The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-10-02
An Aot.
TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
A PENITENTIARY.

a PENITENTIARY.
/, BE it enacted by tho Senate and
House of Representatives Of the State of
South Carolina, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authori.
ty of the same, That for the purpose of
commencing the establishment Of a peni.
lentary in this State, the sum of TWEEN.
ty thousand dollars be,and is hereby ap.
propriated, to be paid out OF any money
in, the Treasury, and drawn and expend-
cd by certain Commissioners hereinafter
named
II. That Commission, consisting of
three persons, TO be styled Commissions
ers' Of the Pepitentlary, shall be appoint
&c by his Rxcelency the Governor,
whose duty it shall be to select and pro
cure proper site, at some point, if
practicable, where water power may be
made available for manufacturing pnrpo.
ses, within the enclosure, on which to
erect suitable penetentiary buildings,
with sufficient space to enlarge and i'm
prove the same from time 10 time, as
may be necessary.
Ill. That it shall! be the duty of said
Commissioners to erect as soon as prnc-
ticable, suitable temporary enclosure
and temporary cells, for the safe keeping
of not less than one hundred convicts ;
and, upon completion OF SAID enclosure
and cells, or any part Of them, to receive
and detan, under regulation to be here.
after prescribed by the Governor, such
convicts as may be committed to them
by sentence of any OF the Judges Of this
State
w. That upon notice that an cnclos.
nre and cells are prepared for the rccep-
ton of convicts, IT shall be the duty of
His Excellency the Governor to appoint
a keeper, assistant keeper, and such 9th
er officers, guards and overseers as shall,
from time to to time, be necessary, to
subsist, govern guard and direct the la
Dor Of said convicts, and to make all
such regulations as shall be requisite for
their Safe.keeping and subsistence, and
for directing their labor, either within or
without the enclosure, to getting ont
material and constructing. as for as is
practicable, the necessary permanent
buildings and enclosures, and to such
other available branches of industry as
| will best contribute to to tho support Of
| the institution.
V. That it shall be the duty of the
said Commissioners under advice and
with the assistance of His Excellency
the Governor, to procure plans, specifi
cations and estimates for such permanent
enclosure and buildings as shall be deem
ed necessary for early use, and report
the same, together with full account of
their transactions under the authority
hereby conferred upon them, to the Gen.
eral Assembly, at It's ensuihgr egular
session.
In. the Senate House the twenty first
day of September in the year Of
our Lord on" thousand eight hun
ared and sixty six.
w. D. PORTER.
President of the Senate.
G. II. SiMoNToN,
Speaker House Representatives.
Approved: JAMES l.. Oar r
The experiments now in progress at For.
tress Monroe under the direction Of a
Board of Engineer officers seem to in.
dicate that the present manner Of build.
ing stone and brick fortifcatiQns is but
waste of time and material. Under
the blows Of the proiectiles from the