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Section 8. On and after the first day Of
February nineteen hundred and three.
Waldo county shall be two dollars and
fifty cents per day for each day actually
employed in the service of said county,
including time spent in travelling, for which
each commissioner shall have ten cents
per mile for the distance actually travel
ed. but each commissioner shall have no
more than one travel during the same
| nearing or session. or for more than two
APPOINTMENTS or any regular term or for
services or travel on more than one pc
| tition or case at the same time. or any,
thing for travel or attendance at the Leg
islature connected with the annual coun-
ty estimates, or for any additional
trouble or expense f'
Section 2. All acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.
Section g. This act shall take effect
when approved.
approved Feb 81 v
Chapter Fl.
An Act to abolish (hapter five hundred
and eighty-two, Public Laws of eighteen
hundred and sixty EIGHT, relating to talk
ing fish in Frer chman's Bay except by
the ordinary process of fishing with
hook and line.
Sections ore, two, three, four, five and
six. chapter five hundred and eighty-two
of the public laws of eighteen hundred
ard sixty-eight are hereby repealed
[Approved Feb. 25.l
Chapter 22.
An Act amendatory of and additional to
Chapter one hundred and forty-two of
the Revised Statutes, relating to the
State Reform School.
Section l. Section one of chapter one
hundred and forty-two of the revised
statutes is hereby amended so that said
section as amended, shall read as fol-
lows:
Section l. The government of the State
reform school, established for the In
struction. employment, and reform of
juvenile offenders, in the town of South
Portland, in the county of Cumberland.
is vested in a board of five trustees APP
pointed by the governor, with the advice
to hold their offices during the pleasure
of the governor and council. but not
longer than four years under one APP
pointment. They shall be allowed
vices when employed. and the same
sum for every twenty miles travel.
They shall have charge of the gener-
al interests of the institution and see
quired by the legislature, and such by
laws as the hoard may ADOPT; see that
proper discipline is maintained therein;
provide employment for the inmates, and
bind them out. discharge or remand them,
as hereinafter provided; appoint a super
intendent, subject to the approval, and
during the pleasure of the governor and
council, and appoint such other officers
as in their judgment the wants of the in
sutution require; prescribe the duties of
all its officers; exercise a vigilant super
vision over its concerns, remove it's sub
ordinate officers at pleasure. and appoint
others in their stead; determine the COM
penSation of the subordinate officers, sub
ject to the approval of the governor and
council. and prepare and submit bylaws
to the governor and council, which shall
be valid when sanctioned by them. They
may contract with the attorney general of
the United States for the confinement and
offenders against the laws of the United
States in accordance with sections five
thousand five hundred and forty mine, and
five thousand five hundred and fifty of
the revised statutes of the United States
Section 2. Section two of said chapter
one hundred and forty-two of the revised
statutes is hereby amended so that said
section as amended shall read as fol-
lows:
Section 2. When a boy between the
ages of eight and sixteen years Is con-
victed before any court or trial Justice
having jurisdiction of the offense, of an
offense punishable by Imprisonment in
the state prison, not for life, or in the
county JAIL or in any house of correction,
such court or justice may order his COM
mitment to the state reform school or
sentence him to the punishment provided
by law for the same offense If to the re-
form school, the commitment shall be con-
or kept there for the full term of his mi
nority. unless sooner discharged by the
trustees as provided in section seven. or
released on probation as provided in sec
ton ten. he shall then suffer the punish
ment provided by law, as aforesaid, as or
dered by the court of justice: but no boy
shall be committed to the reform school
who is deaf and dumb, non compos, or
insane.
Section 3. Section three of said chapter
one hundred and forty-two is hereby
amended so that said section, as amended,
shall read as follows:
t.
the state reform school, under the pro-
visions of the proceeding section, for lar
ccny OF property not exceeding one dollar
In value: or for assault and battery, ma
licious mischief. malicious trespass, des-
ecration of the Lords day. riotous con-
duct disturbance of the peace, enbezzle-
ment, cheating by false pretenses. vag-
rancy, or truancy; or for being a COM
for any offenSe punishable In any house
of correction. the expenses of conveying
such boy to the reform school. and his
subsistence and clothing during the time
he remains there. not exceeding one dollar
a week. shall be betrayed by the town
where such boy resides at the time of his
If within the state: other
wise such expense shall be paid by the
state
Section l. Section four OF said chapter
one hundred and forty-two Is hereby
amended so that said section. as amended
shall read as follows:
Section 4. When any boy Is ordered to
be committed to the state reform school
the court or trial justice by whom such
is ordered shall certify In
the mittimus the city or town in which
such boy resides at the time Of his COM
the age of the boy, and the day
on which his term of minority will ex-
pire The finding of the court or justice
regarding the age and residence of the
boy shall be deemed decision of n ques-
ton of fact, and his certificate thereof
shall be conclusive evidence of the age
and residence of the boy and of the day
on which his term Of minority will expire.
If the said boy is convicted of an offenso
specified in the preceding section the GER
tifcate of the court or trial justice shall
be sufficient evidence in the first instance,
to charge such city or town in which such
boy resides with his expense at the re-
form school not exceeding one dollar n
week. The superintendent, upon the COM
mitment Of such hoy shall notify in writ.
ng by mail or Otherwise, the aldermen OF
any city, or the selectmen OF any town
so liable, Of the name OF the boy CON
mitted, the offense with which he L.
charged, and the duration of his term or
Such written notice shall be
sufficient when made. superscribed AMI
directed to said aldermen or selectmen.
md deposited. postage prepaid, in tho
post office
Section S. Section six of said chapter
,ne hundred and fortytwo Is hereby
amended by striking out after the word
hoy in the first line the words $50 con-
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