COURTS TO CERTIFY AMOUNT OF APPROPRIATIONS REQUIRED. The counties hereby required to establish and maintain schools, as aforesaid, shall pay for the establishment and maintenance thereof out of the general county funds. On or before the fifteenth day of January of each year, the said board of managers shall make up an estimate of the amount of money required during the ensuing calendar year for the acquiring of lands, making of improvements, equipment and maintenance of such school, during the ensuing calendar year; which estimate shall be certified to the county commissioners, in order that they may make provision for the maintenance of said school in the annual tax levy; and for the establishment, extension, improvement, or equipment thereof, either in the annual tax levy or by issue of bonds, as the county commissioners shall deem wise. Should the said board and the said commissioners differ in their judgment as to any amount of money required, as aforesaid, the matter shall be submitted to a court of common pleas of said county, which court, after investigation, shall certify the amount required, and its decision shall be final. Sec. 1, Act of March 15, 1911, P. L. 18, amending Sec. 7, Act of May 1, 1909, P. L. 302. 136. APPROPRIATIONS TO SCHOOL. AUDIT. The county commissioners of any county in this Commonwealth having a popu lation of not less than seven hundred fifty thousand, nor more than twelve hundred thousand, inhabitants, are hereby authorized and empowered, from time to time, upon 'the written request of the board of managers of any of the juvenile school or farm contained therein, as established by the act of Assembly approved the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nine, (P. L. 302,) entitled "An act requiring counties now or hereafter containing a popu lation of not less than seven hundred and fifty thousand, and not more than one million two hundred thousand inhabitants, to establish and maintain schools for the care and education of male children under the jurisdiction of the juvenile courts, and conferring the powers and regulating the proceedings for the establishment, maintenance, and management thereof," and the various supplements thereto, to turn over to said board of managers, for the maintenance, equipment and construction of said juvenile school or farm, from the amounts appropriated thereto during each fiscal year, from time to time, sums of money, not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) each time, by warrant drawn on the county treasurer, to be first countersigned by the county controller, in such form as may be now used for the disbursement of funds for general county purposes; and all of such moneys, expended on account of said school by said board of managers, shall be accounted for to, and be subject to audit by, the county controller in each of said counties, in manner now provided by law. Sec. 1, Act of May 20, 1913, P. L. 262. 137. TEACHERS. SALARIES OF TEACHERS. Said board of managers shall determine the number of teachers and other persons necessary for the proper conduct of the said school, and shall fix the salaries to be paid to them as well as to the superintendent aforesaid. Sec. 8, Act of May 1, 1909, P. L. 302. 138. OFFICERS OF BOARD OF MANAGERS. EXPENSES OF SCHOOL HOW PAID. ALLOWANCE TO INMATES. Said board of managers shall annually elect, from their own number, a president and a secretary. The said president and secretary, upon direction of the board, shall issue certificates for all moneys to be paid for the purposes of the said school, which certificates shall be exchangeable at the office of the county commissioners for such form of warrants or orders as may be in use for the disbursements of funds for general county purposes; and all moneys expended on account of said schools shall be paid and accounted for in the same manner as moneys expended for general county purposes. Any moneys realized from the sale of any products of said schools, or the farms connected therewith, shall be paid into the couny treasury, and become a part of the general county fund; but the said board of managers, in its discretion, may provide for allowing a portion of the earnings of said school to be paid to the boys producing the same. Sec. 9, Act of May 1, 1909, P. L. 302. (2) County Schools for the Care, Maintenance and Instruction of Female Children Committed by Juvenile Courts. 139. CERTAIN COUNTIES TO ESTABLISH SCHOOLS FOR CARE, MAINTENANCE AND INSTRUCTION OF FEMALE CHILDREN COMMITTED BY JUVENILE COURTS. In each county of this Commonwealth now or hereafter containing a population of not less than seven hundred and fifty thousand, and not more than one million two hundred thousand, inhabitants, as ascertained by the United States census, there shall be established a school properly equipped for the care, maintenance, and instruction of such female children as shall come within the provisions hereof. Such schools shall be supplementary to the school system of the Commonwealth, shall be kept open during the entire year, and shall be established on the cottage home plan. Sec. 1, Act of May 5, 1915, P. L. 244. 140. CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS. PLAYGROUNDS. WELFARE OF CHILDREN TO BE PROVIDED FOR. The buildings for said schools shall be substantially constructed, and adequately lighted and ventilated, and provided with baths, playrooms, sleeping rooms, and kitchens; and there shall be adequate provisions for playgrounds, as well as provisions for instruction in the common branches, and for manual, domestic, and moral training; to the end that said schools shall, as far as possible, during the period of detention, adequately provide for the mental, moral, and physical welfare and advancement of the children therein detained. Sec. 2, Act of May 5, 1915, P. L. 244. CON 141. SCHOOLS TO BE ESTABLISHED UPON FARMS. DEMNATION OF LAND. The schools herein provided for shall be established upon farms, within the limits of the said counties; and for said purpose such counties may acquire as much land as shall be necessary, by purchase or condemnation, with the same power and under the same procedure as land is now acquired within the limits of school districts for school purposes, under the acts of Assembly in such case made and provided; the board of managers of said school exercising the authority exercised by school directors for said purposes. Sec. 3, Act of May 5, 1915, P. L. 244. 142. FEMALE SUPERINTENDENT. PAROLE OF INMATES. APPREHENSION AND RETURN. Such school shall be presided over by a female superintendent, who shall be a person trained in educational and social work, and shall have the power of detention over the children committed thereto. When any girl committed to said schools shall have attained a condition of mental and moral advancement satisfactory to the superintendent and board of managers, they shall so certify to the juvenile court which has committed her to said school, whereupon the said court may order her release upon parole, under conditions which shall be prescribed by said board of managers, subject to the approval and direction of the court; and in case the conduct of such girl released upon parole shall be such as to satisfy the board of managers that a further period of training is necessary, said board shall have the power, through its agent or agents, at any time during her minority, to apprehend and return her to said school, where she shall remain subject to the same control as when originally committed; and in such case it shall be the duty of the superintendent immediately to notify the said court thereof. Sec. 4, Act of May 5, 1915, P. L. 244. 143. BOARD OF MANAGERS. PORTS. VACANCIES. REMOVAL. COMPENSATION BUT EXPENSES. TERMS OF OFFICE. RE- lished and managed by a board of nine managers, of whom five shall be women. The judges of the court or courts of common pleas of such county shall appoint said managers. Upon the first appointment, three of said managers shall be appointed to serve for one year, three for two years, and three for three years; and thereafter three shall be appointed annually, to serve for a term of three years. The time of the commencement of the term of said managers shall be fixed by said judges, but shall not be later than July the first, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and fifteen. The board of managers shall, as often as required, at least once every six months, report to the said judges in the form by them prescribed. Said judges shall also have power to fill any vacancies in said board of managers, for unexpired terms, as well as the power, in their discretion, to remove any of said managers appointed by them, at any time, and to fill the vacancies thereby created. Said managers shall receive no compensation, but the necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties shall be paid. Sec. 5, Act of May 5, 1915, P. L. 244. 144. WHO MAY BE COMMITTED TO SCHOOL. Said school shall receive girls upon the commitment of the juvenile court of such county; and such school may, upon a proper compensation being arranged for, receive girls committed thereto by the juvenile courts of counties other than that by which said school is maintained. Sec. 6, Act of May 5, 1915, P. L. 244. * In view of the provisions of section 10 of the Act of April 23, 1903, 145. SCHOOLS HOW MAINTAINED. ESTIMATES AND APPROPRIATIONS. BOND ISSUES. IN CASE OF DISPUTES, COURTS TO CERTIFY AMOUNT OF APPROPRIATIONS REQUIRED. The counties hereby required to establish and maintain schools, as aforesaid, shall pay for the establishment and maintenance thereof out of the general county funds. On or before the fifteenth day of January of each year, the said board of managers shall make up an estimate of the amount of money required during the ensuing calendar year, for the acquiring of lands, making of improvements, equipment, and maintenance of such school during the ensuing calendar year; which estimate shall be certified to the county commissioners, in order that they make provision for the maintenance of said school in the annual tax levy; and for the establishment, extension, improvement, or equipment thereof, either in the annual tax levy or by issue of bonds, as the county commissioners shall deem wise. Should the said board and the said commissioners differ in their judgment as to any amount of money required, as aforesaid, the matter shall be submitted to a court of common pleas of said county, which court, after investigation, shall certify the amount required, and its decision shall be final. The said county commissioners may also, upon the request of said board of managers, prior to the year nineteen hundred and sixteen, issue bonds for the establishment of such school, or appropriate to the same or to the maintenance thereof, out of the county treasury, such sums as they may find it convenient to so expend. Any bonds issued for the purposes aforesaid shall be issued in compliance with the existing law covering the issue of bonds by county commissioners, for the erection or repair of public buildings. Sec. 7, Act of May 5, 1915, P. L. 244. 146. TEACHERS. Said board of managers shall determine the number of teachers and other persons necessary for the proper conduct of the said school, and shall fix the salaries to be paid to them as well as to the superintendent aforesaid. Sec. 8, Act of May 5, 1915, P. L. 244. 147. PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF BOARD OF MANAGERS. Said board of managers shall annually elect from their own number a president and a secretary. Sec. 9, Act of May 5, 1915, P. L. 244. 148. APPROPRIATIONS. AUDIT. Upon the written request of said board of managers, certified to them by its president and secretary, the county commissioners of the said counties are empowered to pay over to said board, from time to time, out of the amounts appropriated for each fiscal year, as aforesaid, for the establishment, construction, extension, improvement, equipment, and maintenance of said school, sums of not less than five thousand ($5,000.00) dollars, by warrant drawn on the county treasurer and countersigned by the county controller of the proper county, in the form now in use for the disbursement of funds for general county purposes. And all of such funds, expended on account of said school by its said board of managers, shall be accounted for to, and be subject to audit by, the county controller of the proper county, in the manner now provided by law. Sec. 10, Act of May 5, 1915, P. L. 244. 149. MONEYS REALIZED FROM SALE OF PRODUCTS. INMATES MAY RECEIVE EARNINGS. Any moneys realized from the sale of any products of said schools or the farms connected therewith shall be paid into the county treasury, and become a part of the general county fund; but the said board of managers, in its |