amined and approved by the board of education, and the state auditor is hereby authorized to draw his orders on the general treasurer for the payment thereof when properly certified by the secretary of the board and approved by the governor, and a sum not to exceed twelve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby annually appropriated therefor out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

R. I. Institute

for the Deaf to

SECTION 1. The governor and lieutenant-governor toand controlled gether with nine citizens of this state, of whom six shall be

be managed

by trustees.

Trustees of, how appointed, and terms of office.

men and three women, to be appointed as hereinafter provided, shall constitute a board of trustees in whom shall be vested the management and control of a state institution for the instruction and maintenance of deaf children in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Such institution shall be known as the Rhode Island Institute for the Deaf.

SEC. 2. Said trustees, other than the governor and lieutenant-governor, shall be appointed by the governor; and said trustees now in office shall continue to serve, in classes of three each, for and during the terms for which they were appointed, respectively; and in the year eighteen hundred ninety-seven, and once in every two years thereafter, three trustees in the said board shall in the same manner be appointed for a term of six years, to fill the places of those

whose terms shall have expired; and vacancies which may occur from death and resignation shall be filled by the governor for the remainder of the unexpired term. The members of said board of trustees shall receive no compensation for their services.

SEC. 3. The board of trustees may admit such persons therein as hereinafter is provided. (See Chapter 332, Public Laws.)

Power of the

board of

trustees to

admit.

admitted.

Institute.

SEC. 4. Deaf persons between the ages of three and twenty Who may be years, and of sufficient capacity for instruction, who are legal residents of the state, shall be entitled to the privilege of the school without charge, and for such period of time in each individual case as may be deemed expedient by the board of trustees; residents of other states may be admitted upon the payment of such rates of board and tuition as may be fixed by the board of trustees. The primary object of the school object of shall be to furnish to the deaf children of this state, oral instruction, and the best known facilities for the enjoyment of such a share of the benefits of the system of free public education as their afflicted condition will admit of. The board of trustees shall have charge of the affairs of the institution, with power to make such by-laws and regulations for the government thereof (not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter) as they may deem expedient. They Management. shall elect from their own number a president and secretary, together with such standing committees as they may deem necessary. They shall appoint a principal who shall be the chief executive officer of the institution, and shall have charge of the educational and internal affairs of the institution, and shall also, upon the nomination of the principal, appoint teachers and subordinate officers, prescribe the duties and terms of service of the same, and fix their salaries, and for just cause remove any or all of them. They shall likewise employ the requisite number of servants and other assistants,

Board of trustees are to

report annually.

This chapter is not affected by chapter 51, sections 9, 10 and 11.

and fix the wages of the same, and shall purchase all furniture, schoolbooks, school apparatus and other supplies necessary to the equipment and carrying-on such institution. (See Chap. 545, Pub. Laws.)

SEC. 5. The board of trustees shall annually in the month of January make a report to the general assembly, of the state and condition of the school, and a statement of all expenses incurred for salaries, maintenance, tuition and other items of current expense, together with an estimate of the amount of money necessary to meet the current expenses of the next year.

SEC. 6. The provisions of this chapter are not repealed, affected or modified by the provisions of sections nine, ten and eleven of chapter fifty-one.

Board of control.

Number of board.

SECTION 1. The control and maintenance of the state home and school for dependent and neglected children shall continue to be vested in a board of control, to be called the "board of control of the state home and school." Said school shall be known as the State Home and School for Children.

SEC. 2. The said board shall consist of seven persons, four of whom shall be men and three women, and, in addition, of such person as may be secretary of said board. The

terms of office of the members of said board shall begin on Terms of office. the first day of July.

appointed.

SEC. 3. The governor, by and with the advice and consent How of the senate, shall appoint the members of said board, other than the secretary; and he shall annually, upon the expiration of the term of office of any of said board, appoint persons to such office in place of those whose terms shall expire, and every person so appointed shall hold his office for three years, unless sooner removed. Every appointment to fill a vacancy shall be for the remainder of the term.

duties and

term of office.

SEC. 4. Said board may appoint a secretary, who shall by Secretary virtue of his office be a member of the board; he shall give bond to the state in such sum as the board may require, for the faithful performance of his duties; he shall keep a record of all the doings of said board, and shall perform such other duties as may be by them required. Such secretary shall hold his office during the pleasure of the board.

Compensation to the secretary only, but trav

SEC. 5. No member of the board, except the secretary, shall receive any compensation for his services, but every elling expenses member shall be paid out of the state treasury his necessary travelling expenses.

to all.

the school.

SEC. 6. The said board shall establish a system of govern- Government of ment for the institution, and shall make all necessary rules and regulations for imparting instruction, and for the proper training of the children. They shall appoint such officers, teachers and employees as shall be necessary, and prescribe their duties and fix their salaries.

are to be

SEC. 7. They shall receive, in accordance with rules by What children them established, such children as may be declared vagrant, received. neglected and dependent on the public for support, as provided in this chapter, who are over four and under fourteen years of age, and who are in a suitable condition of mind and

Children received, to be returned, when, to authorities.

Object of the school, and

duty of the

out the pur

poses of this chapter.

body to be instructed; for exceptional reasons, children under four years may be received, should the board deem it advisable. Any child who shall be found by the board to be of unsound mind, or who may be considered by the board an improper inmate of said institution, shall be forthwith returned by them to the authorities from whom said child was received, who are hereby required to receive the same; and all children admitted shall remain until they are eighteen years of age, unless otherwise ordered by the board.

SEC. 8. It is declared to be the object of this chapter to board to carry provide for neglected and dependent children, not recognized as vicious or criminal, such influences as will lead toward an honest, intelligent and self-supporting manhood and womanhood, the state, so far as possible, holding to them the parental relation. But if at any time, in the discretion of the board, this object can be better attained by placing a child in a good family, they shall have the power to do so on condition that its education shall be provided for by such family in the public schools of the town or city where they may reside. The board are hereby made the legal guardians of all the children who may become inmates of the home and school, and charged with the duty of following such children as may be placed in families, with watchful care, and of taking them back to their own immediate supervision if at any time they fail to receive kind and proper treatment and a fair elementary education; and in case any child shall leave without permission, or be taken by any person unauthorized from said institution or from any family where it shall have been placed by said board, then said board is hereby authorized to take and restore said child to said institution or to the family.

Certain officers are to bring the children, contemplated by this chapter,

SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the superintendents or overseers of the poor in the several towns to, and any agent before court of of the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children may, bring before the courts of probate of such

probate.