Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-02-26

penitenttary shall support and maintain
and guard said convcts and transport
them to and from the penitentiary at his
own proper cost and expense, free OF cost
to the territory OF New Mexico.
II any contractor, guard or other per-
son or persons having the custody of any
convict from the territorial penitentiary
delivered under the provisions of this act
| for the construction of any building or
| improvement of any of the institutions
hereby created shall wilfully or negligent
! ly suffer or permit any such convict to
make his escape, or shall beat, whip, Cr
| abuse in an inhuman manner any such
| convict, such person shall be guilty Of
mlsdemeanor, and upon conviction there
OF, Shall be fined in any sum not less than
500 nor more than 81 900, in the dis
| cretion of the court before whom the con-
vlctiOn shall he had If any convict in
the custody of any contractor, guard or
other person, under the provisions of this
act, shall make his escape from such con-
tractor, guard or other person and shall
not voluntarily return and surrender him
self to his keepers within twentv-four
hours after such escape, such convict upon
conviction thereof shall be punished by
confinement in the territorial penitentiary
Tor period of three years from and after
the expiration of his previous sentence,
and he Shall forfeit all allowances for
good conduct previously earned by him.
Every contractor who snail receive the
convicts from the warden, manager or
superintendent of the pententiary under
the provisions of this act, shall submit to
such rules and regulations for the care,
custody and maintenance of such con-
victs as shall be prescribed by the board
| of the institution where they may be en-
ployed and any contractor who shall fail
| to observe and perform all rules and regu-
lations so prescribed by the said board
shall forfeit his right to the labor of such
convicts and such convicts shall, upon
the order of the said board for such cause,
be returned to the territorial penitentiary
or delivered to some other contractor, if
any such there be but no such convicts,
under any pretense whatever, be ON
ployed at any other labor than that con-
templated by this act while in the GUS
tody of any such contractor.
Sec. 81. The members of the several
boards of the institutions established BY
this act shall be allowed their actual and
necessary travelling expenses in going to
and returning from all necessary sessions
Of their respective boards and also their
necessary expenses while in actual at
tendance upon the same.
All the institutions provided for in this
act shall forever remain strictly non-sec-
tartan in character and no creed or sys-
tenn OF religion shall be taught in any of
them.
For the purpose of erecting any OF the
buildings or improvements of the several
institutions provided for and created by
this act, the several boards shall have the
right to call upon the warden, manager
or superintendent Of the territorial peni-
Tertiary at Santa Fe, for any amount of
brick they may require for such purpose,
and upon such board making such re-
quest in writing the said warden, man.
ager or superintendent shall, and it is
hereby made his duty to Immediately by
by means of convict labor cause said
number of brick 80 ordered to be loaded
on the cars at Santa Fe and shipped to
the said institution, provided; that no
charge shall be made for said brick or for
the loading of the same to any OF the
public institutions created by this act,
but the said brick shall be so furnished
and loaded free of charge. The brick on
hand at the territorial penitentiary at the
date of the passage OF this act, shall be
reserved for the building of the several
public institutions hereby created, unless
the same can be sold for cash at price
not less than SO per thousand. If any
officer of the pententiary violates any
of the provisions of this act by refusing
to deliver convicts, refusing to deliver
brick or selling the same he shall be sub
ject to removal by the governor and be
guilty OF felony, and on conviction shall
be punished by fine of not less than
800 nor more than $500 or to imprison-
ment for term of not less than six
months or more than two years, or both in
the discretion of the court before whom
the cause is tried.
The several boards are vested with
power to appoint subordinate officers of
the various institutions over which they
preside and have general control and
management of the institutions, shall
make annual reports, ETC., and the gov
ernor and territorial superintendent of
education are made ex-of1icio advisory
members Of the boards of regents for the
several institutions. The law is complete
in every essential, going into the utmost
detail on every point and makes a volumi-
nous document OF twenty-four type writ
ten pages.