Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-22

LAWS or tue UNITED STATES
Passed at the Third Session Of the 1hirty-Scventh
Congress
rPrRL1c-No. s.

PUBLIC-No. s.
AN ACT to provide for the imprisonment of
persons convicted of crime by the criminal
court of the district of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives Of the United States Of Amer
lea in congress assembled, that all persons
who shall hereafter be convicted by the Grim
inal court of the District of Columbia of any
offence, the punishment ofwhich by law shall
be confinement in the penitentiary, shall be
confined during the term for which they shall
be sentenced by said court in some suitable
prison in convenient state where they can
be employed at suitable labor, to be designa-
ted by the secretary of the interior.
See. 2. And be it further ena cted, that it
shall be the duty Of this secretary of the inte-
rlor to contract with the managers or super
intendent of a suitable prison in some conven-,
lent state tor the imprisonment and subsist-
ence and proper employment of all prisoners
who shall be convicted in said court of such
offences, on the best terms that he can; and
he shall, on or before the first day OF each
ternLof the criminal court of the District Of
Columbia, inform said court in writing of the
designation and location OF the prison in which
he shall have made provision for the contine-
ment and support Of prisoners; and said court
shall sentence all persons who shall, during
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confinement at hard labor in the prison so
designated.
Sect 3. And be it further enacted, that it
shall be the duty of the secretary of the into
rior to make suitable provision for the safe
transportation Of all prisoners to the prison to
which they shall be sentenced by the court,
and until they shall be 50 transported they
shall be confined in the Jail of Washington
city.
Sect 4, And be il further enacted, that the
action of the secretary of the interior, in
transferring the prisoners confined in the PEN
itentiary of the District of Columbia to the
penitentiary in the city of Albany, in the state
of New Gerk, in the month Of September last,
by direction Of the president is hereby legal
lied and declared valid, and the said prison
erS shall continue in confinement in said prs-
on until the expiration Of their several terms
of Imprisonment, or until they shall be legally
discharged.
Sect 5. And be it further enacted, that all
appropriations heretofore made for the sup
port Of the prisoners in the penitentiary of
the District of Columbia, or for the payment
Of watchmen, laborers, and officers connect
ed with said penitentiary, and all appr0pria-
tlonS which shall GREATER be made for the
expenses and support Of prisoners convicted
in the District 'Ot Columbia, shall he applied
under the direction of the secretary OF the in
terror, to detray the expenses Of Transporting
to and subsisting prisoners in any prison Sc
,lected by him, as before provided for their
confinement. The secretary of the interior
shall also cause to be paid from such appro-
priations the sum of ten dollars to each pris-
oner when he or she shall be legally dis
charged, to enable such prisoner to reach the
point he or she may wish to go to.
Sec. s. And be it further enacted, that
whenever a suitable penitentiary shall be
erected in the District of Columbia, and COM
pleted for the reception Of prisoners, it shall
be the duty Of the secretary of the interior to
cause to be transferred to such pententiary
all persons who shall be imprisoned outside of
the District of Columbia uuder sentence of
the criminal court Of said district.
Approved Jan, I6, 1868.