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4.
Any convict who is able to work and
refuses to so shall receive no food
except bread and water during the
term he so refuses TO work, and such
time shall not be counted as service
of bis sentence.
The foregoing shows the essential
lectures OF the bill. The effect of
such law, properly enforced, will be
to compel these vioIators of the law
| to render some service to the public
in retuin for the troutle aud expense
caused by them, and at the same time
greatly benefit the persons themselves.
An act to provide for the working
inmates OF The penitentiary in the
preparation of material for roaG con-
struction.
The two commissioners appointed
from the two Congressional districts
as provided by the johnson Bill, {"
together with the superintendent OF
the penitentiary, shall constitute, for
the purpose of this act, the "Convict
Labor 3oaru."
Any county, acting through the
county court. by applying to the Con
vict Labor Board" may procure such
number OF convicts as, in the judge
ment of the "Convict Labor Board, "
il can care for, for use in the prepara
tion OF material for building roads.
The counties desiring such convicts
shall file requests with the Board stat
ing the number desired and these re
quests shalt be acted on In the order
presented. first come first served.
The county shall pay all tie expense
of guarding, caring for and keeLlng
such conVicts as it obtains. he
Board shall appoint one of the guards
who shall have general charge of con-
yicts while In charge of the county.
3.
If the whole number of convicts
in the penitentiary available for such
work are not taken by the counties,
the Convict Labor Board may secnre
rock uuarries and employ the remain
ing oonvicts in crushing rock snit"i 'e
for making macadamiZed roads, which
shall be sold TO the several counties
at actual cost of production. Pro7i'
sion is made for an equitable distrtbu
tiop of this crushed rock SO that each
county may have fair chance to oh
tain 1t. About fifty convicts can bp
proHtably employed in the operation
Of each crushing plsnt and ii sutfi-
cient number are available for that
purpose latter county requests have
been supplied in subdivision two
, above), three such plants shall be es'
tablished, one in southern Oregon,
ons in the Willamette valley and one
In eastern Oregon. If there are mol
enough tor three then the Board shal
decide at which Of the above places
the plants shall be established. II
there ale more than enough for these
three, then additional ones shall ht
provided, and these shall be located
wherever the Board may determine.
Some OF the inmates OF the peniten
tiary are required to work on the far n
and grounds connected with that in
J stitution and others are not able tt
work. but 1t Is estimated that ordi
parily there will be from one hundred
, and fifty to two hundred availa BILE fol
work under this act.
: The above is briet statement o
? the essential features of the bill. FG
J several years many OF the inmates o
the penitentisry have Teen hired Gu
, to a stove manufacturing company a.
thirty. FIVE cents a day. In this vs!
this labor has been brought In direc
, competition with free labor. lhi
, bill, therefore, not only relieves ire'
! labor of this competition, but utilize
/ the work of the convicts in building
! up the state by the construction o
> permsnept and substantial public
, reads.