4181 SEC. 11. [Term of commitment.] Each boy or girl committed to the school shall remain there until he or she arrives at the age of twenty-one, unless sooner paroled or legally discharged. The superintendent, by and with the advice and consent of the board, shall adopt such by-laws for the promotion, paroling, and final discharge of inmates as may be considered mutually beneficial for the institution and the inmates. The discharge of any boy or girl pursuant to said by-laws, or having arrived at the age of twenty-one, shall be a complete release from all penalties incurred by conviction of the offense for which he or she was committed.

4182 SEC. 12. [Escapes-Assisting same.] If any person or persons, shall entice or attempt to entice away from said school any boy or girl legally committed to the same, or shall knowingly harbor, conceal, or aid in harboring or concealing any boy or girl who shall have escaped from the school, such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by fine not exceeding two hundred ($200) dollars, or imprisonment in the state penitentiary not exceeding two years. Any sheriff or other officer authorized to make arrests, or any officer or employe of the school shall have power, and it is hereby made his duty, to arrest any inmate who shall have escaped from said school and return him or her thereto. The superintendent shall use all proper means for the apprehension of such escaped inmate, and for this purpose he shall offer a reward, not to exceed twenty-five ($25) dollars, in each

case.

4183 SEC. 13. [Feeble-minded inmates.] Authority is hereby given by the board of public lands and buildings to transfer all feeble-minded children who are now committed to the industrial school, or who may hereafter be committed thereto to the Nebraska institution for the feeble-minded youth at Beatrice, Nebraska.

4184 SEC. 14. [Acts repealed.] That chapter 75, entitled Reform School, as heretofore existing is hereby repealed; Provided, That such repeal shall not affect any person heretofore ordered confined therein under the provisions of section 5, of said chapter 75.

ARTICLE II.-GIRLS' INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.

4185 SECTION 1. [Establishment.] There shall be established in the state of Nebraska an institution to be known and designated as the "Girls' Industrial School for Juvenile Delinquents." [1891, chap. 37, § 1.]

4186 SEC. 2. [Location.] This school shall be located within three miles of the city of Geneva in the county of Fillmore; provided said city shall donate and convey to the state of Nebraska in fee simple a tract of land comprising not less than forty (40) acres, and suitable as a site for said institution, to be approved by the board of public lands and buildings; said land to be suitably graded and provided with sewerage, and said city of Geneva shall also furnish and lay a four inch water pipe from the city water works to that part of the ground where the buildings are located or provide a well with capacity enough to furnish a sufficient supply of water for said institution; if such land be not donated and conveyed within thirty days after this act shall take effect and a sufficient bond be given to perform the necessary grading, sewerage and to furnish the water supply as above specified when required by the board of public lands and buildings; then the board shall locate and establish the same at some other suitable place that shall make said donations, having regard for the welfare of the institution and the health of the inmates. [Id., § 2.]

ART. II.

"An act to establish and locate a 'Girls' Industrial School for Juvenile Delinquents; to provide for the government duties of officers and methods of commitments and transfer; to make appropriation for erection of necessary buildings, and to provide for letting contracts therefor.' Laws, 1891, chap. 37. Took effect March 4, 1891. Sections relating to building omitted.

4187 SEC. 3. [Instruction.] The girls committed to the school shall be instructed in the principles of morality, self-government, domestic duties and such other branches of knowledge as are taught in the public schools of the state. The board may further provide for instruction in such light, practical industries as may be best suited for their age, sex and capacity. [Id., § 3.]

women.

4188 SEC. 4. [Government-Superintendent-Duties. The government of the school shall be by and under the supervision of the board of public lands and buildings, who shall have power to appoint a superintendent and such other officers as the wants of the institution may require. All officers and employes, except the superintendent, bookkeeper, engineers and farmer or gardner, shall be Until the opening of the school only the superintendent shall be appointed, and it shall be his duty to look after the construction of buildings and such other improvements as may be authorized by the board. His duties shall be; First (1), To appoint employes to fill such positions as the board may determine, Second (2) To make a monthly report to the board of the general condition of the school, Third (3) To make at the close of each year an inventory giving the number, condition and relative value of all property belonging tot he school; also for all purchased and destroyed during the year, Fourth (4) To keep an account of all daily expenditures and certify the same to the board at the end of each month, Fifth (5) To submit with the monthly report an itemized statement of all cash received and expended, Sixth (6) To make such recommendations and suggestions as may subserve the interests of the school. [Id., § 4.]

4189 SEC. 5. [Book-keeper.] The book-keeper shall also be the steward of the school, and in the absence of the superintendent shall perform his duties. His regular duties shall be such as the board shall prescribe. [Id., § 5.]

4190 SEC. 6. [Transfer of pupils and funds.] When the school is ready to open the board shall transfer all girls belonging to the "State Industrial School for Juvenile Delinquents" to the "Girls' Industrial School for Juvenile Delinquents;" also all of the unused salary of the lady teacher and assistant teacher; the wages of the seamstress and one cook; a pro rata amount of the unexpended living expense and clothing funds; all of which shall be transferred by the state treasurer from the state industrial school, to the Girls Industrial School, which amount shall be ascertained and certified to the state treasurer by the superintendent of the state industrial school and the secretary of the board, and when so transferred shall be paid out on proper vouchers and warrants. [Id., § 6.1

4191 SEC. 7. [Commitment, etc.] Until further provisions are made all proceedings, services of order, examinations, commitments and other provisions necessary to give this act full force and effect shall be made and carried out in accordance with sections five (5), six (6), seven (7), eight (8), nine (9), ten (10), eleven (11) and twelve (12) of chapter seventy-five (75) of the Compiled Statutes of Nebraska, which said sections are hereby made a part of this act and shall therefore govern all commitments of girls who are fit subjects for an industrial school. [Id., § 7.]

CHAPTER 76.-REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.

4192 SECTION 1. [Registration books.] It shall be the duty of the mayor and council of any metropolitan city, or city of the first class, or city of the second class, having over seven thousand (7,000) inhabitants, which shall include all portions of the voting precinct, in which said city is situated, to cause to be prepared books for the registration of names and facts required by this act. Said books to be known by the general name of registers, and to be so arranged as to admit of the entering, under the name of each street or avenue in each election precinct and the number of each dwelling on any such street or avenue, if there be a number thereto, and if there be no number, then under such definite description of the location of the dwelling place, as shall enable it to be readily ascertained and found, the names of all legal voters in each dwelling, in each of said precincts, who shall apply for registration. Such register shall be ruled in parallel columns in which, opposite the name of every applicant for registration, shall be entered the words and figures hereinafter provided in this act, and shall be of such size as to contain not less than eight hundred (800) names, and so prepared that it may be used at each election in any city governed by the provisions of this act, until such time as is in this act provided for the succeeding general registration, and shall on the inside be in form as follows; to wit:

[1889, chap. 54, § 1. Amended 1895, chap, 50.]

4193 SEC. 2. [Supervisors of registration.] All supervisors of registration in said cities shall hereafter be selected and appointed by the city council, and the said council shall have the power to make all necessary removals in the office of supervisors of registration. It shall be the duty of said council, annually in the month of September in each year, for each election precinct, in any such cities to select to serve as supervisors of registration, three (3) persons, two of whom, on state issues, shall be of political faith and opinion different from their associate and the supervisor appointed to represent the political party in the minority on state issues shall be named solely by such members of said city council; the said supervisors shall be citizens of the United States and of state of Nebraska, of good character and able to read, write, and speak the English language understandingly, qualified voters in said city, and not candidates for any office to be voted for by the electors of the precinct for which they shall be selected, and residents of the precincts for which they shall be appointed. The persons so selected as supervisors shall be notified by the city clerk to appear before the mayor, who shall examine them as to

CHAP. 76. "An act to require and regulate the registration of voters for election purposes in metropolitan cities, cities of the first-class, and cities of the second-class which shall include all portions of the voting precinct in which said city is situated in the state of Nebraska." Took effect July 1. Laws, 1889, chap. 54.

SEC. 1. Registration confined to voters within city limits. 33 Neb., 285.

SEC. 2. Candidates cannot be supervisors. 34 Neb., 386.

their qualifications, and if he shall be satisfied that they are qualified to serve, they shall each take and subscribe before the city clerk within ten days of the notice of the appointment, the following oath of office:

"I............residing at No......in the city of............do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the constitution of the United States and of the state of Nebraska, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the office of supervisor of registration for the election precinct (or ward) No......of the city of .....according to the laws of the state and the best of my ability; and that I am a citizen of the United States and of the state of Nebraska, a qualified voter in election precinct (or ward) No......in the city of............and not a candidate for any office to be voted for by the voters of the precinct for which I am appointed supervisor."

Whoever shall be nominated and sworn into office as a supervisor of registration shall receive a certificate of appointment from said city clerk, and said certificate shall be in such form as shall be prescribed by the city council, and to specify the election precinct or ward in and for which the person to whom the same is issued is appointed to to serve, and the date of the expiration of his term of office. The supervisors of registration appointed under the provision of this act shall hold office for one year, unless sooner removed by the mayor, for want of requisite qualifications, or by said council for cause in either of which cases such removal, unless made while the supervisor is actually on duty on the day of registration or revision of registration, and for improper conduct as registration officer, shall only be made after notice in writing to the officer sought to be removed, which notice shall set forth clearly the reason for his removal; Provided, That any supervisor of registration who shall at any time be appointed to fill a vacancy, which fact shall be stated in his certificate of appointment, shall hold office only during the unexpired term of his predecessor. The said supervisor of registration shall have charge and control of the registration of voters and the revision of any registration in their respective precincts.

4194 SEC. 3. [Challenges.] Any person applying to register may, on any day of any general registration or revision of registration, be challenged in the said cities, and either of the said supervisors in any election precinct may at any authorized meeting of said supervisors, and one of them shall administer to any person so challenged, the oath or oaths provided by law to test the qualifications of challenged voters, and either of said supervisors may, at any such meetings, administer to any applicant for registration the oath or oaths provided in this act to be administered to any such applicant, and may also administer to any elector of the election precinct who may be offered as a witness to prove the qualifications of any person claiming the right to be registered the following oath :

FORM OF OATH TO WITNESS.

"You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that you are a voter in this election precinct; that you will fully and truly answer all such questions as shall be put to you touching the place of residence and other qualifications as a voter of (name to be given) now claiming the right to be registered as a voter in this precinct."

4195 SEC. 4. [Vacancy.] Whenever, from any cause, there shall exist a vacancy in the office of supervisor of registration, the person appointed to fill such vacancy shall be named by the council as hereinbefore provided.

4196 SEC. 5. [Supervisor-Pay.] Supervisors of registration appointed in pursuance of the provisions of this act, shall each be entitled to receive three (3) dollars per day for each day's service at any registration, or revision of any registra

tion, which compensation shall be allowed by the city council on the certificate of the city clerk as to the time of service; but no payment shall be made to any person as a supervisor as aforesaid, who shall not have taken, subscribed, and filed the oath or affirmation herein required, and who shall not, during the period of his service, have fully complied with all the requirements of law in anywise relating to his duties; and it shall be unlawful for any person to act as such supervisor without having taken, subscribed, and filed the said oath or affirmation, and any person so unlawfully acting shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than fifty ($50.00) dollars, nor more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars, or imprisoned in county jail for not less than ten (10) days nor more than sixty (60) days, or both, and shall stand committed until all fines and costs are paid. Said supervisors, during the time that they hold such office, shall be exempt from the performance of jury duty.

4197 SEC. 6. [Supervisor-Qualifications-Failure to serve.] Each and every person appointed by the city council for supervisor of registration, under this act, shall, on receipt of notice thereof from the city clerk, appear within five (5) days thereafter before the mayor for examination, and if found qualified shall, unless excused by the mayor by reason of ill health or other good and sufficient cause, be bound to serve as such officer for the term of one year from the date of his appointment, and in case of the neglect or refusal of any such person to comply with the above requirement, or to serve or act, unless excused as aforesaid, the said person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty ($50.00) dollars, nor more than ($200.00) dollars, and shall stand committed until such fine and the costs are paid, and said fines shall be for the use of the police fund.

4198 SEC. 7. [Same-Powers-Duties.] The said supervisors of registration in each election precinct in any city governed by this act, while discharging any of the duties imposed upon them by this act, shall have full authority to preserve order and enforce obedience to their lawful commands, at and around the place of registration, or revision of registration, during the time of registration or revision of registration; to keep the access to such place open and unobstructed; to prevent and suppress riots, tumults, violence, disorder, and all improper conduct tending to the intimidation or obstruction of voters; to prevent the disturbance or interruption of the work of registration, or revision of registration, and the registers from violence or fraud, and to appoint or deputize, if necessary, one or more voters to communicate their orders and directions, and to assist in the enforcement thereof, and any person neglecting or refusing to act when so appointed or deputized shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than ten ($10.00) dollars, nor more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars, and shall stand committed until such fine and the costs are paid.

4199 SEC. 8. [Time of registration.] Hereafter there shall be, in cities governed by the provisions of this act, a general registration of the qualified voters residing in each election precinct in said cities, at the times herein before provided, and then only, To-wit: The Thursday of the third week, the Friday of the second week, and the Saturday of the first week immediately preceding the day of the November election in each year. For each and every election held in any of the said cities, other than such as are above designated in this section, there shall be a revision of the general registration, had, as provided in this act, which revision shall be made on the Saturday of the first week immediately preceding the day of each and every such election. [Amended 1895, chap. 50, § 2.]

4200 SEC. 9. [Same-Duties of supervisors.] The supervisors of registration appointed pursuant to the provisions of this act, shall at the times in this