Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-18
ST. PAUL WORKHOUSE.
The Proposed Abode for Our Migrants and
Petty Criminals--Full Text of the Bill
Before the LEGISLATURE

The Proposed Abode for Our Migrants and
Petty Criminals---Full Text of the Bill
Before the Legislature.
COL Griggs of the Ramsey county delega-
ton, introduced the following bill in the
House last evening. 1t will be of general in
terest to citizens of st. Paul, and especially to
that class who toll not nor do they spin:
A bill to authorize the establishment and nainten.
anoe OF Workhouse in the city of st. Paul.
Be 1t enacted by the legislature Of the State OF
Minnesota:
Sec. l. The Common Council of the CITY of st.
Paul. is hereby authorized and empowered to estab-
Ish ana erect and maintain Workhouse 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
the convcts therein shall be vested in board of five
directors, who shall be styled the Board Of ST. Paul
Workhouse Directors, and said directors shall serve
without compensation.
Sec. s. Said directors shall be appointed by the
Mayor, with the consent Of the Common Council,
and shall hold their Office five years. except at
the hrst appointment one shall be appointed to serve
Tor one year. for two years. one for three years.
one for four years and one for five years, and
thereafter one shall be appointed annually.
Sec. 4. The said board of directors with the con-
sent anu approval OF the common Council shall have
the power to purchase real estate erect buildings for
workhouse, work shops, providing the same with
the necessary machinery aud TOOLS with power to
adopt rules for the regulation and discipline of said
workhouse, to make all such bylaws and rules in re-
lationi to the management and government thereof
as they shall deem expedent, and to appoint super
lntendent, and such other officers may be necess-
ary and prescribe theirlduties generally all rulesreg
ulauons or other orders Of said board shall be re-
corded In book to be kept for that PURPOSE and
sha De at all times subject to the examination Of the
Mayor, or any member or committee of the Common
Council, Comptroller, Treasurer or City Attorney
Sec. s; Whenever the said work.
house shall, in the opinion of the
board of directors of saidwork, by this act
created and established or majority of them, be
far completed as to insure the safe confinement and
employment therein Of persons intended to be there
in confined, they shall make tripicate certificates
| thereof under their hands and the seal of said
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 workhouse and the superintend-
ent thereof shall receive and safely keep them for
the term for which they were sentenced and employ
them according to the discipline and rules estab-
llshed for the government Of kaid workhouse,
Sec 6 After the fling and serving of the certi6-
Gates, as required In the foregoing section 1t 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 punishable by
imprisonment in the common Jail Of Ramsey county,
| to sentence such persons to be confined in the
said workhouse, there to be received, kept and en-
ployed according to law, under the rules and regua-
tons Of said workhouse 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 con-
victed persons to said workhouse, to cause such
criminals to be conveyed forthwith to said work
house.
sec. T. ANY person lawfully committed to said
workhouse, who shall escape therefrom or break
| the same, with intent to escape therefrom, or
| who shall attempt by force or violence, or in
any other way, to escape from said
workhouse, whether such escape be effected or not
shall, upon conviction thereof, before the municipal
court, of said city, be punished by confinement in
laid workhouse for term not exceeding double the
term for which such person was sentenced, to
commence from and after the expiration Of his or
her former sentence.
| Sec. 8. The said board of directors shall elect
one of their own number president, some suitable
secretary the treasurer of the city of ST.
Paul is hereby declared to be ;io treasurer of
said board, an the city comptroller is hereby de-
clared to be ex-oico the comptroller of said board.
It Is made the duty OF the secretary, under the
direction OF said board, to keep a set of books,
which will exhibit clearly the state of the prisoners,
| the number received and discharged, the number
employed In ca branch of industry carried on, and
the receipts and expenditures for and account of
each department of business. or for the improve
ment of the premises; semi-an statement shall
be made out and transmitted to the common coun-
Gil Of said city, which shall specify infinitely all re-
| ceipts aad expenses, from whom received and to
| whom paid and for what purpose 1t is m,de the
duty of the treasurer of said board to receive al
moneys which may be paid into the treasury on &C
| count OF said workhouse, from the sale of bonds,
the collection of taxes the earnings of the prison
ers, or from any source whatever, and shall keep q
detailed and exact account thereof in such manner
as to show at all times the exact financial condition
OF said board, and the city comptroller shall keep
regular books of accounts in which all moneys re-
oeived or paid out for or on account of said board
shall be entered. He shall countersign all warrants
rsdarc Tho 81 hao
by the president and secretary theIeof, and other
evidences of the Indebtedness of the said board and
shall keep exact account thereof, stating to whom
and for what purposes issued, and shall keep
count with the treasurer of said board showing the
amount received from all the different sources of
enue, and the amount discussed under the direction
of said board All contracts shall be in duplicate,
and countersigned by said comptroller, one of which
shall be fled in the Office of faid comptroller, the
| other with the secretary Of said board.
Sec. o. The superintendent OF the said work
house shall have entire control and management Of
all its concerns subject to the authority established
by law and the rules and regulations adopted for its
government; 1t shall be his duty to obey and carry
out all orders and instructions of the directors not
inconsistent with the laws, rules and regulations
lating to the government Of said institution He shall
be responsible for the manner in which said work
house is managed and conducted. He shall resids
at said workhouse devote bis time and attention to
the business thereof and visit and examine into the
condition and management of every department
thereof, and of each prisoner therein confined, daily,
Or Us OILeu as BOOu Oruer OF necessary
Sec. 10. That for the purpose Of purchasing land,
and the erection of buildings contemplated in this
act the Common Council Of the city Of st. Paul Is
hereby authorized to e1pend sum not to exceed
thirty thousand dollars and to provide for the pay
ment Of the same the Common Council as aforesaid
may issue the bonds Of the city to an amount not
exceeding thirty thousand dollars said bonds may be
issued in such denominations as the common coun-
Gil may direct and shall bear interest at rate not to
exceed per cent. per annum, payable semi-an-
nually and redeemable in twenty-five years from the
date thereof, and from time to time said bonds
are issued and negotiated by the said common coun-
Gill; the proceeds thereof shall be paid into the treas
ury of said board, to the credit of said workhouse
Sec. II. This act shall take effect from and after
its passage.
THE COURTS.
United States Circuit Court.
Before Judge Nelson.l
Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance company VS..
Josiah Thompson ct. al. Decree in foreclosure
ordered.
Adjourned to February.