The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-07-01
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Reform school to be called the Ohlo
State Reform Farm for the recep-
ton of such youth therein as may be
sent thither under section nine of this
act, and as may be provided by law.
SEC. 8. The said State Reform Farm
shall be established by the Board of
Commissioners and under their control
and supervision, upon a body of land
containing as near as may be, one thou
sand acres of land, the site of which
the said Board of Commissioners are
hereby authorized and directed to select
and contract for, by and with the advice
and consent of the Governor, at a price
not exceeding fifteen dollars per acre,
the title to be examined and approved
by the Attorney General, and the price
agreed upon to be paid on the order of
said Board of Commissioners, upon the
warrant of the Auditor of State, out of
any moneys in the treasury, not other
wise appropriated; and the sum of if
teen thousand dollars is hereby appro-
priated for that purpose.
SEC. 9. Immediately upon the purch-
ase of said farm, as provided in the pre-
ceding section, and obtaining possession
thereo the said Board of Commissioners
shall proceed to erect one or more suit
able buildings for the reception and &C.
commodation of forty male youth, and
the necessary officers and employees; and
as soon as the said buildings shall be
completed the said Board of Commits
%sioners shall call upon the Directors of
the House of Refuge of Cincinnati, or
upon the Directors of the Ohio Peniten-
tiary, or the officers of any Jail in the
State, for the purpose of receiving there
in male youth to the number of forty,
such as said Board of Commissioners
shall deem suitable for being received
upon said State Reform Farm; and said
forty boys shall constitute the first fami-
ly of said Reform Farm, with the labor
of those youth, and that of the officers
and employees, further buildings and
accommodations shall be erected as may
be required for the reception of youth
sent thither, as provided in the succeed
ing section. The discipline and general
arrangement of said State Reform Farm
shall be such as may be introduced and
established by said Board of Commits
~sioners not inconsistent with the provi-
sions of this act. It is hereby specially
given, as an instruction to be implicitly
followed, hat the buildings upon said
State Reform Farm, for any one family,
shall be plain, not costing more than
two thousand dollars; that the buildings
for joint use, such as the school house
and meeting house, shall be of the same
plain character; and that no one build
ing, of any kind whatsoever, shall be
erected thereon, whose cost shall exceed
three thousand dollars. The said State
Reform Farm, in all its regulations,
shall be conducted with reference to
making it a self sustaining institution.
The State shall incur only the expense
of the original purchase money, the cree
ton of permanent improvements, and
the outfit for the first year. The said
Board of Commissioners shall bear in
mind these instructions, and shall keep
constantly in view the physical, intellec-
tual and moral improvement of the
youth committed to their charge. For
the purpose of erecting the buildings
and indispensable improvements speci6-
ed in this section, for fuel, for the food,
raiment and proper education and en-
ployment of the inmates, and the salary,
per diem, and wages of the said Board
of Commissioners, and the officers and
employees of the said State Reform
Farm, for the ensuing year, the sum of
ten thousand dollars is hereby appropri-
ated, to be paid out of any moneys in
the treasury not otherwise appropriated,
on the order of the said Board of Com
m~issioners, upon the warrant of the
Auditor of State.
Sec. 10. Whenever any minor male
under the age of eighteen, or female
under that of sixteen, shall be found
guilty of an offence or crime against
the laws of this State, the court, in it's
discretion, shall have power to sentence
the defendant to be committed to a re-
form school, designating the particular
one. The governor shall be, n Is
hereby authorized, at his discretion, to
commute the punishment of such con-
victs under the ages respectively fixed
by this act, as now are or hereafter may
be sentenced to, or confined in the Peu-
itentiary, and to send them to a Reform
School. Aud all persons under the ages
aforesaid, may, at The discretion of the
Board Of Directors thereof, be received
into said Reform Schools, who by law,
may be sent to any House of Refuge.
SEC. IL. In all cases when received,
said minors shall be under the control
of the authorities of the Reform School
in which they may be until of legal age,
and said authorities shall at all times
have power to apprentice them, and
such minors shall be discharged from any
Reform School only upon order of the
authorities aforesaid, or in due process
of law.
SEC. IL. No Commissioner, director,
officer or employee connected with any
Reform School, shall contract any debts
for the institution with which he is con-
nected, in excess of appropriations, and
for debt thus contracted, said commits
%sioner, director, officer or employee,
shall be liable individual in his capacity.
Sec. Is. The said Board of Com
missioners may, in the name and in
behalf of the State, receive voluntary
c~onveyances, gifts and grants of every
description, for the purposes of this
act.
SEC. ID. This act shall take effect,
and be in force from and after its pass
age.
JOSEPH TRUESDALE,
Speaker of the House of Reps. pro tenn
THOMAS Fl. FORD,
President of tho Senate.
April I6, 1857.
mo. 1881 AN ACT