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Convention, elected him to the exalted position of United States Senator from this great coinmon wealth-conferring a distinguished honor upon Aurora, the city of all his manhood years, and upon the Represent- ative District in which he was born. In 1902 Howard M. Snapp, of Joliet, was elected, and is now the Representative of this Congressional District which, under the late apportionment, is the Eleventh, and now consists of Kane, Mc- Henry, DuPage and Will Counties.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS AND FEDERAL OFFICERS. -Augustus M. Herrington was chosen a Presi- dential Elector on the Democratic ticket in 1856; William B. Plato on the Republican ticket
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in 1860, and Albert J. Hopkins in 1884. On April 7, 1869, George S. Bangs, of Aurora, was appointed Assistant Superintendent of the United States Railway Mail Service, and on May 3, 1871, was promoted to General Super- intendent of that new and experimental branch of mail distribution. Captain Maurice J. Mc- Grath, also of Aurora, was promoted to succeed Mr. Bangs in the office of Assistant Superin- tendent, and is still in the postal service, for many years having been Superintendent of Mails in the Chicago Post Office.
Too much credit cannot be given these two men for their persistent and successful efforts to improve this most important branch of the government service. F. A. Eastman, Post- master at Chicago at the time of the great fire, in a recent newspaper article, speaks of their inestimable assistance amid the perplexities of that appalling catastrophe. He says: "Both came at once to Chicago, instantly called into the city a large number of railway postal cars, and undertook to do in them the distributing that heretofore had been done in the postoffice. From that day to this, the principal part of the distribution of the mails has been in transit on the railway postal cars, and the application of this remedy to an accidental situation resulted in great permanent good." The head of the Postoffice . Department at Washington, whose high position has been attained by forty years of efficient service, writes that "Mr. Bang's comprehensive mind grasped all the great possi- bilities of the railway mail service, and it is safe to assert, that nearly every improvement made since his retirement was thought out by him."
Captain Leverett M. Kelly was appointed by President Mckinley, early in his first term, As- sistant Commissioner of Pensions, and still holds that important office. About the same time he appointed Arthur M. Beaupre, of Aurora, United States Consul General at Guatemala, and after about three years' service he was transferred to the same office in Bogota, Co- lombia. In the spring of 1903 he was appointed to the office of United States Minister to Co- lombia, and very recently, as arbitrator, chosen by Great Britain and Guatemala, adjudicated very satisfactorily disturbing complications of state questions that had arisen between those two countries.
May 4, 1900, President Mckinley appointed John A. Russell, of Elgin, United States At- 667-4
torney-General for our newly acquired Terri- tory of Porto Rico, but paramount duties at home compelled his resignation in December, 1900. Thus we find Kane County men oc- cupying important civil offices under the Gen- eral Government.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS .- In the conven- tion which assembled at Springfield in June, 1847, to prepare the first amended Constitution of the State, we find among its members Augustus Adams, Alfred Churchill and Thomas Judd, of Kane County, besides Eben F. Colby and Samuel Drake Lockwood, from other counties, each of whom afterwards became honored and useful residents of this county- the one at Elgin and the other at Batavia, where they resided many years before their deaths. Judge Lockwood was a member of the Supreme Court from January, 1825, until De- cember, 1848, and no Justice was held in higher esteem for purity of character, sound judgment and eminent ability.
In the Constitutional Convention of 1870 Charles Wheaton was the member from Kane County. Major Woodbury M. Taylor was elected Clerk of the Supreme Court in June, 1867, for the Central Grand Division, and served until his death some years later. Henry E. Hunt, of Dundee, served as a member of the State Board of Equalization from 1876 to 1880, and Dr. Ansel L. Clark, late Surgeon of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Illinois In- fantry, was for a long term of years, a member and Secretary of the State Board of Health. Besides his extensive practice in the county, he was an incorporator of the Bennett Medical College at Chicago, and for many years has been its president.
MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY .- Kane County first appears upon the journal of the Senate and House of Representatives at Springfield on the 5th day of December, 1842, at the opening of the session of the Legislature when Ira Minard was sworn in as Senator, and Henry Madden as Representative of the District composed of Boone, DeKalb, Kane, McHenry and Kendall Counties. After this date the Senators resident in Kane County were: 1844-46 -- Ira Minard, St. Charles; 1846-48-Gen. Elijah Wilcox, Elgin; 1848-55-William B. Plato, Geneva; 1855-63-Augustus Adams, Elgin; 1863-71-Edward R. Allen, Aurora; 1871-73- James W. Eddy, Batavia; 1873-77-Eugene Can-
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field, Aurora; 1877-81-Major James H. May- borne, Geneva. After one term as member of the House (1877-79), from the Thirty-second General Assembly in 1881 until the Forty-third in 1903-a period of twenty-two consecutive years-Henry H. Evans has represented this Senatorial District. This simple statement of fact demonstrates his absolute capacity and strength, beyond the power of words to add or detract.
The members of the House of Representatives, resident in Kane County during their terms of service, have been: 1846-48-James Herring- ton, Geneva; 1848-51-Edward W. Austin, Dundee; 1851-53-Augustus Adams, Elgin; 1853-55-John Ranstead, Plato; 1855-57-Ben- jamin Hackney, Aurora; 1857-59-William Parker; 1859-61-William B. Plato, Geneva; 1861-63-Thomas S. Terry; 1863-67-Sylvester S. Mann, Burlington; 1867-69-John W. Eddy, Batavia; 1869-71-Needham N. Ravlin, Kane- ville: 1873-75-Sylvester S. Mann; Julius A. Carpenter, Carpentersville; James Herrington, Geneva; 1875-77-James Herrington; 1877-79- Henry H. Evans, Aurora; James Herrington; 1879-81-Edward C. Lovell, Elgin; James Her- rington; 1881-83-Oliver P. Chisholm, Elgin; James Herrington; 1883-85-James Herrington; 1885-87-John Stewart, Elburn; Thomas O'Don- nell, Aurora; 1887-89-John Stewart; James Herrington; 1889-97-Edgar C. Hawley, Dundee; Luther M. Dearborn, Aurora; 1897-99 -William F: Hunter, Elgin; Samuel Alschuler, Aurora; 1899-01-John Stewart; Samuel Alschu- ler; 1901-03-Charles Backus, Hampshire; John A. Logan, Elgin; 1903-05-Charles Backus and John Linden, Aurora. The Democratic mem- bers-Messrs. Herrington, O'Donnell, Dearborn, Alschuler, Logan and Linden-were elected under the minority representation provision of the State Constitution, the other members being Republicans.
CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES .- The first term of the Circuit Court in Kane County was held in James Herrington's log house at Geneva (then called Herrington's Ford), beginning Monday, June 19, 1837. Kane was then in the Sixth Judicial Circuit, and Thomas Ford, Judge of the Circuit, issued the order calling the term and also appointed A. P. Hubbard to serve as Clerk. It was presided over, however, by John Pearson, Judge of the Seventh Circuit. Judge Jesse B. Thomas, of the First Judicial Circuit, presided at the second term. of court held at
the same place in September, 1837. Alonzo A. Huntington appeared as State's Attorney and Mark Fletcher served as Clerk. The third and fourth terms were again presided over by Judge Pearson. February 25, 1839, Thomas Ford was commissioned Judge of the Ninth Judicial Cir- cuit, to which Kane County had evidently been assigned, and Judge Ford first appears upon the bench at the term beginning May 27, 1839. Onslow Peters is entered as State's Attorney. John Dean Caton, as a Justice and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, presided from May 27, 1841, until January 24, 1848, when Judge Hugh T. Dickey, of Cook County, held a special session of the court. December 4, 1848, Theophilus Lyle Dickey was commissioned Judge of the Ninth Circuit. The Legislature having increased the number of circuits, Kane became a part of the Thirteenth Circuit, and Isaac Grant Wilson, the first Judge resident in the county, was commissioned June 18, 1851. He was re-elected in 1855, and again in 1861. October 3, 1864, Kane was transferred to the Twenty-eighth Circuit. Judge Wilson held the office until 1867, when, on June 14, 1867, Sylva- nus Wilcox was commissioned Judge and re- commissioned in June, 1873. On May 5th of that year, Kane was assigned to the Fourth Judicial District. Because of failing health, Judge Wil- cox resigned in September, 1874. October 1, 1877, the number of the district was changed to the Twelfth, and Judge Isaac Grant Wilson was again commissioned as Judge on June 16, 1879; a third time, June 16, 1885, and he con- tinued in office until his death in 1891. From June, 1879, he served as a Judge of the Ap- pellate Court at Chicago. In June, 1891, Henry B. Willis received his commission as Judge of this circuit, again in 1897 and for a third term of six years in 1903.
The Clerks of the Circuit Court have been as follows: 1836-Allen P. Hubbard; 1837-48- Mark W. Fletcher; 1848-52-Charles B. Wells; 1852-56-Luther Dearborn: 1856-60-Paul R. Wright; 1860-64-Thomas C. Moore; 1864-68- Pinder F. Ward; 1868-72-J. W. Parrington; 1872-76-H. T. Rockwell; 1876-84-C. P. Dut- ton; 1884-96-Charles Miller; 1896-1901-John F. Dewey, who died in 1901, being succeeded by Thomas Rushton, who served the remainder of his term until 1902, when Capt. Benjamin E. Gould was elected. Mr. Gould lost his life in the Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago, December 30, 1903.
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The County Commissioners who started the whole machinery of county government and largely conducted county affairs until, by the adoption of township organization under the first amended Constitution, the office was abolished, and the Board of Supervisors substi- tuted, were: 1836-Solomon Dunham, Ebenezer , Morgan, Eli Barnes; 1837-Thomas H. Thomp- son, Mark Daniels, J W. Churchill; 1838-Ira Minard, George E. Peck, A. P. Hubbard; 1839- Noah B Spaulding, William B. West, A. P. Hub- bard; 1840-41-Noah B. Spaulding, William B. West, A. P. Hubbard; 1842-William B. West, , S. E. Johnson; 1843-S. E. Johnson, W. B. West, Thomas E. Dodge; 1844- William C. Kimball, S. E. Johnson, Thos. E. Dodge; 1845-Wm. C. Kimball, Silas Reynolds, Thos. E. Dodge; 1846-47-David W. Annis, S. Reynolds, T. H. Whittemore; 1848-49-D. W. Annis, John Scott, T. H. Whittemore.
The persons named as County Clerks kept the records of the County Commissioners' pro- ceedings. The Commissioners appointed Relief Duryea Recorder of Deeds, and he was suc- ceeded by David Dunham, who served until 1842. Others who served in that office were: George W. Gorton, 1842-46; and E. H. Swarth- out, 1846-48, when the duties of the office were delegated to the Circuit Clerk, C. B. Wells. In 1892 the office was revived, and Joseph Ingham elected Recorder. Frank E. George was elected in 1896 and re-elected in 1900.
Other county officers of Kane County, with their terms of service, have been as follows:
COUNTY JUDGES-1836-38-Mark Daniels; 1838- 40 -- Isaac Wilson; 1840-42-H. N. Chapman; 1842-44-L. Howard; 1844-48-S. S. Jones; 1848- 50-A. V. Sill; 1850-52-I. G. Wilson; 1852-58- W. D. Barry; 1858-60-Daniel Eastman; 1860- 66-R. N. Botsford; 1866-68-Capt. J. T. Brown; 1868-70-C. D. F. Smith; 1870-74-W. D. Barry; 1874-82-J. W. Ranstead; 1882-90-Edward C. Lowell; 1890-94-D. B. Sherwood; 1894-M. O. Southworth, the present excellent incumbent.
COUNTY CLERKS-1836-46-Mark W. Fletcher; 1846-48-J. L. Warren; 1848-56-James Her- rington; 1856-60-John Greene; 1860-68-Henry B. Pierce; 1868-72-Frank P. Crandon; 1872, until resigned in 1879-John C. Sherwin; 1879- 86-Thomas Meredith, Jr .; 1886-94-Arthur M. Beaupre; 1894-98-Charles W. Raymond; 1898. 02-John McKellar; 1902-William F. Lynch.
SHERIFFS-1836-40-B. F. Fridley; 1840- James Risk; 1842-48-Noah B. Spaulding; 1848-
50-B. C. Yates; 1850-52-Luther Dearborn; 1852-54-Noah B. Spaulding; 1854-56-L. P. Barker; 1856-58-Geo. E. Corwin; 1858-60- Ethan J. Allen; 1860-62-Demarcus Clark; 1862- 64-Jas. H. Whipple; 1864-66-H. L. Perry; 1866-68-D. Smith; 1868-70-L. M. Kelly; 1870- 74-James C. Brown; 1874-76-L. M. Kelly; 1876-80-Chas. S. Mixer; 1880-86-N. S. Carlisle; 1886-90-John Kelly; 1890-94-\Vil- liam Reid; 1894-98-Robert Burke; 1898-02-H. F. Demmer; 1902-04-Robert Burke.
CORONERS-1836-40-Asa McDole; 1840-42-R. N. Mathews; 1842-44-William C. Kimball; 1844-46-N. H. Dearborn; 1846-50-David Wheeler; 1850-52-J. P. Bartlett; 1852-54-W. H. Robinson; 1854-56-J. P. Bartlett; 1856-58 -WVm. Conant; 1858-60-Delos H. Young; 1860- 66-H. H. Williams; 1866-68-Charles H. Bucher; 1868-70-S. E. Weld; 1870-72-S. Mc- Nair; 1872-76-Ira .H. Fitch; 1876-78-H. C. Gillett; 1878-80-C. H. Bucher; 1880-92-H. H. Williams; 1892-96-C. W. Putnam; 1896-1904- Charles B. Mead.
TREASURERS-1837-39-John Griggs; 1840-H. A. Miller; 1841-42-Bela T. Hunt; 1843-E. R. Allen; 1844-Charles Metcalf; 1845-46-James Hotchkiss; 1847-49-Thos. A. Scott; 1850-S. K. Whiting; 1851-John Clark; 1852-A. W. Glass; 1853-54-Geo. P. Harvey; 1855-56- George W. Waite; 1857-58-William P. West; 1859-60-Adin Mann; 1861-64-R. W. Hoyt; 1865-66-William A. Miller; 1867-68-Captain Alphonso Barto; 1869-72-W. P. West; 1873-74 -Henry C. Paddock; 1875-76-Thomas F. Tolman; 1877-78-Thomas B. Coulter; 1879-80 -F. L. Young; 1887-90-C. E. Smiley; 1890-94 -James M. Innes; 1894-98-Robert J. McCor- nack; 1898-1902-Henry M. Gough; 1902-04- Samuel Shedden.
SURVEYORS-1836-Mark W. Fletcher; 1837-42 -P. J. Wagner; 1843-46-Adin Mann; 1847- James Carr; 1848-51-Andrew Pingree; 1851-52 -Alvin Slack; 1853-54-Andrew Pingree; 1855- 58-Adin Mann; 1859-62-Geo. Wilder; 1863-74 -L. D. Kendall; 1874-77-W. H. Pease; 1878- Geo. Wilder; 1879-1896-W. H. Pease; 1896-1900 - Lieut .- Col. Adin Mann; 1900-04 - Henry Dakin.
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS-1841-42-Ira Min- ard; 1843-44-Wyatt Carr; 1845-46-Alfred W. Churchill; 1847-48-John W. Hapgood; 1849- Joseph Kimball; 1850-52-Edward W. Brewster; 1853-54-D. D. Waite; 1855-56-Mervin Tabor; 1857-60 - David Higgins; 1861-62 - N. F.
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Nichols; 1863-64-Clark Braden; 1865-68-C. E. Smith; 1869-73-Geo. B. Charles; 1874-86- Charles E. Mann; 1886, until his death in 1902 -Marvin Quackenbush; 1902-H. A. Dean.
STATE'S ATTORNEYS - 1837-39 - Alonzo Hunt- ington; 1839-40-Norman H. Purple; 1840-41- Onslow Peters; 1841-42-Seth B. Farwell; 1842- 44-Orsemas D. Day; 1844-47-Benj. F. Frid- ley; 1847-51-Burton C. Cook; 1851-52-Phineas W. Pratt; 1852-53-A. B. Coon; 1853-56-M. F. Boyce; 1856-57-Amos B. Coon; 1857-61- Edward S. Joslyn; 1861-Eugene Canfield and A. B. Coon; 1861-65-Charles J. Metzner; 1865-69-Leander R. Wagner; 1869-72-Charles J. Metzner; 1872-76-Albert J. Hopkins; 1876- 80-T. E. Ryan; 1880-84-Henry B. Willis: 1884-88-John A. Russell; 1888-92-Frank G. Hanchett; 1892-1900-Frank W. Joslyn; 1900-04 -W. J. Tyers.
CHAPTER XIII.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND INSTITUTIONS.
FEDERAL BUILDINGS - AURORA AND ELGIN POST- OFFICES - STATE CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS- NORTHERN HOSPITAL FOR INSANE-TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS-HOME FOR BOYS-KANE COUNTY COURT HOUSE HISTORY-ALMS-HOUSE AND THE COUNTY POOR.
The General Government has erected two beautiful and elaborate Post-office Buildings within Kane County. In each case the amount of the appropriation was $100,000, about $20,000 each being paid for the respective sites and $80,000 expended upon each building. The Aurora office-a fine two-story building of red brick with stone trimmings-was built in 1894- 95, and the one at Elgin, a very elaborate one- story structure of light-colored granite, was erected in 1901-02. The Aurora building is finished in artistically designed and highly wrought and polished hard woods, while the public portion of the Elgin office is walled, ceiled and finished in white marble, with rich mosaic floor. In each building every con- ceivable facility for the reception and prompt
distribution of all incoming and outgoing mail is carefully provided. The arrangements for selling stamps and postal money-orders, and for handling registered matter, seem almost perfect. Every precaution against loss by care- lessness, criminality, or the natural elements . have been most studiously and thoroughly pro- vided. The flag constantly floats above each, as in military posts, and the buildings, grounds and surroundings are maintained in the most scrupulous order and neatness.
STATE BUILDINGS.
The Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane was established by an act of the Legislature, approved April 16, 1869, by Governor John M. Palmer. The district to be provided for by that institution embraced the thirteen counties of Lake, McHenry, Boone, Winnebago, Stephenson, Jo Daviess, Carroll, Ogle, DeKalb, Kane, Kendall, Lee and Whiteside-Jo Daviess and Carroll having since been withdrawn. A lo- cating commission, composed of Augustus Adams, B. F. Shaw, W. R. Brown, M. L. Joslyn, David S. Hammond and William Adams-none of whom were residents of Kane County-after careful inspection of the numerous sites offered, with generous bounties by various localities, selected the beautiful grounds at Elgin. It would be very difficult to find a location meet- ing more completely the prime requisites of fair healthful altitude, good drainage, abundant water, accessibility, beauty of situation and pleasant diversity of landscape. The city pur- chased of R. B. Chisholm, and donated to the State, 150 acres of land in Sections 23 and 24 and, by subsequent purchases, the grounds have been enlarged to 510 acres, lying along the west bank of the river.
The highway to the south, from the city, which is also traversed by a line of electric cars, runs parallel with, and some eighty rods distant from, the river, through the State grounds; and that portion lying between the river and the road is cultivated as farm land. The Hospital buildings front toward the east and stand some forty rods west of the high- way, near the center of the park-like lawn, which is separated from the highway by a sub- stantial and artistic iron fence. The grounds are entered through elaborate iron gateways, flanked by neat stone lodges. With an even, gradual slope, rendered more pleasing by two grassy waterways for the surplus rain-fall to reach the river, the land rises from its pebbly
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shore, perhaps sixty or eighty feet, to the broad plateau whereon the buildings stand, with the farm in their rear. The grounds about the buildings are artistically platted to produce the most pleasing landscape effects, and are kept in perfect condition. Miniature lakes and streamlets, with rustic arches, bridges and grot- toes, have been most naturally devised, and beautiful driveways and walks are laid in pleasant courses, through the groves and lawns. Inviting seats are placed in quiet sheltered places, and there are grassy, sunny slopes for patients to recline upon, while beds of brilliant flowers contrast most charmingly with the deep green of the smooth well-kept lawn. A large and beautiful fountain is in almost constant play in front of the main porch and entrance hall of the administration building, and near by stands the elaborate conservatory, built and en- dowed by the generous bequest of the late Jonathan Burr.
The central portion of this main building comprises reception rooms and offices for the Superintendent and his staff of medical and business assistants, apartments for his family and for domestic use, and a large and beautiful chapel, and amusement hall, with their acces- sories, for the benefit of the patients. The north wing is occupied by female, and the south wing by male patients. This north wing was opened for the reception of patients in April, 1872, the center building was first occupied in 1874, and the south wing in 1875. Each has been improved and enlarged and, on the south, a separate infirmary for males, and a large an- nex for chronic non-violent male and female patients, have been erected. The women's in- firmary connects with the north wing. The buildings have been constructed, and are being so arranged, as to bring into each patient's room all the brightness, beauty and sunlight possible, together with an abundance of pure invigorating air, so that, from every window and place of rest or recreation, the view shall tend to produce pleasurable content. Every effort is made to induce regular habits of body and mind and quiet sleep; to provide nourish- ing food, healthy employment, cheerful re- ligious services and singing, reading, music, games, dancing, dramatic entertainments and pleasurable enjoyments, to divert from morbid thoughts and hallucinations, and to heal the unbalanced, wavering minds. The most rigid discipline is maintained, with power, if it must
be employed, but rather by gently and firmly checking, at its very first manifestation, all tendency toward insubordination, and to culti- vate in the minds of patients the individual feeling of personal restraint, courtesy and re- spect-to put patients, as far as possible, upon a sense of honorable regard for their own con- trol and deportment, and to remove all feeling of prison restraint and confinement. At best it is a sad, trying task; but these more humane methods are superseding the harsher ways of the past. The growing sentiment of faith in the all-conquering power of goodness gives evidence of a confidence that the newer treat- ment will prove more beneficial than the old, in alleviating the pitiable condition of these saddest victims of the inadvertent or wilful violation of Nature's laws.
Such are the views of Dr. Frank S. Whitman, the present highly efficient Superintendent, and of the officers employed to assist him; and, while each day, and nearly each individual case, have their trials, perplexities and dis- couragements, results continually give assur- ance that such treatment is most salutary. Of course, all the arrangements, appliances and accessories of the buildings and grounds are the best to-day attainable. About 250 acres of the land is cultivated in farm and garden; and in tilling these and caring for the well-housed stock, repairing the buildings, tending the lawns, and meeting the daily recurring needs of the great institution, patients are induced to assist so far as may be beneficial to them. The last biennial report shows 1,102 inmates on July 1, 1900; admitted during the two following years, 731; and re-admitted, 100-making a total of 1,933. There were discharged, during the same period as recovered, 189; as improved, 114; as unimproved, 17; and 166 died. There were transferred to other institutions 138; re- turned to various counties 111; released by order of court 5; and 10 escaped-present, July 1, 1902, 1,183-total, 1,933. The estimated re- quirements for the ordinary needs of the in- stitution for 1903-4 was $185,000 per year. The trustees also asked a further appropriation of $88,300 for special repairs and improvements.
( See Illustration, "Northern Hospital for the Insane," p. 402.)
STATE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
By authority of a legislative act, approved June 22, 1893, the Governor appointed Mes- dames M. R. M. Wallace, G. M. Holt, J. D.
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Harvey and Charles Henrotin, and Judge Frank Annis, Matthew Henneberry and William Prentiss, and their successors, a body corporate under the name of "State Guardians for Girls," and authorized them to establish a "State Home for Juvenile Female Offenders." The same act authorized the purchase of not less than 20 nor more than 120 acres of land, and the erection thereon of suitable buildings and appropriated $75,000 to carry its provisions into effect. The law authorized the commitment of girls thereto between the ages of ten and sixteen years, by courts of record, for "not less than one year nor beyond their minority;" and by Justices and Magistrates, for "not less than three months, nor beyond their minority." By sub- sequent legislation the limit has been extended to 21 years of age. "No imbecile or idiotic girl shall be committed or received into the Home. Girls may be discharged at any time by the Governor or by the Trustees whenever, in their judgment, the good of the girl or of the Home will thereby be promoted." "The Superintend- ent and other officers at the Home shall be women." The Trustees are given the exclusive custody, care and guardianship of such girls as are committed to the Home, and are author- ized to appoint one or more suitable persons to serve without compensation in each county to aid them. They are required to instruct the girls "in such branches of useful knowledge as may be suited to their years and capacities," in domestic vocations, such as housekeeping in all its departments. "Any girl may be placed in the Home of any good citizen, upon such terms, and for such purposes and time, as may be agreed upon; or she may be given to any suitable person of good character who will adopt her; or she may be bound to any reputable citizen to learn any trade; or as a servant to follow any employment which, in the judgment of the Trustees, will be for her advantage." But if she is cruelly treated or neglected, or the terms agreed upon are not observed, the Trustees shall take and receive her again to the protection of the Home. For good behavior each girl is to be credited five days each month of the first year; six days monthly in the second year; seven days the third; eight days the fourth; and thereafter nine days in each month-while for any mis- conduct or violation of rules, she is liable to forfeit five days per month. The balance of good days to her credit brings so much nearer
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