The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-03

of probate is hereby authorized ana EN-
powered to request the sheriff of the
county to take possession OF said child,
and if so requested it shall be the duty
of said sheriff to deliver said child to said
parent, guardian or other. person who
shall abduct, conceal entice or carry
away. or improperly interfere with child
which has been placed by order of the
judge of probate in said school, is hereby
declared guilty of a miSdemeanor.
Sec. I. Whenever on the examination
provided for in this act, the probate court
shall determine that said child is in every
other way eligible for admission to said
school, it shall cause it to be examined by
the county physician, if there be one, and
physician. and shall in no case enter the
order in its records, showing the child to
be admissible to said school, unless the
physician making such examination snail
certify in writing, under oath, filed in said
court, that the child examined by him is,
in his opinion, of sound mind, and has no
chronic or contagious disease, and, in his
opinion, has not been exposed to any con-
tagious disease within fifteen 90 days pre-
vious to such examination before the
judge of the probate court; and copy OF
such certificate shall be attached to the
other papers required by this act to ac-
company the child to said school,
Sec. s. The object of this act is to pro-
vide a temporary home for dependent.
neglected and iii treated children in said
school, where they shall be retained only
until they can be placed in family homes;
provided, that in the discretion of the
board the child may be retained in said
school as long as it's best interests may
require The said board is hereby made
the legal guardian of all children adj
mitted to said school pursuant to law;
which guardianship shall continue during
the minority of such children, except in
the cases in which. under this act, the
guardianship may be Cancelled by resolu-
ton adopted by said board.
While in said school the children shall
be maintained and educated in the
branches usually taught in the common
schools. They shall have proper moral
how TO labor so tar as their age and con-
dition will reasonably permit.
Sec. g.. The state public school shall re-
ceive all children committed to it pur-
suant to this act: provided, that the super
intendent OF said school shall inform said
county commissioners that there is room
in the school for the admission of said
children, AND that provision has been
made for their support while therein.
Whenever there are more admissible chill
dren in the several counties than can be
received in said school, it shall be the duty
of the superintendent of said school to d-
vide such admissions pro rata among the
counties according to the number of ad-
missible children in each at the time of
such admission, giving preference to
counties of the same or larger population
that have had less admitted into said
school, Whenever the county commits
SiOnerS of any county shall be informed
by the superintendent of said school that
any dependent children from their county
can be admitted into said school, it shall
be, their duty to forward them to said
SCHOOL, as provided in this act, as soon as
practicable; and it shall be unlawful for
the county commissioners of any county
to retain and support in their county any
child admissible by law to said school aft
er such notification. In those counties in
which the distinction between the town
ship and county poor is maintained. it
Shall be the duty of the commissioners Of
S11oh the written raOll2St Of the
supervisor of any such township, to act
for such township in securing the admis-
sion of children to said school, in all re-
spects as though such children were sup
ported by the county.
The expense of transportation Of chill
dren to said school from any county pur-
ing any of said children to the county
from which they came, because they have
been ascertained to be improper inmates,
after their admission, as herein provided,
shall be audited by the board of county
commissioners of such county, and shall
be paid by the treasurer of sucn county
as other county expenses are paid.
Sec. 10. Whenever any ward of said
school, who is not indentured as herein
provided, has become self-supporting, the
sad board may, at its discretion, so de-
upon said guardianship shall cease and
the child shall thereafter be entitled to
it's own earnings. Whenever one or both
of the parents of any ward of said board,
w
to support the child and educate it, the
child may, by resolution adopted by said
board, be restored to its parents, in which
case the suitableness of the home of said
parents shall be certified in the manner
herein provided for placing children in
other homes, and thereupon the guardian
ship of said board shall cease. The said
board is authorized to return to the coun-
ties from which they were sent the follow
ing classes of children:
FirSt-ThoSe who have become sixteen
wears of age and who for anV reason
cannot be placed or retained in family
homes.
habits or incorrigibility, are improper in
mates of said school or cannot be placed
or retained in family homes.
IhlrdLIhose who, in the opinion OF SAID hd
physician of said school, are Of unsound
mind or suffering from disease which
renders their continuance in the school
injurious to its best interests.
Whenever any child shall be ordered by
said board to be returned to it's county.
as herein provided, the guardianship of
thereupOn again become a charge on the
county from which it was sent; and the
superintendent of said school, in returning
writing to the county commissioners of
the proper county the action of said board
and the reasons therefor.
Sec. IL. The said board is authorized,
and it shall be the duty Of said board Of
control, to use special diligence in placing
the children admitted to said school in
suitable family homes. which shall be ap-
contract to remain until they are twen-
ty-one CID years of age, or for a shorter
period, in the discretion of said board.
cation of the children in the public
schools where they reside, for teaching
them some useful occupation, for kind
and proper treatment as members of the
families in which they are placed and
for the payment on the termination OF
the contract to said board, for the use
provided, however, that, in the discre-
ton of said board, in the case of children
not on indenture and over fifteen d5( years
Of age, such contract may provide only
for wages to be paid to the child, and for
kind and proper treatment. such con-
the right to said board to cancel the same
whenever they may deem that the inter-
ests of the child require it, and may also
contain contain a a clause authorizing the person
any time within ninety 600 days from the
date of the contract on returning the
child to the school free of expense to the
or received by the board from an in
denture, contract, shall be paid to said
child when, for any reason the guardian
ship of the board shall cease.
Sec. II. The board of control or SUI
perintendent of the state public school, is
hereby authorized to consent to the
become an inmate of said school, by any
person or persons pursuant to the provis-
ions of law for the adoption and change
of name Of minors and of making them
heirs at law of the person or persons so
adopting them, and on such adoption the
said board shall cease to be the guardian
of the child so adopted.
Sec. 10. The said board of control is
authorized to designate the superintend-
ent of said school to be the agent thereof,
and may authorize him to sign the con-
r,xaf- st,IN oil
pers relating to the placing of children in
homes. The said board is also authorized