Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-24
THE HOUSE OF REFUGE BILL.

1t is needless TO reiterate the urgent
necessity for the erection and endow-
ment by this State of House OF hei-
uge, or Reformatory school for Juve-
nile offenders. Our towns and cities
are breeding by the score, class OF
boys whose dispositions, habits and
practices are at once cause OF alarm
and q subject for the most serious con-
temptation by the citizen aud the we'll
wisher OF society. As to the causes
which have brought Oh this lamenta-
BILE condition, they are too many and
are the subject matter OF too far'
reaching discourse to be embraced i'll
a single newspaper article. The Dill
introduced into the Assembly provid-
ing for the appropriation of moneys to
build and equip and maintain House
OF Refuge for Juvenile offenders takes
il for granted that an emergency exists
which calls for the immediate estaS-
fishing OF such an institution. VI
course, if there is no such an emer-
pencv there is no need of mourning
the expense attendant upon the inaug-
urat;on and compilation ofthis scheme.
We will not debate the validity OF the
assumption of the existence OF tins
emergency, but, leaving that matter
to the discussion which the considera-
ton of the bill is certain to awaken,
proceed to brief synopsis of the bill
itself as it comes from the hauds OF the
State Printer. BY the terms OF Sec
tons One, Two and Three, moneys
are appropriated for the purpose OF
building the projected House and for
equipping the same and providing for
its differing and current expenses.
The amount appropriated for the
building is thirty thousand dollars;
the amount appropriated for the ex-
penses of organizing and maintaining
the institution is forty-five thousand
dollars. The several sums are ample
and, probably, more than enough.
Section Four creates Board of Trus-
tees to be comprised of three men,
bers, the Governor, the Controller and
the Superintendent of Public lnstruc-
ton. This Board is empowered with
authority to make all the needful
rules and bylaws for the regulation
and discipline of the House, the ap-
pointment of the Superintendent and
other officers and the general super
vision of the House and its inmates.
Section Five contemplates the super
vision of the construction Of the House
by the Board, and the payment by the
State of their expenses while so dong.
Section Six makes it the duty of the
Board to visit the House once in each
quarter year and to examine the boys
there confined with view to their
possible discharge, if they arc sufil-
GENTLY reformed to make such dis
charge advisable. By the terms OF
Section Seven The Board can enter into
articles of inden.ure with third parties
for the apprenticeship of the boys TO
trades etc. Section Eight makes the
BOYS the wards of the State, for the
purpose of taking care OF such prop
erty as any of such boys may be seized
and possessed of. Section Nine pro-
vides for tho obtaining and acceptance
Of plans for building and for the build
ing itself. Section Ten contains some
general and special directions as to the
manner of building the projected
House. Section Eleven names the
officers of the House and fixes their
salaries. Section Twelve directs the
Board to report to the Governor, once
in every year. Section Thirteen pro-
hibitS the purchase of anything for
Use or consumption in or about the
House except upon requision signed
by the Board. Section Fourteen pro-
vides for holding divine service at the !
House. aud for the pay of a Chaplain.
Section Fifteen defines the relations OF
Sheriffs and other peace officers to this |
Act, and specifies the ages within |
which boys shall be held amenable to |
arrest and confinement in the said |
House. Section Sixteen makes it the |
duty of Justices of the Peace to cont
mt boys upon complaint and proof
thereof made by parents and Suardi-
ans of the incorrigible and vicious con
duet of any boys: and they may be
to the House of Refuge for
being Migrants &c. Sec
tons Seventeen and Eighteen further
define the duties Of Sheriffs and other
peace officers, fix their fees for arrests,
Of offenders &c, and
prescribe the manner of payment.
Section Nineteen provides for the re-
capture of escapes. Section Twenty
locates the House of Refuge upon the
Prison grounds in Washoe county.
Section Twenty-one repeats all con-
liicting Acts. This, then, is rough
sketch of this important measure. On
tomorrow, it will prob
n bIv ha ranOrfod tn the Assembly