28 and be imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than six 29 months. If any person shall aid or abet the commission of any 30 of the offenses named in this section, or aid or abet an attempt 31 to commit the same, he shall be punished as herein provided the 32 same as if he were the principal. In the trial of an indictment 33 for committing any of the offenses named in this section, the 34 accused may be found guilty of an attempt to commit the same, 35 or of aiding or abetting another in committing or attempting to 36 commit the same. Sec. 175-i. The state board of control has authority to trans2 fer any girl who is an inmate of the industrial home, who is insane, 3 or an imbecile, or an idiot, to any state institution charged with 4 the care and treatment of such persons; to transfer to the home 5 for children or orphans, any girl in said industrial home under 6 the age of twelve years; to transfer any girl in such home who 7 is blind or deaf, or whose sight or hearing is so impaired as to 8 make it desirable, to the schools for the deaf and blind; and to 9 transfer to the said hospital No. 3 any girl infected with syphilis or 10 gonorrhoea, and to transfer to the said Florence Crittenden Home 11 any girl who is pregnant. Sec. 175-j. The enclosed premises of said industrial home are 2 hereby declared private grounds; and if any person be found 3 thereon without authoriy or permission, he shall be deemed a 4 trespasser; and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than 5 five nor more than twenty-five dollars; and, if it appear that he 6 was on such premises for any unlawful or immoral purpose, in addition to being sentenced to pay such fine, he shall be imprisoned 8 not exceeding thirty days. N Sec. 175-k. Payment by counties of cost of detention-reim2 burement. The county court of every county shall pay into the 3 state treasury the sum of fifty dollars a year on account of each 4 girl from the county who shall be received in said home of the 5 first, second, or third classes mentioned in section two. But in all 6 cases of girls received in said home of the first class mentioned in 7 section two, the parent, if of sufficient means, and the guardian 8 where the girl has sufficient estate, shall annually reimburse the 9 county the amount paid into the state treasury, by virtue of this 10 section, on account of such girl mentioned in the first class of 11 section two, and the county court of such county shall have a right 12 to recover the same of such parent or guardian in any court of 13 competent jurisdiction. The income derived from the payment 14 of such costs of detention is hereby appropriated for the current 15 expenses of the home subject to the requisition of the state board 16 of control. Sec. 175-1. Lists of inmates for auditor-Application of county 2 funds. The superintendent of said home, the superintendent of 2-a the said Fairmont hospital No. 3, or superintendent 2-b of the Florence Crittenden home, shall before the tenth 3 day of January of each year, make out and certify to the audi4 tor and the state board of control each a list by counties of all 5 such girls as are mentioned in the preceding section, who are 6 kept in the home during the preceding year or any part of it, 7 showing as to each girl what part of the year she was so kept in the 8 home, and to which class she belonged. On receiving such list 9 the auditor shall charge to each county fifty dollars on account 10 of each girl who was kept in such home during the preceding year, 11 and a proportionate amount on account of each girl kept in the 12 home for any part of such year less than the whole. Any money 13 in the treasury of the state to the credit of any such county from 14 whatever source, arising and not appropriated to pay any other 15 debt of the county to the state, shall be applied, so far as necessary, 16 to the payment of the sums so charged; if any sum in the treasury 17 due the county shall not be sufficient to pay the whole amount so 18 charged against it, such sum shall be applied as a credit on the 19 amount charged, and the balance shall remain a charge against 20 the county. Sec. 175-m. Certification of list and credit to county court2 levy-compelling payment.-Within ten days after receiving such 3 list the auditor shall certify to the county court of such county a 4 list of the girls from the county in such home, or Fairmont hos4-a pital No. 3 or the said Florence Crittenden home, stating the 5 class to which each belongs, the length of the term during the year 6 she was in such home, as shown by the list certified by the superin7 tendent and the amount due from the county on her account and 8 the total amount due on account of all. He shall credit on such 9 statement whatever amount has been applied as a payment thereon 10 from any funds of the county in the treasury. Such statement shall 11 be a receipt to the county for any amount so credited, and shall 12 be a bill for any amount still appearing to be due from the county. 13 Unless the bill shall have been paid by the application of funds 14 of the county in the state treasury, the county court shall at its 15 next levy term provide for the payment of the same, or such part 16 as may not have been paid, and cause the amount to be paid into 17 the state treasury. If the amount so due from any county be not 18 paid in a reasonable time after such levy term, the auditor may, 19 in the name of the state, apply to the circuit court of the county 20 for a mandamus to require the county court to provide for and pay 21 the same, or he may proceed in the name of the state by any other 22 appropriate remedy to recover the same. Sec. 175-n. All acts and parts of acts coming within the pur2 view of this act and inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. CHAPTER 145 (House Bill No. 423-Mr. Davis, of Taylor.) AN ACT to prohibit children placed in the West Virginia industrial school for boys and the West Virginia industrial home for girls working in the industries of this state without first securing permits as provided by the child labor law. [Passed April 26, 1921. SEC. In effect ninety days from passage. Children in state industrial schools; Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: Approved by the Section 1. It shall be unlawful for superintendents or other 2 persons in whose custody children of the West Virginia indus3 trial school for boys and West Virginia industrial home for girls 4 are placed to permit said children to be employed in the fac5 tories or workshops outside of these institutions without first se6 curing for them the permits required by the child labor law of 7 West Virginia. CHAPTER 146 (Senate Bill No. 248-Mr. McClaren.) AN ACT to create a bureau of negro welfare and statistics; providing for the appointment of a director and fixing his salary. [Passed April 20, 1921. In effect from passage. SEC. April 29, 1921.] SEC. 1. Bureau of negro welfare and sta- 2. tistics created; director, appoint- 3. ment; term. Approved by the Governor Duties of director. Salary and traveling expenses of director, how paid. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: That the bureau of Negro welfare and statistics be hereby created as follows: Section 1. There shall be created the "Bureau of negro wel2 fare and statistics." Said bureau shall be in charge of a director 3 who shall be a member of the negro race, to be appointed by the 4 governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, and 5 shall hold office for four years, unless sooner removed according 6 to law. Sec. 2. The duties of the director shall be to study the economic 2 condition of the negro throughout the state; to inspect negro 3 hotels, restaurants, pool rooms and barber shops and to report to 4 responsible officials conditions that are not conducive to the health 5 and morals of the community; to encourage the ownership of 6 homes and farms in this state by negroes, and to furnish such 7 information to persons and corporations interested in securing 8 homes and farms for negroes in this state as may be requested; to 9 stimulate and encourage thrift, industry and economy among 10 negroes and to promote the general welfare and uplift of the negro 11 race in this state; to consider all questions pertaining to the negro 12 that may be referred to said director by any and all departments 13 of the state government and recommend a solution of any and 14 all problems so submitted; to prepare and keep records of the num15 ber of negroes employed in the several industries, trades, profes16 sions, and upon the farms of the state, of the number and location 17 of industries, businesses, plants, homes and farms owned and oper18 ated by negroes, with the number and sex of persons employed by 19 them; to promote and encourage friendly and harmonious rela20 tions between the white and negro races, and to report to the legis21 lature, through the governor, all his acts and doings, and to make 22 such recommendations for the solution of any problem or prob23 lems affecting the negro that they may deem advisable. Sec. 3. The salary of the director shall be three thousand six 2 hundred dollars per annum and actual necessary traveling ex3 penses, to be paid in the same manner as other state officials 4 are paid. Sec. 4. The board of public works shall provide an office for 2 the bureau and provide such clerical assistants as may be neces3 sary. CHAPTER 147 (Senate Bill No. 276—Mr. Shaffer.) AN ACT authorizing the auditor to prepare an index to the land grants of West Virginia, on record in the auditor's office, and providing for the printing and sale thereof. [Passed April 26, 1921. In effect ninety days from passage. Governor April 30, 1921.] Approved by the Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: That the auditor of this state be authorized to prepare an index to the land grants of West Virginia and Virginia, in accordance with the following act: Section 1. The auditor shall prepare from the records on file 2 in his office a suitable index of the patents and grants of land 3 situate in West Virginia, made by the states of Virginia and West 4 Virginia, indexing the original patentee or grantee and his as5 signee, if any, the same to be known as "Index to Land Grants 6 in West Virginia." For this purpose he shall be authorized to 7 employ such additional clerks and stenographers as may be neces8 sary to complete the work within a reasonable time, to pay which 9 the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated. Two thousand copies of said index shall be printed by 2 the public printer, in the form and according to the specifications 3 furnished by the auditor, but the form, style, quality of printing 4 and binding shall conform as nearly as may be to that now in use 5 in the West Virginia reports. Sec. 3. When said index is ready for distribution, it shall be 2 placed on sale in the office of the secretary of state, under the same 3 regulations as are provided for the sale of the West Virginia re |