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Donation of lands, etc.

Ultimate cost of buildings.

Pay for buildings derived from hire of convicts.

Proviso.

White and

colored to be separated.

Object of reformatory school.

Appropriation for purchase of grounds and erection of buildings, etc.

SEC. 2. That said officers of State may also take into consideration any donation of lands and any proposed donation of money or material towards the erection of such buildings from any county, or from any citizen of any county, but shall not be wholly governed by such proposed donation, but shall select that point which will combine economy to the State with the requisites mentioned in the preceding section, and should such officers of State accept such donation they shall proceed to secure the same to the State as to them may seem most advisable.

SEC. 3. The Governor and officers of State are hereby authorized and directed to build and erect such suitable buildings, not to exceed the ultimate cost of ten thousand dollars, including tools and agricultural implements, to be paid out of the money derived from the hire of convicts, and appoint a superintendent at a reasonable compensation to superintend the erection of said buildings. They may also prepare, or direct to be prepared, a system of by-laws for the management of said reformatory school; Provided, That there shall be two separate buildings, not nearer than one-half mile to each other, one for white and one for colored; And provided further, That the colored and white convicts shall not be in any manner associated together, or worked together, or instructed in same building.

SEC. 4. The system of management and laws to be prepared as in the foregoing section directed, shall contemplate the making of such reformatory school not simply a place of correction, but a reform school, where the young offender of the law, separated from vicious associates, may receive careful, physical, intellectual and moral training, be reformed and restored to the community with purposes and character fitting for a good citizen, an honorable and an honest man, with a trade or skilled occupation fitting such person for self-maintenance.

SEC. 5. For the purposes of carrying into effect the provisions of this act a sum of fifteen hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for the purchase of said grounds, and a sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the erection of suitable buildings thereon, and one thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the purpose of furnishing said buildings in a manner suited for the purposes of this act; said appropriations to be paid by the Treasurer of the State upon. warrants issued therefor by the Comptroller, under and at the direction of the Governor, Attorney-General and Commissioner of Agriculture.

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SEC. 6. And the Governor is hereby requested to commu nicate to the Legislature at the commencement of its next Governor to session the action of said officers of State, under and by communicate virtue of this act, together with the system of management as to manageadopted for the management and government of the said reformatory school.

SEC. 7. As soon as said building is completed or nearly so, the Governor shall appoint five commissioners, who shall serve for four years each and until their successors are appointed and qualified, whose duty it shall be to superintend and manage the said reformatory school and report to the Legislature biennially, and when the Legislature is not convened they shall report to the Governor, the condition and progress of said institution.

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ment, etc.

appoint commissioners.

Governor to

Compensation

SEC. 8. Said managers or commissioners shall not receive any other compensation for their service than their actual expenses whilst in the discharge of their official duties con- of commisnected with the reformatory school.

sioners.

Commutation of sentence of

youth under sixteen years of age.

SEC. 9. In all cases of conviction for misdemeanor or felony, if the offender shall be under the age of sixteen years, the court may commute the punishment now provided by law to confinement in the said reformatory school for a period of not less than six months nor more than four years. And any court of competent jurisdiction may commit any person over ten years and under sixteen years to the guardianship of said institution, where complaint in writing setting out the acts of said person has been filed, which complaint shall be sworn to, to institution. and due proof shall be made in open court, in the presence of said person that he is a proper subject for the guardianship of said institution in consequence of incorrigible or vicious conduct.

Commitment

mates of reformatory school.

SEC. 10. That for the support of the inmates of said reformatory school each county shall pay at the rate of fifty dollars per annum until said institution shall become self. Support of insustaining, for every individual sent from such county, payment thereof to be made quarterly, in advance, for the board and clothing of each person sent by such county, the money so paid to be expended by direction of the board of managers.

SEC. 11. The officers of said institution shall consist of a superintendent, assistant superintendent, and two matrons. The commissioners, as soon as they are appointed and quali- Officers. fied, shall meet and elect the above named officers, who shall hold their respective offices for the time prescribed in the by-laws of said institution.

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SEC. 12. The superintendent shall receive a salary not to exceed six hundred dollars per year. The assistant superinSuperintendent tendent's salary shall not exceed the sum of four hundred dollars per year; and the salary of the matron shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five dollars per month.

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SEC. 13. The actual expenses shall be allowed to the Sheriffs of the several counties of the State for services of taking such offenders to said reformatory school, and such fees shall be paid by the county in the same manner as now provided by law.

SEC. 14. Said superintendent shall have power, and is hereby authorized to employ a competent physician at not exceeding three hundred dollars per annum to render medical aid and assistance in all cases of sickness or disease which may occur to such persons as are in said reformatory school under sentence of law, the same to be paid by the Treasurer of the State upon warrant issued as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 15. The sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as are actually necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purposes of defraying any necessary expenses that may be incurred by the superintendent in the management of said reformatory school for a period of two years. The said amount shall be payable in equal quarterly installments upon the requisition of the president and secretary of the board of managers made upon the Comptroller, who shall issue his warrant therefor.

SEC. 16. All appropriations provided for in this act shall be paid by the Treasurer of the State upon warrants issued therefor by the Comptroller, under and at the direction of the Governor, Attorney-General and Commissioner of Agricul

ture.

SEC. 17. This act shall take effect upon its passage and approval by the Governor.

Approved June 4, 1897.

Preamble.

CHAPTER 4566.—[No. 52.]

AN ACT to Provide for Teachers' Summer Schools, and to Make
Appropriations Therefor.

Whereas, The value of the public schools must be measured by the character of the teachers employed; and

Whereas, Teachers' Summer Schools have been recognized in all the States as one of the most potent means of improving the work of those engaged in teaching, by awakening greater interest and enthusiasm in their work and in improving their scholarship and suggesting the best methods of instruction; and

Whereas, The Trustees of the Peabody Fund have deemed money expended in the direction of improving the teaching force as the wisest disposition of their trust in distributing its benefits to all the children, and have demanded that the Legislature make an appropriation to supplement their donation for this particular branch of school work; therefore

Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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SECTION 1. That the sum of three thousand dollars for the year 1897, and three thousand dollars for the year 1898, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the purpose of Appropriation. holding as many Teachers' Summer Schools at such times and places as the State Superintendent of Public Instruction may designate, and as the fund appropriated and donated by the Peabody Trustees will sustain.

SEC. 2. That impartial provision shall be made for the instruction of teachers of both races in these summer schools for the period of two months, and the sums appropriated in the foregoing section shall be subject to the order of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and paid upon requisition of said Superintendent upon the Comptroller, out of any money in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to submit a report to the next General Assembly, showing where and the number of such summer schools conducted, the number of teachers attending each by sex and race, the number of conductors of each school, the number of days service rendered by each, and submit vouchers for every dollar of the fund paid out.

SEC. 4. Any laws in conflict with this act is repealed by this act.

Appropriation
of State
of Public In-
struction.

subject to order

Superintendent

Superintendent Duty of State of Public In

struction.

CHAPTER 4567-[No. 53.]

AN ACT to Amend Section 5, of Chapter 4193, Laws of Florida,
Being an Act Fixing the Salary and Mileage of the County
School Boards.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

SECTION 1. That Section 5 of Chapter 4193, Laws of Florida, be amended to read as follows:

The members of the various County School Boards shall be paid from the county school fund for their services, two dollars per day, for each day's service, and ten cents per mile for

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every mile actually travelled in going to and from the county court house by the nearest practical route.

SEC. 2. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved June 4, 1897.

Manner of selecting

student for free tuition, etc.

CHAPTER 4568-[No. 54.]

AN ACT to Amend Sections 3 and 4, Chapter 4334, Laws of Florida,
Entitled an Act to Establish at Bartow, Florida, The South
Florida Military and Educational Institute and to Provide and
Appropriate Therefor, Approved May 29, 1895.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

SECTION 1. That Section 3 of Chapter forty-three hundred and thirty-four be amended so as to read as follows:

Section 3. The Representatives from each county in connection with the Senator representing said county shall be empowered to name upon competitive examination and in such manner as the State Board of Education may prescribe, one student for each county who shall be resident in said county to the said South Florida Military and Educational Institute who shall be entitled to receive the benefit of a full course of instruction at said institute without charge for board, lodging, tuition, use of text books, washing, fuel, lights and use of arms and equipments. Said student to be subject to such rules and regulations as may be established for the government and direction of said institution.

SEC. 2. That Section 4 of Chapter forty-three hundred and thirty-four be amended so as to read as follows:

Section 4. That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act the sum of nine thousand dollars ($9,000) Appropriation. be and the same is hereby appropriated for each of the two ensuing years commencing September 1, 1897, out of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 3. All laws and parts of law in conflict with these amendments are hereby repealed.

Approved June 1, 1897.

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