Chapter CLXIV. *relating to the Reform School of the District of Columbia.*May 15, 1872
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CHAP. CLXIV.— An Act *relating to the Reform School of the District of Columbia.*May 15, 1872. See *Ante*, p. 35. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Trustees of reform school in the District of Columbia to render monthly accounts of ex-That the board of trustees of the Reform School of the District of Columbia shall cause monthly accounts to be rendered to the proper accounting officers of the Territory of the District of Columbia for the expenses of such boys as have been sent to the said school by the proper authorities from the cities of Wash-FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 164. 1872.119ington and Georgetown and the county of Washington, and for which saidpenses of certain boys. cities and county are, respectively, liable to pay one dollar and fifty cents a week, which shall hereafter be one dollar and seventy-five cents a week; and the amount due from said cities and county, respectively, shall be paidAmount due to be paid, on demand; on demand; and if not paid within ten days after the amount shall be andited, the amount due shall draw interest at the rate of one per centumwhen to draw interest per mon tli until paid.
Sec. 2. That hereafter any boy under sixteen years of age who isCertain boys under sixteen may be sent to such school, and by whom. destitute of a home or means of support, or who is idle and incorrigible or wandering about uncared for by relatives or friends, and whose parents, if be has any living within this District, are unable to pay the expenses of his support in the reform school, may be sent to the said school at the expense of the city or county in which be may be found by the judge of the police court, the governor of the Territory, or the president of the board of trustees of said school.
Sec. 3. That every boy sent to the reform school shall remain thereinBoys sent to the school to remain until, &c. until be is twenty-one years of age, unless sooner discharged or bound as an apprentice to some proper person by the board of trustees; but no boy shall be retained after the superintendent shall have reported him fully reformed. Sec. 4. That whenever there shall be as large a number of boys in theWhen the school is full, notice to be given, and no more boys sent until, &c. school as can be properly accommodated, it shall be the duty of the president of the board of trustees to give notice to the criminal and police courts of the fact, whereupon no boys shall be sent to the school by the said courts until notice shall be given them by the president of the board that more can be received.
Sec. 5. That if any person shall entice, or attempt to entice, awayPenalty for enticing away, &c., inmates of the school, or concealing, &c., such as have escaped. from said school any boy legally committed to the same, or shall harbor, conceal, or aid in harboring or concealing, any boy who shall have escaped from said school, such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall pay a tine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, which shall be paid to the treasurer of the board of trustees; and any trustee, or the superintendent of said school,Who may arrest and return boys to the school. and any policeman, shall have power, and it is hereby made their duty, to arrest any boy, when in their power so to do, who shall have escaped from said school, and return him thereto.
Sec. 6. That the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same isAppropriation for salaries and pay of officers, teachers, &C. hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the annual salaries of the superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant superintendents, seven hundred and fifty dollars each; and the matron, six hundred dollars; and for assistant teachers and others, incidental expenses, including clothing, fuel, servant-hire.
Sec. 7. That the Secretary of the Interior be authorized to purchase aNew site to be purchased and buildings erected for the school. new site for said school, to be selected by himself and the board of trustees, on which buildings for the accommodation of three hundred boys shall be erected, under the supervision of the said Secretary, the board of trustees, and the architect of the Capitol; and for these purposes the sum of oneAppropriation. hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated : *Provided*, That before any part of this appropriation shall be drawn, plans and specifications ofPlans, &c., to be first made and approved, and cost not to exceed appropriation. the building to be erected shall be made by the architect of the Capitol, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior; and the amount expended for the purchase of said site and the erection of said building shall not exceed the sum hereby appropriated.
Approved, May 15, 1872.