The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-20
Bill Creating a State
Board of Osteopaths.
I'M MIGRATION BUREAU
After Short Sessions the House and
Senate Adjourn in Honor
Of the Memory Of
General Robert
{. Lee.
E. Lee.

Although the SESSION OF the senate
yesterday was brief, adjourning soon
after converting, in honor TO the MEM
ory of General Robert e. Lee and the
mechanical reading of the bills indi-
Gated nothing unusual to the unprac-
ticed ear, yet the majority of them
were of far-reaching importance, and
some were the outcome of several
lyearS of constant agitation
Among the more interesting bills
were those to establish a State re-
formatory for juvenile delinquents: TO
establish a Department of Immigra-
ton and to provide for the appoint
ment of a commissioners, which bill
the iHtroducer said had been approved
by Governor Glenn; to incorporate an
Osteopathic Society, and a substitute
bill REGULATING the judicial salaries.
The bill of Mr.. Scales, of Guilford,
creating board OF control for
North Carolina industrial schools pro-
viding for the erection and manage
ment of these schools, specifying
method of procedure against Juvenile
delinquents, and providing for the
management, detention, education and
training Of these delinquents, is the
result of years of effort by certain
moral forces in this State to provide
properly for the care and correction
OF indiscrced and possibly criminal
youth, who do not deserve TO be SEM
fenced to the common Jail, TO the roads
or to the State penitentiary. 1t Will
be remembered that two years ago
representative members and officers of
the State Society of Kings Daughters
appeared before the Legislature and
pleaded for reformatory, and land
was offered the State for the location
of the school.
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the State demands that children
should be guarded from association
and contact with crime and criminals,
and the ordinary process Of the criml-
inal law does not provide such treat
ment and cure and moral encourage
ment as are essential to all children
in the formative period of life, bur
Iendangers the whole future of the
child, and that experience has shown
that children lacking proper parental
care or guardianship are led into
courses of life which may render them
liable to the pains and penalties or
the criminal law of the State, al
though in fact the real interests OF
such children require that they be
mot incarcerated in pententiaries ana
jails as members of the criminal class,
but be subjected to a wise care, treat
ment and control that their evil ten
denotes may be checked, and their bet
tel instincts may be strengthened.
To that end it is important that the
power of the courts in respect to the
care treatment ana control over de-
linquent children should be clearly
distinguished from the powers exer-
cised in the ordinary administration
of the criminal law and the conStitu-
ton of North Carolina authorizes the
establishment of houses of refuge,
whenever the public interest may re-
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struction of certain classes of otfend-
ers; such houses of refuge are here
by provided for the education and
training of delinquent children.
The bill provides that the Governor
shall appoint six persons to be known
as the Board of Control of the North
Carolina Industrial Schools" who with
their successors in office shall be n
body corporate. The terms of Office
of the members of the board shall be
six years, except that the Governor
shall at the first appointment appoint
two for two years, two for four years,
and two for six years; and all MEM
bers shall serve until their successors
are appointed and shall have qualified.
The members of the board shall serve
without pay.
The board Of control shall elect
one OF its members president ana
shall also elect a treasurer of the board
and elect such other officers as thaV
deem necessary. The treasurer befors
entering upon his duties shall give a
good and sufficient bond, payable to
the board of control.
After organization the board of con-
troll shall proceed to acquire by pur-
chase or deed of gift suitable sites for
the schools. And the said board in
locating the schools may take into con-
Sideration any donation of lands or
personal property. Each site shall
contain not less than one hundred
acres Of land, in a healthful locality
and convenient to transportation fa-
cilitieS. The board shall proceed as
soon as practicable to erect proper ac-
commodations for the detention. MAIN
tenance, education. and training of de-
nnquent children, and it shall prepare
one plant for the delinquent white
children and one for delinquent negro
children, but the two plants shall not
be located in close proximity to each
other.
The board of control shall have en-
tire charge of the schools and may APP
point such officers as they deem ne
cessary. When either of the schools
is ready for the reception of Juvenile
proclamation, announce that fact The
board of control shall provide for the
instruct ction of each child entrusted to
its care in the common school branch
es, and shall require that each able
bodied child be allowed for suitable
periods in some manual labor that Will
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