Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-11-23

AN ACT to establish the Vermont Reform
School.
his hereby enacted By the General Assembly
Of the State Of Vermont.
SEC. l. There shall be established, as
hereafter provided, an institution for the
discipline, correction and reformation OF Ju'
venile offenders, to be called the Vermont
Reform School, TO which shall be committed
for discipline, correction and instruction,
such persons not exceeding eighteen years
of age is il is by this bill provided thus to
commit. ..-
SEC. 2. There shall be appointed annu-
ally by the Governor, by and with the advice
of the Senate, a board of commissioners, to
consist of three members, one of their num-
Der TO be designated as the acting commits
sioner, and the other two advisory commits
sioners. The acting commissioner shall re-
ceive, besides board for himself and fami-
", a salary of eight hundred dollars per an
mum, to be paid quarterly, but no other eX,
penses, perquistes or fees whatever And
the two advisory commissioners shall re-
ceive three dollars per diem for the time &C
tuallv employed in the discharge of their
duties. with travelling expenses. The acting
commissioner shall constantly reside upon
the State farm, and give his whole time
to the duties of his Office. The whole
board shall meet at least once quarterly, but
no pay per diem shall be paid to any advis-
ory commissioner for more than fifty days
in one year; and the salary and pay per
diem shall be paid ont of the Treasury OF
the State, on the order of the Auditor OF
Accounts issued on the separate certificates
of the Commissioners. The said board OF
commissioners shall give such bonds in
such amount and with such security as shall
be approved by the Governor, said bond to
be deposited with the State Treasurer. And
in case of vacancy occurring in said board
from any cause, it shall be filled by the
Governor by appointment, and the person
so appointed shall hold office one year, or
until others are appointed.
SEC 3. The said commissioners are
hereby authorized to purchase land, not eX-
ceeding two hundred acres, nor less than
fifty acres, suitable for the site and purposes
of the said Reform School, to be called the
State farm, and so located within the State
as shall in their judgment best meet the
wants and subserve the interests Of the
said school, the costs of which lands shall
not exceed the sum of six thousand dollars
Immediately upon the purchase of the said
farm, and obtaining possession thereof, the
said Board Of Commissioners shall proceed
to erect suitable buildings thereon for the
residence of the acting commissioner, and
the reception and accommodation OF such
male and female youths as it is provided in
this act to commit to the Reform School; or
in case buildings shall have been purchased
with the lands to put them in proper repair,
and fit them for the use and purposes of the
said school, and if need be, erect additional
buildings. The buildings shall be arranged
for the complete separation of the sexes,
and their separation shall be strictly main
tanned.
Sec. 4. For the wages of assistants and
employees in said Reform School,; for salary
and per diem Of commissioners, and for fuel,
food, raiment and education for the inmates
for stool, sod ertc.,oIte Of farm and fur
niture of buildings for the year ensuing, q
sum not to exceed five thousand dollars is
hereby appropriated, to be allowed by the
Auditor Of Accounts, who shall draw his
order on the Treasurer, in favor of the Act
ing Commissioner, on his presenting proper
vouchers of the amount of expenses so in
CURED.
SEC. 5. Whenever any male or female
under the age of eighteen years, shall be
found guilty of any crime or otfense against
the laws of this State, the court in its dis
cretion, shall have power to sentence the
respondent to the Vermont Reform School
and the Governor is hereby authorized at
his discretion to commute the punishment
of such convicts of the age fixed in this
act, as now are or hereafter may be SEN
fenced to or confined in the State Prison OF
any county Jail; and remove them to said
school, and the cost of such commitments
and removals shall be met in the same man
ner as is now provided by law for commit
ments to the State Prison; and the officer
in charge of the person so to be commit
ted or removed, shall retain him in his Gus
tody, until he shall have received iuforma
ton from the acting commissioner that
there is room for the person so to be com
mitted in said school
SEC. g. In all cases when received, sale
| minors shall be under the control of the au
thorities of the said Reform School, and
| the said authorities shall at all times have
| power to apprentice them at their discre
| ton, and it shall be their duty so TO appren
| tice them whenever suitable opportunities
| shall offer, and they shall judge said mi
nors suitable persons to be so apprentiCed
SEC. 7. Any person that shall entice any
youth detained upon the State farm to es
cape, or aid or abet him in escaping, OF
shall after his escape, knowing him to be
| fugitive from said State farm, harhnr him
! shall on conviction thereof De deemed
| guilty of miSdemeanor, and be fined in {
| sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, o.
confined in the county jail for period no
| exceeding three months, or both, at tn
| discretion of the court.
| Sec S. Said board of commissioner
| shall report annually to the Governor on o
! before the tenth day of October in eacl
| year. Said report shall contain full and dc
| tailed accounts of all payments made ant
| moneys received, and of all the fiscal al
| fairs of the said Reform School; its man
| apement condition and wants, which tn
| Governor shall have printed and TRANSMIT
to the Legislature, with his annual message
| SEC. @. When any male minor shall hav
been committed to the Reform School, AM
the commissioners shall find him incorig
ible, or shall deem his continuance injuriOu
TO Its management or discipline, they sha
certify the same upon the mittimus b
which he is held and the mittimus with sue
certificate shall be returned to the count
court, next to be held in the county wher
such minor shall have been convicted c
sentenced; whereupon said county conr
shall, in their discretion, either remit sue
minor to said Reform School for furthe
and more severe discipline, or to the count
Jail or State Prison, to be there imprisone
for the remainder of the term for whic
said convict was sentenced. And the con
missioners shall have power, with the apprt
| val of the Governor, to discharge any m
nor as reformed, whenever they shall b.
come satisfied that his longer detention
, said school shall be to the disadvantage {
injury of said minor.
| SEC. 10. This act shall take effect froi
/ IFS MASSAGE. and shall be under the contr