The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-16

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legs lature of Alabama, that there is hereby created the office of Inspector of jails and allnshouses and the inspector shall be a praoticng physician in good stand ing, learned in the science of sanitation and hygiene and shall be appointed by the Governor, and shall hold his office for a term of four years from the date Of his appointment
 Sec. 9. The salary of the Inspector shall be twenty-four hundred dollars G'4o.o, annually, and in addition to his salary he shall be paid his necessary traveling expenses to be paid as the salaries of the state officers are paid.
 Sec. B. It shall be the duty of the h. spector of jails and almshouses to visit at least twice a year, and oftener if he can, every county jail and almshouse in the State, and to aid in securing the just, humane. and economic management of all such institutions to aid in securing the erection of sanitary buildings for the accommodation of the inmates of such institution, to investigate the management of all such institutions andthe conduct and efficiency of the officers or persons charged with their management. To se- cure the best sanitary conditions of the buildings and grounds of all such institu- tions and to make a detailed report to the Governor after each visit, of the number of inmates in each such jail and aims house their condition as to health, the condition in which buildings are kept the sanitary arrangements for the sanitation I..,4IA at,I rpdC managing such institution and keeping tine inmates, and whether the money ap- propriated for such purposes is properly expended therefor, and he shall at the same time, give a copy of his report to the court of County commissioners or Boards of Revenue of the County in which such jails and almshouses are situ- ated together with such recommendation for the betterunent of the conditions of the jails and alnshouses as he shall append to his report to the Governor.
 Sec. 1. For the purpose of ascertaaning the condition of such institutions and their inmates and in making tho reports required to be made under this Act and his recommendations for the improve ments of the condition of the institutions, he may call upon the sheriff or other keepers of the jails or Commissioners Courts or Board of Revenue and all per- sons charged with the management of tho almshouses for information upon all such matters as he Is herein required to re- port upon, and may also summons before him any witness or witnesses and may administer oath to them and examine them touching all such matters.
 Sec. 5. Any sheriff or other keeper of jails or members of Commissioners Court or Board of Revenue, or Keeper or man. ager of any almshouse or any person or persons charged with the management of any almshouse who shall wi11fully refuse or fail to give the inspector the informa- ton called for by him, and any such of ficer or other person who, when sum- moned by the Inspector to como before him and testify concerning any matter upon which the Inspector is hereby re- auired to report shall willfully refuse or fail to attend and testify, shall be deemed guilty of a nisdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars.
 Sec. G. Whenever such Inspector shall make written report to the Board Of County Commissioners or Board of Reve- nue, that certain conditions in Jails or almshousee shall be remedied, they shall at once have the matter attended to with in thirty days and shall make written re- port to the Inspector that suoh orders have been carrded out. Tn event such in-
 
 Inspector shall order all persons confined in such jails or almshouses transfcrred to the sails and alsrnouses of somo other county, and such removal shall be made by the sheriff of the County from which they arc ordered to be removed, the ex- pense of the removal of the prisoners and the poor, and of the maint enance of re- moved paupcrs to be borne by the County from which such parties are removed Upon the restoration of any jail or aims house to a proper sanitary condition, the Inspector shall be notified in writing by tho presiding officer of the Board of County Commissioners or Board of Reve- nue. whereupon the said Inspector shall issue a written order for the return of said inmates and they shall be returned at the expense of the County from which they have been removed.
 Sec. '. If any sheriff or Commissioners Court or Board Of Revenue wilfully fail or refuse without good excuse to obey such ouders such sheriff or the members of the Commissioners court or Board of Revenue shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars for each any every offenss.
 Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the Courts of County Commissioners and Board Of Revenue to cause the reports and recommendations of the Inspector upon the Jails and almshouses in their re- spective Counties to be published not later than thirty days after the receipt of a copy of such reports and recommen- dations, in some newspaper published in said Counties, and 1t shall also be the duty of the Probate Judge to lay such report and recommendations before the grand juries in their respective Counties at the next meeting of such grand juries after a receipt of copy of such reports The cost of the publication of such report shall be paid out of the general fund of the County in which it is published upon the order of the Court of County Com missioners or Board of Revenue of such counties.
 Sec. g. The Inspector of jalls and almshouses shall reside in the City of Montgomery and shall have an office in the Capitol
 Sec. 10. It shall also be the duty of said Inspector to visit at least four times