The Press., 1883-11-08

LOCAL TOPICS AND scIssoRED.

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 LOCAL TOPICS -PENN,D AND SCIss0RED. COUNTY ASYLUM FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN.
 The last legislature passed law making it compulsory on each county to establish home for the dependent and neglected children of it's several towns. The full text of the act is needed to fully explain it's object and requirements, and we therefore give it:
 Sec 1. For the better protection of chil- dren between the ages of two and sixteen years, of the classes hereinafter described, to wit: waifs, strays, children who are or may hereafter be in charge of overseers of the poor, children of prisoners, drunkards or paupers, and others who are or may hereafter be committed to hospitals, almshouses, or warehouses, and all children within said ages, deserted, neglected, cruelty treated, or de- pendent there shall be provided in each coun- ty, on or before January 1, 1884, one or more places of refuge, for such children only, to be known as temporary homes. Said homes shall be distant not less than one-baf mile from any penal or pauper institution; and no pauper or convict shall be permitted to live or labor therein; and they shall not be used as permanent provision or residence for any child, but for it's temporary protection, for so long time only as shall be absolutely neces- sary for the placing of the child in a well-se- lected family home. Children demented, idiotic, or suffering from incurable or conta- gious diseases, are not included in the pro- visions of this act. a s,0a....
 Sec. 2. In each county the county com missioners thereof, with one member of the state board of charities and one member of the state board of health, shall constitute a board for the location, organization, man. agement, and gen ral supervision of such temporary homes in the county. Said board may use, with their consent, orphan asylums now in operation in any county as tenn porary homes for that county and the county commissioners may lease, purchase, hold sell, and convey real and personal es- tate for the purposes of such temporary home or homes; and the board may, when desira- ble for economical reasons, and when con- sistent with the welfare of the children to be provided for, establish such temporary homes in desirable private families: provided, that in no instance shall such home be under the same care or management as an almshouse, workhouse, or penal institution. Said board may appoint such superintendents or agents, and may make such rules, regulations, and bylaws as may be necessary or convenient for the order and government of the temporary home and its officers; and they shall appoint 8 committee of one man or woman in each town of the county, who shall serve without compensation, and who shall have at all times the right to visit and inspect the home or homes of their county, and to suggest to said board such provisions, changes, or additions as they may think desirable and shall assist said board in the careful selection of family homes for the children in the temporary home or homes, and in the visitation of children when placed in selected families; which visi- tation shall be made by said board or by its agents, or through said committees, at least once in every three months; and said board shall remove any child from the family in which it may be placed to 8 temporary home, or to another family, at their discretion sub- ject to the intents and purposes of this act.
 Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful for overseers of the poor to place or retain children between the ages of two and sixteen years in alms- houses, after they shall have been notified by said board that temporary home in their county is open for the reception of such chil- dren and upon such notice they shall cause all such children then in alms-houses to be removed to such home. The necessary ex- penses of supporting children in temporary homes or in family homes, until they shall reach the age of twelve for girls and fourteen for boys, shall be paid by the towns to which they belong at not less than one dollar and fifty cents nor more than two dollars weekly per child. The placing of children with the lowest bidder is hereby prohibited
 Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful for any court or magistrate to commit any child under six teen years of age as vicious, truant, or incor- rigible, to any jail. almshouse, or workhouse. Any court of probate, city or police court, or justice of the peace may, upon proceedings instituted in the manner provided for the commitment of children to the industrial schools of the state, or upon petition of the Connecticut Humane society, commit any child belonging to the classes enumerated in section one of this act to any temporary home that may have been established under this act, and the costs of such commitment shall be paid in the same manner as in the other cases referred to in this section. ..
 Sec. 5. sum not exceeding one thousand dollars in any one county shall be paid to- wards the establishment and maintenance of the temporary homes provided for in this act by the comptroller, upon the certificate of said board that provisions for such home or homes has been made in such county.
 Sec. 6. To provide for the expenses of temporary homes in excess of the sum receiv- ed under section three of this sct, said board shall present annually to the county repre- sentatives of each county an estimate of the expense of such homes for the succeeding year and said representatives shall at their annual meeting in each year, lay a county tax for the maintenance of such home or homes in their county.
 Approved, May 3, 1883. V 4
 The county commissioners of Holland County have. acted as required by the above enac tme mt, and have leased for IS months, with privilege of buying, for $1 500, the Daniel P.s Sprague farm in An dover. The property is located one-half mile from Andover depot-has large house and suitable accommodations for proposed purpose, and is located in good farming neighborhood.
 Holland County Leader: Farmers Exchange" is what the new store in Ex- change Block is to be called. The pro- prietors are Messrs. Eaton & Spencer. The former had store in Ellington for several years, and in addition to his regu- lar retail trade, he did quite large busi- ness at supplying the wholesale trade with farm produce, some of it coming to Rock vile, and large amount to Hartford and Springfield The new firm will continue to make this speciality. MT. Spencer has been in the employ of MT. Eaton, be- sides other experienc, ,and has many friends in this vicinity. It would seem that the