To advertise for proposals for tracts. make con (6238.) SEC. 5. The board of control having secured a site, building, etc., and adopted a plan for the grounds and buildings, which shall contain at least twenty acres, shall forthwith proceed to advertise for proposals for the erection and furnishing of such parts of the buildings in accordance with their plan, as may be necessary to put the said institution in readiness, at an early period, for the reception, confinement and discipline of youthful offenders; and upon the reception of such proposals, they may in their discretion, make contracts with such bidders as shall make proposals best conducive to the interests of the State, taking into consideration the price, time of performance, and the responsibility of the contractor, with such sureties as he may offer; which contracts, when duly executed, shall also be deposited in the office of the Auditor General. Secretary of (6239.) SEC. 6. Said board shall make out and deliver to the Secretary of State, on or before the first day of January in each year hereafter, a detailed statement of their operations, and of all expenditures made by them in behalf of said instiActual expenses tution. The traveling and other actual expenses necessarily incurred by the members of said board, as such, and in the discharge of their duties, may be retained by them out of appropriations for said institution, subject to the determination of the board of State Auditors, settling the proper amount upon an account stated. To make report to to be allowed, etc. Duties of Board. Meetings of Board of Control; tions to be made by, (6240.) SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the members of the board of control to meet annually at the House of Correction on the third Wednesday in November of each year, and at said annual meeting they shall elect of their own body, a chairman, treasurer, and clerk, who shall hold their offices for one year, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. (b) (6241.) SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the board of control, Rules and regula to meet once in every three months, on their own adjournments, and oftener if they shall deem it advisable, at which meetings they shall prepare and carefully digest and mature a system of government for said House of Correction for juvenile offenders, embracing all such rules, regulations, and general laws, as may be deemed necessary for preserving order, for enforcing discipline, for imparting instruction, for preserving health, and generally for the proper physical, intellectual and moral training of the offenders. (c) (b) (c) As Amended. See note (a) to visit similar (6242.) SEC. 9. For the purpose of maturing said system of One of the Board government and discipline, it shall be competent for said Institutions. board to authorize one of their number to visit some similar institution, now in operation, and of the best repute, and by a personal inspection and investigation, to acquire an insight into the principles and practical working of the model system thus selected, for the information and benefit of said board; the expenses actually and necessarily incurred in any such Expense to be visit and investigation, to be charged against the appropriation appropriation. hereinbefore made. charged against to be sentenced years of age (6243.) SEC. 10. From and after the time that said institu- Certain offenders tion shall be prepared for the reception of offenders, every till twenty-one person under the age of sixteen years, who shall be convicted of a prison offence, except in the case of offences punishable by law, by imprisonment for life, shall be sentenced to the House of Correction for juvenile offenders, until they shall be twenty-one years of age; and it shall be the duty of all Courts and magistrates, sentencing offenders to said House of Correction, to certify to the keeper of said House of Correction, the age of the person so committed, as nearly Age of offender to as can be ascertained by testimony, taken under oath, before such Court or magistrate, or in such other manner as the Court or magistrate shall direct; and no person shall be detained in custody, in said institution, after they shall have become twenty-one years of age. (d) be certified. ed with State (6244.) SEC. 11. The House of Correction hereby estab-To be disconnectlished for the instruction and reform of juvenile offenders, Prison. shall be entirely disconnected with the State penitentiary at Jackson. tence to House (6245.) SEC. 12. Whenever said institution shall be so far Courts may sencompleted as to allow of the reception and proper discipline of of Correction. juvenile offenders, it shall be lawful for all Courts of Record having criminal jurisdiction, and for all Police Courts, and Justices' Courts, in the exercise of their proper criminal jurisdiction, and said Courts are hereby severally authorized, to sentence any offender of the respective classes contemplated by this act, to the said House of Correction: Provided, Judgments rendered in all Police or Justices' Courts shall, upon the reviewal of the papers and testimony taken by the Justice on said trial, before a Circuit or Probate Judge, be (d) As Amended. See note (a) Board may liberate reformed of approved: Provided, also, That if such judgment be disapproved, such Police or Justices' Courts are hereby authorized to pass sentence as in other cases provided by law. (e) (6246.) SEC. 13. It shall be lawful for the board of control, fenders. whenever in their discretion they may deem any of the offenders imprisoned in the said institution to have been so far reformed as to justify his or her discharge, to liberate such offender, or to bind him, her, or them, by articles of indenture, for that purpose to be entered into, to any suitable person who will engage to instruct such offender in some proper art or trade, according to the terms of said articles of indenture. (ƒ) Location of House (6247.) SEC. 14. The said board of control shall locate the said House of Correction for Juvenile Offenders, at or near Lansing, in the County of Ingham: Provided, That a suitable piece of land, of not less than twenty acres, shall be donated for that purpose, free of all charge to the State. SEC. 15. This act shall take effect immediately. (e) (ƒ) As Amended. See Note (a). |