Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-04-23
NO. 200

OOLlDAllON OF IHE HOUSE
OF CORRECTION WITH THE
STATE PRISON. TO AUTHOR
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 I. The board of control II
hereby authorized and empowered ton
negotiate with the commissioners named
in an act of the general assembly of
nineteen hundred and nineteen entitled
IAN act relating to the appointment of
commissioners to act for Rutland
county for certain purposes" approved
March IA, 1919, for the purpose of
determining and adjusting the respec-
tive rights as between the state and the
county of Rutland in the house of cor
rection in the city of Rutland under
and by virtue of No. 3 of the acts Of
1870 and to determine what, If any, con-
sideration should be paid to said county
TOR release of such rights, If any, az
the county may have in the house of
correction; and upon such determine
ton the auditor of accounts, with the
approval of the board Of control, is
hereby authorized, empowered and
directed to draw his order to the treas
NJ E.
any, not exceeding thirty thousand dol
said board and said commissioners,
settlement and discharge OF all claims
and demands which said county may
have in and to the house Of correction
as aforesaid. II. in the Judgment OF
the board of control, an adjustment
can be made by transfer to said county
of portion of the premises now used
as house of correction, in lieu of a
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. 2. When such agreement is con-
summated and the conditions thereof
performed, whether by payment of
cash consideration or by transfer Of
property, the director of state institu-
tions is hereby authorized and empow-
cred, with the approval of the board OF
control, to dispose of said premises and
property or such thereof as then re-
mains. when, in his judgment and that
OF the board, satisfactory dispositic-
OF the same can be made and for that
purpose the director is hereby author
lied 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. 3. Section 7I27 of the General
Laws is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Sec, 7I27. The state prison at Wind
sor shall be the general penitentiary and
prison of the state for the reformation
and punishment of offenders, except as
provided in the following section, in
which shall be securely confined en-
ployed and governed, offenders sem
fenced to solitary imprisonment or con-
tinement therein 1t hard labor
Sec. 4. Section 7I2S of the General
Laws is hereby amended so as to read
as follows
Sec, 7I2S. There shah be established
ard maintained at the state prison in
Windsor, a department thereof to be
known as the house of correction for
the punishment, employment and re-
formation OF persons convicted of crime,
as provided in this chapter and wher-
ever in the General Laws reference Is
made to the house of correction it shall
ne construed to mean the house of cor
rection above described.
Sec. 5. Persons hereafter sentenced
to confinement in the house of correc-
ton shall be committed to the DEPART
lnent of the state prison designated az
the house OF correction; and persons
now serving sentences in the house of
correction at Rutland shall, upon war
rants issued by the governor, be trans
ferred to such department for and dur
ing the remainder of the term Of their
sentences.
Sec, 6. Section 7I47 Of the General
Laws Is hereby amended so az to read
as follows:
Sec. zIAz. Said director shaIl ~.