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file an affidavit in the court in which any such action is pending, and shall serve a copy of the same on the defendant, such filing and service to be at least fifteen days before the trial, that the plaintiff claims title through a common source with the defendant and specifying such common source, it shall be sufficient for him to show title from such common source, unless the defendant or his agent or attorney shall within ten days after the filing and service of such affidavit by, or on behalf of the plaintiff, make and file in the court in which any such action is pending and serve on the plaintiff an affidavit that the defendant does not claim title through the source specified by the plaintiff in his affidavit, and particularly specifying the source through which he does claim title.

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved this 13th day of April, A. D. 1915.

LUCIUS E. PINKHAM,

Governor of the Territory of Hawaii.

ACT 81

AN ACT

CREATING THE BOARD OF INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS, AND PRESCRIBING ITS POWERS AND DUTIES.

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

SECTION 1. That there is hereby established and created a Board for the management and control of industrial and reformatory schools in the Territory of Hawaii, which said Board shall be known as the Board of Industrial Schools.

Act 81. Industrial Schools.

SECTION 2. The said Board shall be composed of seven members, six of whom shall be appointed by the Governor, in the manner prescribed in Section 80 of the Organic Act. The Judge of the Juvenile Court of the First Judicial Circuit shall be ex-officio member of the said Board; provided, however, that in case the Judge of said Juvenile Court shall refuse to act as a member of said Board, the vacancy caused by such refusal shall be filled by appointment by the Governor, in the same manner as is provided for the filling of other vacancies.

SECTION 3. That at least three of the members of said Board shall be women.

SECTION 4. The members of said Board shall hold their office for the period of four years; provided, however, that on the first appointment of said Board, the Governor shall appoint three of the members of said Board for two years only, and the remaining members of said Board for four years; and that thereafter all appointments shall be for four years.

SECTION 5. That the said Board shall have the entire management and control of all public industrial and reformatory schools now existing in the Territory of Hawaii, or which may hereafter be established; and like management and control of all places of detention which may be used in connection with any of said schools.

SECTION 6. That all powers now vested in the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Commissioners of Education relative to industrial and reformatory schools in the Territory of Hawaii are hereby transferred to and vested in the Board hereby created, and all duties now by law devolving upon the said Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Commissioners of Education relative to said schools, are hereby devolved upon the Board hereby created. All unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made, the expenditure of

Act 81. Industrial Schools.

which is now by law vested either in the Superintendent of Public Instruction or the Commissioners of Education, are hereby transferred to the Board hereby created, and the expenditure thereof vested in said Board.

SECTION 7. The Board hereby created shall have power to make rules and regulations not contrary to law providing the method by which all funds appropriated for said schools shall be expended; providing for the organization of the Board, by the selection of officers thereof; and providing for the management and control of the schools and places of detention; and shall likewise have power to adopt such other rules and regulations not contrary to law as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 8. The members of said Board shall serve without compensation; but said members shall be entitled to reimbursement for actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.

SECTION 9. It shall be the duty of the Board to make annual reports to the Governor, covering the periods between the first day of January and the thirty-first day of December in each year. Such reports shall be submitted by the Governor to each session of the legislature. Said reports shall contain itemized statements of all moneys expended by the Board; of all moneys received by the Board; the persons to whom said moneys have been paid; and the purposes for which the same shall have been paid during the period covered by the report. Such reports shall contain such further information relative to the transaction of the Board, and the condition of the schools and places of detention within the jurisdiction of the Board, as shall enable the Governor to be fully advised relative to all of the transactions of the Board.

And it shall be the further duty of the Board to file with the Governor, at the times herein provided for the filing of reports,

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an inventory of all property belonging to the Territory used in connection with said schools or places of detention, as provided for in Chapter 19, of the Revised Laws of Hawaii, 1915. SECTION 10. This Act shall take effect January 1st, 1916. Approved this 13th day of April, A. D. 1915.

LUCIUS E. PINKHAM,

Governor of the Territory of Hawaii.

ACT 82

AN ACT

TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE PAYMENT OF A BOUNTY ON

MONGOOSE.

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

SECTION 1. The sum of Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from the general revenues of the Territory, to be known as the "Mongoose Fund," and is to be used for the payment of bounties on mongoose as contained in Chapter 39 of the Revised Laws of Hawaii of 1915.

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect on the date of its approval.

Approved this 15th day of April, A. D. 1915.

LUCIUS E. PINKHAM,

Governor of the Territory of Hawaii.

Act 83. Juvenile Dependents.

Act 84. Pension for H. E. Petersen.

ACT 83

AN ACT

TO AMEND SECTION 2197 of the REVISED LAWS OF HAWAII OF 1915 RELATING TO EXPENSES CIRCUIT COURTS, SUPPORT, JUVENILE DEPENDENTS.

Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Hawair : SECTION 1. Section 2197 of the Revised Laws of Hawaii of 1915 is hereby amended

(1) by adding after line 22 thereof the following: “Care of Dependent Children, 6,000.00"

(2) by changing the figures "250.00" in lines 27 and 34 thereof to read: "600.00," and changing the figure "500.00" in line 41 thereof to read "600.00;" and (3) by adding after the line 46 thereof the following:

"Support, juvenile court dependents, ......600.00." SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved this 15th day of April, A. D. 1915.

LUCIUS E. PINKHAM,

Governor of the Territory of Hawaii.

ACT 84

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF HENRY E. PETERSEN.

Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii: SECTION 1. The Treasurer of the Territory of Hawaii is hereby authorized and directed to pay, upon warrants issued by

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