Year: 1870

members of this board of trustees shall, also individually, have the same power as is here in given to the mayors of Washington anc Georgetown, and the president of the lew court.

 SEC, 1. Aud belt further enacted That tho thirteenth section of the act above mentioned be amended by inserting "a sum not exceeding one dollar and half per week. in place O the word fifty cents"

 SEC. D. and be it further enacted, That ir case any boy shall be committed to the care and control of the board of trustees, for the benefits of the reform school, by either of the mayors aforesaid, the president of the levy court or either ofthe trustees, as befere prOvid- ed the said board of trustees may, if they deem it proper, require security to be given to them by the parent or guardian of any boy so com mitted, for the payment of the expense of maintaining such boy in the said school, for such perioi as he may remain there. And in all cases a statement of the age of the boy committed to the care of the board of trustees together with the reason tor such commitment, shall be furnished at the time of commitment of each boy to be delivered to the said board and until such statement shall he SO delivered the trustees may decline to receive such boy. No commitment shall req ain in force longer than until the committed shall become fully reformed, nor after he sha Il have attained the age of twenty-one years Bat the said board shall have power to discharge any boy from their custody, by an order duly entered upon their records, whenever they deem the object of committing him flIy attained. The trustees shall also have full power to place any boy, coma i;ted d. herein des escribed, during his mi noritr at such employment for or on account of said school of reform or otherwise, and cause him to be einstructed in such branches Of useful knowledge as may be suitable to his years and capacity, and as they, the said trus- tees, may see fit and they may, with the con- sent of any such boy, bind hIm out as an ap- prentice during his minority to learn such proper trade as in their judgment will be most conducive to lis reformation and amendment, and as will tend to his future benefits; aad the said trustees shall, for such purpose, have pow CT to appoint committee of one or more ot their number with power to execute and deliver on behalf of the said board of trustees, inden- lures of apprenticeship for any boy they may deem 8 proper person for an apprentice, and such indentures shall have the same force and effect as other indentures of apprenticeship under the laws of the Distrctof Columbia, and be filed and kept among the records an in the office of the said reform school, and 1t shall not be necessary to record or file them else where.

 SEC c. And be It further enacted, That the Seer. tary of the Interior shall cause so much of the tract of land known as the government farm, in the District of Columbia, as may not be deemed necessary for the use of the aque- duet, to De set off as metes and bounds, to the board of trustees of the school of reform, in accordance with the provision of the first sec- ti1n ofthe act of July twenty-6hh, eighteen hundred and sixtY-six, of which this is an amendment; and thereupon the said board of trustees shaii have exclusive possession and eoatrol of such portion as shall be thus set off to them.

 Approved, May 6, 1870.