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

tions shall not afterwards be altered o
amended, except with the advice and con
sent OF said Board Of Commissioners. TIL
expense Of the exami nation aforesaid shal
be paid by the person OF persons or societ
at whose instance IL is made; aud the sal,
Board OF Commissioners shall report in wri
ting To the Governor, who may, ifthe repor
Of the Board of Commissioners, as aforesaid
be favorable, and he approve said report
issue his proclamation declaring the sal,
reformatory to be established as a reform
school Of class three under the laws Of thi
State. Any youth that under any law o
this State can be committed either to q
house of refuge, OF TO the State reform farm
may hereafter be committed to the number o
one hundred, (but never male and female il
one institution together,) to such feforma
tory, in the manner and form prescribed IL
the act entitled can act 10 authorize the es
adjustment of houses of REFUGEE for peri
cd not less than two years nor more thai
five years, il the person or society control
ling such reformatory shall be willing TO re-
ceive such youth. All the powers veste,
by this act in the Board Of Commissioner
with reference to The retention, Tecspture
maintenance. support, employments, ant
control Of any youth detained upon th,
State reform farm shall attach and apply I,
the owners, managers, officers and Instruct
ors OF such reformatoty; provided, that said
owners, managers, officers or instructors
shall not claim any public support for such
Ieformatory, but shall Tely solely upon theiI
own private means, the labor OF the inmat es,
the moneys received as weekly charge and
private charity; provided, further, that they
shall not be liable either in their indiyi dual
or corporate capacity for any labor perform
ed in such reformatory by any youth com.
mitted therein by due process of law.
SIC. II. The Board Of Commissioners OF
reform schools, any Court of record IN this
State, the grand jury for the county in which
the re Ieformatory is located shall have, either
in person or by some visitor aud examiner
appointed by them, full access at all season.
able hours to any such refornatory for the
purpose OF examining into its condition, and
at least once every three months, the Court
OF Common Pleas, for the county in which a
reformatory is located, shall appoint two fit
and discreet persons to examine into the
conduct Of the respective officers and man
ayers, and the behavior aud condition Of the
inmates, and whether any abuses exist, and
if they discover any abuse or abuses they
are hereby required to report i'll writing TO
the said Court, which may proceed to hear
reported are sui stantiated, may al Judge the
Ieformatory abolished, whereupon the youth
detained the.ein by authority of law, shall
be removed to another reform school within
this State, or discharged, as the said Court
shall direct.
SEC. Is. The city council Of any city Of
This State, whether house Of refuge be al
ready established in o. for said city or not,
shall have power TO erect and establish,
within the limits thereof, OF in its vicinity,
I house OF refuge for females, under and in
accordance with the said act entitled "an
ict to authorize the establishment OF hOu' es
Of refugee and any city establishing such a
house of refuge within year from the pass
age of this act, upon a body of land, and up
on plans and specifications approved by the
Board OF Commissioners for reform schools,
shall be entitled 10 receive the sum Of FIVE
thousand dollars from the State treasury, TO
be expended in the purchase OF the body Of
land for the said house of refuge or IN pro-
viding bindings for the same, or in payment
for both land and buildings, as the case may
be; provided, that only one such house of
refuge shall, as designated by said Board of
Commissioners, be entitled 20 receive said
sum from the State.
SEC. 10. The Board Of Directors OF the
shall, upon the completion of the same, BE-
entitled To receive annually the sum OF five
thousand dollars in consideration of the due
execution and performance of the following
contract, that is to say: the Board OF Direct
Jrs aforesaid shall agree with the Board Of
commissioners oi reform schools by contract
IN writing, which contract both tbs Board OF
Directors and the Commissioners nre hereby
authorized to make and enter into. II appro.
ied mud ratified by the Governor, that they,
he said Board of Directors will receive into
.he said house of refuge for the period Of five
years, and properly employ. maintain, edu-
cate, Clothe, feed, and safely keep, to
he number OF fifty, such female youth
rom all parts Of the State, as may under the
avs o! this Stale be sent to any house of
-efuge; and for the objects contemplated in
his and the preceding sections, the sum O (
10000 is hereby appropriated FOR the year
S5S, and for the object contemplated in this
section the sum of ; 5, 900 for the year 1859,
20 be paid on the order of the Board Of Com
niSSoners for reform schools, npon the war
rant Of the Auditor Of State, out of any mon.
eys not otherwise appropriated.
SIG 20. The Board of Commissioners for
eform schools are hereby authorized to en-
er into contracts with the board OF Direct.
,Ts OF the house of refuge at Cincinnati, and
he Board Of Directors Aforesaid rs also au-
hoIZed to contract with said Board of Com
nissloneIs for the reception into. aud EN-
,loyment, maintenance, feeding, clothing,
and safe keeping in said house of
efuge for the period Of FIVE years (thc ie-
male youth having been removed thereirom,)
,f such Of the male youth from all parts Of
he State, TO the number OF one hundred, (at
east four-fiths of whom shall be from with
,ut the city Of Cincinnati,) as may under
he law authorizing the establishment of
houses OF refuge and this act, be committed
therein; aud upon due execution OF said
and its approval and ratification
by the Governor, the said Board Of Direct
)rs shall be entitled TO receive the sum of
10000 per annum, to be duly expended by
'aid Board of Directors for said houses of
efuge; and there is hereby appropriated
10, 900 for the year 1853, and SlO,0O0 for
he year 1859, TO be paid on the order OF the
3oard OF Commissioners for reform schools,
lpon the warrant OF the Auditor OF State.
'ut ofany moneys in the treasury not 9th er-
wise appropriated.
SEC. 81. The said Board of Commission
,rs may, in the name and in behalf Of the
State, receive voluntary conveyances of
lifts, and grants Of real and personal proper
y of every description, to be used and ex-
,ended and duly reported as herein provi-
led for the purpose Of this act.
SEC. %. The State reform farm is hereby
declared special school district, and shall
De entitled to receive its due share Of school
moneys aud books, according to the number
of inmates therein.
SEC. %. The act entitled "an act to pro-
vide for the establishment o. reform schools' p,