The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1913-10-21
SPECIAL. NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that ~.
Board of Penitentiary Commissioned
will receive proposals for the sale h
the state farm for the use Of tha
state convicts.
The purchase of said farm, Should
suitable proposition be received IN
the Commission, will be made in con-
formity with the provisions of the
Act. No. SO, approved February 81
1913, which reads in part as follows:
Section /. Said commission shall
use and work all convicts on the state
farm, in cultivating crops grown on
said farm, clearing up, draining and
putting into state of cultivation all
the tillable land of the state adjacent
thereto, and in doing all other things
incident to the successful operation
of said state farm. And said board
is hereby authorized and empowered
to purchase and equip farm in some
section of the state reasonably free
from malaria and in a locality health.
full to white conVicts, said farm not
to exceed five thousand acres of land
for the purpose of working thereon al
farming all white convicts confined
or to be confined in the penitentiary
and to pay for said farm out of ths
labor or product of the labor Of any
of the convicts of the state. Said
board is hereby authorized and emI
powered to buy said farm partly o.
wholly upon credit and to CONTRACT
to pay interest not exceeding 8 pep
cent per annum on all deferred pay
ments, and shall have power and au1
thority to bind the state to pay the
same debt and interest out OF any
moneys arising from convict labor !,
Every proposition submitted shall
set out in detail all the conditions re-
ouired for the said convict farm az
shown in the above described Act No'
60, and addition thereto, must De ~
companied by an accurate map or pal
showing its acreage, IN cultlValsu'
timber and waste land separa!t,eiy'
shape and location showing nelghoOi
hood, roads, rivers, streams ana gen,
eral contour of the country, as WI
as the nearest railroads. shippns
point, distance from Little ROCK, liOm,
other cities near, pOstottceS, Town ~
such information as may be OF valaJ
in determining the usefulness OF say
farm for the purpose intended III .S sa,S
act. Each proposition should SNOW ay
county in which farm is locaVeu, S a
in what manner it may most feau
be reached. The location ana cV ,and
of all improvements on tne .,omo.
should be shown in submitting piOp'
sieion. colid|
Tracts of land not forming sOa yin;
or compact body will not likely ,,o SJI
the purpose of the state, nor wV srs|
small tracts of less than twenty"
hundred acres likely be sufllcie .,.;Ii ba|
No verbal or private oilers -, S best|
considered, and the lowest anu nr;g Email
terms must be set out in the ori = hi
proposition, all of which mus' "
Every Every proposition must be suO ,diue|
ed with the distinct unders1a npEN|
that same is to be opened at an W rs
meeting of the Penitentlary t .Sn citv|
sioners, same to be held NJ NH II
of Little Rock, Ark, on NOVEL, Sord room
1913, at 10 a. m. in the Oo"i'
at the state penitentary' .;dor ar-I
This board will not consiuos sition|
puments in favor of any prGsp tor ex-
before that time. nor thereaitehl,, ard
cont ut official meetings of the uua
All proposals will be fully nlS' be-
gated and impartially coll snJe
fore any final decision IS Tn ll,aus
J. A. Bradsher'
T. P. Murrey,; orers
BOARD of Penitentiary CommlssloHe.17