Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1909-07-30
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to Garry out the Provisions Of This

state or FlOflQas
Section /. The Board of Commissioners
Of State Institutions are hereby author
lied and directed to select and purchase
tract or body OF land, with or without
improvements, suitable for agricultural
purposes, having in view. convenience to
transportation and accessibility for handl-
Ing the prison population, so far as prao-
ticable. The title to the property shall be
based upon, and be approved by, the Ate
torney General Of the State prior to the
payment for the property. The farm TO
be purchased to consist Of not less than
five hundred acres. The farm to be used
as State Prison Farm or Penitentiary.
Sec. 2. The said Board Of Commission
ers OF State Institutions is authorized to
erect on said property suitable buildings
for, properly conducting and maintaining
State Prison Farm, and to make such
additional improvements from time to
time as such an institution should have to
reasonable demands of such an institu-
ton.
The said Board is authorized to pur-
chase such live stock, tools, machinery
and other implements as may be neces-
sary to equip and properly conduct such
state Prison Farm, and to furnish the
buildings in such manner as will properly
care for such Of the State Prison popula-
tlon as may be located on said farm;
making proper provision for having the
male and female prisoners separated, and
ored prisoners. except when It may be
necessary for them to be placed together
In their daily work and to provide hos
pital building for the proper care and
maintenance OF sick and diseased pris-
oners
Sec 8, The said Board Of Commits
sloners of state Institutions Is hereby au4
lease, all females, the aged, diseased,
crippled, deformed and all other prison.
ers who, in the. discretion of said Board.
manual labor The method OF determining
what prisoners are subject to the pro-
visions Of this Act shall be determined by
the Board Of Commissioners of State In
s.-tutions. All such prisoners as above
described that may be determined as tit
subjects therefor shall be placed on the
said Prison Farm, where they are to be
used IN SO far as practicable, at work on
Sec. A. The cost Of maintaining, guard
ing, clothing furnishing capable medical
treatment, and other requisites necessary
such an institution shall be paid by the
State from the funds arising from the hire
OF such prisoners as are leased from time
to time, after first using the production
of the farm, in so far as 1t can be done
institution.
Sec. s.. The management and general
control OF the farm or prison shall be In
accord with the laws in force in this
State relative to a State Penitentiary or
Prison In so far as they may be applic
able to an institution Of this character.
of this Act, the sum OF fifty Thousand dol
lars is hereby appropriated from the fund
to be derived from, the hire OF State pris-
oners under the lease which goes into
effect January 1, 1910, which appropria-
ton shall be available in quarterly sums
Of ten thousand dollars until the full
necessary, is paid, The Board Of Com
missloners of State Institutions shall
make requisition on such appropriation
from time to time as money is required,
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tons to be signed by the Governor and
Commissioner Of Agriculture, and on such
requisition the Comptroller shall issue his
shall pay the same out Of such fund.
Sec. Z. The Board OF Commissioners OF
State Institutions Is hereby authorized to
ecuted by said Board for the hire OF State
prisoners for four years commencing
January LIST, 1910, on the terms and stip-
llations set out in said lease contract,
wherein 1t Is provided that the Lessee
Company shall pay on all prisoners not
from the lease contract an
additional sum Of fifteen per cent. per
'apita per annum on the amount bid for
vs. are described In Section of this Act.
Sec 8. The Commissioner of Agricul-
ure is hereby directed to have Kept a
correct account OF all matters. pertaining
o the State Prison Farm herein provided
or and to report fully biennially to the
legislature as is now provided by law
y.
Sec. 8. The Prison Farm herein pro-
'ided for shall be known as, and for all
purposes be, the State Penitentiary OF
florida. The Board of Commissioners OF
state Institutions shall elect a .Superin-
endent thereof, whose salary, not to ex-
eed two thousand dollars per annum,
hall be fixed by said Board; and such
ther help as may be deemed necessary
" said Board shall be employed and their
shall be fixed by said Board.
III salaries shall be paid from the pro-
eeds from the hire Of State prisoners.
Sec. TO- At any time a male State
risoner confined in the State Prison
arm herein provided for may become
BILE to perform full manual labor as an
BILE bodies prisoner, he may be turned
yer to the Lessee Company for hire
nder the contract price for leased pris-
ners, upon the recommendation Of the
Commissioner Of Agriculture, with the APP
roval of the Board Of Commissioners Of
tate Institutions,
Sec. II, All laws or parts Of laws in con-
let with the provisions of this Act be,
nd the same are hereby repealed.
Sec. H. The provisions of this Act shall
ike effect and be in full force upon its
assage and approval by the Governor, or
pom its becoming law without such
pproval
Approved June Z, 1909.
CHAPTER 5s42-(No. 7s).