Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-01-29

Approved, January 10, 1873.
No. 2.-An Act relating TO the Vermont
Reform School
1t is hereby enacted, etc
Sec. /. As soon S practicable after
the completion of the Vermont Reform
Schooi buildingsat Vergennes, as author
lied by an act approved January Is, A.
d. 1875, entitled An act relating to
Vermont Reform School, itshall be the
duty Of the trustees and superintendent
thereof to cause the pupils therein to
be conveyed to and committed within
the building SO completed as aforesaid,
and such transfer and commitment shall
in all respects be deemed lawful and reg
ular, and legal continuance of their
sentences of imprisonment respectively,
the same as though they had been kept
in said school at Waterbury
Sec. 2. The proceeds of the sale of
the real estate and property at Water
bury, authorized to be sold by the terms
of the act aforesaid, shall be available
for the benefit of said Reform School,
and may be drawn from the State treas
ury upon the order of said trustees and
used in paying the expenses of finishing
and furnishing said school buildings.
Sec. g. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved, January Is, 1875.
No. 3. An Act providing for the adj
mission of girls to the Vermont Re-
form School.
1t is hereby enacted, etc.
Sec. l. Girls not less than ten years
of age, nor more than fifteen, shall be
admitted to the Vermont Reform School
upon the same terms and for the same
crimes and offenses that boys are now
admitted and the several courts with
in this State shall have the same pow
ers to sentence or commit girls to the
Vermont Reform School that they now
have or may hereafter have, by the laws
of this State, tosenteneeor commit boys.
Sec. 2. The trustees Of said school
shall arrange buildings for the complete
separation of the sexes, except for edu-
cational and religious instruction, and
such recreation 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 this bill into effect.
Approved, January 10, ITS.
No An Act relating to convictions
and sentences to the Vermont Reform
School.
1t is hereby enacted, etc.
Sec. /. No boy under the age of ten
years shall be sentenced to the Reform
School for any offense which by the gem
eral law is punishable by fine only pro-
vided, that when any boy under that age
shall be sentenced by any court to pay
fine, or fine and costs and shall be
committed for the non-payment thereof,
such commitment shall be to the Reform
School instead of the county Jail, and
the mittimus shall be drawn according
ly.
Sac. 2. This actshall take effect from
its passage.
Approved, January 10, 1875.
No 5.-An Act relating to the iurisdic-
ton and authority of the Judges of
the supreme court over boys confined
at the State Reform School
It is hereby enacted, etc.
Sec. l. The kindred or friends of any
boy confined at the State Reform School
or the selectmen or Overseer of the poor
of any town, or mayor or alderman of
any city from which such boy is sent TO
said school, may by petition and sum-
mons annexed, signed by any judge of
the supreme court, cause such boy to be
brought before said Judge, who shall
have full Jurisdiction on all matters and
questions relating to such boys confine-
ment at said school, and may, upon such
petition and hearing, discharge such boy
from said school, or remand him back
to said school, or make such order or
orders in the case, as TO said Judge shall
seem just and reasonable; and the re-