The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-20
Propositions and Grievances.
State School for Maynard
Youth.
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promote health and for the basis of a
trade or occupation at which he or
| she may earn q proper support after
leaving the schools, and shall in ali
ways seek to promote the physical
mental, moral and spiritual welfare Of
| each child to the end that he or she
| may return TO society with a sound
| foundation laid for development into
a self-suppOrting and laW-abiding
citizen The board shall make the
schools as nearly self-supporting DIS
possible.
The board of control shali have au-
thority to receive into its custody any
infant between the ages Of ten and
seventeen years, who shall have been
accounted a juvenile delinquent in ac-
cordance With the terms of this act,
and the board of control shall be the
legal guardian of the body of the
child. Provided that in those cases
where children between the ages here
inbcfore specified are serving sem
fences in the penitentiary, on the
public roads, or in any Jail or work
such sentences and commit the chill
house, the Governor may commute
such sentences and commit the chill
dren to the custody of the board of
control upon such terms and condi-
lions as the Governor may deem best.
As the said North Carolina Indus
trial Schools will be part of the
educational system of the State. it is
made the duty of the superintendent
of Public instruction to examine these
schools annually and to make such
suggestions as to the instruction given
therein as may seem to him proper.
a delinquent child. or Juvenile de-
linQuent, is in this act defined to be
any infant under the age of seventeen
h. if.ta I'D Of or
pleads guilty of any violation of any
law of this State, or of any ordinance
of any city or town, provided that this
definition shall not include any child
guilty of any offense the punishment
whereof is death, or Imprisonment for
life.
The Superior court shall be the
court for the trial of Juvenile delin-
quents and the Judge shall set aside
so much of the first part of each term
Of court as may be necessary for the
trial of such children If the iu-
venile plead guilty or is convicted the
Judge of the court may commit the
child TO the custody of the board of
control of the North Carolina Indus
trial Schools for an indeterminate pc
Rod of not less than two years nor
for period beyond his or her twenty
first birthday, or the court may SEN
tence the child to any State or county
penal or reformatory institution au-
thorized by law to receive such boy or
girl
The court may appoint or designate
one or more discreet persons of good
character in each county to serve IS
probation officers during the pleasure
of the court. These officers to receive
no compensation, and it shall be the
duty of these officers to make inVeSti-
cations required by the court to be
present when the case is heard and
to furnish such information and as
sistance as the judge may require. ana
to take charge of any child before and
after trial as may be directed by the
court.
corder, or other inferior court shall
have the power to commit "a child to
the custody of the board of control
but. when a child under the age Of
seventeen shall be tried before such
a court upon charge of which the
court has jurisdiction, the court may
impose a sentence of fine or impriS-
onment as now provided by law. but.
whenever the court shall impose a
sentence of Imprisonment upon the
child, then and in that event the case
shall be appealed to the superior court,
and it shall be the duty OF such JUS
tice of the peace. mayor, recorder or
peal. which is hereby taken for him
or her by the State, and send the case
TO the Superior court.
No child under the age specified
pending a hearing under this act shall
be held in confinement in any county
or other Jail, calaboose, or police sta
ton in which adult persons are con-
fined when it can reasonably be pre-
vented, and when it becomes necessary
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fine such child in a Jail. calaboose, Oh.
police station, then and in that case
ii shall be unlawful to place such child
in the same room with any criminal.
or person charged with crime. older
than seventeen years.
The board of control shall have pow
er to adopt rules and regulations re-
garding the parole and discharge of
children committed to its custody. 1t
may parole any child when it appears
to be for the best interest of the
child and it may terminate the parole
at its pleasure, and have such child
brought back to the school. and it may
also discharge child whenever il
deems best.
For the purpose of carrying into ef-
feet the provisions of this act and. 10
provide for the purchase Of sites and
for the erection, equipment. and mann
tenance of said plants. the State Treas.
urer is directed to turn over to the
board of contol of the North Carolina
Industrial Schools State bonds of the
nar value of fifty thousand dollars
ESQ, 000). now in his hands belonging
to the North Carolina Penitentiary, or
the proceeds thereof, which bonds the
directors of the Denitentiary have Of
fered to the State for that purpose.
Osteopathy.
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