P.R. Laws tit. 8, § 100
The person who may aid or induce or try to aid or induce to desert, any person legally confined in the Commonwealth Industrial School for Boys, or who may knowingly shelter or conceal, or aid in sheltering or concealing, any such detained person who may have deserted the school, shall be punished, if condemned to punishment by a competent court, by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200) or by imprisonment in the Commonwealth penitentiary for a period of time not to exceed two (2) years. It shall be the obligation of every police agent, agent of the judicial authority, or any other agent authorized to make detentions, and of every functionary and employee of the school, to detain every person who may have deserted the school and to deliver him/her to the superintendent thereof, and the said superintendent shall use all the means in his/her power to capture those who desert, and to this end is authorized to offer and pay a reward, not exceeding twenty-five dollars ($25) in each case, to the person who may capture a deserter.
History —Mar. 9, 1905, p. 159, § 15.