employee of the institution shall attempt to influence the religious belief of any inmate, and none shall be required to attend religious services against his will. (1903) b. State Training School for Boys. 4054. Location and management.-The state training school for boys and girls shall be continued at its present site, at Red Wing, in the county of Goodhue, and be under the general management of the state board of control. (1905) 4061. Same-Commitment-Probation-With the commitment the court or justice shall transmit by the officer executing the same to the superintendent of the training school a copy of the record of the case, including all the evidence, and a written statement of such other particulars concerning the child as can be ascertained. Sentence of commitment may be stayed by the court, and the infant placed on probation in the discretion of the court. ('05 c. 233 § 6) 4062. Same-Duties of board-Girls-Discharge-It shall be the duty of the board of control of state institutions to receive, clothe, maintain and instruct, at the expense of the state, all infants duly committed, as herein provided, to said training school, and keep them in their custody until their arrival at the age of twenty-one years, unless sooner discharged, apprenticed, paroled, or transferred, and said board may, in its discretion, place any of said children, until their arrival at eighteen years of age, in suitable homes, or bind them out as apprentices to such persons at such places, and to learn such trades or employment as in the judgment of the board will be most conducive to their reformation and amendment, and will tend to the future benefit and advantage of said infants. Provided, however, that whenever a similar separate institution for girls shall be established and opened by the state, girls between the ages aforesaid may be committed to and detained therein in like manner and upon the same conditions as herein provided. The board may discharge any child so committed, or may recall to the school at any time any child placed out, apprenticed, paroled or transferred, and upon such recall may resume the care and control thereof. The discharge of a child by the board shall be a complete release from all penalties and disabilities created by reason of the commitment or sentence. ('05 c. 233 § 7) 4063. Duties of board-Said board, so far as the accommodations of the institution and the means at its disposal will permit, shall receive under its care and guardianship, and keep during their minority, or until apprenticed, placed in homes, or discharged, all infants so committed. It may place such infant, during his minority, at such employment, and cause him to be instructed in such branches of useful know ledge, as may be suitable to his years and capacity, and may place him in a suitable home, or bind him as apprentice to learn such trade or employment as will, in its judgment, be for his best advantage; and, under such rules as it may prescribe, when deemed best for such infant, it may parole or discharge him from the institution. All pupils in said school shall be clothed, instructed, and maintained by said board at the expense of the state. (1907) 4064. Commitment from federal courts-Said board shall receive into its custody and guardianship, and keep until duly discharged, all infants within the prescribed ages committed to said training school by order of any court of the United States within the state for offences committed against the laws of the United States, and for the support of which infants the United States shall undertake to pay fifty cents each per day. (R. L. § 1908, amended '09 c. 122 § 1) Sec. 2. Board of control authorized to appoint agents to Chapter 343, investigate homes, etc., and salary of agents.-Section 4065, Laws 1917, Page 484. General Statutes, 1913, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 4065. Said board may appoint an agent or agents at a salary of not more than one hundred dollars per month and expenses, and who under regulations prescribed by it, shall investigate the homes of inmates previous to their parole and have supervision over those out on parole and those apprenticed and perform such other duties as it may require. They shall hold office during the pleasure of the board, devote their entire time to such work, occupy no other position and receive no other compensation for their services. They may enter any dwelling house or other building whenever they have reasonable cause to believe that any ward of said school is detained or concealed therein and take possession of such ward when found and every person who shall wilfully resist, obstruct or interfere with them in the discharge of their duties shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Sec. 3. This bill shall take effect and be in force from and after July 31st, 1917. 4066. Interference with inmates.-Every person who shall abduct, conceal, entice, carry away, or improperly interfere with any inmate of said training school shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (1910) 4068. Roads and streets. No individual, copartnership, or corporation, public or private, shall lay out, construct, or open any road or street upon or through any grounds of said school without the consent of said board. (1912) C. Home School for Girls. 4069. School created-Commitment-Laws applicable.There is hereby created and established a separate school for the care, training and education of girls, to be known as the "Minnesota Home School for Girls," and the provisions of chapter one hundred fifty-three (153) of the General Laws of Minnesota for the year 1895 and all acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto providing for the commitment of girls to the present state training school for boys and girls shall govern and regulate the commitment of girls to the school hereby established, and as soon as the school hereby established shall be ready for occupancy, of which notice shall be given by the board of control, all girls theretofore commited to and then in the state training schoor for boys and girls aforesaid, created and established shall be transferred by the board of control to the school hereby established; and thereafter all girls committed under chapter one hundred fifty-three aforesaid, and acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, or which may hereafter be enacted as related to the subject matter thereof, shall be committed to the "Minnesota Home School for Girls" hereby created and established. ('07 c. 282 § 1, amended '11 c. 3 § 1) 4072. Cottage plan-When a site for said state industrial school for girls has been acquired by the state, it shall be the duty of the board of control of this state, without unnecessary delay, to cause to be constructed thereon school buildings upon what is known to the public as the "cottage plan," in order that the inmates thereof may be properly classified and grouped, and their occupations and their training diversified. ('07 c. 282 § 4) 4073. Powers of board-The financial control and the general supervision of said state industrial school for girls hereby created and established, shall be and hereby is vested in the board of control of this state as now provided by law in respect to other state institutions; and said board of control is hereby vested with power and authority to appoint a superintendent and such other officers and employes as said board of control may deem necessary and proper for the due administration of the affairs of said school, and may prescribe their duties, and may fix their compensation; and said board of control is also hereby vested with power and authority to make and establish such rules and regulations for the government and management of said school, and for the education, employment and training, discipline and safe keeping of the inmates thereof as may be deemed by it to be expedient and proper; provided, that all the officers of said school shall be women. ('07 c. 282 § 5) 4074. Advisory board. It is hereby made the duty of the governor of Minnesota to appoint, as soon as may be after the passage of this act, and annually after August 1, 1907, an advisory board of five women, to be known and styled as the "Board of Women Visitors of the Minnesota Home School for Girls." ('07 c. 282 § 6, amended '11 c. 3 § 1.) An act changing the length of terms of members of the board of Chapter 182, women visitors of the Minnesota home school for girls. Section 1. Terms of members of board of women visitors. One member of said board shall be appointed for a period of one year commencing with the first day of August, 1917; two members thereof for a period of two years commencing with the first day of August, 1917, and the other two members of said board be appointed for a period of three years commencing with the first day of August, 1917, and that thereafter upon the expiration of their respective terms, members of the said board shall be appointed for a period of three years. Sec. 2. Inconsistent acts repealed.-All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the 1st day of August, 1917. 4075. Duty of advisory board. It shall be the duty of said board of women visitors to advise with the said board of control with reference to the architecture and the arrangement of the buildings erected under the provisions of this act; to visit said school at or about the time the buildings therefor are completed and report to and advise with said board of control as to the style and character of the furnishings thereof, and the fixtures to be placed therein, and upon such other matters as the said board of control may deem necessary. ('07 c. 282 § 7) 4076. Same Inspection Reports-It is hereby made the duty of said board of visitors to visit said school at least twice in each year, at such times as the members of said board may deem best; to carefully inspect the buildings at each visit, and carefully examine into the condition thereof-sanitary and otherwise; to inquire into the treatment. and the condition of the girls therein; and for this purpose, may examine any or either of said girls separate and apart from any of the officers of the said school; and as soon as may be, after each visit, to report, in writing, to the board of control, making in connection therewith such recommendations as to said board of visitors shall seem meet and proper, in order to promote and conserve the best interests of the said school and the inmates thereof. ('07 c. 282 § 8) 4077. Compensation-Expenses-The members of the said board of visitors shall serve without compensation, excepting that they shall receive and be paid their expenses necessarily incurred in the per Laws 1917, formance of their said duties, their said expenses to be audited by the said board of control and paid out of any appropriation made for such state institutions and debited to the account thereof. ('07 c. 282 § 9) Chapter 293, Section 1. Girls between 8 and 18 years to be admitted to Minnesota home school for girls.-Any girl over the age of eight years and under the age of eighteen years, hereafter found guilty of any crime or offense for which, prior to the passage of this act, such girl, but for the fact that she was over seventeen years of age, could have been lawfully committed to the Minnesota Home School for girls, may hereafter be committed to said school. d. School for Feeble-Minded. 4078. Location and management-The school for the feebleminded and colony for epileptics shall be maintained at Faribault, under the general management of the board of control. (1913) 4079. Who may be admitted-Expenses-All feeble-minded persons, resident of the state, who, in the opinion of the superintendent of said school are of suitable age and capacity to receive instruction in said school and whose defects prevent them from receiving proper training in the public schools, and all idiotic and epileptic persons resident of the state may be admitted to their respective departments under such conditions and regulations as said board shall prescribe. The person legally responsible for the support of any person so admitted, shall pay annually to the superintendent of said institution a sum not exceeding forty dollars, to be fixed by the board, but if the person so liable be unable to pay such sum, of which inability the certificate of the judge of probate of the county from which said person is admitted, shall be prima facie evidence, it is hereby made a charge upon the county, and upon the presentation of a certificate of the superintendent of said institution certified to by the secretary of the board of control to the auditor of said county, that such indigent person is a regular and proper inmate of such institution and of the sum so fixed by the board as a condition of admission, said auditor shall immediately remit to the superintendent of said institution the sum so fixed, and a like amount annually thereafter, so long as such person remains an inmate of said institution; said superintendent shall transmit the funds so received to the state treasurer to be credited to the proper funds of said institution as required by law in the case of other current receipts, and said board shall have authority to reimburse pro rata the persons and counties so paying respectively |