Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-05-28

cone.,as A. ~. n,ao.aoe the following named
shall, Wetzel, Marion, Monongalia, Preston. Tny-
Tor, Tyler, Peasants, Ritehie Doddridre, iIarsi.
SON son, Wood jackson, wirs Roane, Calhoun,
shur, Randolph, Mason, Putnam, Kanawha
Clay, Nicholas, Cabell, Wayne, Boone. Iovan
wyoming, Mercer Mcdowell, Webster. Poeabnn,
tas, Fayette, Raleigh, Greenhriar, Monroe, Pan.
aletoh, haray, Hampshire, and Morgan; and
whereas both the convention and the legislature
aforesaid have requested that the new State shanid
be admitted into the Union, and the eonstitution
aforesaid beng republican in form, Congress doth
hereby consent that the said forty-eight counties
State, Therefore,
BE u enacted By tis Senate and House Of Ran
rssentdtipes Of the United States OF Ameyiea n
Congress assembled, That the State Of West Yir-
gina DO, and Is hereby, declared 10 be ono of tho
United states 81 America, and admitted into the
Union on an equal footing with the original
states IN all respects whatever, and until the
next general census shall be entitled TO three
meinosrs IN the House OF Representatives of the
United states Prspided al,gays, That this act
shall not take effect until after the proclamation of
the PRESIDENT OF the United States hereinafter pro-
viaed for
II being represented to Congress that since the
convention OF tho twonty-sixth of November
eighteen hundred and sixty-one, that framed
and proposed the constitution for the said State
of West Virginia, the people thereof have ex-
pressed wish to change the seventh section of
X
ing out the same and inserting the following in
ITS place, namely: " The children of slaves born
within hoiimitS of this State after the fourth
day OF July, eighteen hundred and sixty-three
shall be tree and that all slaves within the said
state who shall, at the time aforesaid, be under
the age OF ten years, shall be free when they ar
rive at the age OF twenty-one years; and all slaves
over ten and under twenty-one years shall be Ifreo
when they arrive at the age of twenty five years
and no slave shall be permitted to come into the
permanent residence
fore,
See. ,. BE 1t further enacted, That whenever
the people OF West Virginia shall, through
their said convention, and by a vote 10 he
taken at an election to be held within the
limits of the said State, at such time as the
convention may provide, make, and ratify the
change aforesaid, and properly certify the same
under the hand OF the president of the convention
1t shall be lawful for the President of the United
States TO issue his proclamation stating the fact
and thereupon this act shall take effect and be in
force from and after sixty days from the date Of
said proclamation.
Approved December 81, 1862
Chap. X.-An Act TO provide for the Imprisonment
of Persons convicted of Crime by the Criminal
Court Of the District of Columbia
Be IL enacted by the Senate aud House Of Rep
rssrutdipss of he Tinted States of AgteTico III Con-
qress assembled, That all persons who shall here
after be convicted by the criminal court of the
District Of Columbia OF any oftense the punish
ment of which by law shall be confinement in the
peuitentiary shall be confined during the term
for which they shall be sentenced by said
court in some suitable prison in a convenient
State, where they can be employed al suitable la
Dor, to be designated by the Secretary of the In
terror.
See. ., And be Il further enacted That il
shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior
TO contract with the managers or superintendent
of Il suitable prison in some convenient State
for the Imprisonment and subsistence and pro-
all
convicted in said court of such offences on the
best terms that he can and he shall, on or be-
fore the first day of each term of the criminal
court of the District of Columbia, inform said
court in writing of the de- ignation 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
during said term be convicted of such effenses to
confinement at hard labor in the prison so desig-
mated.
Sec. 3. And Be It further enacted, That it shall
be the duty the Secretary the Interior to make
suitable provision for the SAT- transportation of all
prisoners to the prison to which they shall be sem
fenced by the court and until they shall be so
transported they shall be confined in the jail of
Washington city.
Sec 4. And be Il further enacted, That the action
of the Secretary Of the interior in transferring the
prisoners confined in the penitentary of the Dis
tTiet of Columbia to the penitentary in the city of
Albany, in the State of New York, in the month
of September Last by direction of the President is
hereby lcgallzed and declared valid and the said
prisoners shall continue in confinement in said
prison until the expiration Of their several terms
of imprisonment or until they shall be legally
discharged
Sec. 5. AID be 1t further enacted, That all ap-
preparations heretofore made for the support Of
the prisoners IN the penitentiaTy of the District
OF Columbia, OF for the payment of watchmen, la
borers, ana officers connected with said peniten-
tiary, and all appropriations which shall hereaf-
ter be made for the expenses and support of pris-
oners convicted in the District of Columbia shall
be applied, under the direction Of the Secretary
OF the Interior, to defray the expenses Of trans
porting to and subsistng 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 often dollars to each prisoner when he or
she shall be legally discharged, to enable such
prisoner to reach the point he or she may wish TO
go to.
Sec g. And b. II further enacted, That when
ever 9 suitable penitentary shall be erected in
the District of Columbia, and completed for the
reception OF prisoners it shall be the duty Of the
Secretary Of the Interior to cause to be transfer
red to such penientiary all persons who shall then
be imprisoned outside of the District of Column
hia under sentence of the criminal court of said
District,
Approved January Is, 1868.