providing for agricultural experiment stations in connection with colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts, and by any other Act or Acts of Congress for similar purposes, are hereby assented to.

Section 4. The purposes of the college are to give thorough instruction in agriculture, mechanic arts and the natural sciences connected therewith, and such instruction in other branches of advanced learning as the board of regents may from time to time prescribe, and to give such military instruction as the Federal Government may require. The standard of instruction in each course shall be equal to that given and required by similar colleges on the mainland, and upon the successful completion of the prescribed course the board of regents are authorized to confer a corresponding degree upon all students who shall become entitled thereto.

Section 5. No person shall, because of age, sex, color or nationality, be deprived of the privileges of this institution.

Section 6. The faculty of the college shall be under the direction of a president, who shall be appointed by the board of regents. The members of the faculty shall be likewise appointed.

Section 7. The official name of the board of regents shall be Board of Regents, College of Hawaii, and the board shall adopt and use a common seal, by which all official acts shall be authenticated.

Section 8. The board of regents shall have the authority to sue in its official name, and shall be subject to be sued only in the manner provided for suits against the Territory of Hawaii.

Section 9. Moneys appropriated by the Legislature for the College of Hawaii shall be payable by the territorial treasurer, upon warrants issued by the territorial auditor, upon vouchers approved by the board of regents. All moneys received by or on behalf of the board or college, other than those received from the United States Government, shall be paid into the

territorial treasury, and all such moneys are hereby appropriated for the use of the college. The board of regents shall cause to be kept suitable books of account, and shall annually submit to the Governor, to be by him submitted to the Legislature, a statement showing its receipts from all sources and expenditures for all purposes. (Act 44, S. L. 1911.)

AN ACT.

TO PROVIDE FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii:

SECTION 1. The Department of Public Instruction is hercby authorized, empowered, and directed to prepare a salary schedule to cover the compensation to be paid all teachers, supervisors, and principals. Such schedule shall be based upon a classification of schools, classification of teachers' certificates, and length of service, provided, however, that the schedule as to salaries of principals and supervisors shall be based also upon the number of teachers under their direction. Such schedule, when approved by the Governor, and published at least three times in some newspaper of general circulation, printed and published in Honolulu, shall have the force and effect of law. Such schedule may, from time to time, with like approval and publication, be altered, amended or revised. Hereafter all salaries of teachers supervisors and principals shall be paid according to such schedule. The total number of teachers, including supervisors and principals, who may be continuously employed by the Department in any one year shall not exceed one for every thirty-five (35) pupils enrolled in the public schools during the preceding year, provided, however, that the monthly pay-roll of teachers supervisors and principals, shall not exceed Forty-five Thousand Dollars ($45,000.00) per month plus Fifty Dollars ($50.00) additional for every thirtyfive (35) children of school age added to the enrollment of the public schools after June 30, 1911.

SECTION 2. Prior to December 15, 1912, and every second year thereafter, the Department of Public Instruction shall prepare a budget, to be known as the School Budget, showing the estimated expenses, other than salaries of teachers, supervisors, and principals, of the Public Schools and of such Department for the next ensuing biennial period. Such budget shall be in the following form:

GENERAL FUND.

Salary of Superintendent.

Salaries of Office Force.

General Expenses.

Supplies.

Libraries and Books.

Industrial and Manual Training.

Maintenance of Special Schools.

SPECIAL FUND.

New buildings (school houses, cottages and outbuildings). Repairs and maintenance of buildings and grounds and new grounds.

Janitor service.

Furniture and fixtures.

SECTION 3. Not later than December 15, 1912, and every second year thereafter, such budget shall be submitted by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to a Committee of Estimates, consisting of the Secretary of the Territory, who shall be chairman, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu and the Chairmen of the Boards of Supervisors of the several counties. Such Committee shall meet in Honolulu at the call of the chairman, and shall consider such budget. It may, in its discretion, revise or change any item appearing under the general heading

"Special Fund," but it shall not change any item appearing under the heading "General Fund." The members of such Committee shall serve without pay, but shall be entitled to their actual traveling expenses, to be paid out of the funds provided for the general expenses of the Department. Not later than January 15, 1913, and every second year thereafter, such budget, as revised by the Committee of Estimates, shall be submitted to the Governor of the Territory who shall submit the same without change, but with his own recommendations, to the Legislature within ten days after the opening of its next regular session. In case the Committee of Estimates fails to act upon the school budget within the time above specified, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall submit the budget, as prepared by the Department, to the Governor as aforesaid, and he shall, as aforesaid, submit the same to the Legislature. Such budget, when acted upon by the Legislature, shall determine the amounts which may be expended for such purposes during the succeeding biennial period.

SECTION 4. All revenues, derived from time to time from the collection of the school tax levied under the provisions of Section 1200 of the Revised Laws of Hawaii, shall be deemed to be and are hereby appropriated for the payment of the salaries of teachers, supervisors and principals, as determined by the salary schedule, and for the support and maintenance of the public schools within the county or city and county where such taxes are collected for the objects and in the manner designated in the school budget approved by the Legislature, which are hereby made the first charge upon such revenues.

SECTION 5. Out of the revenues, derived from time to time from the taxes on real property and personal property, there shall be deemed to be and is hereby appropriated, such an amount as shall be necessary to provide sufficient additional funds to meet the requirements of the aggregate of the salaries of teachers, supervisors and principals as fixed by said schedule and of said school budget, which are hereby made the first charge upon such revenues. In order to determine the amounts to be added under this Section, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall notify the Treasurer, in writing, not later than September 1 in each year, of the total number of teachers,

supervisors and principals engaged for the ensuing year and the aggregate of the salaries to be paid them under the salary schedule.

SECTION 6. The Treasurer of the Territory shall, from time to time as may be necessary, pay over to the Treasurer of the several counties, and the Treasurer of the City and County of Honolulu, as the case may be, the amounts approved by the Legislature for the items of the "Special Fund" of the budget for "New Buildings (school houses, cottages and outbuildings)" and for "Repairs and maintenance of buildings and grounds and new grounds." Such amounts shall constitute and be held as special funds in the treasuries of the said several counties and the City and County of Honolulu and shall be expended by their respective Boards of Supervisors only for the purposes approved by the Legislature. New buildings shall be erected in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the Department of Public Instruction, only as to size, arrangement, dimensions, lighting of rooms and sanitary conveniences. The other items constituting the school budget shall be expended from time to time on vouchers approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

JUVENILE ACT.

TO DEFINE AND REGULATE THE TREATMENT AND CONTROL OF DEPENDENT AND DELINQUENT CHILDREN.

Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii:

SECTION 1. For the purposes of this Act, the words "dependent child" shall mean any minor who, for any reason, is destitute or homeless or abandoned or dependent upon the public for support or who has no proper parental care or guardianship or whose home, by reason of neglect, cruelty or depravity on the part of its parent, guardian, or other person in whose care it may be is an unfit place for such child; and the