The Arizona sentinel., 1895-03-09
March i, 1895 -Introduced by Mr, Jones Read first time. Referred to Print ing Committee and 100 copies
 Ordered Printed.

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly
 Of the Territory Of Arizona:
 SECTION I. That Title II, Paragraph
 24l7, entitled Prisons and Jails, Chapter l,
 approved March 10, 1887, Revised Statutes
 of Arizona, be amended to read as follows
 SECTION That the Territorial prison be
 and the same is hereby permanently located
 at or near the city of Prescott, in the county
 of Yavapai, in the Territory of Arizona. SEC. ?. The Board of Prison Commission CTS or such other board as shall have charge
 and control of the Territorial prison shall,
 within thirty days from and after the pass
 age hereof, meet and select suitable grounds
 upon which to locate the Territorial prison. as hereinafter provided; also adopt suitable plans and specifications for the erection of proper buildings to be used as the Territorial prison, and Which shall be constructed under the supervision and direction of said Board of Prison Commissioners or other board as aforesaid, and, as far as practicable, the PA4SOAASAo bOllIAlCi GIlC 1CIIIGOIldl DTlSOn shall be used and employed in the con struction of said prison buildings. Said buildings are to be constructed at and upon a site suitable therefor, comprising not less than eighty acres, in compact form, in or adjacent to the city of Prescott, in the county of Yavapai, in the Territory of Arizona, which site shall be conveyed unto the Terri tory of Arizona free from all expense and free of all encumberances, to be used for the Territorial prison site
 SEC. 3. That as soon as the work of con struction of said buildings shall have progress ed sufficiently, said Board of Prison Com missioners or said other board, shall caused to be removed to the Territorial prison at Prescott, all prisoners confined in the Terri torial prison at Yuma, and shall, from time time, as the conditions warrant, remove the public personal property belonging and ap- pertaining to the Territorial prison at Yuma, to the Territorial prison at Prescott, and use, apply and employ the same in the construct tion and equipment of the said prison at Prescott, and the said board shall, as soon as possible, cause to be removed from said pris- on, in the city of Yuma, to the said Terri torial prison at the city of Prescott, all pris- oners who, in their opinion. are sufficiently trustworthy, and the said prisoners shall be placed at work upon the erection and con- struction of the said Territorial prison.
 SEC. f. There shall be, and there is here by established a fund to be known as the Territorial Prison Building Fund, and a direct tax of one mill on each one dollar of the assessed valuation of all the real and personal property Of the Territory of Arizona shall be levied and collected each year for two years, at the time and in the manner the county and territorial taxes are levied aud collected, and when collected, said tax shall be, by the Territorial Treasurer, placed in the Territorial Prison Building Fund z,
 The tax levied under the provisions or of this Act is hereby made lien against the property assessed, which lien shall attach upon the first Monday in March, in each year, and shall not be satisfied or re- moved until such tax is fully paid. The tax and money herein provided for and ap- propriated shall be used and expended for the purpose of the erection, construction, equipment, enlargement, repairing altering and maintaining the buildings, ce.ls, walls, and purchasing necessary machinery, and the grounds pertaining to the Territorial prison.
 SEC. 5. The Board of Prison Commits sioners, or the other board as aforesaid, at any proper meeting thereof, are hereby em- to examine, audit and allow, as is | now provided by law, all just claims arising 1 this Act, and the same shall be paid in the same manner, except that all warrants for the payment of claims arising under and by | virtue of this Act, shall be drawn upon the Territorial Prison Building Fund, and the l Territorial Treasurer shall pay said warrants l out of any money in said fund.
 SEC. $. All Acts and parts of Acts in 1 conflict with the provisions of this Act are | hereby repealed.
 SEC. 7. This Act shall be in force from and after it's passage.