Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-05-27
from the o. S. Journal OF Wednesday.
STATE REFORM SCHOOL FOR
GIRLS.
Meeting Of Trustees.

The Board of Trustees of the State
Reform and Industrial School for girls.
met at the Neil House Tuesday MAY, "A.
There were present, Rev. DR.. F. Mer-
rick, of Delaware, President of the Board:
A. Thomson, of Delaware, Secretary:
Clark Waggoner, of Toledo, and Gen.
NJ d. Leggett, of GAINESVILLE.
The reports of Mr.. John Nichols Su-
perintendent of the school at White Sui
phur Springs, and of Mrs. Mary Nichols,
matron, were submitted.
The Superintendent reports a aremarka-
pie exemption from disease and accident.
The School opened February, 10, with
ii inmates; there are now 20. A num-
Der of applications for admission are now
pending but owing to the uncertainty
! hanging over the school by the action of
| the Legislature, unfaYorable replies have
been returned.
The inmates are from fifteen different
counties, Franklin county having two.
/ The girls have shown a willingness to
work in the garden, and it has been
well cared for. Religious services are
| held on Sundays on each morning and
/ evening, and a good Sunday School is
| connected with the institution.
| The current expenses of the school
| for the past quarter exclusive of salaries,
and pay of employees amount to S3oI, 90.
The matron reperts the ages Of the
girls ranging from nine to sixteen, and a
statement as to discipline and employ
ment of the pupils
The board adjourned to q P. m.
At the evening meeting the following
opinion of the Attorney General was re-
ceived and considered:
STATE OF ONO,
! OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL,
COLUMBUS, May "a 1870,
His Excellency, the Governor:
SIR have carefully, at your request,
examined the communication addressed
to you by the Trustees of the Reform
and Industrial School for Girls, and the
statutes relating to such schools and the
Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home,
and have arrived at the following con
clusions;
Ist, twas not the intention Of the
act of April Il, 1870, for the present to
impair the full right of the Trustees of
the reform and Industrial School for
Girls to use so much of the White Sui
Phur Springs property as such Trustees
might think necessary for the full and
complete success of such school, as
contemplated by the act establishing the
same, passed May 5, 1869, o. L. Vol
90. page 40.
I'd. The act Of April IA, 1870 Goes
contemplate that the Trustees ofthe Re
form and Industrial School for Girls and
the Managers of the Ohio Soldiers and
Sailors Orphans Home shall both use
the Sulphur Springs property in the in
terests of their respective institutions
(they agreeing upon the suitable divis-
ion OF 1t, always reseving the FIVE acres
and the Burnett House for the Reform
and industrial School for Girls) SO far as
such joint use shall not conflict with the
use OF the same for the successful con
duct ofthe Reform and Industrial School |
for Girls.
sd, Whenever the managers ofI
the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans
Home shall ascertain that the Capacity |
OF the property above spoken of, con |
slstently with the use thereof by the
school for girls as above indicated |
shall be insufficient to accommodates
&c, they viii be authorized and en-
powered to accept and receive, &c. as
indicated in that part of section 4 of the
act of 1870 applying to the location of
the children of the soldiers and sailors
at some other point.
1t has been difficult for me to make
good sense out of some portions of the
act OF 1870, especially the first part of
seoeon a. and the above is the best iudg-
;llsiil ; II !i San arrive attn giving construct
'07' - ''iS xtsuon xteslSIauon on this subject.
Very respectfully.
+. b. POM, ATTY C;en
After the reading of this opinion # ,,os
decided to address the following letter to to
the Board Of Managers of the Soldiers
and Sailors Orphans Home.
COLUMBUS, o., May 1870.
Gen. NJ. F. Force and others, COMMITTEES, Il
Board Of Managers Of Soldiers and Sail
GENTLEMEN Your communication Il
Inquiring when the Trustees of the Re
iorm and Industrial School for Girls will
be prepared to surrender possession of
lne Whlte Y Sulphur Springs property to
your Board, under the law passed April
~ 1870, has remained unanswered lon
ger than we desired, in order that we
might more fully acquaint ourselves as
10 our rights and duties under that law
Inc 1rst clause of the fourth section
oi the law referred to transfers to vour
ooard the Reform and industrial School
Tor girls Z : together with all tLs ,,s(,IE
e-,,Sa11. ss1lSl Ie1Sol5ak estate and property
SS-,eoPe Sucn as belongs to or is necessary Z
loL o, sala school. The law further pro-
woes mat the Trustees Of the Reform
ana industrial school for girls shall s1sc [!