The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-14
a BiII to ProvIde a Hou.e or Refnge

A Bill to Provide House OF Refuge
for the State OF West Virginia.
Be Il enacted By the Legislature of West
Pirginid:
1. That the Governor is hereby au-
thoIized to appoint a board of mana
gers, consisting of seven persons, who
shall provide a suitable building and
grounds in or near the City of Wheel
ing, for a House of Refuge, and estab-
lish such regulations respecting the
religious and moral education, training
and employment, discipline and safe
keeping of its Inhabitants, as may be
deemed eXpedient and proper.
2. That it shall be lawful Tor the board
of managers of said House of Refuge,
at their discretion. to receive into their
care aud guardianship, males, under
under the age of sixteen years, COM
mitted to their custody in either of the
following modes, to-wit:
1. Infants committed by the circuit
court of any county OF the common
wealth on the complaint and due proof
made thereof, by the parent, guardian,
or next friend OF said infant, that by
reason of incorrigible or vicious con-
duet such infant has rendered his or
her conduct beyond the power of par
ent, guardian, or next friend, and made
II manllestly requisite that from regard
to the morals and future welfare Of
such infant, he or she should be placed
under the guardianship of the mana
gers OF the said House of Refuge,
IL. Infants committed by the author
ity aforesaid, when complaint and due
proof have been made that such infant
Is a proper subject for the guardianship
of the managers of the said House of
Refuge, in consequence of Vagrancy, or
of incorrigible or vicious conduct, and
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erwlSe, OF the parent or guardian, or
next friend In whose custody such in
fant may be, such parent, guardian, or
next friend, is incapable or unwilling
70 exercise The proper care and discip-
llne over such incorrigible or vicious
infant.
III. Infants who shall be taken as
committed, or upon any criminal
charge, or duly convicted of criminal
offences, as may in the Judgment OF
any circuit court within the State; and
tho said managers shall have power TO
place the said children committed to
their care at such employment, and
cause them to be instructed in such
branches of useful knowledge as may
be suitable to their years and capaci-
ties; and they shall tave power, at their
discretion, to bind out the said chill
dren, with their consent, as apprentices
during their minority, to such persons
NAAN 80 7ASLA PAuIGSg ~ 4tdEu SuCn proper
trades and employments, as in their
Judgment will be most conducive to
their reformation and amendment, and
Will tend to the future benefit and ad-
vantage of such children.
3. That said managers may appoin {
such officers, agents and servants, as
they may deem necessary to transact
the business of said House of Refuge.
and may designate their duties. And
further, the said managers shall annu-
ally lay before the subscribing coun-
ties, on the first Monday of January,
ana transmit to the Legislature, re-
port setting forth the number of chill
dren received into the House of Refuge,
the disposition which shall be made OF
them by instructing or employing them
IN the said House of Refuge, or by
binding them out as apprentices, the
receipts and expenditures of said man
ayers, and generally all such facts and
particulars as may tend TO exhibit the
effects, whether beneficial or other
wise, of the said association.
4. That tho children received by said
managers under the conviction of any
court in the State shall be clothed
maintained and Instructed by the said
managers ut The public expense of tine
proper county from which they came.
.. That the ground and buildings
erected thereon for the use and object
of said House of Refuge shall be ex-
empt from taxation.
8. That the sum of twenty thousand
dollars be and the same Is hereby APP
propriated to aid in the purchase of
ground and the erection of buildings
Tor the use and objects of said House
of refuge; the said sum to;be paid by
the State Treasurer on warrants of the
Governor, to be drawn when he shall
be satisfied that an equal amount has
Deen GonG fde subscribed by other re-
sponsible parties, and the warrants
Shall only be drawn for amounts equal
TO the aggregate payments made from
time 10 time by such other contributors.
q. That the several counties in this
State be, and they are hereby author
lied to subscribe, the county of Ohio
not exceeding thirty thousand dollars,
and the several others of said counties
not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to
the erection of said House of Refuge of
West Virginia, under the provisions of
TINS act and to negotiate loans for the
payment of such subscription, and is
sue bonds thereof in amounts OF not
less than one hundred dollars, and
bearing an interest of not more than
SIX per cent. per annum, which shall
be exempt from every species of taxa
ton; FroUided, That if il shall be neces-
sary to dispose of any bonds, issued as
aforesaid, below their par value, the
same shall not be deemed usnrious, but
SaSh 4udlS SHdll DS ldkeu 10 De lawful
and valid. 'if ~ -
s: That no person or persons, corpo-
ration or body polite, shall be permit
ted to open, lay out or construct any
road or highway, either public or pri-
Yate, under any pretence whatever,
upon or through any ground owned
and occupied by said House of Refuge,
thereof. 10 --9 - -
o. That the fees upon the commit
ments by court TO said House of
Refuge, shall be as follows, to-wit: To
any constable or officer for arresting
the person committed, fifty cents; to
the clerk of the court directing the
commitment, fifty cents; to the con-
stable or other officer delivering the
person committed, pursuant to such
at the House of Refuge,
one dollar, with mileage at the rate OF
i've cents, circular, for all distance
travelled said fees and mileage TO be
paid by the county in which the COM
mitment is made. "
MARRIAGE has gained by Prussia's
military successes. In Hanover, Hesse
and Nassau it was forbidden to people
to marry unless they were possessed of
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