Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-05


provided in this chapter for appeals from the find
ing of the Judge to the county court.
SEC. az. All the acts and services required to be
performed by the register, shall be valid if per
formed by the judge
SEC "a Section seventy-eight OF said act is
amended so as to read as follows:
A discharge shall not be granted TO a debtor,
either upon voluntary or involuntary proceedings,
whose assets equal to thirty per cent Of the
claims proved against his estate unless the assent
in writing of a majority in number and amount OF
his creditors who have proved their debts claims
is filed in the at before the third meeting of
creditors, at such other time as the court shall
then ORDER.
SEC. as. Section eighty-one of said act is
amended so as to read as follows:
When discharge is refused a debtor for the rea-
that the assent of the requisite majority of his
creditors has not seasonably been obtained filed,
for the that the debtor has not taken the
oath to be taken at the second meeting of the cred
itors, the Judge. upon application OF the debtor,
made within twelve months after the third meeting
of creditors, upon filing in court written consent of
a majority in number and value of the creditors
who have proved their claims, may grant his dis
charge if he proves to the satisfaction of the Judge,
hearing had after public notice OF such applica-
ton, that the failure to obtain file the assent
occasioned by accident or mistake, and by no fault
of his own, or that the omission to take the oath
was owing to his inability, by reason sickness, to
attend and take the same, and if he is then present
and takes the oath required, and abides and per
forms all lawful orders OF the court.
Approved December "a, 1890.
No. Am act relating to the Vermont Reform
School and children ordered to be confined there
1t is hereby enacted, ETC.:
SEC I. When child under the age of twelve
years is brought before a justice of the peace,
charged with an offense, not punishable by DEATH
such Justice shall not put such child to plead or
proceed to a hearing OF the cause, until he has given
notice of the time and place of the trial or hearing
to the first selectman of the town in which the child
resides or if the child has residence in the State
n he fret M M 10 in which
or hearing is to be had.
SEc. 2. The selectman SO notified shall attend at
the trial or if such selecman is unable to attend
If he is related within the fourth degree OF con-
sanguny affinity to the child, or if for any rea-
son the justice shall be of opinion that he should
not be allowed to act in the case, said justice shall
notify and require the attendance of some other
selectman of the town who in his opinion is disin-
terested and qualified to act in the cause. And the
selectman notified and approved by the justice shall
appear the trial hearing and if no one else is
present act as friend and guardian, such select
man shall act as friend and guardian OF the child
against whom the proceedings are had;
SEC. 3 If the child is convicted or bound over
and no appears to become bail for an appeal or
for such chds appearance at the county court,
and the offense is such that the child will be COM
mtted to the reform school CT county Jail for fail
ure to furnish bail, the selectman designated by the
justice to act as guardian and friend of the child
shall if in his opinion it is not for the good OF the
child to be imprisoned, deliver to the justice writ
ten statement to that effect and the justice shall
thereupon order stay of all further proceedings
against the child and shall deliver the child into the
custody OF such Seectman.
SEC. 4. The selectman to whom the child is so
delivered shall find good home for the child and
cause the child to be placed therein and the select
men may bind by contract the town in which such
child last resided prior to the proceedings had
against such child, to pay the person taking the
child the same sum per week while such child is
under fourteen years OF age that such town would
be required by law to pay the trustees of the re-
form school toward the maintenance of such child
IL child school
And If such child has settlement in the State the
town paying such sums may recover the sums paid OF
the town where the child has legal settlement.
SEC. g. If the Selectman at any time within one
year after the child is delivered into his custody be-
comes Of opinion that will be for the best good of
such child to be imprisoned, he shall make state
ment to that effect in writing and deliver II to the
justice before whom the proceedings were had
against such child and when the seectman has
delivered such written statement to the justice the
original Judgment decision of the justice shall be
enforced against such child as provided in the fol-
lowing section.
SEC. g. If the original judgment was that the
child should be bound over for trial, the justice
shall bind such child over for trial to the next term
of the county court and shall commit the child
forthwith to the reform school to await such trial.
And if the original proceedings against the child
were for offenSe within the jurisdiction of the
justice to try and determine, of which otfense the
child was convicted, the justice shall sentence the
child as if there had been stay of proceedings
and shall issue his warrant forthwith to carry the
sentence into effect.
SEC. 7. If such selectman does not within year
from the original Judgment or decision apply to
proceedings shall at any time be had against such
child because of such original judgment or decis-
ION
SEC. 8. If the selectman designated by the JUS
tice to take charge of the case, dies or removes
from town or resigns the Office of Seectman, while
any duties remain unperformed which such select
man might have been called upon to perform under
this act then the seectmen of the town shall choose
other of their number perform such duties
and exercise whatever discretion would have been
allowed to such first mentioned selectman, in the
case.
SEC. Q. Aselectman shall receive one dollar and
fifty cents day for all time necessarily spent in
the discharge of his duties under the preceding
sections, and his expenses to be paid by the town
where the child resides.
SEC. 10. Children hereafter sent to the reform
school shall be treated as on probation until such
time as inquiry into the cause OF their commitment
and the previous character of the child shall show
whether long detention is necessary only a
transfer from former bad influences to good
home.
SEC. II. The trustees of the reform school may
ind places for any child committed to said school
for longer or shorter time as in their judgment is
best for the child in each case, and instructed
to investigate and give the probation or placing
out system such reasonable trial in their judg-
ment can properly be made, with view to shorten
terms of detention at said school,
SEC. IL. The superintendent of the reform school
shall act under the trustees as probation officer and
shall keep oversight of all children on probation
as long as may be necessary, and may appoint an
agent in the vicinity where the child is placed to
act adviser and friend of the child and such
agent shall make stated reports of the conduct and
welfare of the child and shall serve without ex-
penSe to the State.
SEC. 10. The superintendent of the reform school
shall present in his biennial report summary of
the results of the probation placing out system
for the previous two years,
SEC. IA When the trustees of the reform school
place child under twelve years of age in family
under the provisions of this act or of laws existing
at the time OF the passage OF this act, they may pay
toward such chids maintenance in such family
while the child remains under fourteen years OF
age, the sum of one dollar week
SRC IS. The boys confined in the reform school
shall be divided into two grades to be known as
grade one and grade two All boys under the age
of fourteen years who conform to the regulations of
said school and such other boys as the trustees
consider fit associates for boys under said age, shall
be in grade one. All other boys shall be in grade
two, and the boys belonging to grade two shall not
be permitted to associate with the boys belonging
to grade one except in the work shop, school room
dining room, chapel, and while at work on the
farm.
SEC rs. The trustees of the reform school are
hereby authorized in their discretion out of the
money appropriated by an act of the legislature
approved Nov. 26th, 1878, for the purpose of en-
larging and improving the reform school buildings
to provide a suitable playground, gymnasium,
sleeping room, wash-room, and readiug-room, with
suitable books and papers therein, and such other
accommodations as in their judgment may meet
the wants of the school, Every boy confined in
the school who conforms to the regulations of the
school, shall be permitted to spend not less than
two hours out of every twenty-four In said read
ing room When the repairs and enlargement of
the buildings are completed, the trustees are au-
thorized 10 employ the larger boys in the school
some similar remunerative employment
SEC. II. The trustees shall provide suitable
hospital Tor the boys confined in the reform school,
and shall defray all expense incurred out of the
m ed in he 1inr