Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-30

word sentenced" and inserting in place
thereof the words ordered to be COM
mitted.' and by striking out the word
convict" In the fifth line of said section
and inserting in place thereof the word
boy, and by striking out the word al,
Tentative" in the seventh line OF SAID
section, and by striking out the word
sentenced in the ninth line Of said sec
ton and inserting in place thereof the
words ordered to be committed so that
said section, as amended, Shall read as
follows:
Section Z. When boy is ordered to be
committed to said school and the trustees
deem 1t inexpedient to receive him, or lie
is found incorrigible, or his continuance
In the school is deemed injurious to it's
management and discipline, they shall
certify the same upon the mittimus by
which he is held, and the mittimus and
hoy shall be delivered to any proper Off
Ger. who shall forthwith commit said boy
to the Jail, house of correction, or state
prison, according to his sentence. The
trustees may discharge any boy as re-
formed; and may authorize the superin-
tendent under such rules as they pre-
scribe, to refuse to receive boys ordered
to he committed to said school, and his
certificate thereof shall be as effectua as
their own.
Section 7. Section nine of said chapter
one hundred and forty two is hereby
amended, so that said section, as
amended, shall read as follows:
. Section 9. All commitments of boys
shall be during their minority unless soon
er discharged by order of the trustees, as
before provided; and when a boy is dis
F. charged from the school at the expiration
OF his term. whether he be then in the
institution or lawfully out on probation
or when discharged as reformed. all APP
propTiate record of such discharge snail
be made by the superintendent upon the
register of the school required to be kept
by provisions of section thirteen OF this
chapter. Such discharge shall be full
and complete release from all penalties
ard disabilities created by MS sentence
and commitment, and the record of the
proceedings under which such boy was SO
committed shall not be deemed to be, nor
shall it be subsequently used as, GRIM
fnal record against him. Each boy as
charged from the institution shall receive
an appropriate written discharge, signed
by the superintendent. Such discharge, or
q COPY, duly certified by the superinten-
dent, of the record or discharge upon tne
register of the school, shall be receivable
in evidence and conclusive of the facts
therein stated.
Section s. Section ten of said chapter
one hundred and forty-tWo is hereby
amended so that said section, as amended
shall read as follows:
Section 10 The trustees may commit,
on probation and on such terms as they
deem expedient, to any suitable inhabi-
tant of the state any boy in their charge.
for term within the period of his com
mitment such probation to be condition
ed on his good behavior and obedience TO
the laws Oh the Stdtc souCii wy
during the term for which he was origi-
nally committed to the reform school, be
also subject to the care and control OF
the trustees, and on their being satisfied
at any time that the welfare OF the boy
will be promoted by his return to the
school they may order his return. On his
return to the school, such boy shall there
be held and detained under the original
mittimuS The trustees may delegate 10
the superintendent under such rules as
they prescribe the powers herein granted
to the trustees to commit any BOY on pro
baton to any suitable inhabitant OF the
state and to return to the reform school
any boy so committed when he is salts
fled that the welfare of the boy Will oe
promoted by his return. Any boy ordered
returned to the reform school may, on the
order of the superintendent or other ofh-
Ger of the institution, be arrested ana re-
turned to the reform school, or to any
officer or agent thereof, by any sherll,
constable or police officer or other person;
and may also be arrested ana returned by
any officer or agent of the school
Section O. Section eleven of said chap
ter one hundred and forty-two is hereby
repealed.
ter one hundred and forty-two Is hereby
amended by striking out in the eleventh
line of said section the word Sentenced
and inserting in place thereof ec the "o as
amended, shall read as follows:
Section 49, One or more of the trustees
shall visit the school at least once IN
every four weeks examine the res's s',, :
workshop, ard regularly keep record OF
these visits in the books of the superinten-
dent Once in every three months, tne
school, in all Its departments, snail n ~
thoroughly examined by majority OF
the board of trustees. and report shlai
be made, showing the results tnefeol.
Annually, on the first day of December. an
abstract Of such quarterly reports shall be
In III before the governor ana
council for the information OF the legs
lature with full report or the Superii-
terdent stating, particularly among othei
things the offcnSe for which eacn pup
w,,s committed and his place of residence
A financial statement furnishing an accu,
rate detailed account OF the receipts ahS
expenditures for the year terminating OF
the last day of November preceding shai
also be furnished.
section II. Any hoy deemed by the trus'
tees to be reformed who has no suitable
home to which he can be sent ana 1or
whom in consequence of physical in1rm
ity or other reason. no suitable nome cal
be found by the trustees. may be dis
charged by said trustees and returned tt
the seectmen of the town or the overseers
OF the poor of the city where sych boy
resided at the time of his commitment.
Section Il. ANY person who shall aid OF
abet any boy committed to the state re
form school in escaping thereirom, or Wh'
shall knowingly harbor or conceal any
hoy who has escaped from said school
shall be fined not 'ass than fifty or mor'
than one hundred dollars, or punished by
Imprisonment in the county jail not more
than sixty days. Any fugitive from th'
state reform school may. on the order o
the superintendent or other officer of thu
institution, be arrested and returned to IN,
school or to any officer or agent thereon
by any sheriff, constable. or police officer
or other person; and may also be arrestei
and returned by any officer or agent OF TN
school. "a
SECTION IS. All acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with this act, are hereby re
pealed.
Section II. This act shall take effec
NAV one, nineteen hundred three.
Improved Feb. %.
Chapter %.
An Act to amend Section fourteen Of
(,hapter fifty-one of the Revised stat
utes, relating to the width of the loca
ton of Railroads.
Section I. Section fourteen, chapter flf
ty-one of the revised statutes is hereb!
amended so as to read as follows:
Section IA. A railroad corporation To-
the location, construction, repair and con
venient use of its road may purchase u
take and hold as for public uses land anS
oil materials In and upon it; through
woodland and forest the land so taker
shall not exceed six rods in width unles:
necessary for excavation, embarrassment OF
materials, and through all land other thai