The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-23

AN ACT 10 provide for the Imprisonment Of Persons
convicted of Crimes by the c iminal Court of the
District OF Columbia.
Be at enacted By the Sepate and House Of
Representatives ofthe United States of amer
lea in Congress assembled, That all persons
who shall hereafter be convicted by the
Criminal Court of the District of Column
bia of any offence, the punishment of
which by law shall be con inement in
the penitentiary, shall be confined dur
ing the term for which they shall be sem
fenced by said court in some suitable
prison in convenient State, where they
can be employed at suitable labor, TO be
designated by the Secretary of the lnte-
rior.
Sec. 2. Al,dJe it further enacted, That it
shall be the duty of the Secretary of the
Interior to contract with the managers
or superintendent of "a suitable prison in
some convenient State for the imprisOn-
ment and subsistence and proper en-
ployment of all persons 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
term of the Criminal Court of the Dis
triet of Columbia, inform said court In
writing of the designation and location
of the prison in which he shall have
made provision for the confinement and
support of prisoners; and said court
shall sentence all persons who shall, du-
ring said term, be convicted of such
offences, to confinement at hard labor In
the prison 30 designated
Sec. 3. And be ii further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of the Secretary of
the Interior 70 make suitable provision
for the safe transportation of all prison.
oners to the prison io-whioh they shall
be sentenced by the court, and until
they shall be SO transported they shall
be confined in the Jail of Washington
City.
See. 4. and be it further enacted, That
the action of the Secretary of the lnte-
rior, in transferring the prisoners con-
lined in the penitentiary of the District
of Columbia tethe penitentiary in the city
of Albany, in the State of New York, in
the month of September last, by direc-
ton of the President, is hereby legalized
and declared valid, and the said prison.
ers shall continue in confinement in said
prison until the expiration of their seve-
raj terms of imprisonment, or until they
shall be legally discharged.
Sec. 8. Ard be it further enacted, That
all appropriations heretofore made for
the support of the prisoners in the peni-
Tertiary of the District of Columbia, or
for the payment of watchmen, laborere,
| and officers connected with said peni-
tertiary, and all appropriations which
shall hereafter be made for the expenses
and support of prisoners convicted in the
District of Columbia, shall be applied,
under the direction of the Secretary OF
the interior, to defray the expenses OF
transporting to and subsisting prisoners
in any prison selected by him, as before
provided for their confinement The
Secretary of the Interior shall also cause
to be paid from such appropriations the
sum of ten dollars to each prisoner wher
he or she shall be legally discharged, e
enable such prisoner to reach the poin
he or she may wish to go to.
Sec. 6. lind Be it further enacted, Tha
when a suitable penitentiary shall b'
erected in the District of Columbia, ant
completed for the reception of prisoners
it shall be the duty of the Secretary o
the Interior to cause to be transferred t
such penitentiary all persons who shall
then be imprisoned outside of the Dis