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 1897.] and maintain reformatory settlements for children and may separate and remove from their parents and place in such a reformatory settlement the children of the registered members of any tribe, gang or class which has been declared to be criminal.

(2) For every reformatory settlement for children established under sub-section (1) a Superintendent shall be appointed by the Local Government.

(3) The Superintendent of a reformatory settlement for children shall be deemed to be the guardian, within the meaning of Act No. XIX of 1850 (concerning the binding of apprentices), of every child detained in such settlement; and such Superintendent may, if he shall think fit, and subject to any rules which the Local Government may. make in this behalf, apprentice such child under the provisions of the aforesaid Act.

"Explanation.—The term 'children' in this section includes all persons under the age of eighteen and above the age of four years."

5. For section 19 of the said Act the. following section shall be substituted, namely:—

"19. (1) Any person registered under this Act Penalties for violating a rule made under clause (4), clause (5) or breach of clause (6) of section 18 shall be punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend, rules. on first conviction, to one year, on a second conviction, to two years, and, on any subsequent conviction, to three years, and shall also, whether on the first or any subsequent conviction, be liable to whipping.

(2) Any person being a member of a proclaimed tribe violating a rule made under any other clause of section 18 shall be punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with whipping, or with all or any two of those punishments; and, on any subsequent conviction for a breach of any such rule, with