SEC. 6. [Proceeding before justice-Order to guardian.]—When a boy or girl of sane mind, under the age of sixteen years, shall be convicted before a justice of the peace or other inferior court, of any crime, mendicancy, vagrancy, or incorrigibility, it shall be the duty of said magistrate, before whom he or she may be convicted, to forthwith send such boy or girl, together with all the papers filed in his office on the subject, under the control of some officer to a judge of a court of record, who shall then issue an order to the parent or guardian of said boy or girl, or such person as may have him or her in charge, or with whom he or she has last resided, or any one known to be nearly related to him or her, or if he or she be alone and friendless, then to such person as said judge may appoint to act as guardian for the purposes of the case, requiring him or her to appear at a time and place stated in said order, to show cause why said boy or girl should not be committed to the state industrial school for training and reformation.

SEC. 7. [Service of order.]—Said order shall be served by the sheriff or other qualified officer, by delivering a copy thereof, personally, to the party to whom it is addressed, or leaving it with some person of full age at the place of residence or business of said party, and immediate return shall be made to said judge of the time and manner of such service. The fees of the sheriff or other officer under this chapter shall be the same as now allowed by law for like services.

SEC. 8. [Examination.]-At the time and place mentioned in said order, or at the time and place to which it may be adjourned, if the parent or guardian to whom said order may be addressed shall appear, then in his or her presence, or if he or she fail to appear, then in the presence of some competent person whom the said judge shall appoint as guardian for the purposes of the case, it shall be lawful for the said judge to proceed to take the voluntary examination of said boy or girl and to hear the statements of the party appearing for him or her, and such testimony in relation to the case as may be produced, and if upon such examination and hearing the said judge shall be satisfied that the boy or girl is a fit subject for the state industrial school, he may commit him or her to said school by warrant.

SEC. 9, [Warrant of commitment.]-The judge shall certify in he warrant the place in which the boy or girl resided at the time of his or her arrest, also his or her age as near as can be ascertained, and command the said officer to take the said boy or girl and deliver him or her without delay to the superintendent of said school or other person in charge thereof, at the place where the same is located and established, and such certificate, for the purpose of this act, shall be conclusive evidence of his or her residence or age. Accompanying this warrant, the judge shall transmit to the superintendent by the officer executing it, a statement of the nature of the complaint, together with such other particulars concerning the boy or girl as the judge is able to ascertain; Provided, The expense of conveying any boy or girl so committed to said state industrial school, or of returning them to their parent or guardian after their release therefrom, shall be at the expense of the state.

SEC. 10. [Writs of error.]-The proceedings before any judge or the county court may be reviewed on writ of error by the district court, and proceedings before any district court or judge thereof may be reviewed by the supreme court in the manner provided by law for reviewing criminal cases in these courts.

SEC. 11. [Term of commitment.]-Each boy or girl committed to the school shall remain there until he or she arrives at the age of twenty-one, unless sooner paroled or legally discharged. The superintendent, by and with the advice and consent of the board, shall adopt such by-laws for the promotion, paroling, and final discharge of inmates as may be considered mutually beneficial for the institution and the inmates. The discharge of any boy or girl pursuant to said by-laws, or having arrived at the age

SEC. 6. Question of age of accused is one of fact to be decided by trial magistrate, and the judge of the district court to whom the transcript is sent; if decided against accused, question can be re-examined in appellate proceedings only, and not on habeas corpus; certificate of committing judge conclusive as to age of person com. mitted. 25 Neb. 202.

of twenty-one, shall be a complete release from all penalties incurred by conviction of the offense for which he or she was committed.

SEC. 12. [Escapes-Assisting same.]-If any person or persons shall entice or attempt to entice away from said school any boy or girl legally committed to the same, or shall knowingly harbor, conceal, or aid in harboring or concealing any boy or girl who shall have escaped from the school, such person shall, upon conviction. thereof, be punished by fine not exceeding two hundred ($200) dollars, or imprisonment in the state penitentiary not exceeding two years. Any sheriff or other officer authorized to make arrests, or any officer or employe of the school shall have power, and it is hereby made his duty, to arrest any inmate who shall have escaped from said school and return him or her thereto. The superintendent shall use all proper means for the apprehension of such escaped inmate, and for this purpose he shall offer a reward, not to exceed twenty-five ($25) dollars, in each case.

SEC. 13. [Feeble-minded inmates.]-Authority is hereby given by the board of public lands and buildings to transfer all feeble-minded children who are now committed to the industrial school, or who may hereafter be committed thereto to the Nebraska institution for the feeble-minded youth at Beatrice, Nebraska.

SEC. 14. [Acts repealed.]-That chapter 75, entitled Reform School, as heretofore existing is hereby repealed; Provided, That such repeal shall not affect any person heretofore ordered confined therein under the provisions of section 5, of said chapter 75.

ARTICLE II.-GIRLS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.

SECTION 1. [Establishment.]-There shall be established in the state of Nebraska an institution to be known and designated as the "Girls' Industrial School for Juvenile Delinquents." [1891, chap. 37, § 1.]

SEC. 2. [Location.]-This school shall be located within three miles of the city of Geneva in the county of Fillmore; provided said city shall donate and convey to the state of Nebraska in fee simple a tract of land comprising not less than forty (40) acres, and suitable as a site for said institution, to be approved by the board of public lands and buildings; said land to be suitably graded and provided with sewerage, and said city of Geneva shall also furnish and lay a four inch water pipe from the city water works to that part of the ground where the buildings are located or provide a well with capacity enough to furnish a sufficient supply of water for said institution; if such land be not donated and conveyed within thirty days after this act shall take effect and a sufficient bond be given to perform the necessary grading, sewerage and to furnish the water supply as above specified when required by the board of public lands and buildings; then the board shall locate and establish the same at some other suitable place that shall make said donations, having regard for the welfare of the institution and the health of the inmates. [Id. § 2.]

SEC. 3. [Instruction.]-The girls committed to the school shall be instructed in the principles of morality, self-government, domestic duties and such other branches of knowledge as are taught in the public schools of the state. The board may further provide for instruction in such light, practical industries as may be best suited for their age, sex and capacity. [Id. § 3.]

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SEC. 4. [Government-Superintendent-Duties.]-The of the school shall be by and under the supervision of the board of public lands and buildings, who shall have power to appoint a superintendent and such other officers as the wants of the institution may require. All officers and employes, except the superintendent, bookkeeper, engineers and farmer or gardner, shall be women. Until the

ACT. II. "An act to establish and locate a "Girls' Industrial School for Juvenile Delinquents;" to provide for the government duties of officers and methods of commitments and transfer; to make appropriation for erec tion of necessary buildings, and to provide for letting contracts therefor." Laws 1891, chao. 87. Took effect March 4, 1891.

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opening of the school only the superintendent shall be appointed, and it shall be his duty to look after the construction of buildings and such other improvements as may be authorized by the board. His duties shall be; First (1), To appoint employes to fill such positions as the board may determine, Second (2) To make a monthly report to the board of the general condition of the school, Third. (3) To make at the close of each year an inventory giving the number, condition and relative value of all property belonging to the school; also for all purchashed and destroyed during the year, Fourth (4) To keep an account of all daily expenditures and certify the same to the board at the end of each month, Fifth (5) To submit with the monthly report an itemized statement of all cash received and expended, Sixth (6) To make such recommendations and suggestions as may subserve the interests of the school. [Id. § 4.]

SEC. 5. [Book-keeper.]—The book-keeper shall also be the steward of the school, and in the absence of the superintendent shall perform his duties. His regular duties shall be such as the board shall prescribe. [Id. § 5.]

SEC. 6. [Transfer of pupils and funds.]--When the school is ready to open the board shall transfer all girls belonging to the "State Industrials School for Juvenile Delinquents" to the "Girls' Industrial School for Juvenile Delinquents;" also all of the unused salary of the lady teacher and assistant teacher; the wages of the seamstress and one cook; a pro rata amount of the unexpended living expense and clothing funds; all of which shall be transferred by the state treasurer from the state industrial school, to the Girls Industrial School, which amount shall be ascertained and certified to the state treasurer by the superintendent of the state industrial school and the secretary of the board, and when so transferred shall be paid out on proper vouchers and warrants. [Id. § 6.]

SEC. 7. [Commitment, etc.]-Until further provisions are made all proceedings, services of order, examinations, commitments and other provisions necessary to give this act full force and effect shall be made and carried out in accordance with sections five (5), six (6), seven (7), eight (8), nine (9), ten (10), eleven (11) and twelve (12) of chapter seventy-five (75) of the Compiled Statutes of Nebraska, which said sections are hereby made a part of this act and shall therefore govern all commitments of girls who are fit subjects for an industrial school. [Id. § 7.]

SEC. 8. [Appropriation for Buildings.]—For the purpose of erecting a double brick and stone cottage, having a capacity for one hundred girls; also boiler house, laundry, barn and out buildings, furnishing the same and defraying running expenses, the sum of forty thousand dollars ($40,000), or as much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the board of public lands and buildings, and the auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized and required upon presentation of the proper vouchers to draw a warrant upon the state treasurer for the amount due; and the state treasurer is hereby authorized to pay the same when presented. [Id. § 8.]

SEC. 9. [Same-Plans-Contract.]-Immediately after the taking effect of this act the board shall employ a competent architect to prepare plans and specifications for the buildings, and upon the adoption of the same the board shall at once advertise for sealed

proposals for the erection and completion of said buildings in accordance with such plans and specifications, and shall let the contract to the lowest responsible bidder therefor, who shall be required to enter into a written contract for the erection and completion of said buildings in accordance with the plans and specifications adopted by the board. He shall give a bond for the faithful performance of his contract in such sum as the board shall consider sufficient. [Id. § 9.]

CHAPTER 76.-REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.

SECTION 1. [Registration books.]-It shall be the duty of the mayor and council of any metropolitan city or city of the first class or city of the second class having over two thousand five hundred (2,500) inhabitants which shall include all portions of the voting precinct in which said city is situated to cause to be prepared books for ... registration of names and facts required by this act. Said books to be known by the general name of registers, and to be so arranged as to admit of the entering, under the name of each street or avenue in each election precinct and the number of each dwelling on any such street or avenue, if there be a nnmber thereto, and if there be no number, then under such definite description of the location of the dwelling place as shall enable it to be readily ascertained and found, the names of all legal voters in each dwelling in each of said precincts, who shall apply for registration. Such register shall be ruled in parallel columns in which opposite the name of every applicant for registration shall be entered the words and figures hereinafter provided in this act, and shall be of such size as to contain not less than eight hundred (800) names, and so prepared that they may be used at each election in any city governed by the provisions of this act, until such time as in this act provided for the succeeding general registration, and shall on the inside be in form as follows, to-wit:

Residence.

Address.

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Court.

Remarks.

SEC. 2. [Supervisors of registration.]-All supervisors of registration in said cities shall hereafter be selected and appointed by the city council, and the said council shall have the power to make all necessary removals in the office of supervisors of registration. It shall be the duty of said council, annually in the month of September in each year, for each each election precinct, in any such cities to select to serve as supervisors of registration, three (3) persons, two of whom, on state issues, shall be of political faith and opinion different from their associate and the supervisor appointed to represent the political party in the minority on state issues shall be named solely by such members of seid city council; the said supervisors shall be citizens of the United States and of state of Nebraska, of good character and able to read, write, and speak the English language understandingly, qualified voters in said city, and not candidates for any office to be voted for by the electors of the precinct for which they shall be selected, and residents of the precincts for which they shall be appointed. The persons so selected as supervisors shall be notified by the city clerk to appear before the mayor, who shall examine them as to their qualifications, and if he shall be satisfied that they are qualified to serve, they shall each take and subscribe before the city clerk within ten days of the notice of the appointment, the following oath of office:

“I...................residing at No......in the city of...................do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the constitution of the United States and of the state of Nebraska, and that I will CHAP. 76. "An act to require and regulate the registration of voters for election purposes in metropolitan cities, cities of the first-class, and cities of the second-class which shall include all portions of the voting precinct in which said city is situated in the state of Nebraska." Took effect July 1. Laws 1889, chap. 54. SEC. 1. Registration confined to voters within city limits. 33 Neb., 285. SEC. 2. Candidates cannot be supervisors. 34 Neb., 386.