FEMALE CRIMINALS.
On motion by Mr. FOULKE, his bill [S 274] to amend Section 18 of an act entitled an act to establish a Female Prison and Reformatory Institution for girls and women, to provide for the organization and government thereof, and making appropriation, approved May 42, 1869, was read the second time.
Mr. FOULKE: This bill proposes to add to Section 6,179 of the code, which provides that females over fifteen years of age may be sent to jail; that in counties in which there is established a Home for Friendless Women they may be imprisoned in such Homes. There is some doubt as to the legality of such proceeding, and this bill is proposed in order to avoid the doubt. I move that the bill be ordered engrossed.
The motion was agreed to.
