Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
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AN ACT to authorize the establishment
and maintenance of work house in the
city of St. Paul.
Be it enacted by the legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section l. The common council Of the
city of St. Paul is hereby authorized and
empowered to establish, erect and main
tain work house for the confinement
and punishment of prisoners sentenced
thereto by the municipal court of the
city of st. Paul or the district court of
the Second judicial district, Ramsey
county.
Sec. 2. The direction, management
and control of such work house and the
maintenance and care of the convicts
therein, shall be vested in board Of five
directors, who shall be styled the board
of st. Paul work house directors, and
said directors shall serve without COM
pensation.
Sec. 3. Said directors shall be appoint
ed by the mayor, with consent of the COM
mon council, and shall hold their office
for five years, except at the first appoint
ment one shall be appointed to serve for
one year, one for two years, one for three
years, one for four years, and one for five
pointed annually
Sec A. The said board of directors
with the consent and approval of the
common council shall have the power to
purchase real estate, at cost not to ex-
coed three thousand dollars, erect build
ings for work house, work shops, pro-
viding the same with the necessary
machinery and tools, with power to adopt
rules for the regulation and discipline of
said work house, to make all such by
laws and rules in relation to the man.
agement and government thereof as they
shall deem expedient, and to appoint
superintendent and such other officers as
may be necessary, and prescribe their
duties generally. All rules, regulations or
other orders of said board
shall be recorded in book to
be kept for that purpose,
and shall be at all times subject to the
examination of the mayor, or any men,
Der, or committee of the common council,
comptroller, treasurer or city attorney.
Whenever the said work house shall, In
the opinion of the said board of directors
by this act created and established, or
majority of them, be so far completed as
to insure the safe confinement and en-
ployment therein of persons intended to
be therein confined, they shall make trip
licate certificates thereof, under their
hands and the seal of said board, one of
which they shall file in the Office of the
clerk of the municipal court of said city
of st. Paul, one in the Office of the clerk
of the district court for Ramsey county,
and the other shall be served upon the
sheriff of said county of Ramsey, and the
said sheriff shall thereupon transfer all
such persons to the said work house, and
the superintendent thereof shall receive
and safely keep them for the term for
which they were sentenced, and employ
them according to the discipline and
rules established for the government of
said work house Said board of directors
are hereby authorized and empowered to
prescribe such rules for the discipline and
government of said work house and the
persons committed thereto, and enforce
the same by such punishment as, in their
Judgment, shall best promote the interests
of said work house and said persons there
in confined
Sec. 6. After the filing and serving of
the certificates as required in the fore
going section, it shall be the duty of any
court judge, or justice of the peace in the
county of Ramsey, in the sentence of any
person convicted of an offense, punish
able by Imprisonment in the common jail
of Ramsey county, to sentence such per-
son to be confined in the said work house,
there 10 be received, kept and employed,
according to law, under the rules and
regulations of said work house; and it
shall be the duty of all officers having the
execution of the final process of any
court or justice OF the peace sentencing
persons to said workhouse, to
cause such criminals to be conveyed
forthwith to said work house
Sec. Z. Any person lawfully committed
to said work house, who shall escape
or who shall attempt by force
or violence, or IN any other way to escape
from said work house, whether such es-
cape be effected or not, shall upon con-
viction thereof before the municipal
court of said city, be punished by con-
finement in said work house for term
not exceeding double the term for which
such person was so sentenced, to COM
mence from and after the expiration of
his or her former sentence.
Coo 8 The said hoard Of directors