Litchfield enquirer., 1865-09-07
CHAPTER LxxIII.

sentatsves an General Assembly eonveued:
 SEC. 1. The Secretary of State shall, annually in the month of March, transmit to the county commissioners in the several counties blank forms of the returns concerning jails for the year end ing the last day of March containing the follow ing printed interrogatories, and with the second, third, fourth and fifth sections of this act printed thereon :: Jails-Number in jail April first; com mitted during the year; discharged remaining in jail males, females, adults, III nors, whites, cOlored natives of this State; natives of other States; natives of other counties natives of this State who cannot read or write; natives of oth CT States who cannot read or write wAo have been married who have been strictly temperate; who habitually intemperate who have been in prison before; committed on civil process, as insane, for murder, nanslaughter, assault with intent to Kill, setting fires, robbery. stealing from the per- breaking, obtaining goods on false pretense, mak- ing or passing counterfeit money, forgery. per jury, rape attempt at rape adultery, fOrnicatiOn, basterdy, abortion, lewd conduct, common pros- titute, keeping house of ill fame, frequenting house of ill fame, vagrancy, drunkenness, as com mon drunkards, for violation of liquor law, pois- oning, blasphemy, resisting officer, contempt of court; for all other offences
 Average number in confinement during the year.
 Discharged: by writ of habeas corpus, by be- ing recognized or bailed, by payments of fine and costs by expiration of sentence, transferred to other ails for trial sent to court and not return ed, executed, sent to State prison, sent to State | reform school, escaped, and not retaken, prison CTS that died, discharged by State attorney, by county commissioners, by inspectors, by process not specified above. Amount received from State for board of pris oners, from United States, amount due from State if any, amount due from United States, if any, amount received from earnings of prisoners. key fees, due for labor of prisoners amount received or due from other sources, specifying what To- tai amount received and due. Amount expended for provisions, clothing, bedding, fuel, lights, medicines, medical attendance, salary of ailor, assistants, chaplain, county commissfoners, all other expenses Total expenditures. ss-s..sa SEC. 2. On. or before the tenth day of April, in each year, the county commissioners in each county, and in case the board neglect, any mem- Der thereof, shall make and transmit to the Sec retary of state true answers to the enquiries con- tained in said blanks, and the Secretary shall prepare and transmit an abstract thereof in print ed form to the General Assembly, at tte ensuing session thereof
 SEC. 3 In addition to the returns required to be made by the preceding sections of this act the county commissioners in each county, shall in- clude in the report required by said sections, 8
 full and true abstract of the annual account of the county treasurer, for the year ending the thirty first day of March next preceding as audited and approved by them showing the amount of mon eys received, and from what sources, the expen- ditures made and for what purposes, the balance, II any, remaining Ill the treasury, or tne lnueDt- edness of the county, if any, at the close of such year and the Secretary of State shall include such abstracts in the report to the General Assem- bly,, provided. for in the second section of this | act.
 SEo. 4. Every county commissioner who shall neglect or refuse to make the returns as required by the second section of this act on the abstract of the county treasurers accounts, as required by the preceding section of this act, shall forfeit the sum of twenty dollars, and shall not receive or be entitled to receive, any compensation for his services as county commissioner.
 | SEC. b. The secretary, when he finds that the county commissioners in any county are liable of forfeiture under the preceding section shall forth with notify the state attorney for the county in which such county commissioners reside, who shall immediately institute complaint therefor, and prosecute the same which forfeiture when recovered, shall be paid into the treasury of the state.
 SEC. 6. An act passed May session. 1861, and approved July lst, 1861, entitled "An Act relat- ing to county commissioners" and an act passed May session, 1861, and approved July 2d, 1861, entitled "An Act in addition to an Act concern
 ing prisons, except the fifty section thereof be, and the same are hereby repealed.
 Approved, July IF, 1865.