The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1858-04-23

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5 eight Of the nct TO which this act is an amend.
ment, amounting to 1884 %, taking from
said J. ID. Martin such warranty Of title al
, The Governor shall approve.
SIC. 8. No Commissioner OF employee,
upon ssid State reform farm shall be person
. ally interested in any contract, purchase o
sale made, or aEy business carried on in be
half Of, or for said re fern farm, and all con
tracts, purchases, or sales made in violation
Of this section, shall be held and declare,
null and void, and all moneys paid TO sucl
contractor OF employee or any person 70
their benefit, in whole or in part, in consid
: Grafton OF such purchases, contracts, o.
sales, may be recovered back by civil suit
TO be instituted, In the name OF the State o
d, Ohio, against such contractor or employee
or person acting in their behalf; and in al
dition, il is hereby made the duty Of tn,
Governor and the Board of Commissioners
as the case may be, upon proof satisfactor,
oil the fact OF such interest, to immediatel,
remove the Commissioner or employee de
linquent, as aforesaid, and 10 report the fact:
to the Attorney General, who shall take suci
. legal steps in the premises as he shall deem
Iexpedient.
SIC. 3, No building upon said reform
, farm shall cost, in addition to the labor ol
the inmates, and the materials obtained up
on the farm, more than 5000, nor shall any
family building, in addition TO the labor and
materials, as aforesaid, cost more than
$4,000. All buildings shall be plainly and
substantiallyconst cted ,and no expenditure
shall be made in excess of appropriations;
and for all expenditures, contracts. or debts,
in violation hereof, the Commissioner, OFF,
Ger, or employee, voting or agreeing TO the
same, shall he liable in his individual ca.
pacity.
SEC. 10. 1t shall be lawful for the Board
OF Commissioners aforesaid, to receive upon
said reform farm. and retain there under
their control and guardianship, such male
youth as may be received and detained in
houses Of refuge, under section 6, Z, 8 and
9, OF the said act, entitled can act to author
! ize the establishment of houses Of refugee"
and the manner and form prescribed in Sec
ton ten and eleven Of said act, in reference
to the examination and commitm ent Of such
youth, is hereby extended TO and shall be
held to apply TO the examination and COM
mitment of youth to said reform farm, and
ali the powers vested by the Aforesaid act in
the Boards of Directors Of houses Of refuge,
with reference TO such institutions, is here
by conferred upon said Board Of Commits
sioners, in reference to the State reform
4 farm; provided that this section shall not be
so construed as 10 exclude from said farm
youth under eighteen years Of age.
SEC. II. The several provisions contain
ed in sections IL, l3, IA, and is Of the said
act to authorize the establishment Of houses
of refuge, by which the Directors Of said
houses of refuge are not required to receive
any further youth after the houses are full,
shall be held to apply to the Commissioners
OF reform schools in reference to the State
reform farm. The Provisions in reference to
tha ia Caw 4,
and the statement which must accompany
the commitment. and the form thereof, are
also hereby extended to and shall be held to
apply to commitments to the State reform
farm.
SIC. 10. Ii is hereby further provided,
that the several provisions contain d in sec
ton is, l6 and II, of the said act, entitled
'"an act TO authorize houses OF refuge" in
reference to the app enticeing and the can
collation. of inden,ure OF apprenticeship, aud
the arrest ana recapture of fugitlyes, be
and the same are hereby extended 10 and
shall be h. Id TO apply 10 said State reform
farm, and the same shall be the case with the
provisions IN reference to any return TO any
writ OF haheas corpus, directed to any com
missioner, o'icer, or employee, upon said
State reform farm, as contained in sections
10 and 20 Of said act; provided that fugitives
from said farm may be retaken upon the
writtenorder of the acting Commissioner, or
the chief officer upon the farm, or by any
Commi Ssioner, Office, or employee, upon
fresh pursuit without any such order.
SEr. l3. The costs in any case, and the
actual expenses incurred in the transporta
tion of any youth TO the State reform farm,
shall be paid by the county from which such
youth is co.nmitted, upon the order OF the
County Auditor, 10 the officer transporting
such youth upon the presentation Of his
sworn statement Of account certified To by
the proper officer upon said State reform
farm. 1t is hereby made the duty Of the Of
icer who shall be charged with the execu-
ton OF the commitment made out by the
court, TO retain the person so ordered TO be
committed, in his custody, until he shall be
notified by the Board of Commissioners that
there is room for the intended inmate at the
State reform farm.
SEC. ID. II shall be lawful for the Gov.
ernor upon the written recommendation of
the Board oil Director ofany house ofre(uge,
or the Board OF Commissioners of reform
schools, or the managers or owners OF re.
lormatories, 10 remove any youth committed
TO any reform school from one reform school
TO another, the cost of transportation to be
paid by the reform school at whose instance
the removal takes place. Snch removal;
however, shall not increase the period for
which such youth was to restrain in such
re form school; notice Of such removal, if
deemed proper, shall be given to the parents
or guardians of the youth; aud the Clerk Of
the Court Of Common Pleas Of the county
from which he was committed; and in all
cases, when so remaved, the youth shall be
under the control OF the authorltiesof the III
stitution to which he is removed, in like
manner as it originally committed therein,
and shall be discharged only by the author
Ities aforesaid. Any juvenile offender or
convict. now or hereafter sentenced to or
confined in the Ohio penltentIary, or any
jail in the State, may, at the discretion of
the Governor, be removed to the State re-
form farm, OF any other reform school, If
there be room therein, the offender 10 be ad-
mltted under the by laws, rules and regula-
tions OF said reform schools.
SEC. 10. The parents and friends of any
youth committed to any reform school willing
to bear the expenses OF the same, may, By
agreement made between them and the au-
thorities Oft the respective reform schools, be
held to pay weekly charge not exceeding
one dollar and fifty cents, the moneys re-
ceiyed to be duly reported, and expended as
other moneys. for the benefit of such reform
school.
SIC. 16. II shall be lawful for any person
or persons. or any benevolent or charitable
society, either now or hereafter legally or.
gaIized in this State, to establish a reform
school Of class three, to be called "reform-
atory," as provided in section four of this
act, into which youth may be committed, as
hereinafter provided, for the purpose oftrain
ing. and practicing them IN agricultural,
horticultural, mechanical or manufacturing
labor. The person or persons, or society,
having determined to establish a reforma-
Tory, as aforesaid, may procure, examine and
fix upon plans, specifications and estimates
for erecting suitable buildings, or altering
or improving, or furnishing and completing
any already built, arrange and lay out any
farm or lot OF land in this State, to be used
as reformatory for the reception and safe
keeping, maintenance and proper training
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