Industrial Home for Girls.

(20) § 2210. SEC. 10. From and after the time said institution shall be prepared for the reception of inmates, every girl over the age of ten years and under the age of seventeen years, who shall be convicted before any court or magistrate of competent jurisdiction, of being a disorderly person, or of any offense not punishable by imprisonment for life, shall, except in cases deemed incorrigible, be sentenced to said industrial home until she shall reach the age of twenty-one years, if such court or magistrate shall deem the girl so convicted a fit subject to be committed to said industrial home. The board of control shall have authority to make rules reducing the term for which such girls shall have been sentenced, as a reward for good conduct. It shall be the duty of all courts and magistrates sentencing girls to said home, to certify to the keeper of said home, the age of the person so committed, as nearly as can be ascertained by testimony taken under oath before such court or magistrate, or in such manner as the court or magistrate shall direct: Provided, That girls who are under this act sentenced to the State Industrial Home for Girls at Adrian, Michigan, shall be subjected to a careful examination by a regularly authorized and competent physician, who shall under oath certify as to her mental and physicial condition, and if on such examination it shall be found that said girl is afflicted with any venereal, contagious, or infectious disease, chronic epilepsy, imbecility, or is pregnant, or any other cause or defect which would make her a menace to those already in the State Industrial Home for Girls, or if said certificate should show that according to the judgment and belief of said certifying physician, said girl has been exposed to small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, or typhoid fever, within the fourteen days next preceding the date of said examination, then, in that case, said girl shall be delivered by the court pronouncing sentence, to the superintendents of the county in which said trial is held. And it shall be the duty of said superintendents of the poor, to provide for the care and medical treatment of said girl in the county house, or elsewhere, as in their judgment seems best, until the examining physician, or another acting in his stead, certifies that the obstacles to her entering the said Industrial Home for Girls are removed. The sentence of said court shall then be executed as though no delay, or cause of delay, had intervened. The fee for such examination shall be not to exceed five dollars in the case of each girl examined, and a bill for that amount shall be audited and allowed by the board of supervisors of the county in which said trial is held.

(21) § 2211. SEC. 11. Before any sentence made by a police court or a justice of the peace under this act shall be executed, it shall be approved by the circuit or probate judge of the county, and his approval indorsed on the warrant of commitment, and if such sentence shall be disapproved the police court or justice of the peace shall have power to pronounce the ordinary sentence prescribed by law.

(22) § 2214. SEC. 14. Upon the application of the board of control, the State board of corrections and charities may cause any person committed and conveyed to the State Industrial Home for girls who shall not be deemed entitled to admission therein by the board of control thereof, and any person committed to said institution who shall be

deemed by the said board of control incorrigible or an improper person to remain in said institution, to be removed with the mittimus committing such person thereto to any State, penal or reformatory institution to which such person might have been committed by the court or magistrate committing such person to the State Industrial Home for Girls, there to remain until the expiration of the term of sentence stated in the mittimus. The order of the State board of corrections and charities transferring any person from the State Industrial Home for Girls to any other State, penal or reformatory institution, shall be attached to the mittimus. It shall be the duty of the warden or superintendent of any such State, penal or reformatory institution to receive and keep therein any person so transferred by the State board of corrections and charities pursuant to the provisions of this act. Whenever a transfer is ordered pursuant to the provisions of this act, the board of trustees shall designate an officer or employe of the said institution to convey the person so transferred to the institution designated in said order. The necessary traveling expenses of the officer or employe and of the person transferred after being certified to as correct by the said board shall be audited by the board of State Auditors and shall be paid from the general fund. This act shall apply only to those persons committed to this institution for offenses committed after this act takes effect.

Am. 1905, Act 235.

Schooling of Children of Indigent Parents.

An Act to provide means whereby children of indigent parents, within school age, may attend school.

[Act 198 of 1911.]

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

(23) SECTION 1. Any truant officer of this State when authorized by the board of education to investigate, and when satisfied that any child within his jurisdiction, required by law to attend school, is unable so to do by reason of the fact that the services of such child are absolutely required for the support of himself or herself, or to assist in the support or care of others legally entitled to his or her services, such person or persons being unable to support or care for themselves, such truant officer shall report the case to the board of education of the school district in which such child may reside, and such board of education shall be authorized to and may in their discretion grant such relief as will enable the child to attend school during the entire school year. In all cases where such relief is necessary the said board of education shall be authorized to, and may in their discretion, furnish to such child the necessary text books free of charge, in addition to such other necessary assistance or support.

Payment to Family.

(24) SEC. 2. For the purposes in this act provided such board of education shall pay, during the school year, to the family of such child a sum not to exceed three dollars a week, nor more than six dollars a week for the children of any one family. Said money shall be paid in the same manner and out of the same fund as are the current expenses for the maintenance of public schools.

Duty of Truant Officer.

(25) SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the truant officer or treasurer of the school board in any district where a child is receiving aid under the provisions of this act to disburse the funds herein provided for, and to investigate the environment of the child, and to make an itemized report monthly to the school board or some officer appointed by the board, of the manner in which such funds were expended: Provided, That in cities having a juvenile court such investigation shall be made by such court.

Teacher to Report.

(26) SEC. 4. The truant officer shall notify the teacher to whom any child receiving aid under the provisions of this act may be assigned, and it shall be the duty of the teacher having charge of such child to report monthly to the school board through the superintendent of schools, the progress such child is making in his or her school work, and the record of attendance together with such other information as may be deemed necessary. Said truant officer shall receive the same compensation for the time so engaged under the provisions of this act as he receives for similar services performed by him and shall be paid in the same manner.

Text Books for Poor Children.

(27) § 4681. SEC. 16. The district board may purchase at the expense of the district, such text-books as may be necessary for the use of children when parents are not able to furnish the same, and they shall include the amount of such purchase in the report to the township clerk or clerks, to be levied in like manner as other district taxes.

Expulsion of Disorderly Pupils.

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(28) § 4682. SEC. 17. The district board shall have the general care of the school, and may authorize or order the suspension or expulsion from the school, whenever in its judgment the interests of the school demand it, of any pupil guilty of gross misdemeanor or persistent disobedience. Any person who shall disturb any school by rude and indecent behavior, or by profane or indecent discourse, or in any other way make such disturbance, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not less than two nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days.

Admittance of County Poor Children to Schools.

(29) § 4684. SEC. 19. The district board may admit to the district school non-resident pupils, and may determine the rates of tuition of such pupils and collect the same, which tuition shall not be greater than fifteen per cent more than the average cost per capita for the number of pupils of school age in the district. Children who are being cared for at county expense shall be admitted to the school in the district whose schoolhouse is nearest the county house, on the same terms that other non-resident pupils are admitted.

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COMPULSORY EDUCATION.

An Act to provide for the compulsory education of children, for penalties for failure to comply with the provisions of this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of the same.

[Act 200, 1905, repealing Act 95, 1895.]

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

(30) SECTION 1. Every parent, guardian or other person in the State of Michigan having control and charge of any child between the ages of seven and sixteen years, shall be required to send such child to the public schools during the entire school year, and such attendance shall be continuous and consecutive for the school year fixed by the district in which such parent, guardian, or other person in parental relation may reside: Provided, That in the following cases children shall not be required to attend the public schools:

(a) Any child who is being taught in a private or parochial school in such branches as are usually taught in the public schools to children of corresponding age, or who, upon the completion of the work in such schools, shall present satisfactory evidence to the county commissioner of schools, and, in appropriate cases, to the superintendent of schools, that he has completed sufficient school work to entitle him to an eighth grade diploma;

(b) Any child who has received an eighth grade diploma from the public schools;

(c) Any child who is physically unable to attend school. If the truant officer is notified of the non-attendance of any child at school and he shall find the one in parental control claiming that such child is physically unable to attend school, the truant officer may secure a written statement of a competent physician, certifying that such child is physically unable to attend school;

(d) Children over fourteen years of age whose services are essential to the support of their parents may be excused by the county commissioner of schools or city superintendent of schools from attendance at school on the recommendation of the board of education of the district

in which such children reside, and said board shall certify to the officers herein mentioned the facts in all such cases;

(e) Children under nine years of age, whose parents do not reside within two and one-half miles, by the nearest traveled road, of some public school: Provided, That if transportation is furnished for pupils in said district then this exemption shall not apply;

(f) Any child twelve to fourteen years of age while in attendance at confirmation classes conducted for a period of not to exceed five months in either of said years.

Am. 1907, Act 74.

A child over 16 years of age is not between the ages of 7 and 16 years, and as to construction of age limit, see Jackson v. Mason, 145 / 338.

County Truant Officer.

(31) SEC. 2. The county commissioner of schools in each county shall select a person of good moral character to act as truant officer for the county. The person so selected shall file with the county clerk his acceptance and oath of office and a bond in the sum of one thousand dollars, with two sufficient sureties to be approved by the county clerk. The person so selected shall be known as the county truant officer, and he shall have all the powers of a deputy sheriff, and he shall perform the duties of truant officer in all school districts of the county when directed to do so by the county commissioner of schools, except as hereinafter provided: Provided, That in cities having a duly organized police force it shall be the duty of the police authorities, at the request of the board of education, to detail one or more members of such police force to perform the duties of the truant officer in such city, but this provision shall not be construed as prohibiting such board of education from appointing any citizen not a police officer as truant officer: Provided further, That in graded school districts the board of education shall have authority to appoint one or more truant officers and fix the compensation of the same, said compensation to be paid by the district: And Provided further, That in all townships of the upper peninsula organized as township unit districts, the board of education of such township shall have authority to appoint one or more truant officers for said township and fix the compensation for such service, said compensation to be paid from the proper funds of such school district. For all townships of the upper peninsula not organized as township unit districts the county truant officer appointed as herein prescribed shall act: Provided, That if in any graded district or township the board of education does not appoint a truant officer, the county truant officer shall act in such district or township. The truant officers herein provided for in cities, graded school districts and township unit districts shall give bonds to the board of education in the sum of five hundred dollars, said bonds to be approved by the board of education and filed with said board, and such officers shall have, within their jurisdiction and while in the performance of the duties of truant officer, the powers of the deputy sheriff. The compensation of the county truant officer shall be three dollars per day for every day actually engaged in the discharge of his duties, and actual expenses, and all bills for such service shall be certified by the county commissioner of schools. In cities, when the board of education appoints a truant officer other than a police officer, said board shall