AN ACT TO REMODEL THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. BE IT ENACTED by the King, the Nobles and Representatives of the Hawaiian Islands in Legislative Council assembled: SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for His Majesty the King, to abolish the office of Minister of Public Instruction, and appoint and commission a board of Education, consisting of a President and two Directors, to hold office during the King's pleasure, which board shall have the entire charge and control of the Department of Public Instruction, shall superintend the execution of all the laws relating thereto, and said President by and with the advice of said Directors, shall discharge the several duties heretofore imposed upon said Minister. SECTION 2. All the members of the board aforesaid shall reside at the seat of the Hawaiian Government, it shall have the power to make its own by-laws, not in contravention of the laws of this Kingdom, shall keep regular records of its proceedings and the President shall make a full report of the business and transactions of the Department to the Legislature of each year, through the Minister of the Interior. SECTION 3. The President aforesaid shall keep an office or place of business at the seat of government, shall sign all official documents of the Board, in order to their validity, shall have a seal of his Department, and be entitled to employ a clerk. He shall use his best exertions to promote the interests of education and morality on the the Islands, and the general objects of the Department, and shall receive such salary as the Legislature shall determine, but the Directors aforesaid shall receive no compensation for their services. SECTION 4. All laws and parts of laws of this Kingdom in conflict with this act, are hereby repealed. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect on the 1st day of July next. Approved this 7th day of May, 1855. VICTORIA K. KAAHUMANU. KAMEHAMEHA. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF PRISONERS ON THE ISLAND OF OAHU. BE IT ENACTED by the King, the Nobles and Representatives of the Hawaiian Islands in Legislative Council assembled: SECTION 1. That from and after the date of the passage of this Act, and until the erection of suitable prisons on the Island of Oahu, to meet the requirements of the "Act relating to Prisons, their government and discipline," passed in the year 1851, all male convicts sentenced by the several Courts of the Island of Oahu, to imprisonment at hard labor, shall be in the keeping of the Marshal of the Kingdom, and his Deputies, under the orders of the Governor of Oahu, who shall employ them on any public works which may from time to time be designated by the Minister of the Interior or the Secretary at War. SECTION 2. Should the labor of such Prisoners not be required, at any time, in the performance of work for the Government, it shall be the duty of the Marshal of the Kingdom to hire them out to labor for private individuals, with the consent of the Governor, upon such terms, and to be employed at such kind of labor, as he may approve. Provided, however, that such Prisoners shall not be so employed as to prevent their being locked up within the prison every night. SECTION 3. When such prisoners are employed on any Government work, the expense of maintaining them shall be defrayed out of the appropriation made for such work; and when they are employed to labor for private individuals, the expense of maintaining them shall be defrayed out of their earnings; and when they are not employed in either of the above modes, the Marshal may employ them in any way he may deem expedient, and the expense of maintaining them shall be defrayed by the government. Approved this 7th day of May, 1855. VICTORIA K. KAAHUMANU. KAMEHAMEHA. AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE. BE IT ENACTED by the King, the Nobles and Representatives of the Hawaiian Islands in Legislative Council assembled: SECTION 1. That the words "or any other cause," in Section 2, of the Act entitled "an Act to amend the law relating to the election of the Representatives of the people," passed in the year 1851, be and the same are hereby expunged; and the word "or" is hereby inserted between the words "resignation " and "death "in said 2nd Section. SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect from and after the day of its passage. Approved this 14th day of May, 1855. VICTORIA K. KAAHUMANU. KAMEHAMEHA. AN ACT FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF PROSTITUTION. WHEREAS, large numbers of young females belonging to the remote Districts of the Kingdom, are in the habit of frequenting the seaports, particularly during the fall shipping season, for the purpose of prostitution: AND WHEREAS, this evil practice is calculated to spread disease and death among the people, thereby contributing to their rapid decrease in number. Therefore: BE IT ENACTED by the King, the Nobles and Representatives of the Hawaiian Islands in Legislative Council assembled: SECTION 1. That from and after the date of the passage of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Police and District Justices of Honolulu and Lahaina, and the District Justice of Hilo respectively to cause to be arrested and brought before them, any female that may be complained of by the Sheriff or Prefect of Police as being a prostitute, and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Justice that such female is a prostitute, and that her father, mother or other guardian, reside in any other district than that in which such Justice has jurisdiction, or that such female has left her native district and come to reside within the district where such Justice has jurisdiction, for the purpose of prostitution, then such Justice may order such female to return to her parents or guardian if she have any, or to the district from whence she came, within forty-eight hours from the time of such order; and if such female be found within his district after the expiration of such period of forty-eight hours, the Justice may punish her by imprisonment at hard labor, or solitary confinement for a period not exceeding thirty days upon the first complaint, and upon any subsequent complaint for a period not exceeding sixty days. It shall be the duty of all Judicial and Police Officers, School Inspectors and School Teachers, to inform the Police Justices of the seaports aforesaid, of any females belonging to their respective districts whom they may uspect of having resorted to said seaports for the purposes of prostitution, that they may be dealt with as hereinbefore provided. Approved this 14th day of May, 1855. VICTORIA K. KAAHUMANU. KAMEHAMEHA. |