The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-07-01

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NIT the same with his regular message to
the General Assembly. No commits
%sicner, officer or employee of any reform
school, shall be interested in any purch-
ase or sale made In behalf of, or in any
business carried on in such reform school;
and for any violation of this provision,
said commissioner, officer or employees,
shall be subject to a fine, not exceeding
double the amount of sueh interest, to
be recovered before any court of compe-
tent jurisdiction, by the Attorney Gen.
eral, in the name of the State of Ohio.
In addition, it is hereby made the duty
of the Governor, and said commission
ers, as the case may be, upon proof salts
t%erest, to instantly remove the commits
%sioner, officer or employee in question.
SEC. 4. There shall be established q
temporary reform school, to be called
the House of Refuge for Females, into
which shall be removed the females CON
fined in the House of Refuge of Gin
c%innati; and into said House of Refuge
there shall no other but male youth be
received; and into said House of Refuge
for Females there shall be received such
female youth from all parts of the State,
as under the avs regulating said Gin
cinnati House of Refuge, may be sent
thither, and in all cases when received,
said minor females shall be under the
entire control of said Board of Com.
missioners, and the matron, officers and
employees appointed by them, until oil
legal age, or until discharged by the or.
dor of said Board of Commissioners, by
being ap~prenticed, or otherwise, or in
due process of law. The said Board
of Commissioners shall lave power to
apprentice said female minor, in accor-
dance with the avs of this State con.
corning apprentices, and in said Board
of Commissioners shall be vested all
powers now or hereafter vested in the
Board of Directors of the Cincinnati
House of Refuge, as far as the same
are applicable to the said House of Ref
uge for Females. Said Board of Com
missioners shall, as soon as possible, rent,
for the purposes of said House of Ref
uge for Females. a suitable building, and
put the same into proper order and re-
pair as may be needful for the reception
and safe keeping of the inmates to be
removed thither, or received therein, as
prescribed in this section; and for the
rent aforesaid, for necessary repairs, for
fuel, for the food, clothing and proper
employment of the inmates, and the
wages of the matrons, officers and en-
ployees, and the general maintenance of
said House of Refuge for Females, dur
ing the ensuing year, there are hereby
appropriated five thousand dollars, to
be paid on the order of said Board of
Commissioners, accompanied by the
proper vouchers, upon the warrant OF
the Auditor of State.
Sec. S. All Houses of Refuge here.
after established shall be either solely
for the males or solely for females; and
any city of this State that shall establish,
under the laws thereof, a House of Ref
uge for females, upon plans and specif-
cations, and of dimensions approved by
the Board of Commissioners created by
this act, shall be entitled to receive an
nually the sum of five thousand dollars
from the State Treasury: Provided,
That no more than one such House OF
Refuge shall, as designated by said
Board of Commissioners, be entitled to
said sum from the State. And provi-
ded further: That the Board of Direc-
tors of said House of Refuge for Females,
shall specially agree by contracts duly
made between them and the said Board
of Commissioners and ratified by the
Governor, which contracts they are
hereby authorized to make, to receive
into said House of Refuge, to the num-
Der of fifty, such female youth from all
parts of the State, and from the tempo
rary House of Refuge for Females, as
may be sent thither in accordacce with
this act. And provided further: That
at any time after five years from the
passage of this act, the State may dis
continue the payment of said FIVE thou
sand dollars per annum, to any city that
may establish said House of Refuge for
Females, in which event the Board
of Directors of said House of Ref
uge for Females shall be released
from all obligations to receive therein
female youth from the State. And the
sum of five thousand dollars is hereby
appropriated, to be paid to the Board
of Directors of such House of Refuge
for Females, for the current year,
IN the order of the said Board of
Commissioners and the warrant of the
Auditor of State, out of any moneys not
otherwise appropriated, and into the
House Refuge. when established as
aforesaid, the females in the temporary
House of Refuge, provided in the pre-
ceding section, shall be removed, and
said temporary House of Refuge shall
thereupon be closed and discontinued.
SNo. 6. The said Board of Commits
sioners are hereby authorized and direc-
ted to enter at once into the proper
contracts and arrangements with the
Board of Directors of the House oil
Refuge of Cincinnati, and said directors
are hereby also authorized and directed
to enter into, make and execute such
contracts and arrangements for the re-
ception into said House of Refuge as
soon as the females shall be removed
into the other House of Refuge, provi-
ded in section four, of such of the male
youth from all parts of the State, not
exceeding one hundred in number, at
least four-ffths of whom shall be from
without the city of Cincinnati, as may
under the law regulating said institu.
ton, and the provisions of this act, be
received therein, and such youth, when
SO received, shall be subject to all the
rules of said Institution; and upon the
due execution of such contract, ratified
by the Governor, said Board of Direc-
tors shall be entitled to receive annually
the sum of ten thousand dollars. to be