Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-05

and access to books and newspapers, under such
rules as the superintendent Of the prison. with the
| approval of the governor, may prescribe.
| SEC. a. No officer Of the prison shall disclose
| any conversation or communication between any
prisoner and his counsel in relation to the approach
ing trial of said prisoner; nor shall any othcer OF
the prison be permitted to testify in any court in
this State in relation to any conversation COM
| muncation between prisoner confined in the state
prison for safe keeping and his counsel in relation
to the preparation for such prisoner trial. If any
officer of the prison shall disclose any conversa-
| ton communication between any prisoner and
his counsel in relation to the approaching trial of
such prisoner such officer shall be fined not less
than hve hundred dollars nor more than two thou
sand dollars, or be punished by Imprisonment in the
state prison not less than one year nor more than
SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from its pas
sage.
Approved Nov IL, 1880.
| No. GAN act providing for the safe keeping of
prisoners charged with crime.
1t is hereby enacted etc.
SEC /. When a person is under arrest charged
with an offense punishable with death or imprison-
ment in the state prison, the governor, If in his
opinion such person cannot be properly or safely
kept in the jail of the county where such prosecu-
ton is pending, may by an order in writing, direct
the officer having such person in custody to remove
him to the state prison. house of correction, or to
| any county Jail pending proceedings upon such
| charge.
SEC. ?. When person confined in the state
|
while prosecution is pending against him. requests
to be put to labor, the superintendent may, in his
discretion put said person to labor subject to the
rules and discipline of the prison and pay him there
for at the rate received for convict labor.
| SEC. g. Section two of number one Of the acts of
the special session of eighteen hundred and sixty
FIVE, and number nine of the acts of eighteen hun
dred and seventy-six are hereby repealed.
Approved December IS, 1880.
| No AN act in relation to the state prison.
| I hereby enacted.
If any person employed in or about the state
prison or house of correction as officer guard, or
| employee in whatever capacity, shall wilfully or
negligently suffer any prisoner confined in such
prison or house of correction to go at large, or be
visited conversed with, comforted relieved with
in the prison. shall convey to or from any pris-
oner any communication, newspaper, matches or
| any article without the appreciation of the super
| intendent, he shall on conviction thereof be pun
ished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars,
or by imprisonment in the state prison not exceed
| ing ten years.
SEC a. Section twenty of chapter one hundred
twenty-three of the general statutes is hereby re-
| pealed.
Approved Dec. 8, 1880.
| taxed against respondents committed to the house
of correction.
| It is hereby enacted, etc.
SEC. /. The costs of commitment to the house of
correction to be taxed against the respondent shall
| in no case exceed twenty-five dollars, whatever
| may be the distance from the place of commitment
ting the respondent shall receive from the state
treasury the fees which officers entitled to
receive by law.
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its pas
Approved December "a, 1885,
No. o-An act in relation to persons in confinement
in prison and under sentence of death.
1t is hereby enacted, etc.
Section four of act number twenty-tw Of the pub
lie acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight is
hereby amended follows:
SEC. A. In case the execution of said sentence is
not to take place till after the period of six months
from the passing of said sentence the respondent
is to be at the same time sentenced to hard labor in
the state prison house of correction till with
( in three months of the time fixed in said SEN
tenCe of death for the execution thereof, and for
said three months next prior to the time fixed for
said execution, and up to the said execution, to be
confined in solitary confinement in said prison or
| house of correction.
Approved December "a, 1880.
No. TO- An act to provide for the appointment of
chaplain for the house of correction and the pay
ment for transportation Of discharged convicts to
their homes.
1t is hereby enacted, ETC.:
SEC. I. The directors of the house of correction
are hereby authorized to employ a chaplain there
| for at compensation not exceeding two hundred
dollars per annum, and the duties of such chaplain
shall be the required of the chaplain of
the state prison.
SEC a The superintendent of the house of cor
recton is hereby authorized in his discretion to fur
nlSh COnViCtS discharged therefrom with rallro DAD
tickets their homes at the expense of the State.
SEC. 8. This act shall take effect from and after
its passage.
Approved Dec. "a, 1885,
| No u.--An act in amendment of, and in addition
to sections seven and eight of chapter one hundred
and twenty-one of the general statutes of the State
of Vermont.
| 1t is hereby enacted, etc.
SEC. 1. Sections seven and eight of chapter
hundred and twenty-one of the general statutes of
| Vermont hereby amended
read as follows
The common ails in the several counties, the Jail
in the city of Vergennes and the house of correction
in Rutland in the county of Rutland, shall be jas
for receiving and safe keeping such prisoners as shall
be committed under the authority of the United
States, until they shall be discharged by the due
course of the laws of the United States and the
keepers of such jails and the house of correction
respectively required to receive such prisoners
under the like pains and penalties for neglect of du
ty therein as they are, by law required to do in case
of prisoners committed under the authority of this
State. But keeper of such jail or of the house of
correction shall not receive such prisoner unless the
United States pays to such keeper fifty cents a
month for each prisoner during the time he is con-
fined in such jail or house of correction, with the
| fees for committing and discharging him.
SEC. a. This act shall take effect from its pas
Approved Dec. IS, 1880.
No. 14-An act to abate and suppress nuisances.
1t is hereby enacted, etc
|
| shop billiard room, bar room, and every drinking
place room used as place of resort where in
| toxicating liquor is unlawfully sold, furnished,
given away. kept for selling, furnishing, Civ
ing away unlawfully, and every place or room used
or resorted to for gambling, shall be held to be
common nuisance, kept in violation of law.
| SEC. When, upon trial, it is proved that in
toxcating liquor is kept for unlawful sale furnish
! ing, or giving away, or is unawfully sold, fur
nished, or given away in place named in the pre-
ceding section that gambling is done in such
| place. the court shall adjudge such place to be
common nuisance, and the same shall be shut up
and abated by order of the court; and the person
| keeping the same shall be adjudged by the court
| guilty of keeping and maintaining a common nuis-
! ance, and shall be fined not less than twenty dol
lars nor more than two hundred dollars, or he
| shall be liable to fine not exceeding twenty dol
lars, and Imprisonment not less than one month
nor more than three months, in the discretion of
the court.
SEC. ,. Upon the conviction of the respondent
| for keeping and maintaining such common nuis-
ance, the court shall 10 addition to the ordinary
mttimus in criminal cases, issue an order for the
| shutting up and abatement of such nuisance.
SEC. 4. The same place shall be again shut up
and abated in the same manner, on any subsequent
conviction of anv person OF keeping the same as
common nuisance.
| SECS The place so closed shall not be re-opened
by the person convicted the keeper thereof until
he files with the court bond TO the State, with
sufficient surety or sureues, in the sum Of not less
| than three hundred dollars nor more than five hum
dred dollars, conditioned that he will thereafter
keep for unlawful sale, furnishing or giving away,
nor unlawfuy SELL furnish, or give away therein
intoxicating liquor, nor suffer gambling to be done
therein. And if the person so convicted re-opcns
re-occupies such place before giving such bond,
he shall be liable to fine of ten dollars, payable
the State, for each day in which he keeps open
such place before giving such bond, with costs of