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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

RUSSELL vs. INSPECTORS AND AGENT OF THE STATE PRISON,
    4 M., 186.
   To compel respondent to desist from teaching convicts in the State Prison the mechanical trade of wagon making, and from manufacturing wagons in said prison with convict labor.-

Denied 1856.

Held, that it is for the agent of the prison to determine the question what trades are within the- constitutional provision, and that the court will not interfere by mandamus to control the agent in the exercise of his discretion.

Whether a private individual can apply for a writ in such case, quere.