The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-03-03
A BILL
To Establish an Industrial School
for Boys and Provide for its
government and Mainte-
nance.


Reformatory and Industrial School.
under the name and style of South
Carolina Industrial School, which is
hereby declared TO be body corpor
ate, and as such may sue and be sued
plead and be implicated, i'm its corpo
rate name, and may have and use n
common seal, which it may alter at its
pleasure, and shall have the right to
acquire, by purchase, deed, devise, be-
quest or otherwise such property, real
and personal, as may be necessary or
proper Tor its purposes, and may have
and exercise all such powers and priv
for carrying out the purposes of it's
organization, as herein declared.
SEC. 2. That the business, property
and affairs of said corporation shall be
under the management and control of
Board of Trustees, to consist of sew
en- persons, besides the Governor, the
Superintendent of Education and the
Attorney General Of this State. who
shall be ex officio Trustees. That the
seven persons constituting the. ~firs t.
Board OF Trustees shall be appointed
by the Governor, and shall serve dur
ing the following terms, respectively
TWO OF them Tor two years, two of them
for four years, and the remaining
y
for these respective terms to be desig-
mated by the Governor in making such
appointments. That at the cXpira-
ton of their respective terms. their
successors shall be appointed for a
period Of six years by the Governor.
who shall also fill vacancies caused by
death. resignation or otherwise, and
all subsequent Trustees shall be en-
pointed for six year terms. That no
person shall be appointed member
of said Board who holds any office of
honor, trust or profit under this State
or the United States Except Notarics
Public or officers in the State militia
servicc) and if any person appointed
under the provisions of this Act shall
subsequently accept any such office, he
shall ipso facto cease to be member
of said Board. That each member of
the Board shall receive as compcnsa-
ton for services the sum of three dol
lars FOR each days attendance on the
meetings of said Board, together with
four cents per mile by the most direct
route going to said meetings and re-
turning thercfrom: Provided. That
the total compensation and mileage
for all the members Of said Board shall
not exceed the sum of six hundred
dollars for any one year. That the eX
officio members of said Board shall, at
least once year, visit said institution
and examine into its management and
condition, and at each session of the
General Assembly the Board of Trus-
tees shall make to that body report
touching said institution.
SEC. 3. That the Governor of this
State, as soon as may be convenient
after appointing the members of said
Board of Trustees, shall call meet
ing of said Board in his office in the
city of Columbia, at which said Board
shall elect Il President, Vicc-President
Secretary and Treasurer. That the
Treasurer, before entering upon the
duties of his office, shall execute a
bond in the usual form, with at least
two good and sufficient securities, to
be approved by said Board and in such
sum as said Board may prescribe, con-
ditioned for the faithful performance
Of his duties. That said Board of
Trustees shall select n suitable place
for the location of said school, and
shall organize said school and put the
same into operation as soon as may be
practicable after the passage of this
Act, That the buildings for said school
may be erected upon land which is do
mated, or upon land which may belong
to the State, and which the Governor
may by definite description set apart
for that purposes and in the event
that lands suitable for the purpose
cannot be obtained. the Board may
purchase such lands. That said Board
shall meet annually, and shall have
power from time to time to make by
laws, rules and regulations not incon-
sistent with the laws of this State, and
to employ agents and manage all the
affairs of said cOrDOratiOn
SEC. 1. That it shall be the duty of
such school, and it shall have the
power to receive, care for and provide
for the welfare of white boys between
the ages Of eight and sixteen years,
who, because of their conduct or sur
roundings are likely to become base
or criminal, or hurtful to the State or
to the best interests of society, and
who may be committed to said school
by judge or magistrate under the
provisions of this Act, or who may be
voluntarily committed to its keeping
by their parents or guardians, or the
persons having such boys in charge or
who having no parents, guardians or
other persons to care for them, may
voluntarily commit themselves to its
keeping: Provided, said Board of Trus-
tees may, in their discretion, require
the payment of reasonable sums to
provide for the maintenance and tut
ton of boys voluntarily committed
That any commitment under this Act,
whe ther by Judge, magistrate, parent
or guardian, or by~any other person
having in charge the said boy, or by
the said boy himself, if he have no
person to care for him, shall be full
and sufficient authority to the Trus-
tees, officers and agents Of said school,
fer the detention and keeping therein
Of the boy so committed. That any
boy committed to said institution un-
der the provisions of this Act, except
upon conviction of crime, shall be
kept therein until he arrives at the
age of twenty-onc years, enless soon
er dismissed thercfrom by order of the
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