New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-03

the board of trustees of said reform
school, with the consent, and at the prope,
expense, of his parent or guardian, fol
such term as the board of trustees may
determine, any boy such as is described in
the third and fourth clauses of section one
| of this act. And the members of the said
board of trustees shall, also, individually
have the same power as is herein given to
the mayors of Washington and George
town, and the president of the levy court.
| SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That
| the thirteenth section of the act above
mentioned be amended by inserting "a
| sum not exceeding one dollar and half
per week." in place Of the words fifty
cents"
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That
in case any boy shall be committed to the
care and control OF the board of trustees,
for the benefits of the Reform School, BY
either of the Mayors aforesaid, the presi-
dent Of the levy court, or either Of the
trustees, as Before provided, the said board
Of trustees may, it they deem it proper,
the parent or guardian of any boy SO COM
maintaining such boy in the said school, for
such period as he may remain there. And
in all cases statement of the age of the
boy committed to the care OF the board of
trustees, together with the reason for such
commitment, shall be furnished at the time
of the commitment of each boy, to be de-
livered to the said board; and until such
statement shall be so delivered the trustees
may decline to receive such boy. No CON-
mitment shall remain in force longer than
until the committed shall have become
fully reformed, nor after he shall have at
tanned the age Of twenty-one years. But
the said board shall have power to dis
charge any boy from their custody, by an
order duly entered upon their records,
whenever they shall deem the object of
committing him fully attained. The trus-
tees shall also have full power to place
any boy, committed as herein described,
during his minority, at such employment
for or on account of said school of reform
or otherwise, and cause him to be instructed
in such branches of useful knowledge
as may be suitable to his years and capa-
city, and as they, the said trustees, may
see fit; and they may, with the consent of
any such boy, bind him out as an appren-
tice during his minority to learn such
proper trade and employment as in their
judgment will be most conducive to his re-
formation and amendment, and as will
tend to bis future benefit; and the said
trustees shall, for such purpose, have power
to appoint committee of one or more
Of their number, with power to execute
and deliver, on behalf OF the said board
Of trustees, indentures of apprenticeship
or any boy whom they may deem pro-
per person for an apprentice, and such in
1entures shall have the same force and eff |
sect as other indentures OF apprenticeship |
1nder the laws of the District of Column !
oia, and be filed and kept among the rec
ords and in the Office Of the said reform |
school and it shall not be necessary to rec
ord or file them elsewhere.
Sec. c. And be it further enacted, That |
be Secretary of the Interior shall cause so
much of the tract of land known as the |
government farm, in the District of Col
mbia, as may not be deemed necessary
or the use OF the aqueduct, to be set Off
y metes and bounds, to the board of
rustees Of the school of reform, in accord
nee with the provision of the first Sec
ion of the act of July twenty-ff5h, eigh-
cen hundred and sixty-six, of which this
J an amendment; and thereupon the said
oard of trustees shall have exclusive
ossession and control of such portion as
hall be thus set of to them.
Approved May 6, 1870.