Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-04-25

Assembly OF the state CT CFFffoi}i
Section l. The director of state in
situations shall. subject 10 the approval
OF the board OF control. lease such farm
Tor farms or lands as said board deems
advisable for the establishment of state
detention farms. at the expense of the
state. Such farms shall be for the dis
cipiinc. correction, reformation, instruc-
ton and work of persons confined IN
iails Such detention farms shall be
under the control and management OF
said director
Sec. > Said director shall make rea-
sonable rules and regulations for the
management of such farms and persons
removed thereto. and he NAV. subject
to the approval of the board of control,
employ superintendent and attendants
for such farms and persons removed
thereto. Said director may, subject to
the approval of the board of control.
equip such farms or land with buildings
and equipment and provide necessary
{ tools for persons removed to such farms.
Sec 3 The director of state institu-
| tons shall cause persons removed TO Il
detention farm TO perform such work on
or IN the vicinity Of such farm as the
board of control deems advisable, and
may make contracts for labor to be per-
/ formed by such persons.
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rect accounts of the expenditure for and
receipts from such farms and shall quar-
| terly pay all moneys received into the
state treasury.
| Sec. :. A person removed to such a
| farm, who performs labor in accordance
with the rules prescribed by said direc-
! tor, shall receive such sum per day as the
board of control shall from time to time,
fix, which money shall be paid to said
persons or their dependents in such man
ner as said director directs.
! Sec 6. All expenses incurred under
! the preceding sections of this act shall
| be paid by the state when accounts ac-
oompanied with the proper vouchers
/ therefor have been approved by the audi
| tor of accounts.
Sec. 7. Section of No. 10 of the
acts of 1908 (Sec zoos of the General
: Laws, as proposed) is hereby amended
so as to read as follows:
Sec. ?. (Sec. ZOOS G. L. The gov
! ernor may. in his discretion, remove any
person confined in any Jail or removed
/ to detention farm to any other jail or
detention farm. Such removal shall be
made by the written order of the gov
/ ernor addressed to the sheriff of the
county wherein the person is confined or
where the person to be removed IS. The
i be kept on file in the executive depart
ment. and three certified copies thereof.
Terrified to by the secretary of civil and
military affairs, shall be furnished said
sheriff Said sheriff shall remove the
person named in such order of removal
/ to the Jail or detention farm named in
such order and shall give one of such
icopies to the keeper of the Jail in which
| the person is confined or to the super
intendent of the detention farm where
such person is, and the other copy shall
/ be delivered by the sheriff to the keeper
of the Jail or the superintendent of the
! detention farm to which such person is
removed The order shall recite the
process upon which the person was COM
mitted to the jail and shall state the day
of such commitment A person in jail
not under sentence shall not be so re-
moved without his consent If the per-
son so removed IS under sentence, the
| term of the sentence shall be computed
| from the day of the original commitment
and the term of such sentence shall be
stated in the order of removal, and the
/ time spent in removing and in serving in
the jail or detention farm to which re-
moved, shall be computed as time served
under the sentence.
/ Sec s. Persons so removed, who were
confined in jail not under sentence or
tawaiti1g trial, shall be discharged from
| a detention farm at the time and in the
manner they would have been discharged
/ from jail if they had not been so re-
moved. A person removed to a deten
tion farm, who was confined in a jail
awaiting trial, shall be returned to such
/ Jail by the superintendent of such farm
at least five days preceding the day on
which he IS required to plead in the court
which has jurisdiction of the ofense for
which he was originally committed, and
1.-THE expense of return shall be paid by
the state.
! Sec o. A person removed to a deten-
/ ton farm, as provided by this act who
Escapes or attempts to escape from such
farm, from the superintendent thereof
or from an attendant under whose charge
/ he is, shall be imprisoned not more than
+ five years or fined not more than FIVE
/ hundred dollars
Sec 10. A person who irterferes with
/ or in any way interrupts the work of
person employed as provided III section
+ three of this act shall be imprisoned
not more than one year or fined not more
than three hundred dollars, or both.
! The superintendent of a detention farm
and attendants of persons removed there
/ to may arrest without 4 warrant a per
/ son found violating a provision OF this
section.
! Sec. II. Said superintendent and at
pendants shall have the same power and
authority over persons under their
charge as sheriffs have in control and
Icarc of prisoners committed to their Gus
| tody
Approved April ?, 1917.