The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-01-27
THE AusTINE BILL.
Text of the Measure as ~ fihahy
Passed the House. =,

An net proyiding for the care ana
aJncntion az defective children,
IN h hereby enacted by the Genera'
Assembly of The State of Nermont'
section 1. The sum of fifty thousand
dollars payable, FIVE thousand doiiars
oetober 1, 1911, five thousand doi,uIs
October /, 1912, ten thousand doiiaIs
October /, 1913, ten thousand doiinIs
October |, 1914, ten thousand doilnIi
October |, 1915, and ten thousand uo,'
lars October /, 1916. is hereby hppio
priated TO the Austine Institution,
CORPORATION organized and eXlstlhg IN
der and by virtue OF NO go OF e eno
Acts of 1904, as amended by NO. 3lg
of the Acts Of 1908, for the purpose 0,
e,ecting suitable building or plant
for the use of said corporation, upon
the land owned by IL in Brattleboro,
VI, subject TO the conditions provided
In the following sections; and the audl'
tor of accounts is hereby directed 70
draw an order for that amount IN IA
yor of said Austine Institution. . 3,
See. 9. The appropriation speclhed
in the preceding section is made upon
condition that said Austine Institution
shall bind itself by contract TO the
satisfaction of the Governor, that IL
will nj all times receive, take, instruet
and care for, at actual cost, all such
deaf and dumb children as the Governor
may designate under chapter l69 OF the
Public Statutes, to be received by said
corporation.
Sec. 8. Said Austine Institution
shall be subject to visitation and IN
speetion by the board of visitors to
state institutions, provided for by sec,
tion GOLF of the Public Statutes; and
hall Include n lta hlamnlnl
report. a statement of the names and
ages Of such children as may be re-
ceived by said institution under the
provisions of the second preceding sec.
ton, and il shall report fully as 70 the
condition and progress of such children,
with such recommendations in regard
to the management of the institution
as il may deem proper.
See. 4. The income of the fund OF
fifty thousand dollars held by said cor.
poration shall be devoted exclusively
by the trustees thereof in the manner
and for the purposes set forth in de.
cree of the court of chancery for the
county of Windham, in the matter OF
the will of William Austine, rendered
at the April term, 1910, of said court of
Sec. 5. The appropriation provided
IOT III SECTION one Is maui upoh SVhni
ton that the amount thereof shall be
used exclusively for the purposes stat
ed in this act, and if said institution
shall cease to exist, the real and per.
sonal estate of said corporation shall
be held as security to the state for the
amount so appropriated and may be
sold under direction of the legislature
for the purpose of reimbursing the state
for the amount herein appropriated
and the said real estate of said corpor-
alton shall at no time be sold by the
trustees thereof without consent of the
legislature.
See. 6. Public Statutes, section 1869, |
Is hereby amended so as to read as fol |
ows:
See. 1869. Institutions for instruc-
ion. The benefciaries specified in this |
,hapter shall be instructed in the fol |
owing institutions: The deaf and |
lumb at the American Asylum for the |
education of the deaf and dumb at |
Hartford Conn, the Clark school for /
he deaf at Northampton, Mass, the |
Mystic Oral School at Mystic, Conn; |
n the Austine Institution at Brattle
loro, Vt; the blind at the New Eng
and Institute for the Instruction of the /
Blind at Boston, Mass; and the idiotic
n Predetermined children at the Massa-
,husetts School for the Idiotic and
Feeble Minded Youth at Boston, or at
uch other institutions of like nature
Is the Governor shall select.
Sec. Z. This act shall take effect
rom its nassaGe.