Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-06-30

.. w. UlLOON,
Speaker pro tenn. House of Representatives
MARTIN WELKER,
President of the Senate
March 80, 1859.
AN ACT
To provide for the Enlargement of the
Ohio Penitentiary.
SECTION l. Be'ienacted By the General
assembly Of the State OF Ohio, That the
warden and directors of the Ohio Peniten-
tiary are hereby authorized and directed
to provide Immediately for the enlarge
ment of that institution, by extending the
east wing thereof fifty feet in an easterly
direction, and extending the east cell
house in corresponding manner, with
the addition of a sufficient number of cells
to meet existing wants for the accomoda-
ton and confinement of male convicts;
Sec. 2. They are authorized and di-
rected to further extend said east wing, in
the same direction, forty-three feet, for
the accommodation of female convicts.-
Said further extension shall be entirely
seperate and distinct from the male de-
partment, having no communication
Herewith, and shall be used exclusively
for the accommodation and safe keeping of
female convicts; it shall contain a cell
house with sufficient number of cells, to-
gether with the wash-rooms, bathrooms,
and other conveniences necessary to the
employment and comfort of all the female
convicts of the prison, and shall be sur
rounded by 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.
Sec. 3. 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 department shall a
lone be built Of faced stone, correspond
ing. as near as may be, in appearance to
to the present east wing The addition
now occupied by the female conyicts shall
be. removed. They are further authorized
and directed to construct secure and
stone wall of the requisite
heighth and thickness, around said peni-
tentiary grounds, as follows, to wit: Be-
ginning at the southeast corner of the
addition herein proposed to the male de-
partment, running thence at right angles
with the building to the south line of the
grounds, thence east along said south line
10 the east line, thence north along said
EAST line to point forty feet south of the
n. E. corner of penitentiary lot, thence
vest to point forty feet south of the
lorth line of lot, and in line with the old
vest wall, thence south with last named
inc to the north end of the present west
vail. And they may remove SO much of
he old wall as may be necessary to con-
truct the new, or shall have been render
d useless by its construction.
Sec f. They shall have power to ex-
cute, by convict labor, so much, if any,
u all, work contemplated by this act, as
n their opinion will be conducive to the
'est interests of the state, and shall com
'lete the remaining portion, or the whole,
IS the case may be, by dividing the same
nto suitable parcels, and advertising for
ealed proposals for contracts, in the Daily
)hio Statesman and the Daily Ohio Stale
Journal, for not less than three consecu-
i've weeks before the time when such con-
racts are proposed to be let; and such
advertisement shall contain proposals for
he completion ofe each seperate parcel, and
or the entire work. All bids offered on
he day when the letting is to take place,
hall be rejected; and all bids received
hall be opened on that day, in the pres
nee of said warden and directors, and not
therwise.
Sec. 5. All contracts shall be let by
aid warden and directors to the lowest
bidder, and shall specifically
ct forth the work contracted to be done,
lyle, time when to be completed, mater
lis to be uesd, &C.; and in no event shall
ne time'for the completion of the entire
improvements extend beyond the first day
November, 1859. Every contracting
arty shall give bond, with good and suf-
cient security, for the performance of
is contract; and no contract authorized $
y this act shall be held to be complete {
ntil, together with the bonds and secur-
y, it shall have been first approved by !
le attorney general and auditor of q
ate.
Sec. 6. Said wardens and directors
@ hereby empowered to hire out to the
'ntractors, or any of them, convict la
,r, upon such terms, and to such extent, n
will best subserve the interests of the I
ate; and in cases where two or more bid i
RS shall be equal and none lower, the
rectors and warden are empowered to il
eide which shall take the contract. 81
Sec. Z. The architect of the state :;
use shall be the superintendent and in
ector of all the work performed on, or ct
lterials procured for, said extension and a.
provements. and shall furnish all nee ~
'ary plans and specifications; but no d,