Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-12-19

mitment to the asylum.
SEC. g. Section 2SSO 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 a suffi-
Gent warrant for receiving such person into
the asylum;
SEC. T. This act shall take effect from its
passage,
Approved Nov. &C. 1884.
No. 53.-An act in amendment of Sections
4379, 1899, and 1893 and to repeal Sections
1890, 1891, 1892 and 1893 of the Revised
Laws, relating to the Vermont Reform
School
1t is hereby enacted, etc.
SEC l. Section forty three hundred and eighty
nine of the Revised Laws is hereby amended so
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 il, upon examina-
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
| such parent or guardian may take such boy or
girl to said school and if, upon examination of
such certificate, and examination of such boy or
girl, the trustees satisfied as to the regularity
and sutfcency of said certificate and also satisfied
that the boy or girl is a proper person to be adj
mitted 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 so received and admitted into the school
such boy or girl shall be subject to the rules,
regulations and discipline Of the school, if sent
there under sentence of court.
SEC, 2. 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 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 or his or her
parents, and unless heythe said trustees are salts
fedupon such enquiry that there is an 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.
l SEC. 3. Any boy or girl received into the re-
form school under the provisions of sections one
or two of this act, may be discharged from said
school at any time by the trustees at their discre
ton.
SEC. A. Section four thousand three hundred
and ninetyeight of the Revised Laws is hereby
amended so as to read as follows
! When the trustees believe that an inmate who
was taken to said school by sentence or order OF
a justice of the peace, was over the age of six
teen years when so sentenced, or was so idiotc
to be irresponsible for crime, or for any cause
incapable of receiving benefit from attempts at
instruction, or that the conviction of such inmate
was for a trivial as 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, as in case
of refractory disorderly inmates in said school,
and in either case they shall Immediately give
notice of their doings to the selectmen of the
town from which said inmate was sent. And in
case such discharge is granted for the 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 case 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 boy or girl in question is for that reason
discharged, the town from which said boy or
girl is sent shall pay to the state all of the ex-
penses ofthe state pertaining to receiving, keeping
and caring for such boy or girl prior to his or
her discharge; and such expenses may be sued
for and recovered of such town with full costs OF
suit, under the provisions of Section fouI
| thOuSaud md -6N-nD f tI,o
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 OF
such boy or girl such notice shall be in writing
and directed, posted and mailed to the seectmen
OF the town in question, and when so directed
posted and mailed each requirement as to notice
shall be deemed to have been complied with
and when such expense is claimed, an iemized
account OF such expenses shall be sent with said
notice, together with a demand that the same be
paid at once. In no event shall town be liable
under this section to pay the expense of boy OF
girl for longer period than thirty days.
SEC. 5. Any suit or proceeding instituted
under or by virture of section four thousand three
hundred and tltty-fVe of the Revised Laws, or
under or by virtue of this act, or both for a
recovery of debt or demand accruing from the
business transactions of said reform school, or for
the recovery of the expenses named in section
four of this act may be returnabe and had to and
at the city of Vergennes, in the county of Addi.
son, if within the Jurisdiction of Justice of the
peace, and if not within the jurisdiction of a
justice of the peace, such suit or proceeding may
be returnable and had to and in the county
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. g. Section forty three hundred and seventy
nine of the Revised Laws, is hereby amended so
| as 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 ofense 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 daV when snch nnrsnn hn