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SEC. 19. That the State Board of Land Commissioners are hereby directed and it is made their duty to set aside sixty thousand (60,000) acres of lands granted to the State of Idaho by the act of congress, entitled "An act to provide for the admission of the State of Idaho into the Union," approved July 3, 1890, for other State, charitable, educational or penal and reformatory purposes, for the exclusive use and benefit of said school.

Said lands to be held, disposed of, and the proceeds thereof used and applied for the benefit of said school, subject to the provisions of said admission act and the Constitution of the State of Idaho, and so far as may be practicable, in conformity with the established proceedure of holding, disposing of and applying the proceeds of lands granted to the common schools of the State of Idaho. The Board of Land Commissioners are directed to immediately set aside sixty thousand (60,000) acres of said lands, if selected, and if not selected, to use the utmost dispatch in selecting and setting aside the same.

The Board of State Land Commissioners are hereby directed to provide separate record books in proper form to be known as "Idaho Industrial Reform School Records," in which shall be kept all records of matters relating to said lands.

SEC. 20. That for the purpose of purchasing a farm, erecting the necessary buildings and equipping same, for said school, a loan of fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars is hereby authorized to be negotiated by a board consisting of the Governor, Treasurer, Secretary of State and Attorney General of the State of Idaho and the State Treasurer is hereby authorized, directed and empowered to issue fifty bonds of the State of Idaho, in the sum of one thousand ($1,000) dollars each, payable in fifty years from the date of issuance, to bear interest at a rate not to exceed four per cent per annum, payable semi-annually on the first of April and October of each year at a bank in New York City; to be redeemable at the option of the State of Idaho at any time after the expiration of ten years from the date of issuance.

Said bonds shall be numbered from one to fifty consecutively.

SEC. 21. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized, em

powered, and directed to cause to be printed or lithographed suitable bonds in proper form with coupons attached, all such bonds shall be signed by the Secretary of State with his own proper name and shall affix his official character, and authenticated with the great seal of the State of Idaho, and shall be countersigned by the Governor with his own proper name and he shall affix his character, and shall then be delivered by the Secretary of State to the State Auditor, who shall make and keep a register of such bonds, showing the number and amount of each bond, and shall then be delivered to the State Treasurer, who shall be charged on the official books of the State Auditor's office with amount of such bonds.

SEC. 22. At the time of the issuance of such bonds under the provisions of this act, the State Treasurer shall sign them with his own proper name and affix his character and shall in like manner sign the coupons attached, and such signing shall bind the State.

The coupons for the payments of the interest, shall be taken off without injuring or mutilating the bonds, and shall be severally numbered from one (1) to fifty (50) inclusive each bearing the corresponding number of the bond to which it is attached.

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The State Treasurer shall keep a register of all bonds issued by him, showing the date of issuance, and shall deliver said bonds with the coupons attached as aforesaid, to the purchaser or purchasers upon the receipt of the purchase money thereof; and the money received from the sale of the bonds herein provided for, shall be used for the purchase of a farm not less than 200 acres of land cap, able of irrigation, with a permanent water right, and for the construction thereon of the cottages and other buildings and equipping the same therein provided for: Provided, That none of said bonds shall be sold for less than their face value, the expense of printing said bonds shall be paid out of the proceeds of said bonds.

SEC. 23. For the purpose of creating a fund to pay interest and principal of said bonds, an annual ad valorem tax of four mills on each one hundred ($100.00) dollars of the assessed valuation of all property in the State not exempt from taxation, is hereby levied, and shall be collected as other taxes for State purposes.

SEC. 24. If at any time there should not be sufficient money in the said Idaho Industrial Reform School Fund to pay the interest coupons on the principal of such bonds when due, the State Treasurer shall pay the same out of the general funds of the State, and shall replace the amount so paid out of the Idaho Industrial Reform School Fund whenever money for said fund shall be received.

SEC. 25. For the payment of bonds herein authorized and the interest thereon according to the strict terms thereof, the faith of the State of Idaho is hereby solemnly pledged; and for the payment of the interest thereon as same shall accrue on the bonds thereby authorized in lawful money of the United States, the Treasurer shall reserve any and sufficient funds in his hands, at the least possible cost, in preference to all other claims whatsoever, except the other bonds hereto authorized by the Legislature of Idaho.

SEC. 26. The Treasurer shall commence negotiations for the issuance and sale of the bonds herein provided for, immediately upon the passage and approval of this act.

SEC. 27. All juveniles sent to the Idaho Industrial Reform School shall be taught the common school branches as taught in the common schools of Idaho, together with such industrial and manual training in the boys' department, and domestic sciences in the girls' department, that the boys and girls shall be enabled to earn a living after being discharged therefrom.

SEC. 28. When any boy or girl of sane mind, between the ages of eight and eighteen years, shall in any court of record, or by any judge of the district court of this State, be found guilty of any crime except murder or manslaughter, or if for want of proper parental care, is growing up in mendicancy, vagrancy or incorrigibility, and complaint thereof is properly made and sustained by evidence, the court or judge may, if in his opinion the accused is a proper subject therefor, instead of entering judgment, cause an order to be entered for such boy or girl to be sent to the Idaho Industrial Reform School, in pursuance of the provisions of this act. A copy of such order under the seal of the court, accompanied by a certificate of health shall be sufficient warrant for carrying such boy or girl to said school, and for his or her commitment to the custody of the superintendent thereof.

SEC. 29. When a boy or girl of sane mind between the ages of eight and eighteen years shall be brought before a justice of the peace, probate judge or police magistrate of any county or town of this State, charged with any crime, or misdemeanor, or with mendicancy, vagrancy or incorigibility, it shall be the duty of such probate judge, justice of the peace or police magistrate before whom he or she may be brought, to forthwith investigate such charge and take such evidence as he may deem necessary, and, if after such investigation such probate judge, justice of the peace or police magistrate is of the opinion that such boy or girl is a proper person to be committed to the Idaho Industrial Reform School, he shall forthwith consign such boy or girl, together with all papers filed in his office on the subject, and a copy of his proceedings thereon, under the control of some officer, to the district judge of his district, who shall then issue an order to the parent or guardian of such boy or girl, or such other person as may have him or her in charge, or with whom he or she has last resided, or anyone known to be related to him or her, or if he or she be running friendless, then to such person as the judge may appoint to act as guardian for the purposes of such case, requiring him or her to appear at the place and time stated in said order, to show cause why such boy or girl shall not be committed to said Idaho Industrial Reform School for training and reformation.

SEC. 30. Such order shall be served by the sheriff or other qualified officer by delivering a copy thereof personally to the party to whom it is addressed, or by leaving it with some person of full age, at the place of residence or business of the said party, and immediate return thereof shall be made to said judge of the time and manner of such service.

SEC. 31. At the time and place mentioned in said order, or at the time and place to which the court may be adjourned, if the parent, or guardian to whom such order may be addressed, shall appear, then in his or her presence, or if he or she fail to appear, then in the presence of some competent person whom the judge shall appoint as guardian for the purposes of the case, it shall be lawful for the said judge to take a voluntary statement of said boy or girl, and to take such testimony in relation to the

case as may be produced; and if, upon such examination or hearing, such judge shall be satisfied that the boy or girl is a fit subject for the Idaho Industrial Reform School, he may commit him or her to said school by warrant. No boy or girl shall be committed to said school who is not of sound intellect, free from cutaneous or other contagious diseases, or who is subject to epileptic or other fits, and he or she must possess that degree of bodily health would render him or her a fit subject for the discipline of such school. And it shall be the duty of the court or judge committing any such boy or girl, to cause him or her to be examined by a reputable licensed physician, who shall certify to the above facts, which certificate shall be forwarded to said school with the commitment.

The commitment may be in the following form:

Order of Commitment.

State of Idaho, County of......

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In the district court in and for the......judicial district, in and for said county and State.

Be it remember, that on the....day of......190.., a minor of said county, was charged on complaint of... and brought before me, the undersigned judge of said court, and upon due proof I do find that the said... . . . is a suitable person to be committed to the instruction and discipline of the Idaho Industrial Reform School.

Now therefore, it is hereby ordered that the said... be and is hereby committed to said school until......attains the age of twenty-one years or until......is legally discharged by the board of trustees of said school.

And I find upon hearing of said matter, that the said.... was charged with......., that.......is a resident said county, and of the age of... years.

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The names of other near relatives and their residences are as follows....

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