW LAW.

72. Any child under fifteen years of age who, except in case of necessity, shall go or remain on any public street or highway after seven o'clock in the evening and before four o'clock in the morning, unaccompanied by an adult person, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding ten days at the Reform School. (Sec. 2291 Amended by Act 34 S. L. 1907.)

Any parent or guardian, having the care, custody and control of a child under fifteen years of age, who, except in case of necessity, shall knowingly and voluntarily suffer or permit such child to go or remain on any public street or highway after nine o'clock in the evening and before four o'clock in the morning, unaccompanied by an adult person, shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding twenty days. (Sec. 2292.)

All keepers of coffee, victualing, liquor and billiard saloons and bowling alleys, and also sugar mills, are hereby 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 between the hours above named, unless the same be accompanied by its parents or guardian, shall be deemed guilty of an offense, and shall be punished by

a fine of not more than twenty dollars, upon conviction, and his license may be revoked by the treasurer, in his discretion. (Sec. 2293.)

If any keeper or keepers of any public places enumerated in section 2293 shall find difficulty in clearing their premises of school children, the same may call in the assistance of the police, 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 shall proceed to apprehend all such children who shall not have proceeded to their homes and cause them to be detained in the lock-up over night, to be brought before the district magistrate on the following morning, to be punished according to the provisions of the law relating to truancy. (Sec. 2294.)

FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.

73. Any person who shall wilfully abandon or injure in health or limb any child under his legal control, or shall neglect to provide such child with suitable or necessary food or clothing, or shall cruelly or unreasonably strike, beat, flog or chastise any such child, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200) or imprisoned for a term not exceeding six (6) months. (Act 21, S. L. 1907.)

HEALTH CERTIFICATES FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN AND TEACHERS.

74. The scholars and teachers in all public and private schools throughout the Territory of Hawaii shall provide themselves, within fourteen days after the opening of the annual school term, with certificates, signed by some duly licensed and competent physician, as to their freedom from contagious and infectious diseases. The district government physicians are instructed to visit the several public schools in their districts and make the necessary examinations of those not provided with certificates, free of charge, during the period above specified. (Rules and Regulations Board of Health, Territorial Regulations No. 37.)

TO PREVENT TUBERCULOSIS AND THE SPREAD THEREOF.

75. No person who shall have contracted tuberculosis shall, while afflicted with such disease, be allowed to teach in any public or private school. (Act 118, Sect. 6, S. L. 1911.)

COLLEGE OF HAWAII.

Section 1. There is hereby established a college of agriculture and mechanic arts, to be known as the College of Hawaii, which shall be under the general charge of a board of regents, appointed in the manner prescribed in section 80 of the Organic Act.

Section 2. The regents shall be residents of the Territory of Hawaii, and shall be appointed for terms of five years, or the unexpired periods thereof, in such manner that the term of one regent shall expire each year. Such terms shall begin on the first day of May in each year, and the terms of the present regents, in the order of their appointments, shall continue to and expire immediately preceding such day in each of the five years beginning with 1912.

Section 3. The board of regents shall have the general management and control of the affairs of the college. They shall have power to appoint a treasurer and such other officers as they deem necessary, and to require them to give bonds in such amounts as they may prescribe and in the form prescribed by law for bonds of public officers. They shall have power to purchase or otherwise acquire lands, buildings, appliances and other property for the purpose of the college, and expend such sums of money as may be from time to time placed at the disposal of the college from whatever source. All lands, buildings, appliances and other property so purchased or acquired shall be and remain the property of the Territory of Hawaii, to be used in perpetuity for the benefit of the college.

The grants of moneys and the purposes of said grants outhor, ized by the Acts of Congress, approved March 2, 1887, August 30, 1890, and March 16, 1906, respectively, known as the IIatch Act, the Second Morrill Act, and the Adams Act, respectively,

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