The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-02-14
AN ACT improve Penitentiary and for other
purposes.

AN ACT to improve State Psnentary, and for other
purposes.
SECTION l. BE At enacted By tie Legislature
of lie Suite Of Mississippi, That the Governor
Shall extend the lease heretofore made with
Hamilton and Hebron so that it shall termi
nate on the 1st day of January succeeding the
9Th day of June, $50, that the said lease
shall terminate on the 1st day Of January, A.
d., 1881; and before the termination Of the
lease as now provided, and the commence
ment of the extension herein provided for, said
lessees shall renew their bond for one hundred
thousand dollars as required by law, and said
bond shall be approved by the Governor and
Attorney General, and be filed in the office OF
the State Treasurer.
SEC .. Be IL further enacted, That the Su-
perntendent OF the State Penitentiary may,
with the approval Of the Governor, contract
for the repairs necessary to be made the
main walls around the buildings, and such re
pairs as may be necessary for the preservation
of the Penitentiary buildings, and the authority
given the board of commissioners by the "Act
to provide for leasing the Penitentiary and con
vict labor of the State" approved April 18th,
1876, is hereby conferred upon the Superin-
tendent of the PenitentarY, whose acts under
said authority must be approved by the Gov
ernor; prouided, the repairs authorized by
this section shall not exceed the sum of twenty
five thousand dollars
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perintendent with the approval Of the Gov
ernor, may contract for the Improvement of the
penitentiary, but the amount so expended shall
not exceed in the aggregate the entire amount
paid by said lessees during said lease, together
with the amount now authorized by law, and
said amounts of hire due the State shall not be
expended and appropriated for any purpose
whatever. except as herein described; and the
amount so expended shall not, in any one year
exceed the amount which may be due by the
Iessees to the State for that year, and the
lessees shall be annually credited by the
amount Of work done by them under contract
with the superintendent aforesaid; and said
superintendent shall annually report TO the
Legislature the amount of funds accruing to
the State and the amount of improvements
made; and all Improvements made upon the
present unfinished buildings shall be done in
accordance with the plan and specifications now
file in the office of the superintendent, unless
there be sufficient cause for change or modif-
cation of the same
SEC +. BE ct ft{rtkeT enacted, That said
lessees shall, i'll all cases, give the preference OF
hiring the convict labor or any part thereof to
works of internal improvement; and should
said lessees, at any time, make contracts for
the building Of cars to place upon any railroad
being built within the State, they are authorized
to remove the carpenters and blacksmiths that
may be necessary. to such point within the
State as may be deemed most advantageous
for locating the shops; Procided, however,
that prison houses and stockades shall be erected
as is now required by law.
SEC. 5. Be 1t .turther enacted, That the salary
Of the physician shall be paid directly to him
by the lessees, monthly or quarterly, and that
the latter clause of section 10 Of the Penitenti-
airy Act of 1876, be and the is hereby re-
pealed.
Sec. 6. BE 1t further enacted, That al Acts
and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act be
and the same are hereby repealed; and that
this Act take effect and be in force from and
after its passage.
APPROVED, January 31st, 1877