D AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED “AN ACT TO ABOLISH THE DISABILITIES OF ALIENS TO ACQUIRE AND CONVEY LANDS IN FEE SIMPLE,” PASSED ON THE 10TH DAY OF JULY, 1850. Approved, June 28th, 1854. BE IT ENACTED by the King, the Nobles and Representatives of the Hawaiian Islands, in Legislative Council assembled. SECTION 1. That the last clause of Section 1 of "an Act to abolish the disabilities of aliens to acquire and convey lands in fee simple," which reads as follows, "and further provided that no deed or conveyance of lands in fee simple to an alien, shall be of any validity or ef fect, unless it contains a clause providing for such submission, forfeiture and escheat," shall be, and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. Any objection that may be made to the validity of any conveyance on account of the omission to insert therein the proviso contained in Section 1 of that act, shall be filed with the Clerk of the Supreme Court, within two months from the publication of this act, or the person making the same shall be forever barred. SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect from and after the date of its passage. AN ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN ACTS RELATING TO THE PUNISHMENT AND PREVENTION OF SMUGGLING. Approved, June 28th, 1854. BE IT ENACTED by the King, the Nobles and Representatives of the Hawaiian Islands, in Legislative Council assembled: SECTION 1. That, in the Joint Resolution of April 3d, 1846, "to carry into effect the sixth Articles of the Treaties concluded at Honolulu between the governments of France and Great Britain," there shall be substituted for the words "one thousand dollars each," wher ever the same may occur, the following: "Not less than fifty and not more than one thousand dollars each, in the discretion of the Court." SECTION 2. This Act shall become a law from and after the day of its passage. 6 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOREIGN JURIES IN THE THIRD AND FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICTS. Approved, June 28th, 1854. BE IT ENACTED by the King, the Nobles and Representatives of the Hawaiian Islands, in Legislative Council assembled: SECTION 1. That, in all cases hereafter to be tried, at any term of the Circuit Courts for the Third or Fourth Judicial Districts of this Kingdom, in which it is necessary or proper to have a Jury composed wholly or in part of foreigners, the presiding Judge of such Circuit Court, for the time being, shall summon, from among the foreigners resident within such District, a sufficient number of persons to act as Jurors in such cases under the same regulations as to pay as foreign Jurors are in the other Judicial Districts. SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect and become a law from and after the day of its passage. 3 AN ACT FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND SUPPORT OF ENGLISH SCHOOLS FOR HAWAIIAN YOUTH. Approved, July 20th, 1854. WHEREAS, A knowledge of the English language is very important to the success of the Hawaiian people in the pursuit of wealth, and to their intellectual progress; therefore, BE IT ENACTED by the King, the Nobles and Representatives of the Hawaiian Islands, in Legislative Council assembled: SECTION 1. The House of Representatives of the Hawaiian Islands shall, biennially, on the third week of their session, elect by ballot two persons for each election district of the Islands, who, with the School Inspector or School Inspectors of the District, shall constitute a Board of School Directors for the encouragement and support of Inglish Schools for Hawaiian youth. The said persons being duly elected, shall hold their offices for the term of two years, or till their successors shall have been duly elected and qualified; and they shall possess the powers and perform the acts hereinafter granted and prescribed. SECTION 2. The Boards of Directors as aforesaid, shall have power to make their own bye-laws, not in conflict with the laws of this Kingdom, regulating the time and places of their meetings, their choice of officers, the method of conducting their business, to fill all vacancies that may occur in their number, and to locate, establish and control such schools for the instruction of Hawaiian youth in the English language, as may receive the aid of the Government in their support, provided that in all cases, they shall keep regular and per manent records of their proceedings, and make a full report annually through the Minister of Public Instruction to the Legislature at least one month previous to the commencement of each session. SECTION 3. A majority of each of the said Boards, at any meeting duly notified, shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for business, and all questions of business shall be decided by a majority of those present. SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of the several Boards of Directors as aforesaid, and of their individual members, to use their best endeavors to impress upon the minds of the people the importance of a knowledge of the English language to their children, to induce them to provide for them as soon as possible the means of acquiring it, by contributing according to their ability, the means of supporting English Schools of good character among them. All money or property entrusted to the Boards of Directors shall be carefully applied by them to the object aforesaid, and shall be minutely accounted for by them in their annual report with accompanying vouchers. SECTION 5. The Minister of Public Instruction shall be, ex officio, a corresponding member of each of said Boards of Directors, and shall co-operate with them in carrying out the provisions of this Act. It chall be his duty, on receiving from any Board of Directors a certificate that any suitable school-house has been provided in their District and that they have received from responsible parties subscriptions for the support of an English school or schools, to the amount of four hundred dollars per annum or more, to open an account with the said Board of Directors, and to draw upon the Minister of Finance for a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars per quarter for each Representative in Parliament which the District may be entitled to send, and in no case exceeding the amount which has been actually paid in by the private supporters of the school. SECTION 6. Should the Boards of Directors of two or more adjoining election districts fail after a reasonable effort to obtain the means of supporting a separate English school for the object aforesaid in each of said Districts, it shall be lawful for them to unite on such terms and for such a period as shall be mutually agreed upon by themselves in writing, for the support of at least one school for the several districts which, in that case, for the purposes of this Act, shall be regarded as one district; and it shall be lawful for said Boards of Directors to commit the immediate care and management of such school to such sub-directors, chosen from their own number, as they shall deem proper, who, when duly authorized, shall, for the time being, while said districts are thus united, be the Board with whom |