The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-02-08
CHAPTER 81.
TERRITORIAL PRISONERS.

poses Connected Herewith.
BE 1t enachd by the Council and House Of Representatives Of
The Territory Of Wyoming:
SECTION 1. That there shall be a board of penitentiary
commissioners to consist of three citizens of the Terri
tory, to be nominated by the governor and confirmed by
the Territorial council, and who shall hold their office
for two years and until their successors are duly appointed
and qualified.
Sec. 2. 1t shall be the duty of said board of commits
sioners, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum
for the transaction of business, to investigate as to the
cost of maintaining territorial prisoners, in penitentiaries
or prisons, either within the Territory or outside the
limits of the Territory. And said board is hereby
authorized and empowered to determine where the
Territorial prisoners shall be confined and to make all
contracts between the Territory and the authorities of
such penitentiary or prison eithe, in or out of the Terri
tory. Prouided, That the penitentary or prison so
selected shall be the one in which prisoners can be trans
ported to and confined and maintained at the least
expense to the Territory, but no contract shall be made
for the keeping and maintenance of the said prisoners, in
the penitentiary at Laramie City, in the county of
Albany, at a greater cost to the Territory, including the
transportation of such prisoners to said penitentiary from
the place of conviction, than such contract can be made
for such maintenance and keeping outside the Territory,
including the cost of transportation of such prisoners to
such penitentiary from the place of conviction.
Sec. 3. That the penitentiary or prisons so selected
by said board of commissioners for the confinement and
keeping of the Territorial prisoners, are hereby declared
to be Territorial penitentiaries of the Territory of
Wyoming.
SEC. 4. 1t shall be the duty of said board of commits
sioners to notify the judges of the several courts of this
Territory, of the name and location of the penitentiary or
penitentiaries, or prisons, by them designated as Terrific
rial penitentiaries or prisons, and the distinction if any be
made, as to the terms of Imprisonment in the several
penitentiaries or prisons, if more than one be designated,
and it shall be the duty of the said judges thereafter to
sentence convicts to imprisonment in the peniteniary or
prison so designated as a Territorial penitentiary, in
accordance with the term for which each said penitentiary
or prison can receive them.
Sec. 5. If the said board decide to cause prisoners to
be imprisoned in some prison other than the peniten-
tiary at Laramie City, it shall be its duty to provide for
their removal and transportation, as cheaply and econom-
ically as is possible, consistent with due service and
safety. and IT said prisoners are TRANSPORTED by county
officers, said officers shall be allowed five dollars per day
for the time actually and necessarily occupied in going to
and returning from such other prison, and their actual
and necessary expenses, and all guards employed by the
board on such service shall receive the sum of two
dollars and fifty cents per day, and their actual and
necessary expenses. But should said hoard make the
transportation of the prisoners a part of their contract,
then the governor of the Territory shall, and it is hereby
made his duty, to commission such person as may be
designated by the contractor or authorities Of the peni-
Tertiary or prison selected by said board, as a special
officer of this Territory, for the purpose of transporting
such prisoners through this Territory, and said officer
shall take an oath before competent authority in this
Territory, to be by him subscribed on his commission,
that he will faithfully perform the duties as prescribed
in his said commission and said officer shall enter into a
bond to the people of the Territory of Wyoming, with
good and sufficient sureties, conditioned that he will
faithfully transport all such prisoners as may be intrusted
to his care, to such penitentiary as may be designated by
the board of penitentiary commissioners of the Territory
of Wyoming, under penalty OF one thousand dollars, to
be paid to said Territory. And such officer after being
so commissioned shall have full power and authority to
take charge and custody of all Territorial prisoners at
any place within the Territory, and convey them to the
prison or penitentiary to which they may have been
sentenced for confinement.
Sec. 6. AL indebtedness incurred by said board, in
carrying out the provisions of this act, together with a
compensation to each of said commissioners of five
dollars per day, for each and every day actually employed
as said commissioner, and also the necessary. travelling
expenses of each shall be paid out of the Territorial
treasury upon a certificate of the chairman of the board,
who shall be elected by the commissioners at their first
meeting, stating the items of such Indebtedness, expenses
and compensation, and that the same is just and necessary
according to the provisions of this act, and upon presen-
tation of said certificate to the auditor of the Territory,
he shall issue his warrant or warrants to the party or
parties to whom such money is due and payable, and the
treasurer shall pay such warrants out Of moneys not
otherwise appropriated. But the auditor shall not issue
any warrant without an itemized account properly sworn
to accompanying the certificate of the chairman of the
board.
SEC. 7. All contracts and orders made by said board
shall be signed by and become valid when signed by the