Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1909-07-30
cHAPTER 59f5-(No. 4s).

AN ACT Amending Sections 2, 8, and 8,
Of Chapter 1888, Acts Of 1905, entitled
Causes Of Commitment of Minors to the
Florida State Reform School, at Mari
anna Defining Who Shall be Com
mitted, and for What Time, and Upon
What Conditions Regulating the Dis
cipline, Providing for Proper Manage
ment Of Said Reform School, and APP,
propriating Money for Said Institution"
Approved June s, 1905. - 49,
Be 1t Enacted by the Legislature OF tne
State of Florida:
Section /. That Section of an Act de-
filming the manner and causes OF commlt-
ment of minors to the Florida Reform
school at Marianna defining who shall
be committed and for what time and upon
what conditions, regulating the discipline,
providing for the proper management OF
money for the benefit Of said Institution,
approved June 5, 1905, be amended TO
read as follows:
Sec. 2. When any child under the age
of eighteen years shall be sentenced by
any court Of competent Jurisdiction TO I'M
prisonment in any county jail or 70 tne
States prison, it shall be lawful for the
Pardoning Board, upon the application
of such child, his parents or guardian, or
other persons, to commute the punish
ment by substituting therefor the commit
ment of such child to, the Reform Senool;
during such time as the Pardoning Board
may deem proper, unless sooner dis
Charged by the Board of Managers.
But IL such child, after being sent to
such institution, shall persist IN de-
PRAYED course, or escape therefrom,
It shall be in the power Of the Pardoning
Board to revoke said commutation, and
to remand him to the States prison or
jail whence he came, to serve out ms un-
Sec. 3. That Section 8 Of said Act be
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 8. Every child CONVICTED and sent
disciplined, instructed employed ana gov,
erned, under the direction OF the Board
of Managers, during the time for which
he is committed unless ne Is S90ner d 70
prison under the sentence Of the court as
fncorrigible upon information of the
Board of Managers as hereinafter pro-
Sec, 8. That Section be amended to
read as follows
Sec. s. All commitment OF children shall
be during the time, named In the alter
native sentence, unless sooner discharged
by the Board Of Managers as herein pro:
vided, and when child Is discharged
therefrom at the expiration Of his term,
shall be full aS S8d dSSbRss cFessee
Sec. 4. That Section 8 of said Act be
amended to read as follows:
to the Reform School shall make out and
sign a commitment substantially In the
following FORM which shall be certified by
the Clerk under the seal OF the court:
s' Be t Il Remembered RT that on the 80.
day Of ,,.....,A A. D. 19..............
resident Of said county, va, on. on the the
complaint Of .s::.;:,nad I,i Drousnf PIE PIE
Court, and upon due
proof, / do find that said ..............,.
.............. is a suitable person to be
committed to the Florida Reform School
Wherefore, It is hereby ordered that the
said ...,................. po'
and he is hereby committed to said In
stitution for the period OF ....,............
or until he is legally discharged.
The alternative sentence is '''..'.... -: !: |.
Said ............s...ss..s.. "as
charged with .........'..s..ss's''''
he was born ...........'.s''....
his fathers name is................s.s''
and he resides at ..........,...,......'.