The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-05-14

ment of the affairs thereof, and of all Of
fcers and persons appointed or employ
ed by them in and about the asylum or
elsewhere, and they may alter and amend
such rules and regulations at pleasure.
SEC. 6. As soon as building be pro-
cured and suitable accommodations made
as provided in the third section, the said
Board shall admit into said Asylum at
least nine idiots and imbecile youth, who
shall be maintained and educated therein
'at the expense of the State. Said youth
shall be selected. one from each judicial
district of the State, so far as application
shall be made from said District: Pro-
vided, that no youth shall be admitted,
as aforesaid unless the Probate Judge of
the county where said youth shall reside
shall certify that he or she is in INDECENT
circumstances and has resided in this
State at leas. one year previous to such
application. The board may admit into
the Asylum such number of paying pu-
pills AS can be accommodated therein: and
for the support and education of such
youth the Board shall fix and regulate
the amount to be charged, and the time
and terms Of payment. They shall also
prescribe and publish forms for applica
ton for admission, and may include in
them such interrogatories as they shall
deem necessary and useful to be answer
ed.
| SEC. Z. No youth shall be admitted
into said asylum who are over fifteen
years ofage, or,who are capable of receiv.
ing instruction. at common schools.
SEC. 8. The directors of county OF
city inirmaries, or the township trustees
in any county where there is no county
infrmary, may remove to said Asylum
any idiotic and imbecile youth who may
be properly admitted therein; and in suci
case said directors or township trustees
shall support such youth at said Asylum
from any funds under their control ap
plicable to the support of such infrmarie
or of township poor.
Sec. g. 1t shall be the further duty O
said trustees to make inquiry in regarc
to site for. a suitable building for saie
institution. and to receive propositions fo
donations of land or money; they shal
also collect information in relation to th,
proper management of such institution
and the education of such idiotic Youth
and the cost, construction and arrange
ment of the necessary buildings, and shall
procure plan of the same. For the pur
poses contemplated by this section an,
two of said trustees may visit one or NOR,
of similar public institutions in the Uni
ted States; and when so employed, the,
shall receive three dollars per day ant
their necessary travelling expenses; Pro
vided, that the whole amount expended
for such purposes shall not exceed thre,
hundred dollars All other services IL
be performed by said trustees under thi
act shall be gratuitous, except that thei
incidental expenses shall be paid Th,
said Board shall report to the Genera
Assembly at the commencement of tn,
next session, the result of their inquire
and observations, and shall also repor
their official proceedings, and the condi
ton and situation of the institution unde1
their charge, together with an exhibit il
detail of all its receipts and expenditures
Sec. 10. For the purposes of this &C
there shall be and is hereby appropria
ted the sum of three thousand dollars
All accounts and expenditures shall b.
properly certified by said trustees. or an,
two of them, and shall be paid by thl
Treasurer upon the order of the Auditor
SEC. II. This act shall take effec
from and after its passage.
N. I'll. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
THOMAS Fl. FORD,
President of the Senate.
April II, 1851.