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CHAPTER CLXIV.

School Committee-Acting School Visitor-Public Money.

Section 1. Section 3639 of the general statutes is hereby amended to read as follows: The directors of the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls shall be the school committee of said district, and shall possess all the powers and be subject to all the duties within said district that are possessed by the school visitors in the several towns. They may appoint an acting school visitor in said district, who shall possess within said district all the powers and be subject to all the duties of similar officers appointed by school visitors. The authority of the board of school visitors of the town in which said district is situated shall extend only to the remaining portion of said town, and their returns and certifi cates shall include only the children of such remaining portion.

Sec. 2. Section 3640 of the general statutes is hereby amended to read as follows: The treasurer of the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls shall draw an order each year in favor of said district on the treasurer of said town for the proportionate amount to which said district may be entitled of all moneys appropriated by law for the benefit, support, and encouragement of public schools, as is provided in respect to towns.

Approved, June 1, 1893.

PUBLIC ACTS OF 1895.

CHAPTER LXXI.

An Act Concerning Fees in Cases of Commitment to the Connecticut School for Boys, Temporary Homes, and the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls. There shall be allowed in each case of commitment to the Connecticut School for Boys, temporary homes, or the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls the same fees for complaint and warrant, or order, that are now allowed by law for complaints and warrants in criminal cases; and there shall be allowed to the grand jurors or prosecuting officers attending such cases the same fees for travel and attendance as are now allowed by law to grand jurors in criminal cases. Approved, April 11, 1895.

PUBLIC ACTS OF 1899.

CHAPTER 138.

An Act amending an Act concerning Discharges from the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls.

Section 3644 of the general statutes is hereby amended to read as follows: The directors, or any two of them, may discharge from said school and return to her parent or guardian, or to the selectmen of the town, any girl who in their

judgment ought not to be retained. And the directors, with the advice and approval of the governor, may discharge from said school and transfer to the Connecticut School for Imbeciles any girl who in their judgment is a proper subject for said school; and the superintendent thereof shall receive and care for such girl the same as though she had been regularly committed. There shall be taxed by the comptroller two dollars and fifty cents a week for each week such girl shall remain at said school for imbeciles, and the principal of said school for imbeciles shall make his bill therefor quarterly, and present it to the governor, upon whose approval it shall be paid by the state treasurer, and the balance shall be paid by the parents or friends of said girl, or, if the girl is a pauper, by the town in which said girl belongs.

Approved, May 31, 1899.

CHAPTER 142.

An Act amending an Act relating to the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls. Section 1. There shall be taxed monthly in each year by the comptroller not to exceed three dollars a week for the necessary expenses of each girl committed to said school while such girl is under the guardianship and control of said school, either at the school home or at an outside hospital, or other proper place necessarily provided for any girl who after being placed out becomes an unfit subject for said school; and in order to provide for the extra expenses caused by transferring to and visiting girls in outside homes, said sum of three dollars per week shall be taxed for thirteen weeks after each girl is placed in an outside home, and the superintendent shall make his bill therefor and present it to the comptroller, who, upon finding the same to be just, shall allow it, and it shall be paid from the state treasury.

Sec. 2. Section 3647 of the general statutes and Chapter clxxxviii. of the public acts of 1893 are hereby repealed.

Approved, May 31, 1899.

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