Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-04-23
NO. 200

or CORRECTION WITH THE
STATE PRISON, TO AUTHOR
lZE THE BOARD or CONTROL.
TO DETERMINE AND ADJUST
THE RESPECTIVE INTERESTS
OF THE STATE AND THE
COUNTY OF RUTLAND IN THE
HOUSE OF CORRECTION. AND
TO AMEND AND REPEAL GER
TAIN SECTIONS OF THE GEN
ERAL LAWS, RELATING TO THE
HOUSE OF CORRECTION AND
THE STATE PRISON AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section l. The board of control IS
hereby. authorized and empowered to
negotiate with the commissioners named
in an act of the general assembly of
nineteen hundred and nineteen entitled
An act relating to the appointment of
to act for Rutland
county for certain purposes" approved
March ID, 1919, for the purpose of
determining and adjusting the respec-
tive rights as between the state and the
co,mty of Rutland in the house of cor
rection in the city of Rutland under
and by virtue Of No 3 of the acts of
1876 and to determine what, if any, con-
sideration should be paid to said county
for release of such rights, If any, as
the county may have in the house of
and upon such determine
ton the auditor of accounts, with the
of the board of control, rs
hereby authorized, empowered and
directed to draw his order to the treas
urer of said county for s,ch sum, if
any, not exceeding thirty thousand dol
lars as may be agreed upon between
said board and said commissioners,
which sim shall be i'll full satisfaction.
settlement and discharge of all claims
and demands which said county may
have in and to the house of correction
as aforesaid. If, in the judgment of
the board of control, all adjustment
can be made by transfer to said county
Of portion of the premises now used
as house Of correction, in lieu of
money consideration as above provided,
the board is further authorized and en-
powered to make such agreement with
said commissioners as to the board seems
reasonable and proper to put into effect
such adjustment, and the director of
state institutions is hereby authorized
and empowered to make all necessary
deeds and conveyances to carry out such
agreement.
Sec. ?. When such agreement is coll
sunmated and the conditions thereof
performed, whether by payment of a
cash consideration or by transfer of
the director of state institu-
tons is hereby authorized and empow-
cred, with the approval of the board Of
control. to dispose of said premises and
or such thereof as then re-
mains, when, in his judgment and that
Of the board, a satisfactory disposition
Of the same can be made and for that
purpose the director is hereby author
ICED and empowered for and in behalf
Of the state and in its name to make all
necessary deeds and conveyances to
carry out the provisions of this section.
Sec. g. Section 7I27 of the General
Laws is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Sec. 7r27. The state prison at Wind
'or shall be the general penitentiary and
prison of the state for the reformation
and punishment of offenders, except as
in the following section, in
which shall be securely confined. em-
oloyed and governed, offenders sem
enced to solitary imprisonment or con-
inenent therein at hard labor.
Sec 4. Section 7I2S of the General
Laws is hereby amended SO as to read
is follows:
Sec 712S. There shall be established
md maintained at the state prison in
a department thereof to be
known as the house of correction for
The punishment, employment and re-
formation of persons convicted of crime,
Is provided in this chapter and wher-
ever in the General Laws reference 10
made to the house of correction it shall
oe construed to mean the house of cor
.ection above described.
Sec. 5. Persons hereafter sentenced
o confinement in the house of correc-
ion shall be committed to the Depart
nent of the state prison designated as
he house of correction; and persons
low serving sentences in the house of
at Rutland shall. upon war
ants issued by the governor, be trans
'errcd to such department for and dur
ng the remainder of the term of their
sentences.
Sec. 6. Section 7I47 of the General
laws is hereby amended so as to read
Is follows:
Sec, zIAz. Said director shall bien.