The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1857-06-09

-else'-of how we are constantly trying to
throw dust in our neighbor's eyes conscious,
all the while, that they ere trying the same
thing on us, and the wonder is that we can
look each other in the face without laughing.
To amend certain Sections OF an Act to
amend An Act entitled San Act TO esta bIish
House Of Correction for Juvenile Offend-
ers," approved February 10th, 1865.
Sec. l. The people Of The State Of AEehi-
gan enact That section two, seven, eight, ten,
twelve and thirteen of said act are hereby
amended, 80 as TO read rs folows
Sec. 2. The general supervision and gov
eminent of said House Of Correction, shall
be vested in board Of control, TO consist of
three members, who shall be appointed by
the Governor, by and with the advice and
consent of the members of the Senate, the
members of which Board shall hold their Of
fees for the respective terms of two, four and
six years from the first Of March 1857, and
until their successors shall be appointed and
qualified, said respective terms of office to
be designated in their several appointments !;
and thereafter shall he one of said Board ap-
pointed every two years, whose term Of
Office shall continue for six years, or until
his successor is appointed and qualified. The
members of said Board of Control shall con-
stitate a body corporate under the name and
style Of the "Board Of Control of the House
of Correction for Juvenile Offenders" with
the right of sueing and being sued, of ma
king and using a common seal, and of alter
ing it at pleasure.
Sec. 7. 1t shall be the duty of the men,
bers of the Board of Control TO meet annu-
ally at the House of Correction on tho third
"Wednesday in November of each year and at
said annual meeting they shall elect of their
own body, a chairman, treasurer, and clerk,
who shall hold their offices for one year, and
until their successors shall be elected and
qualified.
Sec S. It shall be the duty Of the Board
of Control, to meet once in every three
months on their own adjournment, and often
err if they shall deem it advisable, at which
meetings they shall prepare and carefully di-
gest and mature system of government for
said House Of Correction for juvenile offend
ers, embracing all such rules and regulations
and general laws as may be deemed necessa-
ry for preserving order, for enforcing discipline,
for imparting instruction; for preserving health
and generally for tho proper physical, intel
lectual and moral training of the offenders.
Sec. 10. From and after the time that said
institution shall be prepared for the reception
of offenders, every person under the age of
sixteen years, who shall be convicted of
prison offence except in cases punishable by
law with imprisonment for life, shall be SEN
fenced to the House of Correction for juvc-
nile offenders, until they shall be twenty-onc
years Of age; and it shall be the duty of all
courts and magistrates, sentencing offenders
to said House of Correction, TO certify 10 the
keeper of the said House Of Correction the
age Of the person so committed, ms nearly as
can be ascertained by testimony taken under
oath before such court or magistrate, or such
other manner rs the corut or magistrate shall
direct; and no person shall be detained in
custody in said institution after they shall be-
come twenty-onc years of age.
Sec. IL. Whenever said institution shall
be so completed as to allow of the reception
and proper discipline of juvenile offenders it
shal! be lawful for all courts of record, having
criminal jurisdiction and for all police and
justices courts, in the exercise of their prop
cr criminal jurisdiction, and said courts arc
hereby severaly authorized to sentence any
offenders of the respective class s contempla-
ted by this act, to the said House of Corrcc-
ton Provided, judgments rendered in all
police and justices courts, shall, upon re-
viewal of the papers and testimony taken by
the justices on said trial, before circuit or
probate judge, be approved: Provided, ais,
That if such judgment be dsapproved, such
police or Justices courts arc hereby author
lied to pass sentences MS IN other cases provi-
ded by law.
Sec 13. 1t shall be lawful for the Board
of Control, whenever in their discretion they
may deem any Of tho offenders imprisoned in
said institution so far reformed as to Justify
his or her discharge, or to bind him, her or
them, by articles of indenture, fer that pur-
pose to be entered into, TO any suitable per-
son who will engage to instruct such offender
in some proper art or trade, according to the
terms Of said articles of indenturc.
Sec. 2. The Auditor General is hereby au-
thorizcd and required to draw his warrant on
tho State Treasurer for such sum as the Board
Of Control of said House of Correction shall
from time TO time direct; such sums SO drawn
at any one time shall not exceed one thousand
dollars, and no sums shall be drawn until sat
isfactory vouchers are presented to and al
lowed by the Board of State Auditors for the
amount previously drawn.
Sec. 8. There is hereby appropriated out
of any money in tue State Treasury not 9TH
crwise appropriated, so much as shall be suf-
ficicnt to pay all outstanding indebtedness
now existing against said Board Of Coitrol
by reason Of building and furnishing said
House of Correction, not exceeding seven
thousand dollars, said indcbtncss being first
audited and allowed by the Board Of State
Auditors.
Ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved February 10, 1857.