The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-06-02

Said board shall, by and with the con
sent of the governor, appoint all neces
sary officers, sub-oficers, and assistants
giving them their proper official designa
f ton, prescribe theic powers and duties
and fixing their compensation, and shal
remove them for good and sufficient cause
The appointees shall participate in The
manual labor and other exercises upol
said farm, and all or any of them shall
before being intrusted with money, give
bond and security to be approved by
said board of commissioners: A ma.
jority of said board shall be a quorum,
: and vacancies in it shall be filled as the
original appointments are made, except
when the general assembly is not in SO
sion and then by the governor until the
twentieth day of the next session of the
general assembly. The board shall re-
port annually to the governor on or be-
fore the twentieth of November, which
report shall contain full and detailed ac-
counts of the fiscal affairs of the state
reform farm and its management and
condition, as we'll as of all reform schools
in the state; and the governor shall
transmit the same to the general - sem
bly, with his annual message. Said board
of commissioners shall have power to
erect, repair, remove, alter or rebuild
any Buildings, and have them arranged
for the accommodation Of such number
of youth, for such family building as
may be deemed most useful; also to di-
rect and control the farming aud Guilt
waiting Of the lands, fruit trees, vines
and crops of every description, and shall
dispose of the products thereof to. the
best possible advantage. The said board
shall, however, guard carefully against
embezzlement, by making aud enforcing
rules aud regulations and proper checks
upon all money transactions so that there
may be strict and frequent accountable
ty, and all money realized from the
state of any crops, may be used for the
purposes of said state reform farm, IN
addition to appropriations, to be report
ed, however, to the auditor of state
quarterly, and annually to the governor,
and the auditor and treasurer of state
are hereby directed to refund the fifty
six dollars and forty cents heretofore
paid into the treasury by the board of
commissioners as proceeds of products
sold to byJ said state re orm farm, TO
be disposed of as herein provided. Said
commissioners shall also have power to
support, instruct, employ, remunerate,
regulate punish and control the youth
detained on said farm, and for these pur-
poses to enter into all requisite contracts
and agf eements, and to adopt all rules
and regulations, aud to do all things
necessary aud desirable to render the
said state reform farm eficacpus for re
forming the inmates according to the
true intent and meaning of this act
Said board of commissi ners are here
by authorized to purchase of John d.
Martin, of Lancaster, the Eighty (8O)
acres of land referred to in their annual
report, and to use theI efor the %unexpend-
ed portion of the appropriation made 1t,
sec. 8 of the act to which this act is an
amendment, amounting to 1884 %, tax
ing from said j u. Martin such war
ranty of title as the governor shall ap
prove.
SEC 8. No commissioner or employee
upon said state reform farm shall be
personally interested in any contract,
purchase or sale made,-or a~nyAhnsiness-
carried on in behalf of, or for said re-
form farm, and all contracts, purchases,
or sales made in violation of this sec
ton, shall be held and declared null and
tractor Oh employee, or to any person for
their benefit in whole or in part in con
sideration of such purchases, contracts
or sales, may be recovered back by civil
suit, to be instituted, in the name of the
state of Ohio, against such contractors,
or employee, or person acting in their
behalf; aud in addition, it is hereby
made the duty of the governor and the
board of commissioners, as the case may
be, upon proof satisfactory of the fact
of such interest, to Immediately emove
the Commissioners or employee delinquent,
as aforesaid, and to report the facts to
the attorney general, who shall take such
legal steps in the premises as he shall
deem expedient.
SEC. 9. No building upon said reform
shall cost, III addition to the labor of the
inmates, and the materials obtained up
on the farm. more than $4,000, nor shall
any family building, in addition to the
labor and materials as aforesaid, cost
more than So 600. All buildings shall
be plainly and substantially constructed,
aud no expenditure shall be made iu
excess of appropriations and for all
expenditures, contracts, or debts, in vio-
lation hereof, the commissioner, officer,
or employee, voting or agreeing to the
same, shall be liable in his individual
capacity.
Sec. 10 1t shall be lawful for the
board of commissioners aforesaid, to re-
eeive upon said reform farm, aud detain
there under their control and guardian
ship such male youth as may be received
and detained in houses of refuge, under
sections G., 7, 8 and 9, of the said act,
entitled ian act to authorize the estab
lishment of houses of refuge" and the
manner and form prescribed in sections
ten aud eleven of said act, in reference
to the examinations aud commitment of
such youth, is hereby extended to and
shall be held to apply to the e4amiua
ton aud commitment of youth to said
reform farm, aud all powers vested by
the act aforesaid in the boards of direc,
tors of houses of refuge, with reference
to such institutions, is hereby conferred
upon said board of commissioners, in
reference to the state reform farm; pro-
vided that this section shall not be SO
Construed as to exclude from the said
farm youth under eighteen years of age.
SEC. IL. The several provisions con
tanned in sections IL, Is, IA and Is. of
tie said act to authorize the establish
ment of houses of refuge, by which. the
directors of said houses of refnue are