The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-08-04
Laws of Ohio.
PUBLIsHED BY AUTHORITY.
mo. 176.7 AN ACT


TO provide for the Enlargement Of the
Ohio Peuitentiary.
Section /. Be enacted by the Cen
cral Assembly Of the State of Ohio,
That the warden and directors Of the
Ohio Pcnitentiary are hereby authorized
and directed to provide Immediately for
the enlargement of that institution, by
extending the east wing thereof fifty
feet in an easterly direction, and eZ-
tending the east cell house in a cores
pouding manner, with the addition of a
sufficient number of cells to meet exist
ing wants for the accommodation and
confinement Of male couvicts.
Section 2. They are authorized and
directed to further extend said east
wing, in the same direction, forty-threo
feet, for the accommodation Of female
convicts. Said further extension shall
be entirely separate and distinct from
tho male department, having no commu-
nication Herewith, and shall be used
exclusively for the accommodation and
safe keeping of female conyicts; it shall
contain a cell house with a sufficient
number of cells. together with the wash
rooms, bathrooms, and other cOnvon-
fences necessary to the employment and
comfort of all the female conyicts Of the
prison, and shall be surrounded by a
safe and substantial stone wall inclosing
the requisite ground for the health and
comfort of its inmates and separating
them entirely from the grounds of the
male department.
Section g. The entire structure shall
be well and substantially built of stone
with special reference to economy and
the safe keeping and comfort Of the
convicts, and the front Of the male de-
partment shall alone be built of faced
stone, corresponding, as near as may be,
in'appearance to the present east wing
The addition now occupied by the fe-
male convicts shall be removed. They
are further authorized and directed to
construct a secure and substantial stone
wall Of the requisite height and thick
ness, around said penitentiary grounds,
as follows, to-wit; Beginning at the
corner Of the addition herein
proposed to the male department, rum
ing thence at right angles with the build
ing to the south line Of the grounds.
thence east along said south line to the
east line, thence north along said east
line to a point forty feet south of the
northeast corner of penitentiary lot,
thence west to a point forty feet south
of the north line of lot, and in line
with the old west wall, thence south
with last named line to the north end
Of the present west wall And they may
remove so much of the old wall as NAV
be necessary to construct the new, or
shall have been rendered useless by it's
Section 4 They shall have power to
execute, by convict labor, so much, if
any, or ALL work contemplated by this
net, as in their opinion will be oondu-
Give to the best interests Of the State,
and shall complete the remaining por-
.ion, or the whole, as the case may be,
by dividing the same into suitable par.
5els, and advertising for sealed propo
3als for contracts, in the Daily Ohio
Statesman and the Daily Ohio State
Journal, for not less than three con
3ecutiye weeks before the time when
such contracts are proposed to be let:
md such advertisement shall contain
for the completion of each
separate parcel and for the entire work
All bids offered on the day when the
citing is to take place, shall be rejected,
md all bids received shall be opened on
that day, in the presence Of said war
len and directors, and not otherwise.
Section 5. All contracts shall bo lot
by said warden and directors to the low
sst responsible bidder, aud shall speoif- |
)ally set forth the work contracted to be
lone, style, time when to be completed
materials to be used, &c.; and in mol
1vent shall the time for the completion
)f the entire Improvements extend be
yond the FIRST day Of November, 1859. |
Every contracting party shall give bond, |
with good and sufficient security, for the /
performance Of his contract and no
contract authorized by this act shall be |
held 10 be complete until, together with
.he bonds and security, it shall have