Year: 1865

fPuBLIc- Nc. 69.l


An concerning the disposition of convics IN the


courts OF the United States, for the subsisilng oil


persons confined in jails charged with violating


abe DAVIS of the United States, and for diminishing


the expenses in relation thereto.


BE it enacfed bY the Senate and House O HePTe-
sentdtires of the United States Of AmerIcd IN Con-
gress assembled, That all persons who nave 0eeh or
who IN " hereafter be convicted Ot crime Oy any
court of the United States-not military-the pun
i.hmcnt whereof shall be Imprisonment, IN district
ar Territory where, the time of such conviction,
there NAV be pencntiary or other prison suitable
for the oninement of convicts of the United States
and available therefor, shall be confined during the
term for which they have been or may he sentenced
in some suitable prison in convenient State or Ter
rtory be designated by the Secretary of the In
ter0r and shall be transported and delivered the
warden or keeper of the prison by the marshal of the
district or Territory where such conviction shall
have occurred or IT such conviction be had in the
District of Columbia, then and in such case the
transportation and delivery shall be by the warden
rf the Jail of said District the reasonable actual
pense of transportation, necessary subsistence and
hire, and transportation of guards and the marshal
or the warden of the Jail in the District of Columbia,
only to be paid by the Secretary of the Interior,
OF the Judiciary fund PrOuided That it, in the opin-
I1n OF the >, cretary, the expense OF transportation
from any State, Territory, the District Of Colum-
bIa, IN which there is no penentiary, will exceed
the cost of maintaining them in Jail iii the State,
y
period of their sentence, then it shall be lawful to
cnn6nc them therein for the period designated in
Ihclr sentence.


sc 2. And be it farther enacted, That it shall be
the duty OF the Secretary of the Interior to contract
with the nlInagers proper authorities having the
control of such prison prisoners, for the imprIsOn
inent, subsistence, aud proper employment of all
such prisoners, aud 10 give the court having lursdc
ton Of .Ich Offences in said District, notice of the
P1i~on where such persons will be confined if con-
tIcied.


Sec. 3. And b: it further enacted, That hereafter
there shall he allowed and paid by the Secretary Of
tr Interior, for the subsistence of prisoners in the
cutndy of any marshal of the United States and the
warden of the Jail in the District of Columbia, such
sum only it shall reasonably and actually cost to
suhsist them. And il shall be the duty of the Sec.
retHry of thu Intror to prescribe such rules and
gUatiOns for the government Of the marshalS and
the warden OF the Jail in the District of Columbia in
relation to their duties under this act, will enable
him to determine the actual and reasonable expense
incurred.


Sec 4. And be it further enacted, That il shall be
the duty OF the warden of the Jail in the District OF
COldnbla, whenever any person confined In said Jail
srll be ad 1dged to suffer DEATH TO carry such udg
ment into execution; but nothing in this act nor IAN
act to authorize the appointment of warden of the
Jail in the District Of Columbia" approved February
twenty nine, eighteen hundred and sixty FOUR shall
tie construed to impair interfere with the authori-
ty of the marshal of the said District to commit per-
sons To said jail to produce them in open court
before any judicial officer when thereto required
And it shall be the duty of the warden Of said Jail TO
receive such prisoners, and 10 deliver them to said
marshal or his duly authorized deputy, the writ
ten request OF either for the purpose of taking them
before any court judicial officer aforesaid.


Sec. 5. And be il further enacted That the office
OF warden of the penitentsry in the District of Co
lumba shall, from and after the passage Of this act,
be suspended, and the salary and emolument thereof
Cease, during the time in which there shall be no
Pentenliary used in said District.


Approved. May l2, 1864