The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-06-09
LAWS OF OHIO.
PUBLIsHED by AUTHORITY.
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Sec. IL. 1t is hereby further provided,
that the several provisions contained in
sections Is, 10 and IL, of the said act,
entitled Tan act to authorize houses of
refuge" in reference to the ~apprenticing
and the cancellation of indenture of az
premiership, and the arrest and recap
ture of fugitives be and they are hereby
extended to and shall be held to apply
to said state reform farm, and the same
shall be the case with the provisions in
reference to any return to any writ OF
habeas corpus, directed to any commits
%sioner, officer, or employee upon said
state reform farm, as contained In sec
tions 10 and 20 of said act provided
that fugitives from said farm may be re-
taken upon the written order of the act
ting commissioner, or the chief officer
upon the farm, or by any commissioner,
officer, or employee upon fresh pursuit
without any such order.
SEC. 10. The costs in any case, and
the actual expenses incurred in the trans
portation of any youth to the state re-
form farm, shall be paid by the county
from which such youth is committee, up
on the order of the county auditor, to
the officer transporting such youth, upon
the presentation of his sworn statement
of account certified to by the proper Of
icer upon said state reform farm. 1t is
hereby made the duty of the officer who
shall be charged with the execution 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 commission =
ers that there is room for the intended
inmate at the state reform farm.
SEC. IA. It shall be lawful for the
governor upon the written recommends
ton of the board of directors of any
house of refuge, or the board of com-
missioners of reform schools, or the
managers or owners of reformatories, to
remove any youth committed to any re
form 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 Such
period for which such youth was to re-
main in such reform school; notice of
such removal, if deemed proper, shall be
given to the parents or guardians of the
youth, and the clerk of the court of
common pleas of the county from which
he was committed; and in all cases,
when so removed, the youth shall be
under the control of the authorities of
the institution to which he is removed,
in like name as if originally commit
ted therein, and shall be discharged only
by the authorities aforesaid. Any ju-
venile offender or convict, now or here
after sentenced to or confined in the
Ohio penitentiary, or any Jail in the
state, may at the discretion of the gov
ernor, be removed to the state reform
farm, or any other reform school, if there
be room therein, the offender to be ad-
mitted under the bylaws, rules and
regulations of said reform school.
SEC. Is. The parents and friends of
any youth committed to any reform
school, willing to bear the expenses of
the same, may by agreement made be-
tween them and the authorities of the
respective reform schools, be held to pay
a weekly charge, not exceeding one dol
lar and fifty cents, the moneys SO re-
ceived to be duly reported, and expend-
ed as other moneys, for the benefit OF
such reform school.
Sec. I6. 1t shall be lawful for any
person or PERSONS, or any benevolent or
charitable society either now or here
after legally organized in this state to
establish a reform school of class three,
to be called a "reformatory," as provid-
ed in section 4 of this act, into which
youth may be committed, as hereinafter
provided, for the purpose of training
aud practising them in agricultural,
horticultural, mechanical or manufac-
turing labor. The person or persons,
or society, having determined to estab-
lish a reformatory as aforesaid may pro-
cure, examine and fix upon plans, speci-
fcatioDs and estimates for erecting suit
able 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 a
for the reception and safe
keeping, maintenance and proper train
of Juvenile offenders; and it is here
by made the duty of the commissioners
for reform schools, to aid such person or
persons, or society, with proper aeVice
and with all information in their posses
sion ; and when such reformatory shall
be completed, the fact of such compile
ton shall be reported to the board of
commissioners tor reform schools, who
shall Immediately take the proper meas
nres to have the same thoroughly ex.
either by themselves or some
person appointed by them to ascertain
il is suitably prepared for the
reception of inmates, and supplied with
teachers, and whether proper
rules and regulations have been adopted,
which rules and regulations shall not
be altered or amended, ex-
,ept with the advice and consent of said
of commissioners. The expense
If the examination aforesaid shall be
oaid by the person or persons or society
It whose instance it is made; and the
aid board of commissioners shall re-
BORT in writing to the governor, who
if the report of the board of COM
as aforesaid, DO favorable,
md he approve said report, issue his
proclamation declaring the said refor-
natory to be established as a reform
school of class three under the laws of
his state. Any youth that under any
of this state can be committed eth
,r to a house of refuge or to the state
reform farm, may hereafter be committed
the number of one hundred, (but new
" male and female in the same institu-
ion tooather \ IN auch reformatorv in