Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
School Fund Commission
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Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1909-1910
History
Joint Resolution 6 of the 1909 session of the Territorial Legislature was approved on April 28, 1909, by Governor Walter F. Frear, giving him the power to appoint a 3-man "School Fund Comnission," which was to examine the methods of raising and apportioning school funds in different places, to consider ways and means for the revision and betterment of methods employed in the Territory and to draw up any necessary bills.
Wallace R. Farrington, William Alfred Bowen and Professor Edgar Wood were appointed to the commission in June and instructed to report to the Governor not later than July 1, 1910. The Reverend C. N. Pond of Oberlin, Ohio, who was approached by Secretary Bowen assisted in the work of the commission without pay. A Concurrent Resolution passed in November, 1909, further requested the commission to investigate methods of endowing the College of Hawaii (University of Hawaiʻi) and report its conclusions and recommendations and "such bills as
may seem necessary" to the Governor by July 1, 1910. Under the chairmanship of Mr. Farrington, the commission's plan of study was divided into 5 areas. The first was to work for a suitable Federal appropriation, but this was dropped because of the many complications that arose.
The second involved a publicity campaign for the information of the people. Articles giving facts, opinions and circular letter asking for suggestions for solutions to the problem which was also sent to one thousand representative men and women throughout the islands were published in the papers. The commission also carried on an investigation of means and methods of raising and apportioning educational funds elsewhere and of conditions existing in the Territory of Hawaiʻi. The fifth area involved recommendations for the solution of the educational
problems in Hawaiʻi.
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Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
To examine the methods of raising and apportioning school funds in different places, to consider ways and means for the revision and betterment of methods employed in the Territory an to draw up any necessary bills.
Mandates/sources of authority
Joint Resolution 6 of the 1909 session of the Territorial Legislature