CHAPTER XXXI.

An Act to authorize the Board of Commissioners of Knox county to provide for the support of the paupers of said county.

[APPROVED JANUARY 29, 1833]

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State Board of comof Indiana, That it shall be lawful for the board of com- missioners to appoint sumissioners of Knox county, whenever they may deem it perintendent. advisable and proper to do so, to employ some humane and responsible person or persons, resident in said county, upon such terms and under such restrictions as they shall consider most advantageous for the interest of the county, whose duty it shall be to receive into his or their care or His duties. custody, all persons who may have become a county charge as paupers; and it shall be the duty of the person or persons thus employed, immediately thereupon to take such measures for the employment and support of such paupers, as the board of commissioners shall from time to time establish, order and direct, consistently with the law of the land; and as soon as the person or persons thus employed are prepared for the reception of the poor aforesaid, they shall from time to time, as they may become chargeable as paupers in the respective townships in said county, be removed and delivered into his or their care and custody, who shall receive the same, and who shall do and perform all the duties which may be deemed requisite and proper to be done and performed by said board.

bond.

SEC. 2. The person or persons so employed, as such di- Superintenrector or directors by said board, are hereby required to give dent to give bond with freehold security, to said board of commissioners, in the penalty of five hundred dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his or their duty; and he or they shall Report to the make in writing to such board, a detailed report, at their board semiannually. sessions in May and November annually, of the time and manner of the admission of each pauper, their health and fitness to labor, the results of their industry, and the expenses incurred; and it shall be the duty of the members of Commission. such board in person annually to inspect said place of re- ers shall an nually inspect fuge, with regard to its fitness in all respects for the objects the asylum. of its establishment.

several town

SEC. 3. That so soon as the provisions contemplated by Justices of the this act shall take effect, it shall be the duty of the nearest peace in the justice of the peace in each township to investigate the ships shall inclaims of every applicant for the benefit of the poor laws, vestigate the to a settlement in said county, by summoning and examin- claims of ap plicants. ing testimony or otherwise; and upon such examination, such justice shall without delay order and cause such ap

plicant to be removed to his or her proper place of legal settlement, or to receive temporary or permanent relief by admission into the said place of refuge of said county, as Expenses of the case may require; and every expenditure necessarily removal, etc. ordered by such justice of the peace, in effecting such repaid by the moval or transfer, shall be paid out of the county treasury, on the allowance of the board of commissioners.

county.

Act of 1831 to

be in force in

Knox county.

Office of over. seer of the poor to cease,

SEC. 4. The several provisions of the act entitled "an act for the relief of the poor," approved February 10, 1831, except so far as the same are changed by this act, shall be and are hereby declared in full force, within and for the said county of Knox.

SEC. 5. From and after the taking effect of this act, all the duties now assigned to and required of overseers of and duties to the poor shall be, and hereby are transferred to the respecbe transferred tive justices of the peace of said county of Knox, as hereto the justices in provided; and said overseers of Knox county shall seveof the peace. rally deliver to the board doing county business, all the

Commission

additional tax, etc.

books and papers relating to the poor of the proper township; and the said office of overseer shall thereafter cease and be determined in said county.

SEC. 6. The board of commissioners of said county are ers may levy hereby authorized in their discretion, from time to time to assess, on property liable to be assessed for county purposes, an additional tax sufficient completely and beneficially to effect the objects above contemplated.

CHAPTER XXXII.

An Act to incorporate the Monroe County Female Seminary.

[APPROVED JANUARY 29, 1833.]

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That John Bowland, John Hight, William AlFirst board of exander, James D. Robertson, Frederick T. Butler, Austin

trustees.

Corporate name and powers.

Seward, Richard Hardesty, Ellis Stone, and John Graham, and their successors in office, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name and style of "The President and Trustees of the Monroe County Female Seminary," and by the said corporate name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court or legal proceeding in this state; and by that name have perpetual succession; they shall in law, and by the said name, be capable of purchasing, holding, bargaining, selling, and conveying any property, either real or personal, for the use of said seminary, whether by legal or equitable title, espe

cially of any property now belonging to, or in use for the present county seminary of said county; they shall further be empowered to receive all and singular, any subscriptions, gifts, grants, donations, and bequests, which shall be solely appropriated to the use and benefit of said seminary, in such manner as said trustees shall deem most profitable or expedient.

SEC. 2. The said trustees shall meet in the town of Bloom- Officers, when chosen. ington, at such time and place as a majority of them may agree upon, and elect of their own body a president and secretary, and also a treasurer who shall not be of their body, to continue in office during the pleasure of said trustees, who shall have power at any time to remove them or either of them from office and to fill the vacancy.

oath.

SEC. 3. Such treasurer before he enters upon the duties Treasurer's of his office, shall execute a bond, payable to the state of bond and Indiana, in a penal sum not exceeding double the amount of funds, notes, and debts that may probably come into his hands, in the discretion of said trustees, conditioned for the faithful performance of his trust, and that he will pay over to the order of said trustees, all moneys that may come into his hands as such treasurer, and for the delivery to his successor in office, all moneys, books, bonds, notes, papers, and other valuable things whatsoever, that may come into his hands as such treasurer, and shall also take an oath before some justice, for the due performance of his duties.

SEC. 4. Said trustees shall purchase a book, in which the Record to be said secretary shall record all their proceedings; each day's kept by secreproceedings shall be read over in the hearing of the board tary. of trustees, and after correction, if necessary, shall be sign

ed by the president and attested by the secretary.

made.

SEC. 5. No money shall be paid over but upon the order Disburseof the trustees, entered of record as aforesaid; a copy of ments, how which order, certified by the secretary, shall be sufficient authority for the treasurer to pay over the amount, to the person in whose favor such order was made, his or her heir, executor, administrator, or assignee.

SEC. 6. The board of trustees shall have full power from Bye-laws. time to time, to make such by-laws, ordinances, and regulations, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state, or of the United States, as they may deem advisable for the good government of said seminary or of the students, pupils, professors, and teachers thereof, and the same to put in execution, revoke, repeal, alter, amend, or make anew. as to them may seem proper.

SEC. 7. The board of trustees are authorized and em- Trustees empowered to purchase and procure a conveyance to them as powered to such body corporate, a suitable site in the town of Bloom- purchase a ington, to erect thereon a suitable building or buildings, ing.

site for build

Proviso.

Meeting of trustees. Quorum.

Proviso.

Board of trus. tees shall

of the seminary fund.

for the use of said seminary, and to keep the same in good repair, and to furnish and provide whatsoever to them may seem advisable: Provided, that the said trustees may select for such site, any lot of ground, now or hereafter belonging to the county seminary of said county, or to said county, for the use of said seminary.

SEC. 8. Said trustees shall meet when, where, and as of ten as they may think necessary; and a majority of said board, shall constitute a quorum for the exercise of any power or the transaction of any business by them, as contemplated by this act; a majority of those present at a meeting shall determine any question before them: Provided, however, that in all cases where a meeting is held, otherwise than on adjournment, the president shall give or cause to be given notice of the time and place of such meeting to each trustee.

SEC. 9. The board of trustees shall be authorized to demand and receive of the present trustee, or any former trushave control tee of the seminary fund of said county, all moneys, books, notes, and papers belonging to said seminary fund in his hands, and to settle with any such trustee in relation thereto, and to institute one or more suits in law or equity, in their corporate name, or for their use as such body corporate, as the case may be, against any such trustee, and recover a judgment or decree thereon, and be entitled to execution or other remedy thereon as in other cases; the proceeds of which judgment or decree to form a part of the said seminary fund; but no contract made or note given to or by any such trustee, shall be annulled or made void by said board, but they shall have power to collect the same by suit or otherwise; they shall also have power to demand and receive from the treasurer, on their order duly certified by their secretary, their due proportion of all money paid into his office, received from persons conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms, to which the said county of Monroe is or may be entitled, which order shall be a sufficient voucher for the same.

Further pow

in relation to

SEC. 10. Nothing in the seventh section of this act shall er of trustees be so construed as to prevent said board from occupying buildings. any other building for the reception and accommodation of the pupils, students, teachers, and instructors of said seminary, whether by lease, bargain and sale, conveyance or otherwise, for such time as they may think proper.

Power to

make con

tracts.

SEC. 11. Said body corporate may make any contract, whether through or by an agent or otherwise, whether sealed, written, or by parol, may procure bonds to be made payable to them by their corporate name, conditioned for the performance of conditions or otherwise, and be liable to,

sue or be sued, as the case may be, on any such contract or bond.

SEC. 12. That from and after the time that said treasur- Money be. er is appointed and qualified to act as such, it shall be the longing to the duty of all persons having money for the use and benefit of seminary to be paid to the said fund, to pay the same over to the treasurer of said body treasurer. corporate, whose receipt shall be a sufficient voucher for the same; and said board shall have the right of instituting one or more suits for any such moneys not so paid over.

compensa.

SEC 13. The said treasurer shall keep a just and true ac- Treasurer's count of all moneys by him received, in a book to be by him duty and kept for that purpose; and said treasurer shall receive for tion. his services such reasonable compensation as the said board may allow him from time to time.

SEC. 14. When the seminary fund shall accumulate suffi- Seminary ciently for the purpose, after defraying the necessary ex- fund, may be applied to the penses, the said trustees may, if they think proper, appropri- payment of ate such fund to the payment of a teacher or teachers and teachers. necessary assistance, so as to reduce the price of tuition, and if practicable make the same a free school, under the restrictions herein provided.

SEC. 15. Any vacancy which may occur in the office of Vacancies, either of said trustees, by refusal to serve or qualify, or by how filled. death, removal, or otherwise, shall be filled by the remaining

trustees.

SEC. 16. Said trustees shall annually make a detailed re- Annual report of the objects and amount of all disbursements of such port. funds as may come to their hands, to the board doing county business for said county, which shall be entered on their records.

confined to females.

SEC. 17. The said seminary shall be exclusively confined Seminary to the education of females, who may be taught therein any of the languages, sciences, fine arts, ornamental branches, Branches to general literature, and such other branches or departments be taught. of education, as the said trustees may authorize.

liabilities.

SEC. 18. Any such treasurer shall have all the rights, pow- Treasurer's ers, incidents, and be subject to all the duties and liabilities powers and of the present seminary trustee of said county, subject however to the provisions of this act.

SEC. 19. In all meetings of the said trustees, the presi- President etc, dent and secretary shall each be entitled to a vote.

may vote.

SEC. 20. Nothing in this act contained shall prevent the Trustee of sesaid board of trustees from apppointing the trustee of the minary fund seminary fund of said county as such treasurer.

may be trea

surer.

SEC. 21. The board of trustees may authorize the trea- Treasurer surer to loan any part of said fund, on good security, for the may loan sufficiency of which such treasurer shall be responsible: fund. notes for the re-payment of any such loans shall be made