The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1875-01-28


school. shalt be erected unaEr Iaa super
vision 1T tbe eoyefnaFr aHa irHslees #.
tie Vermont Reform School
See & TIE Hrasisr- at tag Vermont
Reform School are hereby authorizes Go
sell tAe lands belonging fq tHa state go
Waterbury, aU3 saaa other property w
cannot Zee pruGabIy used at NerEeaHesr
and DE proceeds thereof shall Doe covered
lata tao treasury ot lhc stale.
Sec D. This oct, SO iar as 10 shall be
construed TO relate Go thc place of aaaEHe-
meut ul the iuma5es gi lbe Vermont l.a-
form School, shai take effect 900 tic igtt
dav of December, A ID. 1895 Bud for
all other purposes ii sha.l take effect from
its passage.
Approved, January a.ls5a.
No. Am Act relating TO the Vermont
Reform SCHOOL
h is hereby enacted, cte.
see. J.. A. soon as practicable after the
completion OF ihe Vermont Reform School
buildings at NcrEennC,, is authorized by
an act approved January 18Th, 1875, emit
tied "An act relating TO the Vermont Re
form School" SC shall be the duty Of toe
trustees and superintendent thereof 10
cause the pupils therein to be conveyed
TO aud committed within the buildings SO
completed az aforesaid and such transfer
aud commitment shall ia all respects, be
deemed lawful and regular, and g legal
continuance Of their sentences OF impris-
oumcnt respectively. the same rs though
they had been kept IN said school st
Waterbury,.
See 2. The proceeds of the sale Of the
real estate aud property az Waterbury,
authorized TO De sold by the terms of the
act aforesaid, shall he available for the
use OF said Reform School aud may be
drawn from the state treasury upon the
order OF said trustees and used in paying
the expenses Of finishing and furnishing
said school buildings.
Sec 8. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved, January 10, 1873.
No. 3.--An Act relating to the admission
OF girls into the Vermont Reform School.
1t is hereby enacted, etc.
Sec. /. Girls not less than ton years of
age, and not more than fifteen, shall be
admitted TO the Vermont Reform School
upon the same terms, and for the same
crimes aud offences that boys are now adj
mitled; and the several courts within
this state shall have the same power to
sentence or commit girls 10 the Vermont
| Reform School that they now have or
may hereafter have, by the laws of this
state, to sentence or commit boys.
Sec. 2. The trustees of said school shall
arrange buildings for the complete sepa-
ration of the sexes, except tor educational
and religious instruction, and such recre-
alton as may be allowed by the trustees
| and superintendent in their discretion.
Sec. 3. That a sum not exceeding five
thousand dollars be appropriated TO carry
the objects of THE bin into effect
Approved, January 10, 1919.
No. An Act relating to convictions
and sentences Of the Vermont Reform
| School
1t is hereby enacted, etc.
SEES. ]. No boy under the age OF ten
years shall be sentenced to the Reform
| School for any oflense which by the gen.
eral law is punishable by fine only; pro-
| vided, that when any boy under that age
shall be sentenced by any court to pay a
| fine, or fine and costs, and shall be cam-
| United for non-paymeut thereof, such
commitment shall be TO The Reform School,
| instead Of the county Jail, and the mtti-
mus shall be drawn accordingly.
Sec. ., This act shall take effect from
/ its passage
Approved, January Is, 1879.
] Ia -, gkt 10
ton aud authority OF the Judges Of the
supreme court over boys confined at the
Vermont Reform School.
itis hereby enacted, etc.
Sec. i. The kindred OF friends OF any
boy confined at the State Reform School,
OF the selcclmen or oyerseer OF the poor
of any town, or mayor or aldermen OF
any city, from which such boy is sent &c
said school, may by petition and sum
mons annexed, signed by any judge OF
the supreme court. cause any boy to be
brought before said Judge, who shall
have full jurisdiction on all matters and
questions relating to such boys contine
ment at said school, and may, upon such
petition and hearing, discharge such boy
from said school, or remand him back Il
said school, or make such order or orders
in the case, as to said judge shall seem
just and reasonable; and the record upon
petition, made and signed by the judge
hearing said case, shall be final ana con
elusive in such case.
Sec. 2 This act shall take effect from
lis passage.
! Approved, January Is, 1879.