Chapter 595. to incorporate the Reform School for Girls of the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 595.— An Act to incorporate the Reform School for Girls of the District of Columbia.July 9, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Reform School for Girls, District of Columbia.Incorporators. That Samuel S. Shellabarger, Augustus S. Worthington, Adoniram J. Huntington, William C. Dodge, Mills Dean, Owen G. Staples, James E. Fitch, Thomas P. Morgan, and Alexander Graham Bell, and their successors, be and they are hereby, created a body corporate to be known as the Board of Trustees of the Girl’s Reform School of the District of Columbia.
Sec. 2. That said corporation is hereby authorized and empoweredMay hold property. to establish and maintain a reform school for girls at any place within the District of Columbia, subject to the approval of the Commissioners thereof, and for that purpose may take and receive by gift, grant, or devise, such real estate and personal property as may be necessary 246FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 595– 597. 1888. for the purposes of said corporation: *Provided*, That at the dissolution*Proviso*.Dissolution. of said corporation, or if it should cease for the space of six months to maintain a reform school for girls, all the property, real and personal, of said corporation shall vest in the United States.
Sec. 3. That the said board of trustees shall have the same powerAuthority. and authority in relation to girls as the board of trustees of the Reform School of the District of Columbia now possess in relation to boys. Sec. 4. That said board of trustees shall have authority to appointOfficers. such officers, agents, teachers, and other employees as may be necessary, and fix the rate of compensation of the same, subject to the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.
Sec. 5. That the said board of trustees shall have authority to makeBy-laws. such bylaws and rules and regulations as shall be necessary for the government of the officers, teachers, employees, and inmates of the school, and from time to time alter, amend and change the same. Sec. 6. That all the sections of the act of May third, eighteen hundredReform School laws made applicable.Vol 19, p. 49. and seventy-six, entitled “An act revising and amending the various acts establishing and relating to the Reform School of the District of Columbia,” not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. are hereby made applicable to the Reform School for Girls of the District of Columbia, except the word “girls” shall be understood wherever the word “boys” occur in said act. and the words “eighteen years” wherever the words “sixteen years” occur.
Sec. 7. That within thirty days after this act is passed said trusteesOrganizing. shall meet and organize by electing a president; and they shall draw lots and decide the length of service of said trustees. Three of said trustees shall serve for one year, three for two years, and three for three years, and their successors in office shall be appointed in like manner as the trustees of the Reform School of the District of Columbia are now appointed. Sec. 8. That Congress shall have the right to alter, amend, or repealAmendment. this act at any time.
Approved, July 9, 1888.