The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-03-05

Ooalu may, SUBJECT 10 the approval
OF the governor, purchase any prop
erty that may seem, by virtue of it's
location or adaptation, especially suit
ed for the purposes Of such school.
In case of the purchase of any prop
erty as hereinbefore provided for, the
deed shall be taken in the corporate
name of said school.
Sec. z. Said board is hereby en-
powered 10 receive by gift, bequest
or otherwise, any money or real or
personal estate, made for the use and
benefit of said school, and shall In
vest moneys so received in safe inter-
est bearing securities and in the cor
porate name Of said school,
Sec. s. Said board shall make need
full rules and regulations for the gov
eminent of said school and its in
mates, not inconsistent with the pur-
poses and objects of this act. and do
all necessary acts within it's power to
provide for the proper care, training
and education of those committed to
said school All expenses incurred
and bills contracted by said board in
establishing said school, purchasing
a site, erecting and equipping build
ings, and maintaining and operating
said school until January 1, 1915,
shall be audited by the auditor of ac-
counts, who shall draw his order In
payment of the same.
Sec. 3. Said board shall employ
and remove at it's pleasure, teachers,
clerks, servants and employees, fix
their pay, and, with the teachers,
prescribe and adopt courses Of instruc-
ton for the inmates of said school.
and prescribe and adopt means and
methods for their discipline and
training and see that there is no I'M
due force used in requiring and en-
forcing obedience thereto; and said
board may cause the inmates Of said
school to perform such amount of
manual labor as said trustees deem
to be conducive to the physical, men-
tai and moral improvement of such
inmates, and shall make rules and
regulations for the performance of
such labor.
Sec. 10. Said board may, in its dis
erection, employ an expert physician
or physicians of repute and profess
sional skill and of special fitness in
the treatment of such feeble-minded
persons as may be committed to said
school, to prescribe for and treat them
professionally. Said board shall fix
the compensation to be paid such
physician and the auditor of accounts
shall draw his order to pay such bills
therefor as said board shall present,
when certified to by the governor and
the chairman and secretary Of said
board.
Sec. II. Any INDECENT and needy
children of this state, between five
and twenty-one years of age, who
, may be considered proper subjects
within the purview of this act and
who have no parents, guardians or
other persons able to provide for and
educate them. may be received into
said school as state charges; and all
other such children whose parents,
guardians or knsmen are bound by
law to care for and educate them and
are able TO pay. may be received into
said school, upon payment of such
sum and upon such terms for their
care, training. education and mainte-
nance as the trustees shall prescribe.
Sec 10. The following order shall
be observed in the admission of chill
dren under the provisions of this act;
First: Such children as are now
/ supported entirely at the expense of
the public in the Vermont industrial
school
Second Such children as are not
so supported, but whose parents,
guardians or other persons having
! them in charge are not able. in the
judgment of said trustees, properly
to care for, train. educate and MAIN
tain them, and who are committed
| by a judge of probate in the manner
prescribed in the following section.
Third: Such children as are mem
toned in the first class referred to in
| section II of this act.
Fourth. Such children as are men,
toned in the second class referred to
in section IL Of this act.
Sec Is. Application in writing
signed by the parent or guardian OF
child considered proper subject
TO receive the benefits of this act, or
by the selectmen of the town, may be
made to a judge of probate for the
| district in which such child resides
for an order of commitment to said
school, and thereupon such judge
| shall appoint a day for hearing. IL
such application is made by the select
men Of a town. ten days notice shall
be given the parent or guardian. or
the person having such child in charge
! If there be no parent or guardian liv-
| ing. or, II living, his residence or
domicile is unknown. At such hear
ing, the certificates of two physicians
who are graduates OF a legally organ
lied and approved medical school, and
who have had actual practice in med
icine for five years in this state. stat
/ ing that such child is a suitable and
| proper subject for commitment to
said school, shall be filed with said
| judge. Said judge may hear any other
/ testimony he may deem proper TO be
| submitted 10 him. If said Judge. after
| hearing is OF the opinion such child
ought 20 be committed to said school.
| he shall issue an order of commit
ment directed 10 said trustees and at
| tach to such order a certified COPY.
under his official seal. of said two
certificates. and thereupon said trus-
| tees. If there be room in said school,
shall receive such child therein.
Sec. IL Inmates of the Vermont
industrial school who shall be adiudg-
ed by the board Of penal institutions
and said board of trustees acting
jointly. proper subjects TO be COM
mitted 10 said school shall be therein
committed upon the certificate OF
said two boards in writing. accom-
panied by the certificates Of two
physicians as provided in the preced-
4 ing section. and thereupon such