Chapter 478. Supplemental to an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Reform School for Girls of the District of Columbia,” approved July ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight
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CHAP. 478.— An Act Supplemental to an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Reform School for Girls of the District of Columbia,” approved July ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. February 25, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Districtof Columbia. Reform School for Girls. Vol. 25, p. 245. Vol. 19, p. 49, amended. That sections eight, nine, and fifteen of the Act entitled “An Act revising and amending the various Acts establishing and relating to the Reform School of the District of Columbia,” approved May third, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. which Act was made applicable to the Reform School for Girls of the District of Columbia by the sixth section of the Act to which this Act is a supplement, be, and they are hereby, amended as applicable to the said Reform School for Girls, so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 8. That whenever any girl under the age of seventeen yearsCommitment of girls under 17 years of age. shall be brought before any court of the District of Columbia or any judge of such court, and shall be convicted of any crime or misdemeanor punishable by fine or imprisonment other than imprisonment for life, such court or judge, in lieu of sentencing her to imprisonment in the county jail or fining her, may commit her to the Reform School for Girls, to remain until she shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years unless sooner discharged by the board of trustees.
And the—who may be committed. judges of the criminal and police courts of the District of Columbia shall have power to commit to the Reform School for Girls, first, any girl under seventeen years of age who may be liable to punishment by imprisonment under any existing law of the District of Columbia or any law that may be enacted and in force in said District: second, any girl under seventeen years of age, with the consent of her parent or guardian, against whom any charge of crime or misdemeanor shall have been made, upon probable cause shown to the satisfaction of the810 court; third, any girl under seventeen years of age who is destitute of a suitable home and adequate means of obtaining an honest living or who is in danger of being brought up, or is brought up, to lead an idle or vicious life; fourth, any girl under seventeen years of age who is incorrigible or habitually disregards the commands of her father or mother or guardian, who leads a vagrant life, or resorts to immoral places or practices, or neglects or refuses to perform labor suitable to her years and condition or to attend school.
And the president of theCommitment by president of board of trustees. board of trustees may also commit to the Reform School for Girls such girls as are mentioned in the foregoing third and fourth classes upon application or complaint, in writing, of a parent or guardian or relative having charge of such girl, and upon such testimony in regard to the facts stated as shall be satisfactory to him; and for taking testimony in such cases he is hereby empowered to administer oaths.
“Sec. 9. That every girl sent to the Reform School for Girls shallPeriod of detention. remain until she is twenty-one years of age unless sooner discharged or bound as an apprentice.” “Sec. 15. That the board of trustees may make such by-laws, rules,By-laws, etc. and regulations for their own government and that of the institution, its officers, employees, and inmates, the employment, discipline, instruction, education, removal, and absolute, temporary, or conditional release of all girls committed to the school as they may deem necessary and proper and as are not contrary to the Constitution and to the laws of the District of Columbia.
” " Approved, February 25, 1901.