Washington State

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Attorney General

Bob Ferguson

AGO 1954 NO. 356 >

The State School for Girls was intended by the Legislature to be an institution of a reformatory character, and is not within the prohibition of Article I, Section 11, of the State Constitution as amended; and is within the proviso of the constitutional amendment, enabling the Legislature to employ a Chaplain for state reformatories and, by implication, to provide such Chaplain with the means of rendering religious services.