Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-04-25

1t Is hereby enacted by the General
Asscmhlv of the State Of Vcrsnonf.

It Is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section I. The director of state in
stitutions shall, subject to the approval
of the board of control, lease such farm
or 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
ciipline, correction. reformation, instruc-
jails. Such detention farms shall be
under the control and management of
said director.
Sec. 2. Said director shall make rea-
sonable rules and regulations for the
management of such farms and persons
removed thereto, and he may, 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. 8. The director of state institu-
tons shall cause persons removed to q
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.
Sec. 4 Said director shan keep cor
rect accounts of the expenditure for md
receipts from such farms and shall quar-
terly pay all moneys received into the
state treasury.
Sec. S. A person removed to such q
farm, who performs labor IN accordance
with the rules prescribed by said diree-
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. s. All expenses incurred under
the preceding sections Of this act shall
be paid by the state when accounts ac-
companied with the proper vouchers
therefor have been approved by the audi
tor of accounts.
Sec. =. Section 2 of No. 176 of the
acts of 1903 (Sec. zoos of the General
Laws, as proposed) is hereby amended
so as to read as follows:
Sec. 2. (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
original of such order of removal shall
be kept on file in the executive depart
ment and three certified copies thereof,
certified to by the secretary of civil and
military affairs, shall be furnished said
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person named in such order of removal
such order and shall give one of such
copies to the keeper of the jail in which
the person is confined or to the SUPER
intendcnt OF the detention farm where
such person is, and the other copy shall
be delivered by the sheriff to the keeper
lof 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. g. Persons so removed, who were
confined in Jail not under sentence OF
awaiting 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 offense for
which he was originally committed. and
the expense of return shall be paid by
the state.
Sec. 9. 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 thar
five years or fined not more than five
hundred dollars.
Sec. 10. A person who interferes with
or in any way interrupts the work of a
person employed as provided in 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 detention farm
and attendants of persons removed there
to may arrest without warrant a per-
son found violating a provision of this
section.
Sec. H.. Said superintendent and at
authority over persons under theil
charge as sheriffs have in control and
care of prisoners committed to their Gus.
tody.
Approved April 2, 1917.