the Minister of Public Instruction shall correspond and co-operate, and who shall be held accountable for the funds of the school committed to their care.

SECTION 7. The Directors contemplated by this Act shall be entitled to no compensation from the Government for their services; but the Minister of Public Instruction shall be authorized to reimburse them for any reasonable expenses actually incurred by them in discharging the duties imposed upon them by this Act.

SECTION 8. At the earliest convenient day after the passage of this act, the House of Representatives for 1851 shall elect by ballot the two persons for each election district, contemplated in the first section. of this Act, who shall hold office until the third week of the session of the Legislature of 1856, or till their successors shall have been duly elected and qualified.

SECTION 9. This Act shall take effect from and after the day of its passage.

AN ACT

TO PROVIDE FOR THE DISSOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS TO QUIET LAND TITLES.

Approved July 20th, 1854.

BE IT ENACTED by the King, the Nobles and Representatives of the Hawaiian Islands, in Legislative Council assembled:

SECTION 1. The Board of Commissioners to quiet land titles shall be dissolved on the last day of March, A. D. 1855; and, until, the 30th day of December of the present year, it shall be lawful for all parties having claims filed before said Board, to present evidence thereon sufficient for their final decision.

SECTION 2. All awards for land claims which may be remaining in the hands of the said Board or its agents, together with all the books and papers belonging to the said Board, at the time of its dissolution shall be delivered into the hands of the Minister of the Interior for safe keeping, by a detailed inventory particularly describing the books and marking all important documents by numbers, of which inventory there shall be two identical copies, one of which shall remain with the Supreme Court, and the other with the Minister of the Interior, whose duty it shall be to deliver the remaining awards to the parties interested, on payment of the costs.

SECTION 3. Any award of the Land Commission not appealed from, within ninety days after its date, in accordance with the present laws, shall be final and binding upon all parties, and shall be a good and sufficient title to the person receiving such award, his heirs and assigns, and shall furnish as good and sufficient a ground upon which to maintain an action for trespass, ejectment or other real action, against any person or persons whatsoever, as if the claimant, his heirs or assigns, had received a Royal Patent for the same; provided that nothing in this section shall be construed as annulling the Government right to commutation in any freehold award as at present established by law.

SECTION 4. All the Land Commissioners are hereby required to

sign all their awards previous to the delivery of the books and papers into the hands of the Minister of the Interior.

SECTION 5. That, the fourth, fifth, and twelfth sections of article fourth, chapter seventh of part first, of the "Act to organize the Executive Departments of the Hawaiian Islands," and all other laws or parts of laws which conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed.

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect and become a law from and after the date of its passage.

1854. REPEALING ACT RELATING TO THE KING'S CHAMBERLAIN.

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AN ACT

REPEALING THE ACT AMENDING THE LAW RELATING TO THE KING'S CHAMBERLAIN.

Approved, August 10th, 1854.

BE IT ENACTED by the King, the Nobles and Representatives of the Hawaiian Islands, in Legislative Council assembled:

SECTION 1. That the Act of A. D. 1850, amending the law relating to the King's Chamberlain, be and is hereby repealed, and all Acts, and parts of Acts in any way referring to the duties of the King's Chamberlain, be, and the same are hereby repealed. This shall not be so construed, however, as to apply to any appropriation that may be made for that office.

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect from and after the date of its passage.

AN ACT

RESPECTING MARRIAGE.

Approved, August 10th, 1854.

BE IT ENACTED by the King, the Nobles and Representatives of the Hawaiian Islands, in Legislative Council assembled:

SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful for any Minister of religion of any sect whatsoever, or any other person to perform the marriage ceremony within this Kingdom, without first obtaining from the Minister of the Interior, a license to celebrate marriage.

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect thirty days after publication in the "Polynesian" and "Elele" newspapers, and all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this are hereby repealed.