The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-02
TRANSFER WILL TAKE TIME.
NEW GEORGIA CONVICT SYSTEM
NOW GOES INTO EFFECT.

NOW CUES ANlO TT L II Il
The Lame. the Halt and the Blind
VIII he kept ON the Prison Farm
at MiIIedgeviIIc-Others VIII Be
Leased Under New COntracts-New
Law VIII Net the state More Than
the Old one-The New Con-
tractors.
Atlanta. April THE old convict law
which has been in force in Georgia for
twenty years past. was superseded to-day
by the law recently passed by the legis-
lature.
For the next FIVE years at least, the state
will deal with it's convicts upon a plan in
many respects radically different from
that in force in the past
Under the new law there will be a state
central prison at which will be confined
the women. the aged and indrm and the
juvenile convicts This is located near
Afmedgeville. a tract of land having been
bought there by the state for use as
penitenuary. These convicts will be en-
ployed in farming and in the construction
of a set of buildings to be used as a penl-
tertiary in case the state desires at the
end of the five years lease, which took
effect to-day, to assume entire charge of
her convicts She will have the necessary
buildings and equipment tc do it.
Trouble in the Transfers.
The work of transferring the convicts
from the old lessees to the new ones was
commenced to-day, but little was accom-
prshed beside the prelminaries. In fact,
the transfers will involve much in the
way of actual removal of prisoners, as all
but six of the new lessees and contractors
who get men from the state are the same
parties who have had the convicts in the
past. The most of the removals will be
among the classes that are to be sent TO
the state farm at Milledgeville, and on ac-
count of the fact that things are not ready
10 receive them there yet, they will not be
sent there for some days yet, probably NOT
for two weeks.
The work of erecting the buildings neces-
sary for the accommodation of the con-
victs at the state farm has been unavoid-
ably and Unexpectedly delayed by the It'll
cation over the use of the site brought on
by the people of Milledgeville who fear
ed that their water supply would be con-
taminated.
In addition to this one of the buildings
was recently blown down by wind storm,
and this must be replaced. These builG-
ings are of wood and intended TO serve
temporarily until the convicts can be put
TO work upon the permanent penitentiary
buildings.
The new law will net the state $4,000
a year more than the old law. The old
law brought in only S25 900 and IS 600 of
this was used for administrative purposes.
The new law will bring in approximate
ly $4,000. Under the new law. however,
the state furnishes the guards and medi-
cal attention to the convicts, which was
supplied by the lessees under the old law.
The prison board has decided for the
present TO make no changes among the
guards, and those heretofore employed by
the lessees win serve the state until fur
cher notice.
The following is a list of the lessees
and contractors who have been allotted
convicts by the commissioners: Enter
prise Lumber Company, Pitts, and Worth,
Ga; Parrot Lumber Company, Richmond,
Ga; 7. L. James, Adrian, Ga; Donald
son Lumber Company, Donaldsonville,
Ga; g. V. Gress, Kramer. Ga; Flower &
Co, Jakin, Ga; j. NJ. Smith, Smithsonia;
G. s. Baxter & Co, Haylow, Ga; NJ. w.
Dixon, AleXandersville and Rocky Ford.
Ca; Candar Lumber Company, Worth.
Ga; Chattahoochee Brick Company At
lanta; Cruger & Pace Albany, Ga; Grier
& Son, Damascus, Ga; Southern Mining
Company, Cole City Ga; w. H. Maddox,
Ebert county; Chickamauga Coal and
Coke Company, Durham, Ga.