FORTY—SECON D CONGRESS. Srss. H. Ch. 164. 1872. 119 ington and Georgetown and the county of Washington, and for which said penses of certain cities and county are, respectively, liable to pay one dollar and fifty cents b°Y¤· a week, which shall hereafter be one dollar and seventy-five cents a week; and the amount due from said cities and county, respectively, shall be paid Amount due to on demand; and if not paid within ten days after the amount shall be b° Pg? °“ de` audited, the amount due shall draw interest at the rate of one per centum mghén to draw per month until paid. interest Sec. 2. That hereafter any boy under sixteen years of age who is Certain boys destitute of a home or means of support, or who is idle and incorrigible ;‘;d°{];‘;“€’; or wandering about uncared for by relatives or friends, and whose parents, wet $(,;,0,;}, ,,;,1 if he has any living within this District, are unable to pay the expenses by Whom- 0f his support in the reform school, maybe sent to the said school at the expense of the city or county in which he may be found by the judge of the police court, the governor of the Territory, or the president of the board of trustees of said school. Sec. 3. That every boy sent to the reform school shall remain therein kB05E Sint *0 until he is twenty-one years of age, unless sooner discharged or bound as an apprentice to some proper person by the board of trustees ; but no boy shall be retained after the superintendent shall have reported him fully reformed. Sec. 4. That whenever there shall be as large a number of boys in the me? 2}*% school as can be properly accommodated, it shall be the duty of the pres- Zi,,?;, Q; bl; ’ ident of the board of trustees to give notice to the criminal and police given, and no courts of the fact, whereupon no boys shall be sent to the school by the xtif lg? Sent said courts until notice shall be given them by the president of the board ’ ` that more can be received. Sec. 5. That if any person shall entice, or attempt to entice, away Penalty *`¤r from said school any boy legally committed to the same, or shall harbor, §;‘;l°?;§u;;°;{;f conceal, or aid in harboring or concealing, any boy who shall have escaped the bchool, or from said school, such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed ;°¤§°;l*Eg¤ 82;: guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall pay a fine of not less than ten nor more cggedii we than one hundred dollars, which shall be paid to the treasurer of the board of trustees; and any trustee, or the superintendent of said school, Wh<>d¤1¤y¤¤‘· and any policeman, shall have power, and it is hereby made their duty, to iigsug tgzmm arrest any boy, when in their power so to do, who shall have escaped from school. said school, and return him thereto. Sec. 6. That the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is Appropriation hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise f°;S2f*‘;¥c;‘;d appropriated, to pay the annual salaries of the superintendent, one thou- Eggyherg, &C_ ’ sand five hundred dollars; two assistant superintendents, seven hundred and fifty dollars each ; and the matron, six hundred dolla.rs ; and for assistant teachers and others, incidental expenses, including clothing, fuel, servant-hire. Sec. 7. That the Secretary of the Interior be authorized to purchase a N¢W_Si€¢ to M new site for said school, to be selected by himself and the board of trustees, and on which buildings for the accommodation of three hundred boys shall be erected for the erected, under the supervision of the said Secretary, the board of trustees, S°h°°l· and the architect of the Capitol; and for these purposes the sum of one _Appr<>priv·— hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated: Provided, That before t'°Ei,mS &c_ m any part of this appropriation shall be drawn, plans and specifications of bg gm {mss the building to be erected shall be made by the architect of the Capitol, Bmg RPPWVEQ, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior ; and the amount expended :;C€;gS;;;rO;,.i_ for the purchase of said site and the erection of said building shall not ation. exceed the sum hereby appropriated. Approved, May 15, 1872.
