Section 4112. Commissioner of education to contract for keeping of truants

The commissioner of education may contract with  any  city  or  district
  having  a  school  for delinquents, for the confinement, maintenance and
  instruction therein of any child who shall be committed to  such  school
  as  a  truant  by  any magistrate before whom such child shall have been
  examined upon the charge of truancy.  The costs and  expenses  attending
  the  support and maintenance of any truant, as herein provided, shall be
  audited by the commissioner of education and paid in the same manner  as
  the  expenses of supporting and maintaining the schools on a reservation
  are paid.