Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-01-12

tiary in the District of Columbia, to reform
the Penal Laws of the said district, and fol
other purposes"
SECT. l. Authorizes the President Of the y.
States to appoint three Commissioners 10 select
site for aPenitentiary.
Q. Directs the Commissioner Of the Public
Buildings 20 erect Penitentiary to contain
eighty separate cells, sc.
8. Appropriates the sum OF - Tor de-
fraying the expense Of building said Peniten-
tiary
a. Authorizes the Marshal to deliver to said
Peni,entiary, all persons sentenced 10 hard Ia
Dor.
S. Provides that the President Of the United
States appoint FIVE Citizens to be inspectors OF
said Peni,entiary, with power to make rules,
regulations, Sc. appoint Keeper and other
officers.
6. Directs the Keeper to make contracts,
keep accounts, and manage the affairs generally
7. Directs the Keeper to he paid - dollars
salary annually, and the other officers to be paid
as the Directors shall direct.
g. Keeper to give bond, &c and 10 nave
no interest In contracts.
10. Inspectors TO have 10 interest in contracts.
IL. Suits to be brought in the name OF the
United States.
l2. Regulates the meetings Of the Inspectors,
and their mode Of doing business
Is. Prescribes the duty OF the Inspectors.
Ia. Prevents any one from visiting the Penn
tertiary, without permission from one OF the
Inspectors, except the President, Members OF
Congress, &c.
IS. Prescribes various duties of the Keeper
10. Provides for the feeding and employment
Of the convicts
II. Directs the Inspectors to furnish bibles.
lS. Provides tina, any convict setting hre to
the Penitentiary, or assaulting, with intent to
kill, any person employed therein, shall suffer
dess 81 ruarrs usr me SAID commissioners
shall select a site in the County of Alexandria
for County Jail, on which it shall be the duty
of the Commissioner Of the Public Buildings
TO cause County Jail for the City and County
Of Alexandria, 10 he erected and finished, and
TO repair and alter the Jail of the City of Wash
ington, and appropriates - dollars therefor.
90 Provides, that all persons convicted Of
murder, arson, rape, or burglary, shall suffer
death.
81. Robbery punished by fine and imprison-
men, not less than FIVE, nor more than twenty
one years.
%. That all persons committing an assault,
with an intent to murder, or with house break,
ing in the night, with intent to commit burgla-
~, their aiders and abettors, shall suffer fine
and Imprisonment not less than one, nor more
than ten years.
%. That persons guilty Of manslaughter, or
OF setting hire to any mansion house, or out
house, with intent to commit arson, their aid
ers and abeltors, shall be punished by fine, and
confinement toe hard labor, not less than one,
nor more than ten years.
"a. Provides that if any person sets IRE to
any property, not being mansion house, they
shall be punished by fine, and Imprisonment to
hard labour, not exceeding ten years.
IS. That persons guilty OF stabbing, wound
ing or manning, shall be punished by fine and
hard labour not exceeding ten years.
90. Forgery punished by fine and hard labour
not exceeding ten years.
27. Cheats and swindlers, punished by fine
and hard labour not exceeding seven years.
%. Perjury and subornalion of perjury,
fine and hard labour not more than seven years
%. Rioters punished by fine and hard labor,
not less than one year.
80. Persons unlawfully taking and carrying
away, or holding in slavery, any negro or mu-
la,to, shall be punished by fine and imprison-
ment at hard labour, for term not exceeding
seven years.
81. Persons taking by force or fraud, any child
under the age of Ia years, shall be punished by
fine and hard labour, not exceeding seven years
SO. Persons stealing and carrying away any
personal goods OF another, shall be punished by
fine, not exceeding double the value Of the thing
stolen, and Imprisonment at hard labour, not
more than seven years.
"a. Persons buying. receiving, or concealing
any property, knowing the same to be stolen,
shall be punished by fine and hard labor, not
exceeding seven years.
IS. That the robbery Of any bank note, pro-
missory note, &C. shall be punished in the same
manner as the robbery of any other goods or
chattles
So. That in all cases of larceny, robbery, or
burglary, the offenders shah restore the goods,
or pay the value thereof
81. Offenders to pay the cost of prosecu-
ton.
SO. Persons disturbing any Religious Con.
gregation, Society, or Association engaged in
the worship of Almighty God, to be punished
by fine and imprisonment in the Jail Of the
County, not exceeding one year
SO. Persons, in the night time, breaking in.