The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-12-06
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CHAP. K
An Act to provide for the Imprisonment of Per-
sons convicted of Crime by the Criminal Court
of the District of C olumbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That all persons who shall
hereafter be convicted BY the Criminal Court of
the District of Columbia OF any offence, the pun
the penitentiary, shall be confined during the
term for which they shall be sentenced in said
court in some suitable prison in convenient
Interior.
Sec. q And be it further enacsed, That it shall
be the duty Of the Secretary of the Interior to
contract with the managers or superintendent of
suitable prison in some convenient State for
the imprisonment and subsistence and proper
employment OF all prisoners who shall be con-
victed 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 District of Columbia, inform said court in
writing OF the designation and location of the
prison in which he shall have made provision for
said court shall sentence all persons who shall,
during said term, be convicted of such offences,
to confinement at hard labor in the prison SO
Sec. 8. Add be it further enacted, That it shall
be the duty Of the Secretary OF the Interior to
make suitable provision for the safe transporta-
ton OF all prisoners to the prison to which they
shall be sentenced By the court, and until they
shall be SO transported they shall be confined in
tne jail OF washington CITY,
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the ac-
ton of the Secretary of the Interior, r transfer
ring the prisoners confined in the penitentiary of
the District Of Columbia to the penitentiary in
the city of Albany, in the State of New York, in
the month of September last, by direction of the
President is hereby legalized and declared valid,
and the said prisoners shall continue in confine
ment in said prison until the expiration of their
several terms of imprisonment, or until they
shall be legally discharged.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all ap-
preparations heretofore made for the support of
the prisoners in the penitentiary of the District
of Columbia, or for the payment of watchmen,
laborers and officers connected with said peni-
tentiary, and all appropriations which shall here
after be made for the expenses and support of
prisoners convicted in the District of Columbia,
shall be applied, under the direction of the Sec
retary of the Interior, to defray the expenses of
transporting to and subsisting prisoners in any
prison selected by him, before provided for
their confinement. The Secretary of the Interior
shall also cause to be paid from such appropria-
tions the sum of ten dollars to each prisoner
when he or she shall be legally discharged, to
able such prisoner to reach the point he or she
may wish to go to.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That when
ever suitable penitcntiary 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 to be trans
ferred to such penitentiary all persons who shall
then be imprisoned outside of the District of Co.
lumbia, under sentence of the Criminal Court of
said District.
Approved, January 10, 1853.