Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-07-07

officers, as the council may by ordinance'pfo-
vide; all children under the age of sixteen
years, who shall be convicted of any offence
made punishable by imprisonment under any
ordinance of the city, or who shall be liable
to be committed to prison under any such or
dinance, maybe confined in such house of ref
uge, and may be there kept, or apprentieed
out, under such rules and regulations as the
directofs of the house of refuge may pre-
scribe, until they arrive at the sge of eight
cen years; anl it shall and may he lawful for
the directors of any such house of refuge. to
receive and take charge at any children who
may be committed TO Their Gu, tody by the
court of common pleas, or any judge, justice
Of the pence, or lther officer, under any law
6f the state; any person over the age Of six
teen years, convicted of a violation Of any or
dipance, and .ble to be punished therefor,
by imprisonment, may, in lien thel eof, be
commit ted TO the house of correction, Oh to
the work house, as may be provided by or
dinance.
SEC. 70. That the board of directors OF
any house Of refuge heretofore established by
any city, be, and they are hereby authorized
TO appoint u committee Of enc Of more OF
their own number, with power to execute
and deliver on behalf OF said board, indent-
ures of apprenticeship for any inmate of said
institution whom they may deem proper
person for an apprenticeship to n trade or oc-
cupation, to such person as said committee
or the board may select and agree with; aud
that said indeutures shall have the like force
and effect as other indentures of apprentice
ship under the laws of Ohio, and that said
indentures shall be filed and kept in said in
sttution by the superintendent thereof, and
it shall not be necessary to file or record the
same in any other place or office.
SEC. 80. That when any boy or girl shall
be convicted of any offence against the laws
of this state, punishable with imprisonment
in the penitentialy, ir in the jail of the county
where such house of refuge may be situate,
and shall, under existing laws, be sent to the
house Of refuge, instead Of the penitentiary or
the JAIL, and said boy or girl shull refuse to
submit to the rules of said institution, and
prove to be stubborn and Irreclaimable, in the
opinion Of a majority of said board. he OF she
may, by their order, be delivered into the
custody Of the sheriff of said county, with a
written statement of the cause Of bis or her
commitment. and of the conduct and charac-
ter of such boy or gill, as exhibited in said in
stitution, which statement shall be prepared
and signed by the superintendent of the insti-
tuition; and it shall be the duty of the sheriff
to receive such boy or ghl iLto his custody,
and to file said statement in the office of the
clerk of the court Of common pleas, or in the
office Of the clerk of the court in which he or
che shall have been tried, and to notify the
prosecuting attorney Of the county thereof;
and thereupon, the prose- cutting attorney shall
cause such boy or girl TO be brought before
the court of common pleas, or before the court
in which he or she may have been tried, to
receive the sentence which the court shall
deem just, according to the law, for the offence
of which he OF she shall have been convicted,
as aforesaid.
SEC. 81. That when any inmate of said
institution shall have been adprenticed, and
shall prove unirustworthy and unreformed, he
or she shall be recommitted to the said insti-
tuition. to be held in the same manner as be-
fore said apprenticeship.
SEC. 80. The city council shall have pow
er to erect. establish and maintain city pris-
on, which shall be in the keeping at 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 pro-
vide suitable rooms for the holding ofthe po-
lice court; they shall provide by ordinance fol
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y, or for the appointment by the police judge
Of a cleik0f such police count, and for the, SO
lection, summoning or empanneing its jurors
and for all such matters touching said court
as may tend to its efficacy aud despatch d
business. No clerk of said court shall be il
any manner concerned as counsel, or agent
in the prosecution or defence of any person
before such court. 1t shall be the duty of The
city marshal. by himself or deputy, to attent
the sttings Of the police court, to execute III
orders and process, and preserve order. {.
SEC. SO The police Judge shall have, il
all criminal cases, the powers s and jurisdiction
that are or may be by law, vested in The jns
tees Of the, peaceo thco ua ty, in all respects
" hatsoeyer; he shall also have like power Il
take the Acknowledgements Of deeds and othel
writings; he shall have Jurisdiction OF all VIC
lations of the ordinances OF the cify, and ofal
cases of petit larceny, and other inferior Of
fences, which do not require an indictment
or presentment of grand. jury, with pawel
to hear and determine the same, where jury il
not demanded, in cases where it may bs
properly claimed the policejudge of any sucl
city, shall have power 10 bold a court, to bt
styled The Police Court Every such DO
lice conrt shall be deemed court of record
shall have d seal, TO be provided by the citJ
council, with the name Of the state in til.
centre, and the style of the court around iht
margin, and, shall have Ike jurisdiction as
court, as is or may be vested in the judge hoi
ding the =same.; aud shall also have full juris
diction and power 10 hear and determine al
cases sofyiolationsoft the ordinances of the city
which shall bel presented in the name
or in behalf Of The city and all cases d
petit larceny, and ofherinfarior offences O
every description, committed within the
limits of thecity, or within one mile thereof
and which the constitutions or some law of the
state, does not require TO be prosecuted by in
dictment:or presentment of grand jury, and
prose ecutions for. such offences, shall be
brought and conducted in the name Of the
state and for the prorer exercise ofsuch iu-
risdiction, such police court shall have, in re.
spect to the issuing Of processythe preserving
order, and Furnishing contempts, the admins
tering oaths. the summoning and empannel.
ing Of juries or otherwise, all the powers in.
eident to a court Of common pleas, in the hear
ing and determining Of like cases.
SEC. "a. The police judge holding the DO
lice court, shall be entitled to receive, in al
CRIMINAL cases prosecuted in behalf Of tts
state, the same fees, to be collected in like
manner, as is or may be provided by law, a.
10 iustices of tha neaee ar indooo ri. H., 49,.