Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-12-31
Maine Industrial school for Girls.

Maine Industrial school Tor nirls.
The Managers of this school have availed them
selves of the funds placed at their disposal by In
dividuals and the State, to purchase the Drummer
Farm in Haowell, and erect upon it a Home, and
furnish it with the necdful accommodations for
the proposed school, 1t contains rooms for thirty
girls, and for the necessary teachers and atten-
dants, with school room, sewing room, &C. II
will be ready to receive inmates on the twenty.
first day of January next.
The persons for whom it is intended, are girls
between the ages of seven and fifteen years, who,
from their unfortunate surroundings and unhappy
connections, are in danger OF growing up IN habits
of vice and immortality. 1t will be understood that
this school is not to be, the one hand, an or
phan asylum, Tor on the other o house Of refuge
for abandoned females, but an institution for res
cung young girls in danger of ruin, and not sur
rounded by home influences sufficiently powerful
to save them and for training them up in habits
of industry and virtue.
BY the statute passed in 1873, judges of pro-
bate municipal and police judges, and trial justices
have jurisdiction of such cases. Complaints may
be made by parent or guardian OF the girl, by
the municipal officers, or by any three respectable
inhabitants of the city or town where the girl Is
found.
The complaint Is required to allege that the girl
as leading an idle, vagrant or vicious life,' or
that she "hss been found in circumstances of man
ifest danger of falling into habits Of vice or i'm
mofality, anu 10 request tnat she may NC eon,
mitted to the guardianship Of the Maine Industrial
School for Girls" On receiving the complaint,
the magistrate is to appoint time and place Of
hearing, and order notice thereof to any person
entitled to be heard. If on such hearing, "satis-
factory evidence is sdduced," and t appears that
the welfare of the girl requires it, che may order
her to be committed to the custody and guardian
ship of the officers Of said school during her mi
nority, unless sooner discharged by process of
law"
parent or guardian, upon complaint and hear
ing aforesaid, and certificate of any Judge or
justice named above, that girl of the described
age ais proper subject to be committed to said
school," "may commit her to the custody and guar
dianship of said school for term TO be agreed
upon by the parent or guardian and the Trustees,
the parent or guardian to pay her reasonable eN-
penses, to be fixed by the trustees
When girl of the described age is on COM
plaint brought before justice or court having
jurisdiction, accused Of crime punishable by fine
or Imprisonment. other than Imprisonment for
life, 'the justice or court may far examine into
the case to be satisfied whether she is suitable
subject for commitment to said school, and If so,
che may suspend the case and certify accordingly,
and order her to be committed to the guardianship
of said school during her minority, unless sooner
discharged by process of law
The principal blank forms of proceeding VIII be
printed, and may be had Of the Secretary on ap-
plication.
SIDNEY PERHAM, Prest, Paris.
CHAs. f NASH, Sec'y, Augusta.
SIMON PAGE, Treas HallOweIl.
NELSON pINGLEY, DR.. Governor, } ExOnicio.
WARRES JOHNSON, Sup Com. scbr> the State.
BENZ. KINGsBURY, JR., Portland.
MRS. NJ. IL. FLAGG, Haowell,
MRS. G.. A. l. SAMPSON Bath, Tr,s,.e.
JOHN l.. STEVENS, Augusta,
H. X. BAKER. Hallowell,
+. X FRENCH. Chesterville,
Board Of Managers.