Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-04-18

treasurer, but the treasurer need not be a
member of the board Of trustees. A ma
jeority Of said board shall be a quorum for
the transaction OF business. The board
shall require a bond of its treasurer and
fix the amount thereof. "a
SEC 4. The board of trustees shall hold
its meetings at the city of Mandan, and
fix the time of holding the same; provided,
lar meetings IN each, year. The mem
bers Of the board shall receive
as compensation for their services three
(3) dollars per day for each day employed,
not to exceed twenty-four days in any one
year, and rye cents per mile for each mile
ing the meetings of said board, which sum
shall be paid out of the state treasury on
the vouchers of said board.
SEC. 5. The said board Of trustees shall
direct the disposition of all monies appro.
priated by the legislative assembly OF the
state of North Dakota or the interest on all
monies that may be derived from the sale,
or the rent derived from the leasing Of
land donated by congress to said state and
by the constitution of said state appr0pri-
ated for said school, and shall have super,
vision ana charge of the construction of
all buildings provided for or authorized by
law for said school. Said board OF trustees
Of said school shall have power to enact by
laws and rules for the regulation of all its
concerns not inconsistent with the laws Of
this state, to see thatit affairs are conduct
ed in accordance with the requirements OF
law, and that strict discipline is maintain
ed therein; to provide employment and in
structlon for the inmates, TO appoint a SUP
e~rintendent, a steward, a teacher or teach
ers, and such other officers as in their
judgment the want Of the institution may
require, and prescribe their duties; to ex.
ercise a general supervisor over the insti-
tuition, its officers and inmates, and deter
mine the salaries to be paid to the officers
and order their removal upon good cause.
SEC.6. They shall cause the boys and
girls under their charge to be instructed in
morality, and in such branches of useful
knowledge as are adapted to their age and
capacity, and in some regular curse OF
labor, either mechanical, manufacturing or
agricultural, as is best suited to their age,
strength, disposition and capacity, and rs
may seem best adapted to secure the re-
formation and future benefit of said boys
and girls.
Seq Z. When there shall be twenty or
more boys in the school one or more of the
trustees shall visit the school once in every
month. and examine the boys and girls in
their school room and labor. and inspect
the register and accounts OF the supcrin-
tendent. A record shall be kept Of these
visits in the books OF the superintendent.
Once in each year or oftener If the trustees
think it necessary they may examine the
school in all its departments, including the
accounts, vouchers and documents of the
superintendent, and prepare a report on
the condition of the institution the last
Monday in December preceding the meet
ing OF the legislative assembly. which.
crintendent and a list Of the officers and
employees and their salaries, with the
estimate of the value OF the personal
! property belonging to the school, and a
financial statement showing the condition
of all funds appropriated for the use of
the purposes for which the same were
expended in detail shall be laid before the
legislative assembly.
SEC. 8. The superintendent with such
subordinate officers rs the trustees may
appoint shall have the charge and custody
of the boys and girls. He shall iii .cipline,
govern, instruct, employ and use his best
endeavors to reform the inmates in such a
manner as, while preserving their health,
will secure the promotion as far as possible
of moral and industrious habits, and
regular, thorough progress in Their studies,
trades and employment.
SEC. 9. lie shall, before entering upon
his duties, give a bond to the state of North
Dakota with sureties for the amount, (such
sureties to be satisfactory to the board of
trustees) conditioned that he will faith
fully perform all his duties, and account
for all money received by hun as superin-
tendent, which bond shall be filed in the
office of the secretary of state. He shall
have charge Of all the property Of the in
stitutiOn within the precincts thereof; he
shall keep in suitable books complete
accounts of all his receipts and expendi-
lures, and of all property entrusted to him.
| showing the income and expenses OF the
institution in such manner as the trustees
may require. His BOOKS and documents re-
lating to the school shall at all times be
open to the inspection of the trustees, who
shall keep a register containing the name,
& and circumstances connected with the
early history Of each boy and girl, and
shall add such facts as may come to his
knowledge relating to his or her history
while at the institution and after leav-
ing it.
SEC. 10. When a boy or girl under the
age of eighteen years shall in any court of
record be found guilty of any crime except
murder, the said court may If in its opinion
the accused is a proper subject therefor,
instead of entering Judgment, cause All
order to be entered that said boy or girl be
sent to the state reform school pursuant to
the provisions of this act, and u copy of
said order duly certified by the clerk under
the seal of said court, shall be sufficient
warrant for carrying said boy or girl to the
school m for his or her commitment to
the custody of the superintendent thereof.
SEC. II. When a boy or girl under the
age of eighteen shall be convicted before a
justice of the peace or other inferior courts,
of any crime or of being a disorderly
person, it shall be lawful for the magis-
trate before whom. he or she may
be convicted, to forthwith send such
boy or Girl, together with all the papers
filed in his office on the subject, under the
control of some officer to a Judge of a court
Of record, who shall then issue III order to
the parent or guardian of said boy or gill,
or such person as may have him or her IN
charge, or with whom he or she has last re-
sided, or II known to be nearly related to
him or her, or if he or she be alone or
f%riendless. then to such person as the judge
may appoint 10 act as guardian for the pur-
poses of the case, requiring him to appear
at a time and place stated in said order, to
show cause why said boy or girl should not
be committed to the reform schOOl for ref
Ormation and instruction.
SEC IL. Said order shall he sci we'd by the
sheriff or other officer by delivering a cupy
thereof personally to the party to whom it
Is addressed, or leaving it with some per.
son of full age at the place If residence or
business of said party, and Immediate re-
turn shall be made to the said judge Of the
manner and time of said service; the fees
of the sheriff or other officer under this
act shall be the same as now allowed by
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