St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-12-18

a1OTRSiiu, ana Ine SuCD person Is
certified to in writing duly sworn to, as pro
vided by an act of the General Assembly of
1884, by two physicians legally qualified and
residents of this State, the Judge shall issue
an order for the removal of such 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, 1882, is
hereby amended by adding to it as follows
And the supervisors shall have authority to
discharge, conditionally, such "incurable -
persons as may. in their Judgment, be safely
and properly cared for in the places from
whence they We're 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
cient warrant for receiving such person into
the asylum;
SEc.7. This act shall take effect from its
passage,
Approved Nov. 26, 1884.
No. 53.-An act in amendment of Sections
1879, 1899, and 439S and 10 repeal Sections
1890 1891, 1922 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 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 suficiency of said certificate and also satisfied
that the boy or girl is 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 guardian and the trustees of the school,
| and when so received and admitted into the school
such boy girl shall be subject to the rules,
regulations and discipline of the school, as 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 or girl into the school,
it shall be the duty of the trustees to make dill
gent enquiry rs to the want of such pecuniary
means on the part of the boy or girl or his or her
parents and unless theythe said trustees are salts
fed upon such enquiry that there is an unquestion-
able want of SuCl thew shall decline
receive such boy or girl in the school except
under the provisions of section one of this act.
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. 4 Section four thousand three hundred
( and ninety-eight of the Revised Laws is hereby
amended 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 idiotic
, as TO be irresponsible for crime or for any cause
/ incapable of receiving benefit from attempts at
instruction, or that the conviction of such inmate
wis 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 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 disorderly inmates in said school,
and in either case they shall Immediately give
| notice OF their doings to the selectmen of the
own from which said inmate was sent. And in
such discharge is granted for the reasons that
said trustees conclude that the. boy 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 idiotic
as aforesaid, and in case where the trustees CON
| clude 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-
pcnses OF the 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 four
| thousand three hundred and ffty-tive of the re-
! viscd 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 girl; such notice shall be in writing
and directed, posted and mailed TO the selectmen
| OF the town in question, and when directed,
| posted and mailed each requirement as to notice
shall be deemed TO have been complied with,
and when such expense is claimed, an itemized
account OF such expenses shall be sent with said
notice, together with demand that the same be
| paid at once. In no event shall town be liable
| under this section to pay the expense of boy or
| girl for longer period than thirty days.
! SEC. 5. Any suit or proceeding Instituted
under by virture of section four thousand three
hundred and ffty-fye of the Revised Laws or
! under or by virtue of this act, or both, for q
/ recovery of debt or demand accruing from the
business transactions of said reform school, for
/ the recovery OF the expenses named in section
four of tits 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 NAV
! 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
instituted except when directed by the trustees
SEC. 6. 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 offense not punishable with death, the
court may sentence the offender to the reform
school until of age, 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 sentenced, shall
not obey the regulations of such school and be of
good department, he or she shall be-" here in
sert the alternative sentence. But no boy under
ten years of age shall be committed to the school
for offense punishable only by fine, but if such
boy Is sentenced TO pay q fine or fine and costs,
commitment shall be to the reform school, and
the mittimus shall be made accordingly.
SEC. Z. Sections forty three hundred and
ninety, forty three hundred and ninety-one forty
three hundred and ninety-two and forty three
hundred and ninety-three q he reVised apd