The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-10

an ORDER Tor the removal OF Sucn insane per-
son to the Vermont Asylum for the Insane, to
be there supported
SEC. 3. Section four of the act relating to
the insane, approved November 2Sth, 1889, is
And the supervisors shall have authority to
discharge, conditionaly, such incurable
persons as may. in their Judgment be safely
and properly cared for in the places, from
whence they were committed, but such per-
sons shall require only the revocation of their
discharge by the supervisors for their recon-
mitment to the asylum.
SEC. 6. Section $3.50 of the Revised Laws is
hereby amended so as to read as follows:
The officer or other person appointed by
said Judge of Probate shall transport such
insane person to the asylum, and leave with
the superintendent or one of the trustees of
the asylum copy of such order, with his
return thereon, and also the certificate of the
two physicians, legally qualified, as to the
insanity of the person. which shall be suffi-
cient warrant for receiving such person into
the asylum;
SECT. This act shall take effect from its
passage,
Approved Nov. g. 1884.
No. 53.--An act in amendment of Sections
1870, 1889, and 439S and to repeal Sections
$780, 439l. 1902 and 1898 of the Revised
Laws, relating to the Vermont Reform
School.
1t is hereby enacted, etc..
SEC. |. Section forty three hundred and eighty
nine of the Revised Laws is hereby amended 80
as to read as follows
When parent or guardian having the care and
custody of boy or girl under the age of sixteen
years, desires to place such boy or girl in the
reform school for discipline and reform, such
parent or guardian may apply to the judge of the
probate court of the probate district in which such
| parent or guardian resides and If, upon eXamna-
ton and investigation, such judge is satisfied that
such boy or girl is proper person to be sent to
said school, he shall so certify, and thereupon
Mt lilo, aLxa
girl to said school and If, upon examination of
such certificate, and examination of such boy or
girl, the trustees are satisfied as to the regularity
and suflciency of said certificate and also satisfied
that the boy or girl is a proper person to be ad.
mtted into the school, and that it would beneficial
to such boy or girl to become an inmate thereof,
and there is room in the school for him or
her; such boy or girl may be received into the
| school, upon the payment by the parent or
guardian of such part, which shall not be less
than one half, of the expense of keeping such boy
or girl, may be agreed upon by and between such
parent or guardian and the trustees OF the school,
and when received and admitted into the school
such boy or girl shall be subject to the rules,
regulations and discipline of the school, as if sent
! there under sentence of court.
SEC 9. Whenever a boy or girl is sought to be
admitted into the reform school under the pro-
visions of section one of this act, and such boy
girl and his or her parents are without adequate
pecuniary means to pay for keeping such boy or
girl at the school, the trustees may in their dis
erection receive such boy or girl into the school
without compensation therefor provided that
before receiving such boy or girl into the school,
it shall be the duty of the trustees to make dill
gent enquiry as to the want of such pecuniary
means on the part of the boy or girl his or her
parents and unless theythe said trustees are salts
ed,upon such enquiry that there is unquestion-
able want of such means, they shall decline to
| receive such boy or girl in the school except
under the provisions of section one of this act
SEC. g. Any boy or girl received into the re-
IA offs antin
or two OF this act, may be discharged from said
school at any time by the trustees, at their discrc-
ton.
SEC. 4. Section four thousand three hundred
and ninety-eght of the Revised Laws is hereby
| amended as to read as follows:
| When the trustees believe that an inmate who
was taken to said school by sentence or order of
justice of the peace was over the age of six
teen years when so sentenced, or was so idiOtc
as to be irresponsible for crime, for any cause
incapable of receiving benefit from attempts at
instruction, or that the conviction of such inmate
was for cause so trivial fairly to indicate that
the purpose of the prosecution was to throw the
expense of support upon the state, rather than
to further the cause OF justice, the trustees shall
investigate such case and if they find the facts to
so, they may discharge such inmate, stating in the
discharge the reason therefor; or they may order
such inmate to the alternative sentence, in case
of refractory or disordery inmates in said school,
and in either case they shall Immediately give
notice of their dongs to the selectmen of the
town from which said inmate was sent. And in
case such discharge is granted for the reasons that
said trustees conclude that the boy or girl in
question was sent to the school for insufficient
cause, or was over sixteen years of age at the
time OF sentence, or for the reason that the
trustees determine that the boy or Girl is idiotc
| as aforesaid, and in where the trustees con.
cude from the Investigation aforesaid that the
purpose of sending such boy or girl to the school
was to throw the burden of support upon the
state, rather than to further the cause of Justice
| and the hoy a Girl in il fnr nj m
discharged, the town from which said boy o.
girl is sent shall pay to the state all of the ex
penses OF the state pertaining to receiving keeping
and caring for such boy or girl prior to his OIL
her discharge; and such expenses may be sued
for and recovered of such town with full costs OF
suit, under the provisions of Section foul
thousand three hundred and tity-tive of the re
vised laws; but no such suit shall be commenced
until at least ten days after the notice aforesaid
has been given TO such town of the discharge o.
such boy or girl; such notice shall be in writing
and directed, posted and mailed to the seectmeu
OF the town in question, and when so directed
posted and mailed each requirement to notice
shall be deemed to have been complied with
and when such expense is claimed, an itemzed
account OF such expenses shall be sent with said
notice, together with a demand that the same bt
paid ut once. In no event shall u town be liable
under this section to pay the expense of boy OIL
girl for Il longer period than thirty days.
SEC. 3. Any suit or proceeding instituted
under or by virture OF section four thousand three
nunuTeu anu nlly-HVe OF tle Revised Laws, oil
under or by virtue of this act, or both, for
recovery of debt or demand accrung from tn,
business transactions of said reform school, or fol
the recovery OF the expenses named in section
four of this act may be retulnable and had to anG
at the city of Vergennes, in the county of Add
son, II within the jurisdiction of IL Justice of the
peace, and if not within the jurisdiction of 6
justice OF the peace, such suit or proceeding ma,
be returnable and had to aud in the count,
court within and for the said county of Addison
but no such suit or proceeding shall be brought
or Instituted except when directed by the trustees
SEC. u. Section forty three hundred and seventy
nine of the Revised Laws is hereby amended sc
us TO read as follows:
When boy under sixteen, or girl under six
teen and not less than ten years of age is convict
ed OF an ohense not punishable with DEATH the
court may sentence the offender to the reform
school until ofage, and the court shall decide and
make record OF the day when such person be-
comes of age. And in case of such sentence the
court shall add In substance the following "And
in case said, manning the person sentencedl shall
not ohey the regulations OF such school and be OF
good department, he or she shall be.n there in.
sert The alternative sentence. But no boy under
ten years OF age shall be committed to the school
for an otiense punishable only by fine, but If such
boy Is sentenced to pay fine, or fine and costs.
aud is committed in default of payment, suoh
commitment shall be to the reform school, and
the mittimus shall be made accordingly