North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-05-20

known to be nearly related to him or her,
and if he or che be alone or friendess, then
to such person as said judge may appoint
70 act as Iardian ad Item. requiring him
or her to appear at time and place stated
in said order, to show cause why said boy
or girl should not be committed to the Re-
form School for reformation and instruc-
ton.
Section Is. Said order shall be served
by the sheriff or other officer, by delivering
copy thereof, personally. to the party
70 whom it is addressed. or leaving it with
some person Of Gull age at the place Of re-
s;dence or business of said party, and i'm.
mediate return shall be made to the said
Judge of this time and manner of such SER
vice. The fees of judge, sheriff, or other
officer under this act, shall be same es now
allowed by law for like service.
Section Ia. At the time and place men.
toned in said order, or at the time and
place to which it may be adjourned, if the
parent OR guardian to whom said order
may be addressed shalt appear, there then
in his or her presence, or if he or she shall
fail to appear, then in the presence ofsome
suitable person whoEa the said judge shall
appoint as guardian ad litem. it shall and
may be lawful fsr said judge to proceed to
take voluntary examination If said boy or
Or girl, and to hear the statement OF the
party appearing for ki:s or her, and such
testimony in relation to the case as may be
produced, and if upon such examination
and hearing. the said judge shall be salts
fed that the boy or girl is fit subject for
the State Reform School, he may commit
him or her to said school by warrant.
Section Is. The judge shall certify, in
the warrant the place in which the boy or
girl resided q the time Of his or her arrest,
slso his or her age as near as can be ascer-
tanned, and command the said officer to
take the said boy or girl and deliver him
or her. without delay, to the superintend-
ent Of said school, or other person in
charge thereof, at the place where the same
il established; and such certificate for the
purposes Of this net, shall be conclusive
evidence Of his or her residence or age.
Accompanying the warrant, the judge
shall transmit to the superintendent, by
the officer executing it, q statemen. Of the
nature Of the complaint, together with
sucL other particulars concerning the boy
or girl as the Judge is able to ascertain.
Section Is. If the judge is Of the opin-
ion that the boy or girl is not fit subject
for the school, or if said boy or girl shall
appeal from the decision of the court III
which the conviction was had, he shall re-
mand him or her to the custody of the of
ticer who had him or her in charge, to be
returned to the magistrate before whom
the conviction was had, to be dealt with
according to law.
Sec. II. II any parent or guardian
shall make complaint to a county judge, or
judge Of a court Of record, that any boy or
girl. the child or ward of such parent or
guardian, is habitually vagrant or disor-
derby. or incorrigible, it shall and may be
lawful for said judge to issue warrant to
the sheriff or constable to cause said boy OR
girl to be brought before him at such time
and place MS he may appoint, when and
where said judge shall examine the par
ties, al d if in his jud gment the boy or girl
is Git subject for the Reform School he
NAV issue an order with the consent of the
said parent or guardian Endorsed thereon,
70 be executed by sheriff or constable,
committing said boy or girl to the custody
of the Superintendent of said school for re-
formation and instructed till he or she
shall attain the age Of majority; prorided,
that security Cor the payment of the ex-
penses Of said complaint, commitment, and
Of carrying said boy or girl to the Reform
School, and the expenses of board at such
school, may, in the discretion of said judge
be required of said parent or guardian.
Sec. IS. No boy or girl shall be com
Elittcd to said RcforIn School for longer
term than until he or she attain the age Of
majority. but the said trustees, by then
order, may at any time, after one years
service, discharge a boy or girl from sale
school, and upon satisfactory evidence o.
reformation.
Sec. l9. Any boy or girl committed tic
the State Reform School shall he there
kept, disciplined, instructed, employed
and governed, under the direction Of thu
trustees, until he or she arrives at the ag'
Of maturity, or is bound out, reformed, o.
legally discharged. The binding out OF
discharge of boy Or girl as reformed, Of
as having arrived at the age of maturity
shall be a complete release from all penal
ties incurred by conviction of the oifense
for which he or she was committed.
Sec. 20. If any boy Or girl, convi,te,
Of felony, committed to the Reform
School, shall prove unruly or incorrigible
Or if his or her presence shall be manifest
ly and persistently dangerous to the wei
fare of the school, tho trustees shall hav
power to order his or her removal to til
county from which he or she came, an
delivery to the iailor of the said county
and proceedings against him or her sha
be resumed, as if no warrant or order CON
hitting him or her to the Reform Schoe
had keen made.
Sec. q. Every person who unlawful
aids or assists sny boy or girl lawful
committed to the Reform School in oscar
ing or attempting to escape therefrom c
knowingly conceals such boy or girl afte
his or her escape, shall be punished a
provided by section 1923 Of the Revisio
Of 1860.
Sec. %. For the purpose Of immediate
ly opening said school, the trustees there
Of shall accept the proposition of the tru
tees Of Whites Iowa Manual Lobe
Institute mads to the General Assembl,
and lease for such term as they shall agre
not more than ten years, the lands, built
ings and appurtenances belonging to Sal
Manual Labor Institute, and at once pr
ceed to prepare for and open a Refor
School thereon as soon as possible, as
temporary establishment and when
opened, the fact shall be published by So
trustees in one newspaper in each count
in the State in which newspaper Is prin
ed, whereupon those provisions of this a
Anti.orizing the commitment Of persons
said school shall take~efect and it sha
be lawful for the trustees of said Refor
School and warden of the penitentiary,
their discretion, upon the consent in VIZ
ing of any convicts in said peni.entary,
the proper age, to remove such convict
said Reform School and when the. pc