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Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1901/1902 |
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Law Number | 279 |
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Chap. 279.—An ACT to incorporate the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
hildren.
Approved March 25, 1902.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Virginius
Newton, George B. Davis, Colonel W. E. Cutshaw, James N. Boyd,
Reverend E. N. Calisch, Reverend J. B. O’Reilly, Reverend James EK.
Cook, Reverend R. A. Goodwin, Joseph Bryan, S. H. Hawes, Major B.
F. Howard, A. H. Christian, James Caskie, L. Z. Morris, Marx Gunst,
Julian Bryant, R. A. Lancaster, B. Stewart Hume, Henry 8S. Hutzler,
Henry L. Valentine, Samuel H. Cottrell, Charles O. Saville, Charles H.
Phillips, Major Robert Stiles, D. C. Richardson, Henry R. Pollard, A. B.
Guigon, Doctor M. D. Hoge, junior, Doctor Charles A. Labenberg, Doctor
Edward McCarthy, Doctor C. W. P. Brock, Mistress A. Y. Stokes,
Mistress Charles E. Bolling, Mistress George W. Bagby, Mistress Julius
A. Hobson, Miss Pearl Bodeker, Mistress J. J. King, Mistress P. J.
White, Mistress J. H. Schooler, Mistress R. B. Green, Mistress W. H.
Sadler, Miss Virginia Jones, Mistress J. H. Derbyshire, Mistress W. J.
Lynham, Mistress R. D. Harlow, Mistress W. J. Mays, Mistress Reams,
Miss Abbie Hancock, Mistress R. Garcin, Mistress Doctor Garcin, Mis-
tress Hechler, Mistress Clarke, Mistress Frank W. Cunningham, Mistress
Snellings, Miss M. E. Jones, Mistress William Bickers, Miss Julia Bick-
ers, Mistress Leftwich, Mistress Larmand, Mistress Nelson Powell, Mis-
tress W. C. Lynham, Miss Barbour, Miss Knowles, Mistress W. D.
Harton, Mistress. John Teefey, Mistress Augustus Arsell, Mistress Small,
Mistress Bowden, Mistress Reddy, Miss Standard, Mistress Morrissey,
Mistress Hart, Mistress B. A. Blenner, Mistress Josiah Ryland, Miss
Eliza Horne, Miss Elizabeth Hobson, Mistress A. B. Camm, Mistress
B. W. Lacy, Mistress C. P. Stokes, Miss M. L. Norwood, Mistress H. A.
Coleman, Mistréss Nash, Mistress A. B. Apperson, Miss Davidson, Mis-
tress George B. Davis, Miss M. E. Davidson, Miss Blanche Redford, Mis-
tress F. E. Rowe, Mistress John Addison, Miss Annie Ball, Mistress
Laird, Miss Julia Belle Brown, and their associates and successors, are
hereby constituted and created a body politic and corporate under the
name of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and by
such name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, have perpetual
succession and a common seal, and shall have all the powers and priv-
ileges, and be subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions herein
prescribed, or which may hereafter be conferred or imposed by any act of
the general assembly.
2. The objects of said society shall be to relieve minor children from
suffering, to provide homes for such of them as are indigent, to rescue
such children from cruelty and disgrace, and to provide moral training
for those who are surrounded by vicious and immoral influences.
3. As the objects of said society are solely charitable and humane,
there shall be no capital stock, and no member of said society shall re-
ceive any dividends or other pecuniary benefit therefrom, except that the
agents and employees of the society may receive such compensation for
services as may be agreed upon, to be paid out of the treasury of the
society.
4. The said society shall elect its own officers and directors, appoint
its own agents, prescribe their duties, and make such by-laws, rules, and
regulations for carrying out the objects of the society as may not be in-
consistent with this act or the laws of the United States and of this Com-
monwealth.
5. The principal office of said society shall be in the city of Rich-
mond, but a branch of said society may be organized and established in
any city or county of this Commonwealth.
6. The said society may purchase and hold, in its corporate name, per-
sonal property and real estate, and may receive the same by gift, grant,
bequest, and devise, but it shall not at one time hold more than two
acres of land in any city nor more than five hundred acres of land in any
county of this Commonwealth.
7. The said society may establish and maintain within this State a
home for indigent and friendless children, prescribe the conditions of ad-
mission thereto, appoint all agents and employees, fix their compensa-
tion, and make all proper rules and regulations for its government.
8. The said society may take into its care and control any child under
fourteen vears of age who may be found habitually begging on the
streets, or who may have no parents or other person to take care of him
or her, and have no means of livelihood, and may also take into its care
and control all other children under fourteen years of age who may be
committed thereto by the order of any justice of the peace, police justice,
or court of this Commonwealth, or who may be committed into its cus-
tody by the consent in writing of its parent or guardian.
9. Whenever it shall appear that any child under fourteen years of age
is an habitual beggar, or has been abandoned by its parents, and has no
means of livelihood, or is surrounded by vicious and immoral influences,
or that such child is cruelly treated by its parents or other person having
its control, any officer, agent, or member of said society may make com-
plaint thereof to any justice of the peace or police justice, and it shall
be the duty of such justice of the peace or police justice to issue his pro-
cess commanding that said child be brought before him as soon as prac-
ticable. The person having the custody of such child shall also be sum-
moned to appear at the time and place of hearing the complaint, and any
witnesses he may desire shall also be summoned and heard on his or her
behalf. If upon such hearing it appear that the complaint is well
founded, and that the interest of such child demands that it should be
relieved from want or suffering, or removed from such influences, such
child shall, by an order in writing, be committed by such justice of the
peace or police justice to the care, custody, and control of said society
until he or she shall attain to the age of eighteen years.
10. From every order of a justice or police justice committing any
child to the care, custody, and control of said society, an appeal may be
taken by the person from whose custody the said child was taken, or by
any near relative, within ten days, to the circuit court of the county or
the corporation or hustings court of the city of which said justice of the
peace or police justice may have jurisdiction, and the judge of said
court, in term or vacation, shall hear and decide the said appeal, without
formal pleadings and without a jury, and shall discharge said child or
recommit him or her to the custody and control of said society, or make
any order in relation to such child which, in his opinion, will promote the
welfare of such child. Pending the hearing of the case or of the appeal,
the said justice of the peace or police justice may make such orders for
the care and custody of the child as may be proper. Any person who shall
wilfully obstruct any officer in the discharge of his duty, or who shall
remove or conceal or cause any child to be removed or concealed in order
that it may not be brought before such justice, police justice, or court,
shall be deemed guilty of contempt, and may be punished by such justice,
police justice, or court by a fine of not less than two nor more than twenty
dollars, or imprisonment in jail not exceeding three months, either or
both. |
11. The said society shall be the lawful guardian of the persons of all
children committed to its custody until lawfully discharged therefrom,
and shall have power, in the manner prescribed by law, to bind out such
child as an apprentice to learn any reputable trade or calling, to place
them in homes under such contract as may protect the interest of the
child, and may also, as such guardian, give consent to the adoption of
such child by any person.
12. The said society shall not be liable, nor shall any officer, agent, or
member of said society be personally liable for damages in any action for
the detention of any child, or for the arrest of any person charged with
cruelty to a child, unless it be proved that such detention was in violation
of some order of a court of competent jurisdiction, or that such arrest
was made or procured by reason of actual malice on the part of such
officer, agent, or member.
13. The jurisdiction to hear complaints herein mentioned shall be
confined to police justices in cities in which there is a police justice.
14. This act shall be in force from its passage.