Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-05-17
OF IOWA,
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
CHAPTER lO1.


AN ACT to permanently locate and pro-
vide for the erection and control OF
an additional penitentiary.
SECTION 1. BE 1t enacted By tile Gen
eral assembly Of the State oil Iosca, That
there shall be and is hereby permanently
established at or near the stone quarries
near Anamosa, Iowa, an additional Pcni-
Tertiary in which convicts sentenced for
life or any term of time shall be con-
fined, employed and governed as here
matter provided.
Sec. 2. That three persons shall be
chosen by the General Assembly who
shall constitute Board of Commission
ers to purchase a quarry and without
expense to the State, procure not less
than seventy acres of ground and to SUI
pcrintend the erection of suitable build
ings thereon for said Penitentiary, and
in case of a vacancy in said Commission,
the same shall be filled by appointment
by the Governor.
Sec. 3. That said Board shall select
and purchase the best and most eligible
quarry of not less than ten acres, on or
near the line of the Dubuque South
western Railroad and the Wapsipini-
con river, and shall pay therefor the
Just and fair value Thereof in cash. not to
exceed fifteen thousand dollars. and take
conveyance thereof in fee simple to
the State of Iowa, and said quarry so
purchased must be the cheapest and best
that can be procured by them after due
examination, inquiry, and public notice
for offers of sale in the Anamosa Erreka
or AnamOsa Journal, and shall contain
not less than one million cubic yards of
stratitied limestone suitable for building
purposes.
SEC. 4. And the Board shall also re-
ceive and take in the name of the State
of Iowa, and cause to be recorded in the
proper Office before the purchase of said
quarry, deed conveying the title in
fec simple for 20 acres of land suitable
for agricultural. horticultural and gra-
zing purposes, convenient to said quar-
ny. And they shall not purchase said
quarry, and in any manner bind the
State therefor, until said 20 acres as
provided in section two of this act be
first secured without expense to the
State.
SEC. 5. The Board shall also, at the
earliest day practicable, procure plans,
drawings and specifications for the bull
dings necessary and proper for said III
stitution, which building shall be of
stone procured from the quarry SO pur-
chased; but the plan chosen by, the
Board shall be such as will admit of
future enlargement. by wing or other
wise, SO as to preserve the symmetry,
and be, when ultimately completed, of
capacity sufficient to continc and employ
500 convicts; Prorided, That the cree
ton only of such portion of such build
ing shall be commenced by said board,
under the provisions of this act, as may
be completed and made ready for occu-
pancy by the appropriation herein
made.
Sec 6. Before entering upon his du-
ties each commissioner. shall make and
sign an oath, and execute bond in the
penal sum of one thousand dollars for
the use of the State of Iowa, to be APP
proved by the Census Board, and filed
in the office the Secretary of State, con-
ditioned upon the faithful performance
Of his duties, and the honest, judicious,
and faithful execution of the provisions
of this act, and the faithful disbursc-
which may come into his hands under
the provisions of this act.
Sec. Z. Said board shall have full
power to appoint and discharge, at their
discretion, a superintendent whose duty
it shall be to employ men, purchase ma
terial and superintcnd the work on said
building, and he shall receive for his
compensation only such sums as said
board may fix.
Sec. 8. There is hereby appropra-
ted out of any money in the State Treas
ury not otherwise appropriated, the sum
of fifty thousand dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary for the pur-
poses contemplated in this act.
SEC. 0. The warden of the peniten-
tiary at Fort Madison, when suitable ac-
commodatiohs have been provided by
the board, at or near the quarries so
purchased, shall at the request of the
board, transfer thereto as many able
bodied cOnvicts as can be taken from
said penitentiary, and said board shall
elect warden for this penitentiary,
whose duty it shall be to safely guard
and subsist them, and cause them to
perform labor and work in the prepare
ton for, and erection of such building,
as directed by the superintendent, as to
the mode and manner of work The eX-
penscs necessary to carry out the pro-
visions of this section shall be paid by
the board out of the money hereby APP
propriated, and said convicts so trans
ferred, or any other convicts SO employ
ed, shall be deemed to be wfully held,
us though directly sentenced to labor at
Said quarrics.
Sec. 10. The accounts of cxpcndi-
lures necessary to carry out the provis-
ions Of this act shall be approved by the
Board of Commissioners, and certified
to by the superintendent, and then paid
by Auditors warrants in the usual man.
ner, drawn in favor of the party to
whom payment is due.
SEC. II, The members of the Board
shall each receive five dollars per day
while actually employed in the discharge
Of their duties, and their actual travel.
ing expenses; and the compensation of
said warden for said additional peniten-
tiary shall be such us the Board NAV
| fix.
Sec. H. The warden of said pcniren-
tiary shall keep faithful and accurate
account with each convict, showing the
number of days labor performed by
! each and the value thereofin cash, not,
exceeding two dollars per day, for each
day of ten hours, and for each and every
one hundred dollars worth of labor in
excess of three hundred dollars, per-
formed in any one year by any convict
rot sentenced for life, there shall be a
communication of the sentence of such con.
vict, upon the recommendation of the
warden, to the amount of fifty days time;
and the ane-third part of such excess
shall be paid him out of the State Treas
ury at the time of his discharge, upon
the certificate Of the amount due by the
warden. And the duties of the warden
of said additional penitentiary and his
powers shall be the same as prescribed