Author : Boston Common Council
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2018-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780267634644
Book Description
Excerpt from Report of the Standing Committee of the Common Council, on the Subject of the House of Reformation for Juvenile Offenders, 1832 This Act authorizes the Directors to receive all children convicted of criminal ofi'cnces, or committed under the Vagabond Act, and who may, in the judgment of any Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, sitting in this County, or of the Judge of the Municipal Court, or of any Justice of the Police Court, be proper objects therefor. And the third section further provides, that any Justice or Judge of those Courts respectively, on the application of the Mayor, or any Alderman, or any Director of the House of Industry, or House of Reformation, or any Overseer of the Poor, of the. City, -shall have power to sentence to the House of Reformation all children who live an idle or dissulute life, whose pa rents are dead, or if living, from drunkenness or other vices, neglect to provide any suitable employment, or exercise any salutary controul over such children - who shall be kept and governed under the provisions of the Act the Males until they are of the age of twenty one years, - the Females until they are eighteen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.