Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1852-07-15
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AN ACT
70 nrovise for the organization Of Cities and
Incorporated Villages.
BY AUTHORITY.

AN ACT
70 nroviSe for the organization Of Cities and
Incorporated Villages.
Sec. 70. The city council shall have
power to erect and establish, and TO
maintain and regulate, either within its
limits, or within the county in which il
may be situate, house Of refuge, or a
house of correction, and a work house,
orseither Of them, and place the same
under the management and control oil
such directors, superintendents, and OH
ersoficers, as the council may by ordi-
nance provide; all children under the
age of sixteen years, who shall be con-
victed of any offence made punishable
by Imprisonment under any ordinance
of the city, or who shall be liable 10 be
committed to prison under any such Or
dinance, may be confined in such house
of refuge, and may be there kept, or ap-
prenticed out, under such rules and reg
uIations as the directors of the house of
refuge may prescribe, until they arrive
at the age OF eighteen years; and il shall
and4nay be lawful for the directors Of
any such house OF refuge. to receive
and take charge Of any children who
may be committed to their custody by
the court of common pleas, Oh any
judge, justice of the peace, or otner Off
Ger. under any law Of the State; any
person over the age of sixteen years,
convicted of a violation Of any ordi-
nance, and liable to be punished there
for, by Imprisonment, may, in lieu
thereof, be committed to the house Of
correction, or to the work house, as may
be provided by ordinance.
Sec. 79. That the board Of directors
of any house of refuge heretofore es-
tabIished by any city, be, and they are
hersi Eized 10 appoint commit
fef more of their own num-
be 1wer TO execute and deliver,
on 0ehaf Of said board, indentures OF
apprenticeship for any inmate of said
institution whom they NAV deem pro-
per person for an apprenticeship TO a
trade or occupation, TO such person as
said committee or the board may select
and agree with; and that said indentures
shall have the like force and effect as
other indeniures of apprenticeship un-
der the laws of Ohio, and that said in
dentures shall be filed and kept in said
institution by the superintendent thereof,
and it shall not be necessary TO f'e or
record the same in any other place or
Office.
Sec 80. That when anv boy or girl
shall be convicted of any offence against
the laws of this state, punishable with
Imprisonment in the penitenliary, or in
the Jail of the county where such house
of refuge may be situate, and shall, un.
der existing laws, be sent to the house
of refuge, instead Of the penilentiarv
or the Jail, and said boy or girl shall re-
fuse 10 submit to the rules of said insti-
tuition, and prove TO be stubborn and ir-
reclaimable, in the opinion of a ma iori-
ty of said board, he or she may, by
their order, be delivered into the custo-
dy of the sheriff Of said county, with a
written statement of the cause of his
or her commitment, and of the conduct
and character of such boy or girl, as
exhibited in said institution, which state
ment shall be prepared and signed by
the superintendent of the institutions;
and it shall be the duty Of the sheriff TO
receive such boy or girl into his custo-
dy, and to file said statement in the Of
fee of the clerk of the court of common
Meas, or in the Office of the clerk Of the
court in which he or she shall have been
tried, and TO notify the prosecuting at
torney Of the county thereof; and there
upon, the prosecuting attorney shall
cause such boy or girl TO be brought be-
fore the court of common pleas, or be
fore the court in which he or she may
have been tried, to receive the sentence
which the court shall deem just, accord
ing to the law, for the offence of which
he or she shall have been convicted, as
aforesaid.
Sec. 81, That when any inmate of
said institution shall have been appren-
ticed, and shall prove untrustworthy and
unreformed, he or she shall be recon
mitted to the said institution, 10 be held
in the same manner as before said ap
premiership.
Sec. SO The city council shall have
power TO erect, establish and maintain a
city prison, which shall be in the keep
ing of the city marshal, under such rules
and regulations as the city council shall
prescribe. The city council OF such
city shall provide one or more watch or
station houses; they shall also provide
suitable rooms for the holding OF the
police court; they shall provide by or
dinance for the election by the qualified
voters Of the city, or for the appoint
ment by the police judge, Of clerk for
such police court, and for the selection,
summoning or empanneling its juries,
and for all such matters touching said
court, as may tend TO IFS efficacy and
dispatch of business. No clerk of said
court shall be in any manner concerned
as counsel, or agent, in the prosecution
or defence of any person before such
court. II shall be the duty of the city
marshal, by himself or deputy. TO attend
the sittings of the police court, to exc
cute IFS orders end process. and pre-
serve order.
Sec. 83. The police judge shall have,
in all criminal cases, the powers and
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