Year: 1870

AN ACT to provide for the government and
agement of the state reform school.
The people of the state of Wisconsin represented


in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The state reform school at Waukesha
shall be the place of confinement and instruction
of all male children between the ages of eight and
sixteen years, who shall be legally committed to the
state reform schools as vagrants, conviction
| OF any criminal oHenses or Tor 1ncorrigible
| vicious conduct, by any court having competent
authority to make such commitment.


Sec. 2. The managers of the state reform school
are hereby clothed with the sole authority to dis
| charge any child children from said reform
school, who have heretofore been may hereafter
be legally committed thereto and such power shall
rest solely with said board of managers, and with
no other person persons; but it shall be the duty
of said board Of managers, and they shall have
power to return any child to the court justice or
other authorities ordering directing said child to
be committed, when in the judgment of said man
ayers they may deem said child improper sub
ject for their care and management, who shall be
found incorriglble, or whose continuance IN the
school they may deem prejudicial to the manage
ment and discipline thereof, who in their udg-
nent ought to be removed from the school for any
cause and in such case said court, police justice
or other authority shall nave power and are here
| by required, to proceed as they might have done
| had they not ordered the commitment to such
/ school.


school shall charge to each of the several counties
in this state, in a book provided by him for tina
| purpose, the sum of oLe dollar ($1.00) per week
! for the and maintenance of each person re
manning in said state reform school, who was COM
mitted thereto a vagrant, or by of incor-
rigibe or vicious conduct, or who may thereafter
be received into said state reform school, committed
for vagrancy or ineorrigible or vicious conduct,
from each of such Counties respectively: provided
/ that the costs of the original commitment of all
to said state reform school shall be charge
/ able to the county from which the person commit
ted to said school Is sent: and proUided further
that it shall be the duty of the superin tendent of
said state refors school to procure the arrest and
return of any person escaping therefrom, and it
shall be the du OF any Justice of the peace mar
shal constable, upon information of such escape
| to arrest and return any such fugitive, above
mentioned.


! Sec 4. The superintendent of the state reform
school shall keep an accurate account of the amount
due from each county for the support of persons
| therefrom, and shall annually on or before the
tenth day OF October in each year. report to the sec
retary of state the amount which may then be due
| from each county for the year ending on the first
day of October preceding, which report shall state
| the name of each person for whom such account is
| rendered, the number of weeks which such person
has been in said school during said year and the
amount charged for each of said persons respective
"; and such report shall be verified by the oath


said superintendent to its correctness. The sec
retary of state shall add the amount due from any
county in this state for the support of such persons
| to the state tax apporhoned to said county, and
| such amount shall be collected and paid into the
state treasury for the of the state reform school,
| Sec. 8. The board of managers shall consist of
| five members, who shall be appointed by the gov
ernor and hold their Offices for three years; said


board be divided into three classes, and so di-


vided that the term OF class shall expire each
year. on the first Tuesday of March, and shall re-
ceive for their compensation two dollars and fifty


cents lS2 50) per day for every day actually en-


ployed, and ten cents (l0) per mile for every mile


actually travelled, and shall verify their account by


their oath or affirmation.


Sec. 6. Such managers shall have the power to


make rules, regulations ordinances and bylaws fer


the government, discipline and management of the


state reform school, and the inmates thereof as o


them may seem just and proper: prOVided, thai


such rules and bylaws shall be in accordance with


the constitution of this state and the constitution


the United States and they shall have the power tc


place the children committed to their care during
the minority of said children, at such employ


ments and cause them to be instructed in such


branches of useful knowledge shall be suited tC


their years and capacities; and they shall have


power in their discretion TO bind out said children


With their consent or the consent of their parents
| or guardians if they have any, as apprentices ol


servants during their minority to such persons ane


Al such olaces to learn such proper trades and EN-


ployments, as in their judgments Will be most fol
their reformation and amendment, and the future


benefit of such children; provided, that the re


igious opinions of the inmates shall not De inter


fered with.