The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-06-03
April Is, 1857.

mo. 1911 AN ACT
To amend an act entitled fan act pro-
viding for the appointment of officers
of. the Ohio Penltentiary, fixing their
compensation, prescribing their duties,
and determining the manner of work
ing Convicts," passed April 8, 1856.
Sec. l. Be 1t enacted By the General
Assembly Of Tie State Of Ohio, That the
warden shall receive an annual coinpens
alton for his services not exceeding twelve
hundred dollars, to be fixed by the board
of directors.
The clerk shall receive an annual com
D pensation for his services not exceeding
oight hundred dollars.
f The deputy warden shall receive an
annual compensation for his services not
exceeding eight hundred dollars.
Aud each assistant keeper employed
S shall receive a com pensatioH not exceeding
y forty dollars per month, except those as
siStant keepers who have Immediate charge
J, of the prisoners in the workshops aad
is kitchen; also the night watch who may
| receive forty five dollars per month, to be
determined by the directors.
n The clerk, deputy warden and assist
ant keepers, shall be removed from office
only by "a majority of the directors; but
y the warden may suspend the same from
duty for improper behavior, incompetent
n. cy, Neglect of duty, or disobedience OF
&c orders; in which case he shall Immediately
as notify the nearest director of the fact, in
writing, specifying the cause of such sus-
De pension, and the directors shall carefully
10 file and preserve the warden's notification
n, with their records and shall act upon the
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ny officer shall be. entitled to any compensa.
~ ton for the time during which such sus
IS, pensions may continue, unless the dlrec
" tors shall refuse to sanction the same.
Oh No person SO employed shall be entitled
ch to, or shall receive any perqulsites IN thu
nj. shape of board or provision, carriages O.
or hor .es, or care or malntalnance OF tn
,m same, either for themselves or families, o
shall be permitted to receive any com
all pcnsation or reward of any description
or fron contractors. And if any persons s
u employed shall receive any compensation
he or reward of any description from an.
contractor, to promote the interest or ad
an vantage of such contractor; or shall max
ces use Of any prof erty of any description be
by longius To the iiary for their ow'
ms private PURPOSES, unless the same sha
re- have been paid for, or charged on the reg
his ular books in,the office of the institution
at a price agreed on with the warden an
directors, such persons shall be deeme
/. guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon COZ
%viction thereof, shall be lined in any SUI
not exceeding five hundred dollars, an
be imprisoned in the county Jail not e'
ceeGing sixty days, and shall be di'
charged from his Office. Aud if any of
at Ger procure the escape of any convict fro;
the penitentiary whether such conv!c
raj escape or not, he shall upon conviciio
it thereof be sentenced to hard labor in tt
or penitentiary for any term not less tina
be one year nor more than three years.
in Sec. 2. TIL warden is hereby aatho
ors, lied and required, so far as practicable,
cen classify the ~convicts according to their az
for disposition, and moral character: placiI
1all all young men under the age of twent.
her one years, (unless the character aud Col
in duct of some forbid IT'D in a shop
ris- themselves, and give them such woi
by carried on in the prison, as a knowledt
or of which shall be most beneficial to the
be when discharged. And it shall be tt
duty of the warden. to send to the scho
her room all c~onvicts who do not possess
hey good knowledge of reading and writiI
| in and tie rudiments of arithmetic, for ty
lol- hours dur g the evening of each wor
| in ing day, between the 18th day of Octob
lore aud the 18th day of April, and for o.
= of and aOhalf hours during the evening
leas each working day the remainder of t
ries year; at which time the chaplain, or /
is. assistant, shall instruct them in tho
and branches of education. The warden sh;
tied also furnish each prisoner sufficient Zig
ries to bed, unless the warden has good eau
rev. to believe he is making an improper u
thereof in which case he shall not be
furnished, and the fact together with t
J.. cause, and the name of the convict sh;
be reported in writing to the inspectors
!. their next visit to the prison.
Sec. 3. 1t shall be the duty of Il
warden and directors to allow to all CO
victs to whom, from the nature of the
g to employment it is impossible to assign
daily allowance of work, and who, in Il
sraE Judgment of the warden and directors, a
ave- entitled thereto by their fidelity and ext
, or labor-such compensation as may appe
, to to them equitable in comparison with Il
s of amount of labor required of other pliso
not ers. IF such labor is performed for
dis contractor or the warden, the said cor
all, pensation to be required from the CO
Of tractor or warden for whom it was pc
be formed, and shall be collected and kept