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 36 (III.—Management of Reformatory Schools.—Sections 17-20.) detention in a Reformatory School for transportation or imprisonment.

III.—Managenment of Reformatory Schools.

For the control and management of every Reformatory School, the Local Government shall appoint either (a) a Superintendent and a Committee of Visitors, or (b) a Board of Management.

Every Committee and every Board so appointed must consist of not less than five persons, of whom two at least shall be Natives of India.

The Local Government may suspend or remove any Superintendent or any Member of a Committee or Board so appointed.

Every Superintendent so appointed may, with the sanction of the Committee, by license under his hand, permit any youthful offender sent to a Reformatory School, who has attained the age of fourteen years, to live under the charge of any trustworthy and respectable person named in the license, or any officer of Government or of a Municipality, being an employer of labour and willing to receive and take charge of him, on the condition that the employer shall keep such youthful offender employed at some trade, occupation or calling.

The license shall be in force for three months and no longer, but may, at any time and from time to time until the expiration of the period for which the youthful offender has been directed to be detained, be renewed for three months at a time.

19. The license shall be cancelled at the desire of the employer named in the license.

20. If during the term of the license the employer named therein dies, or ceases from business or to employ labour, or the pwriod for which the youthful offender has been directed to be detained in the