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4. Such other departments may be added as the Regent shall deem necessary, and the state of the University fund shall allow.

The number of professors employed in the University is from thirty-five to forty. The students in attendance each year, range from twelve hundred to fourteen hundred.

The State Agricultural College. This institution is also under the control of the State, and is, in part, supported by funds realized from the sale of lands granted for that purpose. It was established to afford thorough instruction in agriculture and the natural sciences connected therewith.

Persons to be admitted into this school, must be over fifteen years of age, and pass a satisfactory examination in arithmetic, geography, grammar, reading, spelling, and penmanship.

There is a farm connected with the institution, on which students are required to labor three hours in each day.

Questions - For what purpose was the State Normal School established? What is said of the granting of diplomas? To what is the person receiving this diploma entitled? How is the Normal School supported? What appropriations did Congress make for the establishment of a University in Michigan? Of what departments does the law require the University to consist? How many professors are employed in the University? How many students usually attend, each year? For what purpose was the State Agricultural College established? What is required of applicants for admission? What is required in regard to labor?

CHAPTER XLI.

OF BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS.

The State Public School for dependent and neglected children, is located at Coldwater, and is supported by the State.

The object in establishing this institution was to furnish temporary homes for dependent and neglected children; especially those who have been abandoned by their parents or are orphans, or whose parents have been convicted of crime. The children in this school are educated in the branches usually taught in common schools.

It is made the duty of the Board of Control to use all diligence to provide suitable places, in good families, for the children who are inmates of the school.

The Michigan Institution for Educating Deaf and Dumb, and Blind persons is located at Flint, and is under the control of a Board of Trustees.

Tuition and board are free to all candidates from this State; and where such persons, on account of poverty, are unable to furnish themselves with suitable clothing and other necessary expenses for attending the school, the Board of Trustees are authorized to render them assistance not exceeding forty dollars per annum, for each person, to be paid out of the State treasury. This institution is supported by the State.

The Michigan Asylum for the Insane, located at Kalamazoo, is also a State institution, under the control of a Board of Trustees, who appoint a medical superintendent and other officers.

County Superintendents of the Poor, or any Supervisor

of any city or town to which a person who is insane is chargeable, may send such person to the Asylum, and the expense of sending and keeping him there is paid by the town or county to which he is chargeable.

When a person who is indigent, but not a pauper, becomes insane, the Probate Judge may send him to the Asylum. In such case the county pays the expenses of his support.

If a person who is an inmate of the Asylum, has means to enable him to do so, he is personally liable for his support in the Asylum.

In 1873, the Legislature provided for the establishment of an additional asylum for the insane, and Pontiac has been selected as the place for its location.

In most of the older counties, poor-houses have been erected, where persons unable to support themselves are kept and provided for at the expense of the county. In other counties they are supported at the expense of the townships.

Questions-Where is the State Public School located? For what purpose was this institution established? In what branches are the children in this school required to be educated? What is required of the Board of Control, with respect to the care of the inmates? Where is the Michigan Institution for Educating Deaf and Dumb, and Blind persons located? On what terms are persons admitted who reside in this State? What pecuniary aid may be rendered poor persons who attend this institution? Where is the Michigan Asylum for the Insane located? What officers are authorized to send to the Asylum insane persons who are paupers? What officer may send insane persons who are indigent but not paupers? How are the inmates of the Asylum supported? What provision has been made for an additional asylum? What provision has been made for poor persons?

CHAPTER XLII.

PENAL AND REFORMATORY INSTITUTIONS.

Penal and reformatory institutions have been found necessary for the punishment and reformation of those who commit crime. They are also necessary to restrain offenders and thereby deprive them of the opportunity or power to violate the law.

A State prison has been established at Jackson where persons convicted of a higher grade of offenses—that is, those crimes that are considered most atrocious and wicked-are sent by the Courts for punishment. The prisoners are required to labor and are taught some of the mechanical trades.

The prison is under the direction of three Inspectors, appointed by the Governor. The officers of the prison consist of an agent, who is principal keeper of the prison, a clerk, a physician and surgeon, a chaplain, a deputy keeper, and a number of assistant keepers.

The Reform School at Lansing is designed for the reformation of boys, who, between the ages of ten and sixteen years, are convicted of crime.

Persons sent to this institution are sentenced to remain there until they are twenty-one years of age; but the Board of Control have power to discharge them at any time when satisfied of their reformation, or, when their presence in the school is prejudicial to the discipline thereof, may send them back to the Court for punishment in some other institution.

The design of the Reform School is not so much for punishment, as reformation; and the persons sent there are disci

plined, instructed, employed and governed, in such a way as shall tend to make them good citizens.

The Detroit House of Correction was built by the city of Detroit; but by a law of the State, the Board of Supervisors of any county may make an agreement with the Common Council or agent of the city of Detroit, for the confinement of persons convicted of crimes which would otherwise subject them to imprisonment in the County Jail, in the House of Correction. In such case the county where the person is convicted pays the city of Detroit for keeping the prisoner.

All females convicted of offenses, except murder, which would, under the generai provisions of law, subject them to imprisonment in the State Prison, are sent to the Detroit House of Correction.

In 1871, the Legislature authorized the establishment by the county of Jackson, of a House of Correction, similar to the one established in Detroit.

In each of the organized counties in this State, the law provides for the erection of jails for the detention of persons accused of crime until they can be tried, and for the punishment of such as are convicted of minor offenses.

Prisons are also established in cities and villages, for the confinement of those who violate the by-laws and ordinances.

Where is the State Prison located? What class of offenders are confined there? What officers control the prison? Where is the Reform School located? What persons are sent to this school? What authority has the Board of Control in relation to the custody of the inmates? What is the design of the Reform School? What is said of the Detroit House of Correction? In what institution are female

offenders incarcerated? What is said of jails? Of prisons, in cities and villages?

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