Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-10-29

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issued a circular announcing that this
institution is now open for the reeep-
tion of inmates. We quote the follow
ing selections from the Bylaws adopt
ed by the Trustees, and approved by
the GevernOrt
CHAPTER i.
THE DESIGN OF THE INSTITUTION.
This institution has been established
as "a school for the instruction, en-
plOyment and reformation of exposed,
helpless, evil-dispOsed and vicious
girls"
It's pupils and inmates are girls, be-
tween the ages of seven and sixteen
years, of either Of the foliOWsisng de-
scriptions:
l. Any who shall be charged before
any Probate Judge, Justice of the
Peace, Police Court, or Court of Grim
inal Jurisdiction, with any offense
known to the laws of this State, pun
ishable by fine or Imprisonment, other
than Imprisonment for life.
2. Any who are leading an idle, va
grant or vicious life
3. Or have been found in any street.
highway, or public place, within this
State, in circumstances of want and
suffering, or Of neglect, exposure or
abandonment, or of beggary.
All commitments are to be made by
the Probate Judge of the proper county,
after judicial examination. and a
finding that the subject of the COM
plant is a suitable subject for the re-
form school.
Every girl so committed Shall be there
| kept, disciplined, instructed, employed
and governed, until she be either re-
! formed and discharged, or shall be
/ bound out by the Trustees as an ap-
| prentice or servant, or shall have at
| tanned the age of eighteen years f; but
the Trustees may discharge and return
| to her parents, guardian or protector,
any girl who in their Judgment ought,
for any cause, to be removed from the
me end to be attained is expressed
in the act establishing the school, to be
20 reform its pupils, in such manner as,
shall while preserving their health,
and promoting the proper development
formation as far as possible, of moral,
religious and industrious habits. and
regular thorough progress and inn
prOvement in their studies, trades and
emplOyments.
In order that profitable industry and
good conduct may not be without their
appropriate reward, the letting of the
labor of any of the inmates of the in
stitution to any person for the purpose
of manufacturing is expressly forbid
den, and all their labor is required to be
employed exclusively in the interests
of the institution; and the interests of
the institution are made the interests
of the inmates, by requiring it's ac-
counts to be 50 kept that the profits
over and above the expense of main
tanning the school can be ascertained,
and when thus ascertained, the Board
of Trustees are required to fund such
annual profits of the institution, for
distribution among the girls in shares
TO be paid to the girls pro rata, when
either Ofthem may be honorably dis
charged from the Institution.
CHAPTER VII.
OF THE RECEPTION OF GIRLS COMMITTED
TO THE INSTITUTION.
SEC. /. No person shall be received
by the superintendent as an inmate of
the Institution, upon any commitment
thereto, by Probate Judge, unless
previous notice of the intention to
make the commitment has been given
and assented to by the Superintend-
ent.
SEC. 2. As the appropriation for the
support of the Institution, at the dis
posal of the Trustees and applicable
to the employment of officers and the
maintenance of its inmates tor the cur
rent year, ending April 1st, 1870, is
small, and as the success of the Insti-
tuition depends largely at the begin
ming, in the Judgment of the Trustees
in the careful training of a small num-
ber of pupils, il is hereby ordered that
the whole number of inmates to be re-
eeived prior to that date shall not ex-
ceed fifty.
SEC. 8. As it is not probable that at
any time, the Institution will be able
to furnish accommodations for as
many as it may be desired to commit
to it, the superintendent in deciding
y
rected to discriminate between them,
1st. To secure the benefits of the In
stitution as nearly as may be, in equal
proportion to all the Counties of the
State, according to the ratio of their |
population.
I'd. To secure to the Institution it |
self the advantage of the younger sub |
jects, who may probably be most easily. |
influenced to good, and most easily
yield to the discipline and instruction4
it Affords.
Sd. TO exclude those whom there is |
less reason TO hope may be effectually 1
and whose example and in /
duence in the Institution would be the /
most injurious.
SEC. 4. The superintendent before /
to the admission of any in /
mate, shall require a written statement |
under oath, from some respectable |
person, acquainted with the facts, in |
answer to interrOgatiOns to be furnish |
ed by him, showing the history and |
present condition of the girl to be COM |
and also a professional state |
ment from some respectable physician |
in regard to her physical condition, in /
such form and particulars as theSuper-
intendent may require, both to be GER
titled to by the Probate Judge before |
whom the application to commit is |
pending.
1t will be readily seen that this is /
not designed to be a prison, an aims /
house, or an orphan asylum, but an in
stitutiOn for reforming neglected, va
grant and vicious young girls, by sur
rounding them with the influences, in
well-Ordered Christian home, where
the guiding, restraining hand and SYM
heart unite in the unostenta-
tiOus, but truly benevolent and Chris
tian work of saving those ready to |
perish. The countenance and sympa |
thy of all who would shield the ex-
posed, recall the wandering, and re-
claim the erring, thus following in the
footsteps of the Master, are invoked to
aid in the prosecution of this long
needed work, that this institution may
become peer among the noble chart
ties of our State, and a blessing to
many in all coming time.
All communications relating to the
institution should be addressed to the
Superintendent, at t'White Sulphur
Springs, Delaware county, Ohio, Uia.
Lewis Center" JOHN NICHOLS,
superintendent.
THE OBJECT TO BE ACCOM-
PLISHED.