Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-28

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shall take effect, no commissioner shall
receive any compensation for his servi-
ces, but shall only be paid for his neces-
sary expenses.
Sec. 3. The reform schools embrac-
ed in classes one and three of the first
section of this act, shall be subject at
all times to be visited and advised by
the board Of commissioners aforesaid,
and those embraced in class two of the
said section, shall be under their entire
control, and they shall have the same
power over The last named class as are
incident to the Office Of a sheriff. The
said board shall have power, and it is
hereby made their duty, to make, estab-
fish and inforce, and from time to time
alter or amend, rules and regulations
for the government and control of such
reform schools, the proper classification
of the inmates, their discipline and en-
ployment: Provided, that such rules
and regulations, and any amendments
thereto or alterations therein, shall not
or, and the rules and regulations thus
established shall be binding upon officers
as weel as inmates, and by both be faith
fully observed. Said board shall have
power, by and with the advice and con-
sem of the Governor, to authorize or di-
rect the appointment and removal of all
officers, sub-oficers and employees need
full for such reform schools, giving them
such designation as they may think
proper, and to prescribe their powers
and duties and fix their compensation
it being understood. that these officers
and employees are to be appointed solely
with reference to their qualification and
good character. They shall participate
in the exercises and manual labor of the
institution, and all or any of them en-
trusted with money shall give bond with
security, to be approved by the commits
sioners or directors, as the case may be.
A majority of said boardshall a be quo
rum, and vacancies in the board shall be
flledi in the same manner as its members
are originally appointed, except when
the General Assembly is not in session
and then by the Governor alone until
the fifteenth day of the next session Of
the General Assembly. The said board
shall report annually to the Governor,
on the first day of December. Said re-
port shall contain full and detailed &C
counts of all payments made, and mon
eys received, and of the fiscal affairs of
all reform schools, their manage ment
and condition; and this report the Gov
ernor shall have printed, and shall trans
nit the same with his regular message
to the General Assembly. No commits
sioner, officer OF employee of any reform
school, shall be interested in any pur-
chase or sale made in any behalf of, or
in any business carried on in such re-
form schools; and for any violation of
this provision, said commissioners of
fcer or employee, shall be subject to a
fine not exceeding double the amount
of such interest, to be recovered before
any court of competent jurisdiction, by
the Attorney General, in the name Of
the State of Ohio. In addition, it is
hereby made the duty of the Governor,
and said commissioners, as the case may
be, upon proof satisfactory to them of
the fact of such interest, to instantly re-
move the commissioners, officer or en-
ployee in question.
SEC. 4. There shall be established a
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 Cincin-
natl; and into said Cincinnati House, of
Refuge there shall be no other but fe-
male youth to 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 laws re-
gulating said Cincinnati House of Ref
uge, may be sent thither, and in all cas-
es when received, said minor females
shall be under the entire control of said
Board of Commissioners, and the ma
irons, officers and employees appointed
by them, until of legal age, or until dis
charged by the order of the said Board
of Commissioners, by being apprenticed
or otherwise, or in due process of law.
| The said board of Commissioners shall
have power to apprentice said female
minor, in accordance with the laws Of
this State concerning apprentices, and
in said Board of commissioners shall be
vested all powers now or hereafter yes
ted in the Board of Directors of the Gin,
cinnati House of Refuge, as far as the
same are applicable to the said House
of Refuge for Females. Said Board OF
Commissioners shall, as soon as possible
rent, for the purpose of said House o.
/ Retccme for Females, a suitable building
and nut the sarce into proper order ant
repair as may be needfui for the rcccp.
ton and safe keeping OF Inc inmates =
be removed thither, or received therein
as prescribed in this section; and for the
rent aforesaid, for necessary repairs, fol
fuel, for the food, clothing, and proper
employment of the inmates, and The
wages of the matrons, officers, and en-
ployees, and general maintenance of sale
House of Refuge for Females, during
the ensuing year, there are hereby ap
propriated five thousand dollars, to b
paid on the order of said Board of Com
missioners accompanied by the prope
vouchers, upon the warrant of the Au
ditor of State.
T Sec. 5. All Houses of Refuge here
after established shall be either solel.
for males or solely for females; and an,
city of this State that shall establish
under the laws thereof, a House c
Refuge for females, upon plans an
specifications, and of dimensions ap
2 proved by the the Board of Commission