tion to be fixed by said board, and all moneys so obtained shall be applied as in the case of other pay patients.

Sec. 7. Support of charity patients-private patients-appropriation. The state of Missouri shall pay five dollars per week each for the support of all patients admitted to such hospital and maintained therein, and who have been designated by said board of commissioners as subjects of charity, and all costs for the maintenance of charity patients in excess of five dollars per week shall be paid by the county from its current revenue, upon orders or vouchers rendered to the county court by the hospital board. All patients of such hospital who are not subjects of charity shall pay such sum for their support and maintenance as they are able to pay as determined by the judgment of said board, and the state of Missouri shall pay such additional amount as may be necessary to compensate the board for their support and maintenance, but not to exceed the sum of five dollars per week per patient. The general assembly shall at each biennial period make an appropriation out of the general revenue fund of the state sufficient in amount to meet its obligations to any such county hospital as hereinabove designated; and the sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated and set aside out of the general revenue fund of the state for said purposes for the biennial period of 1915-1916. The chairman and secretary of such board of commissioners shall make report to the treasurer of said board, once per month, giving the names and number of patients in such hospital and indicating which patients are subjects of charity and the amount necessary for the state to pay. The treasurer of said board shall issue a voucher to the state auditor, giving this information; and the auditor shall draw his warrant on the state treasurer for the amount shown by such statement, and the state treasurer shall pay said warrant to the treasurer of said board of tuberculosis hospital commissioners; and the county court, in any county in which said hospital shall be established, shall authorize and issue the warrant of the county payable out of the current revenue of the county, in favor of the treasurer of said board, for the payment of the costs of all charity patients kept and treated therein, in excess of five dollars per week, as herein above provided, upon a like voucher presented to said court by said treasurer of said tuberculosis hospital.

Sec. 8. Grants, devises of lands, gifts or bequests of moneys or personal property-who authorized to receive and hold, etc.— The county court of any county in which a tuberculosis hospital has been established is hereby authorized to receive and to hold in trust for the board of tuberculosis hospital commissioners of such hospital any grant or devise of land or any gift or bequest of money or other personal property, as an endowment of such hospital, and if money, or if other personal property to convert the same into money, and to loan the same at the best rate of interest obtainable, regard being had for the safe-keeping and permanency of said fund, and to turn over the net annual income from any

such real estate or from any money loaned, to said hospital board; or if advisable, to sell any such real estate and convert the same. into money and loan it as aforesaid, or if not sold to authorize said board to rent or lease the same and receive the income therefrom. In case of sale of any real estate so given or devised a complete conveyance thereof may be made by an order spread upon the records of the county court and a deed signed in pursuance thereto by the presiding judge and attested by the county clerk. Any such real estate or personal property so given shall be used inviolate for the purposes of said hospital, unless otherwise designated in writing by the donor.

Sec. 9. Conflicting acts repealed. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Approved March 22, 1915.

[S. B. 409.]

CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS: School for the Blind

Changing Classification.

AN ACT to amend article X, chapter 19, Revised Statutes of Missouri, relating to the school for the blind, by adding a new section to be known as section 1470a.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: Section 1. Classification, etc.—That article 10, chapter 19, Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1909, relating to the school for the blind, be and the same is hereby amended by adding a new section thereto to be known and numbered as section 1470a. Section 1470a. Classification, etc.-The Missouri school for the blind shall be regarded, classed and conducted wholly as an educational institution of the state, and its classification, conduct and management shall be wholly separate and distinct from that of the benevolent, charitable, custodial and correctional institutions of the state.

Approved March 23, 1915.

[H. B. 553.]

CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS:

School for the Deaf-Pro

ceedings when Parents are Unable to Pay Expenses.

AN ACT to amend section 1495, article 11, chapter 19 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri of 1909, relating to the school for the deaf by striking the word forty out of the twelfth line of said section and inserting the word sixty in lieu thereof.

SECTION 1. Proceedings when parents are unable to pay expenses.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: Section 1. Proceedings when parents are unable to pay expenses. That section 1495 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, of 1909, be and the same is hereby amended by striking the word forty out of the twelfth line of said section and by inserting in lieu of said word stricken out the word sixty, so that said section when

amended shall read as follows: Sec. 1495. Proceedings when parents are unable to pay expenses.-Whenever upon petition of any person, and satisfactory evidence adduced to the probate court, or the judge thereof in vacation, of any county in the state that there is a deaf person between the ages of eight and twenty-one years residing in such county who is capable of receiving instruction in such school, the said court, or the judge thereof in vacation, shall certify such facts to the superintendent of the school for the deaf, who shall admit such deaf person into the institution as a pupil; and in all cases where suitable clothing and means for defraying necessary traveling expenses are not otherwise supplied to a pupil, the same shall be provided by the steward, under the direction of the superintendent, who shall make out an itemized account therefor against the county from which such pupil is sent in a sum not exceeding sixty dollars per annum for such pupil, and shall file said account with the county court of the proper county, or with the city auditor or other proper officer of the city of St. Louis. Said account shall be signed by the superintendent and attested by the seal of the institution, and when so certified, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts of this state. The county court, or city auditor, or other proper officer of the city of St. Louis, shall thereupon cause said account to be paid to the treasurer of the institution, who shall forthwith transmit the same to the state treasurer, who shall credit same to the maintenance fund of such institution. If said account be not paid within a reasonable time, it shall be the duty of the superintendent to certify such fact to the state treasurer, with a copy of such account, who shall thereupon cause suit to be instituted against such county or city for the collection of such account, and all amounts so collected by the state treasurer shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the maintenance fund of the institution; and the county court of the proper county, or proper officer of the city of St. Louis, shall, in the name of the county or city, and by suit, if necessary, collect the amount of such account from the parents or estate of such pupils, in case there is ability to pay same.

Approved March 23, 1915.

[S. B. 307.]

CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS: School for the DeafAmount of Charge against County when Parents are Unable to pay.

AN ACT to amend section 1495 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri of 1909, relating to the school for the deaf by striking the word forty out of the twelfth line of said section and inserting the word sixty in lieu thereof.

SECTION 1. Proceeding when parents are unable to pay expenses.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: Section 1. Proceeding when parents are unable to pay expenses. That section 1495 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, of 1909 be and the same is hereby amended by striking the word

forty out of the twelfth line of said section and by inserting in lieu of said word stricken out the word sixty, so that said section when amended shall read as follows: Sec. 1495. Proceedings when parents are unable to pay expenses.-Whenever upon petition of any person, and satisfactory evidence adduced to the probate court, or the judge thereof in vacation, of any county in the state that there is a deaf person between the ages of eight and twenty-one years residing in such county who is capable of receiving instruction in such school, the said court, or the judge thereof in vacation, shall certify such facts to the superintendent of the school for the deaf, who shall admit such deaf person into the institution as a pupil; and in all cases where suitable clothing and means for defraying necessary traveling expenses are not otherwise supplied to a pupil, the same shall be provided by the steward, under the direction of the superintendent, who shall make out an itemized account therefor against the county from which such pupil is sent in a sum not exceeding sixty dollars per annum for such pupil, and shall file said account with the county court of the proper county, or with the city auditor or other proper officer of the city of St. Louis. Said account shall be signed by the superintendent and attested by the seal of the institution, and when so certified, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts of this state. The county court, or city auditor, or other proper officer of the city of St. Louis, shall thereupon cause said account to be paid to the treasurer of the institution, who shall forthwith transmit the same to the state treasurer, who shall credit same to the maintenance fund of such institution. If said account be not paid within a reasonable time, it shall be the duty of the superintendent to certify such fact to the state treasurer, with a copy of such account, who shall thereupon cause suit to be instituted against such county or city for the collection of such account, and all amounts so collected by the state treasurer shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the maintenance fund of the institution; and the county court of the proper county, or proper officer of the city of St. Louis, shall, in the name of the county or city, and by suit, if necessary, collect the amount of such account from the parents or estate of such pupils, in case there is ability to pay same.

Approved March 23, 1915.

[H. B. 382.]

CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS: The Missouri Reformatory.

AN ACT to change the name of "the Missouri training school for boys" to "the Missouri reformatory," to provide who may be committed to said institution and to require the separation of the inmates into classes, and the establishment of a separate department for each class, to provide for the transfer of the inmates from one department to another as their conduct may warrant or require, and for the management, support, and control of said reformatory and the inmates therein, and to repeal sections 1524 to section 1542 inclusive, of article XV, chapter 19 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1909, entitled, "the Missouri training school for boys," and to enact nineteen new sections in lieu thereof to bear the same numbers as those repealed, with an emergency clause.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: Section 1. Repealing article XV, chapter 19 of R. S. 1909, and enacting new article in lieu thereof. That sections 1524, 1525, 1526, 1527, 1528, 1529, 1530, 1531, 1532, 1533, 1534, 1535, 1536, 1537, 1538, 1539, 1540, 1541 and 1542 of article XV, chapter 19 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1909, entitled, "the Missouri training school for boys," be and the same are hereby repealed and the following new sections, bearing the same numbers, be and the same are enacted in lieu thereof, as follows:

Sec. 1524. Name of institution-words construed.-The institution now known as "the Missouri training school for boys,' located at Boonville, shall hereafter be designated as "the Missouri reformatory," and wherever the words "Missouri reform school for boys," or "the Missouri training school for boys," occur in the statutes, they shall be held to mean and refer to "the Missouri reformatory."

Sec. 1525. Board of managers to have control-by-laws and regulations-to elect certain officers and fix salaries.-The board of managers of the Missouri reformatory located at Boonville, shall have full control and management of said reformatory, and shall, from time to time, adopt such by-laws, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, as may be deemed best for the management of said institution; said board shall elect a superintendent and such other officers and employes as may be necessary for properly conducting said institution, who shall hold their offices during the pleasure of the board, and shall fix the salary of such officers and employes, which shall be paid monthly, out of any money in the hands of the treasurer of said institution not appropriated by the state for other special purposes.

Sec. 1526. Powers and duties of superintendent. The superintendent shall be the chief executive officer of the reformatory, and he shall have full control and management of all the educational, domestic and industrial affairs of the institution, and all employes and other officers shall be under his direction, and subject. to his control. The superintendent shall take and subscribe an