The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1826-04-12
state NHil3S.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

In The year Of our Lord, one thousand eight
hundred and t.Oenty-sir.
AN ACT concerning Juvenile Offend
efs in the City Of Boston.
SEC. l. Be ii enacted by the Senate and
House of Responsibilities IN General Court as
senlbled, and by the authority Of the same,
That the City Council Of the City OF Boston
be, and hereby are, authorized to erect
building in said city for the reception, instruc-
ton, employment, and reformation Of such Ju-
venile Offenders as are hereinafter named; or
to use, for these purposes, the House OF In
dustry or Correction at South Boston, or any
other house or building belonging to said city,
that the City Council may appropriate TO
these uses.
Sec. 2. Be ii further enacted. That the Di-
rectors-of the said House of Industry, or such
other persons as said City Council shall APP
point Directors of said house for the employ
ment and reformation Of Juvenile offenders,
shall have power, at their discretion, to re-
ceive and take into said house, all such chill
dren who shall be convicted Of criminal Of
fences, or taken up and committed under and
by virtue Of an act of this Commonwealth
- for suppressing and Furnishing Of rogues,
vagabonds, common beggars aud other idle.
disorderly, and lewd PERSONS" and who NAV.
10 the jud.me of any Justice Of the supreme
Judicial Court sitting within and for the
County Of Suffolk, or Of the Judge OF the Mu-
nicipal Court of the CITY Of Boston, or of any
Justice Of the Police Court within and for the
city Of Boston. be proper objects therefor
and, upon the convection or commitment
aforesaid of any child in the Judgment OF such
Judge or Justice, proper object for tire san
house OF employment and reformation, the
said Judge or Justice, previously to declaring
the sentence Of the law on sucn child, shall
cause notice to be given TO the Directors OF
the said house; and, in case the said Direc.
tors shall declare their assent to the admission
of such child into said house. the said Judg
81 Justice shall sentence him or her TO lie
committed to said house of employ nent and
reformation, subject to the control of he d.
Rectors thereof, in conformity with the pro-
visions Of this act.
SEC. 8. Be ii further enacted, That any
Justice or Judge Of either of the said Courts
respectively, on the application Of the Mayor.
CT Of any Alderman Of the city OF Boston, OF
any Director OF the House of Industry, or
House Of Reformation, or Of any Overseer of
the Poor of said city, shall have power to SEN
tence to said house Of employment and refor-
NATION, all children who live an idle or disso-
lutte life, whose parents are dead, or il living,
from drunkenness or other vices, neglect TO
provide any suitable employment, or exercise
any salutary control over said children; and
the persons thus committed, shall be kept,
governed, and disposed of, as hereinafter pro-
vided, the males till they are of the age ef
twenty-one years, and the females of eighteen
years.
Sc. i. Be IL further enacted, That the Di.
rectors OF said iioS.c ef Industry, or such 9th
sr persons as said City Council shall appoint
Directors OF the institution, authorized by this
act, may receive the persons sentenced and
committed as aforesaid, into this institution {;
and they shall have power to place the per-
sons committed to their care, the males until
they arrive at the age Of twenty-one years, and
the females until they arrive at the az. of
eighteen years, at such employments, and to
cause them to be instructed in such branches
of useful knowledge, as shall be suitable to
their years and capacity and they shall have
power to bind out such minors as apprentices
or servants until they arrive at the ages afore-
said, to such persons and al such places, to
learn such arts. trades, and employments, as
IN their Judgment will be most for the reform
alton, amendment, and future benefit and ad-
vantage Of such minor. And the provisions of
an act, entitled, an act providing for the re-
lief and support, employment and remo1 al Of
the poor, and for repeating all former laws
made for these purposes, passed the twenty
sixth day Of February, in the year OF our Lord
one thousand seven hundred and niue.y-four,
contained in the fourth, fifth and sixth sec.
tions thereof, so far as they relate to binding
out children as servants or apprentices, are
adopted as part Of this act; and the Direc-
tors specified in this act, shall have all the
powers, and be subject to all the duties of the
Overseers OF the Poor, as set forth in the sec
lions aforesaid, of the act aforesaid and the
master or mistress, servant and apprentice
bound out as aforesaid, shall have ali the
rights and privileges, and be subject to AN the
duties, set forth in the sections aforesaid of
the act aforesaid.
SEC. S. Be further enacted, That when.
ever said Directors, Overseers, or Managers.
shall deem it expedient to discharge any mi
nor, committed to their charge as aforesaid,
and not bound out as a servant or apprentice.
and shall recommend the same in writing TO
the Court by whom such minor was com.
mitted, said Court shall have power to dis
charge him or her from the imprisonment or
custody aforesaid.
SEC. s. BE IL further enarted, That the
said Judge or either Of the said Justices, on
the application of either Of the persons men,
toned in the third section Of this act, shall
have power to order the transfer Of any child