The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-02-24
GlYNNN COUNTY COUNTY TO
RECEIVE "A
CONvICTS
A RAPID CHANGE WILL BE MADE
IN THIS STATE ON MARCH 81.
ALL COUNTIES MUST BE READY
TO MOVE coNVIcTs.

Radical and sweeping ch aA.ges IS
Georgia penitentiary syst Wiz
take place overnight betweem MareA
81 and April l.
Within hye weeks the last Sestigs
OF the convict lease system, WHICH has
been IN operation in the staae f9r
more than thirty years, viii AYE dss-
appeared, and some 2,000 conv Iets Nill
Ge at work upon the public rbads OF
Georgia in l05 OF its l4o counvles.
Since the completion OF the legis-
lation last September, under which
these changes are 10 take place, those
counties which propose to participate
in this splendid opportunity which the
state offers them, have been, in a
measure. preparing themselves to
take up this progressive work, not
withstanding which it is all new to
many of them, and they will have
much to learn both from observation
and experience.
Twenty nine Georgia counties have
been using state conyicts for road
work for the last five years, under the
law permitting them to take the short
term men, with marked success, ana
it is a significant fact that not one
of these counties is missing from the
list of those which have made requi-
sition for convcts under the new law
What the Counties Are to Do
officials in many of the counties
which have made requlsition for con-
victs have been under the mistaken
impression that all they had to do was
, to sit down and wait for the state to
send it convict gang, and then put
it 10 work.
The state is not going to do any
thing of the kind The prison com
mission viii, not later than March 10,
deliver to each board of county com
miSsioners an order for the number
OF convicts to which that county Is
entitled. It will then become the duty
OF the county authorities to send to
/ the camp upon which this order Is
! made and TO transport the convicts
I from such camp at its own expense to
! the county seat
In order to insure the greatest pos
sible safety the commission will re-
nire thar each county employ one Of
he guards now in the service of the
state for the purpose Of transportation
and installation in their new quarters
uch guard to be reta ned for week
or two until system an order has beer
established.
ais and all other expenses inclden'
10 the transfer Of the conyicts from
lie present lease camps to the county
seats must be ! 1rne by the respective
5untjes
Another thing re will be no ia
.orites. Each county must take the
.onyicts just as they come; none WI
allowed to pick their men.
The commission win endeayor, il
o far as is possible, to give eacI
.3unty an order upon the lease camI
0cated nearest to it, in order tha
there may be no more expense thar
necessary in the transfer.
1t win be found in few instances
hat terms OF certain conyicts will eX-
)ire early in April, but the counties
Eill have to take these conyicts JUS
IS they come and on the same basi:
IS though they were long-tarn
len.
The work Of apportioning the con
lets has been finished by the prison
| ommission and the number OF con
lets that each county is to receive
as just been announced. Fourteen
we're given 10 GIynn county.