The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-18
His hereby enacted by tbs general as
sen,b1,, If fbe Gfrfe of Vermont:

SEC, 1. All persons committed to any
state prison, reform school, or other pub.
lie Institution of the state of Vermont, shall |
be allowed spiritual ministration from any |
recognized clergyman of the denomination |
or church TO which such person so commit
ted or received may respectively belong
and have belonged prior to their being so
committed or received into such state prison,
reform school, or other such institution,
such ministration to be given
within the prison or reform
school,or other building, where the
inmates thereof are required by law to be
confined, in such manner as will secure to
such person the free exercise Of his relig-
ious belief
Sec. 2. Such clergyman shall have the
right, at the time fixed as hereinafter pro-
yided and in all cases of sickness, without
regard to time, to visit any such institution
and see and communicate freely and un-
trammellcd with such Of said inmates as be-
long to the church or society of which he is
a recognized clergyman.
SEC. 3. No officer of said institution or
other person shall interfere with or attempt
to influence, control or change the religious
belief, or opinions of said inmates, nor shall
any Of said inmates be required to attend
any religious services in or out of such in
situations against their own free will and
in all matters respecting to religion, the right
of conscience and the free exercise thereof
shall be scrupulously respected and
guarded
SEC. 4. 1t shall be the duty of the board
of managers, or persons or officers having
the control and management of said insti-
tutions, to set apart not less than one hour,
and more If necessary, on some day conven-
lent for the purpose. in each week, in which
any of the clergymen in good standing Ct
any church or denomination may freely
minister to and impart moral and religious
instruction to those of the said inmates or
children who respectively belonge thereto
prior to their being committed or received
therein, and to afford and grant to such
clergymen such reasonable and proper ia
cilities as may be necessary to enable them
freely and properly to discharge their du
ties as ministers and spiritual advisers to
the said inmates, and to furnish to such
clergyman on such occasions a room or
apartment whereby he may be enabled to
freely and properly discharge his duties as
such clergyman.
SEC. 8. All acts or parts of acts incon-
sistent with this act are hereby repealed.
Sec G. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
II. S-An act in amendment Uf and in adj
diton to an act approved November 90,
1870, in amendment of an act entitled an
act for the regulation and government of
the Vermont reform school,
1t ishere6y enacted By the general assem-
blV Of the State Of Vermont.
Sec. l. No. 1O1 of the public acts of
1870, amending sections eleven and thirteen
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of the Vermont reform school, approved
November 10, 1866, is hereby amended by
striking out of section eleven Of said act
the words, "twenty-one years of age"
wherever they occur in said section, and
| inserting in lieu thereof the words, eighteen
years of age.
SEC. 9 No boy under nine years of age
shall be sentenced to the Vermont reform
school on any ofense not punishable other
wise than by fine.
Sec 8. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
III. 9.-An act to abolish the state reform
| school, and to repeal all laws relating
thereto.
II as hereby enacted by the General As
senlbly Of the State of Krmont:
SEC. /. The institution known as the
ototS iSiolhi cChoOi 10 dDOieuSu,
and all laws relating to said state reform
school and the committal of persons there
to are hereby repealed.
SEC. 2 All the present inmates of said
reform school under the age of ten years
shall be discharged from said school on
or before the first day of March, A. ID
1875, and the trustees of said school are
hereby authorized and directed to cause
said inmates so discharged to be transport
ed at the expense of the state to the towns
from which they were committed, and said
inmates are to be left with the overseer of
the poor in said. respective towns. And it
is hereby made the duty OF said overseers
of the poor to provide and maintain said
inmates at the expense of their respective
towns, until such time as they can be re-
ma owed or otherwise provided for by law by
the towns in which their legal settlement
may be, if they have any in the state; and
if not, then said towns from which they
were committed shall provide for and main
tain them, unless they have relatives found
by law and of sufficient ability to support
them. In such case said overseor shall
have full power, at the expense Of their re-
spective towns, to compel said relatives to
maintain them, or to collect of said rela-
tives in a proper action the expense of such
support, after said relatives shall be duly
notified to support and provide for such in
mates by said overseer.
SEC. 3. All of the remainder of the in
mates of said school shall be discharged
therefrom in one year from the passage of
this bill the time of such discharge inside
of said year to be in the discretion of the
board of trustees of said school.
Sec. 4. No committals shall be made to
said reform school after the passage of this
bill, but all persons now liable by law to
be committed to said school shall hereafter
be punished by fine not exceeding five
hundred dollars, or by Imprisonment in the
county Jail for a term not exceeding one
year. or either or both of said punishments
in the discretion of the court before whom
tried; and provided further, that said court
may in their discretion sentence such per-
sons to imprisonment at hard labor in the
state prison for term not exceeding two
years, instead of the other punishment
mentioned in this section; and provided fur
Their, that justices of the peace shall not be
empowered by the provisions of this act to
exercise more extended jurisdiction than
they now have by law.
SEC. 8. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
II. 10.-An act providing for necessary
improvements in the state prison.
IL as hereby enacted by the general as
sem6ly Of the State Of Vermont:
SEC. l. A sum of money not exceeding--
thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to
be expended under the direction of the di
rectors of the state prison in the enlarge
ment of the prison work shops, the extern
sion of the hall, and the erection of more
cells for the lodgment and safe keeping of
convicts, and 10 providing more suitable
accommodations for the female prisoners;
and the auditor of accounts is directed to
audit the accounts of the directors of the
state prison for the expenditure herein pro-
vided, and draw orders therefor on the state
treasurer, who shall pay the same as they
may be presented.
its passage.
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