Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-01-05

and access 10 books and newspapers, under such
rules as the superintendent Of the prison, with the
approval Of the governor, may prescribe
SIC. .. 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 officer Of
this State In relation to any conversation or COM
munication between prisoner confined 10 the state
prison for safe keeping and his counsel In relation
10 the preparation Tor such prisoners trial II any
officer OF the prison shall disclose any CONVERSE
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 five 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
five years.
Sac. J. This act shall take effect from its pas
Approved Nov. "a 1880
No. GAN act providing for the safe keeping of
prisoners charged with crime.
II Is hereby enacted, etc:
SIC. L. When a person Is under arrest charged
with an oftense punishable with death or imprison-
ment in the state prison, the governor, II In his
opinion such person cannot be properly or safely
kept IN the jail Of the county where such prosceu-
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
Sac. a. When a person confined in the state
prison or house Of correction ior safe keeping,
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.
SIC. ]. 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
bred and seventy-six are hereby repealed.
Approved December 10, 1880.
No. AN act in relation to the state prison.
1t is hereby enacted, etc;
any N nf
prison or house OF correction as officer guard, or
employee in whatever capacity, shall wlfully or
negligcntly suffer any prisoner confined in such
prison house OF correction to go at large, or be
visited conversed with, comforted or relieved with
in the prison, OF shall convey to or from any pris
any communication, newspaper, matches or
any article without the appreciation OF the super
ntendent, he shall on conviction thereof be pun
shed by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars,
or by imprisonment in the state prison not exceed
SIC a. Section twenty Of chapter one hundred
twenty-three OF the general statutes is hereby re-
pealed.
Approved Dec 8, 1880
No. SAN act equali1ing the costs of commi,men,
taxed against respondents committed to the house
OF correction.
1t is hereby enacted, etc.
SIC. l. 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
to the house OF correction but the officer commit
ting the respondent shall receive from the state
treasury the fees which officers now entitled to
receive by law
SIC. a. This act shall take effect from It's pas
Approved December a. 1880
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-five Of the pub
lie acts OF eighteen hundred and seventy-eight is
hereby amended so as to read as follows;
Sac. T. In case the execution Of said sentence is
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from the passing Of said sentence, the respondent
Is to be at the time sentenced to hard labor in
the state prison or 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 10 the time fixed for
said execution, and up to the said execution to be
confined in solitary confinement in said prison
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 eonvicts to
their homes.
Ii is hereby enacted, etc;
Sac. 1. The directors OF the house OF correction
are hereby authorized to employ chaplain there
for at a compensation not exceeding two hundred
dollars per annum, and the duties Of such chaplain
shall be the same as are required OF the chaplain OF
the state prison.
SEC a. The superintendent Of the house OF cor
rection is hereby authorized in his discretion to fur
nsh eonvicts discharged therefrom with railroad
tickets to their homes at the expense OF the State.
SIC. J. This act shall take effect from and after
Its passage.
Approved Dec AZ, 1880.
No rr--An act in amendment Of, and In addition
to sections and eight Of chapter one hundred
and twenty OF the general statutes OF the State
of Vermont.
Ii Is hereby enacted, etc.
SEC. Sections seven and eight OF chapter one
hundred and twcnty-one of the general statutes OF
the state Of Vermont are hereby amended so as 10
read as follows;
The common jails in the several counties, the Jail
thah s.tta.s af.
in Rutland in the county OF Rutland, shall be jails
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
resPee,yelS are Iequ1ed to Iessiye such pf's9ners
ty therein they 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 nifty cents
month for each prisoner during the time he Is con-
fees for co uniting and discharging him.
Sac. 4. This act shall take effect from its pas
sage
No IAN act TO abate and suppress nuisances.
1t IS hereby enacted, etc.
Sac. Every saloon, restaurant, grocery, cellar,
shop, billiard room, bar room, and every drinking
place room used as place Of resort where in
toxieating liquor is unawiully sold, furnished, or
given away, or kept for selling, furnishing, or CIV
or reso2ted TO for gambling, shall be held to be
common nuisance, KEEP, In violation OF law.
SIC. When, upon trial, Il is proved that in
toNcating liquor is kept for unlawful sale, furnish
ing, giving away, or is unlawfully sold, fur
nished or given away in place named in the pre-
ceding section or that gambling is done in such
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
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