Compensation for removing prisoners. United States received. ish, as contemplated by this act, shall be entitled to charge ten dollars for each prisoner, and the same rate of mileage now allowed for conveying prisoners to the State penitentiary, to be paid by the parish from which the said prisoner shall be removed. Act 1850, p. 86, sec. 2. SEC. 2841. All the sheriffs, jailers, prison keepers and their deputies, within this State, to whom any person shall be sent or committed prisoners to be by the marshal of the district of Louisiana, or his deputies, under the authority of the United States, whether on civil or criminal process, or upon any process or warrant which may be issued by the president of the United States, or those to whom he may delegate authority for any cause whatever under the laws of the United States, shall be and they are hereby enjoined and required to receive such prisoners into custody, and keep the same safely until they shall be discharged by due course of law; and all such sheriffs, jailers, prison keepers and their deputies, offending in the premises, shall be liable to the same pains and penalties, and the parties aggrieved shall be entitled to the same remedies against them or any of them, as if such prisoners had been committed to their custody by virtue of legal process issued under the authority of this State. Compensation for keeping them. tenced D. sec. 3577; Act 1814, p. 38, sec. 1. SEC. 2842. For keeping such prisoner, the sheriffs, jailers, etc., sball be entitled to demand and receive of the marshal of the district, quarterly, at the rate of fifty cents for every ration and fifty cents per month for each prisoner. Act 1878, Ex. S., p. 110, No. 73; D. sec. 3578; Act 1814, p. 38, sec. 2; SEC. 2843. (Allowance to be paid debtors in confinement.) See D. 92. Act 1855, p. 42. SEC. 2844. (Mileage for conveying prisoners.) See D. 766. SEC. 2845. (His accounts made out.) See D. 767. Con. 1879, art. 119; D. sec. 3565. SEC. 2846. (Distance, how computed) See D. 768. D. sec. 3566; Con. 1879, art. 119. SEC. 2847. All convicts sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor, Convicts sen- by any of the courts of this State, shall be conveyed by the sheriff of to hard labor to the parish in which the prisoner has been convicted to the penitentipenitentiary, ary at Baton Rouge, and there delivered to the keeper of the peni. be taken to the tentiary. D. sec. 3567; Act 1855, p. 151; Con. 1879, art. 119. SEC. 2848. Every grand jury is required to inspect the prisons with- Grand jury required to inin their respective districts, and make report to the judge of said court spect prisons. of the manner in which the prisoners are treated; and if any of the Penalty against jailers non com. sheriffs, jailers, prison keepers or any of their deputies should be plying with laws regulating presented by them for not having complied with the laws regulating treatment of prisoners. the treatment of prisoners, he or they shall be fined in a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars. D. sec. 2139; Act 1855, p. 305. PENITENTIARY AT BATON ROUGE. SEC. 2849. In order to secure to the State some return for the cost of clothing and feeding the large number of convicts under sentence Removal of of the courts for high crimes, and in order that their labor may be convicts to penitentiary. made useful to the State, the governor be and is hereby empowered to have said prisoners removed to the State penitentiary at Baton Rouge, there to be confined and controlled as hereinafter provided in this act. Act 1865, Ex. S., p. 52; Act 1875, p. 54, No. 22; Act 1878, p. 222, No. 6. SEC. 2850. The governor is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, for the term of two years, for the Board to be appointed. general supervision of said penitenttiary, five competent citizens, residing in the vicinity of the prison, to be styled, "the board of control of the Louisana penitentiary," who shall have direction and control in the management of the same. a month. SEC. 2851. The members of said board of control shall meet at least twice in each month at the office of the penitentiary, and hold To meet twice their sessions from day to day until all business connected with the prison be disposed of. Each member of the board, for his services, Compensation shall receive, as full compensation, the sum of two hundred and fifty two hundred and fifty dollars dollars per annum, to be drawn semi-annually on the warrant of the president of the board. to each member clerk. SEC. 2852. It shall be the duty of the clerk to keep accurate accounts of all moneys received and expended, of the provisions and Duty of the clothing furnished the prisoners, the cost of the same, and report quarterly to the board of control; and it shall be the duty of the latter to transmit the same, with their report, annually, to the governor, at least ten days before the meeting of the general assembly. For Salaries, how his services the clerk shall receive a salary to be fixed by the board of control, to be drawn quarterly on the warrant of the president of the board. The compensation of the chief warden, the physician, the officer over the guard and the police necessary to perform the duty of guarding the prisoners, shall be fixed by the board, and the sums fixed. Provided. Inventory and appraisement of machinery, etc. Register to be kept by the clerk. How convicts paid as provided for in the case of the clerk; provided, that the salaries so fixed by the board shall first be transmitted to the governor for his approval. SEC. 2853. An inventory and appraisement shall be made of all the machinery, tools, and other fixtures on hand at the commencement of the lease, for which the lessee or lessees shall give a receipt and bind himself or themselves to return in good condition, or others of equal value, at the end of the lease. Act 1858, p. 222. SEC. 2854. The clerk of the penitentiary shall keep a register, in which shall be entered the names in full of all convicts, with the date of their reception, the term of their imprisonment, the parish where and the crime for which they were convicted, their ages, sexes, color, and places of their nativity, and the date of their discharge or death, which shall be open to the inspection of the public. SEC. 2855. The convicts may be employed in such manufacturing, may be employ mechanical and other labor as the lessees may deem proper, but no convict shall be employed without the walls of the penitentiary. ed. Money and clothes to be furnished discharged convicts. SEC. 2856. The lessees shall furnish each convict, at the expense of the institution, at his or her discharge, with ten dollars and a coarse suit of citizen's clothes, if required to do so by the board of control. SEC. 2857. The lessee or lessees, with the sanction of the board of be appointed to control, shall employ five clergymen, of different denominations, if preach to the convicts-their there are so many in the city of Baton Rouge, to preach every Sabsalary. Clergymen to bath, alternately, to the convicts, whose salary shall be one hundred dollars each per annum, to be paid by the lessees and charged to the current expenses of the institution; and the said lessee or lessees shall have power to appoint such guards as he or they may deem necessary, to be paid in like manner. SEC. 2858. The said lessee or lessees shall purchase from the State all raw materials which may be on hand, at a price to be fixed by two sworn appraisers, one to be appointed by the governor and one by said lessees, with power to appoint an umpire; for said price the said lessees shall give his or their bond, payable at the expiration of six months; and at the expiration of the lease, should it not be renewed, the State will take from the lessees all such raw material then on hand at a like appraisement and on a like credit. SEC. 2859. The duties of the physician and chaplains shall be prescribed by the board of control, and shall be so performed as to secure constant attention to the health and moral and religious instruction of the convicts. Books to be victs. SEC. 2860. The board of control are hereby authorized to furnish such books as they may consider useful to the convicts, not to exceed furnished conannually the sum of one hundred dollars, chargeable to the current expenses of the institution. SEC. 2861. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the penitentiary to Clerk to keep a register of births. keep a register of the births in the penitentiary. Act 1848, Ex. S., p. 3. sec. 2. separate from SEC. 2862. The convicts in the penitentiary whose sentences have been commuted from death to imprisonment, either for life or for a Convicts for term of years, shall no longer be permitted to labor in company with life to labor the other convicts; but shall be employed apart from them; and as the others. soon as the necessary changes in the cells can be made shall be confined and made to labor alone, on the plan in force in the eastern penitentiary of Pennsylvaria; those changes to be made under the direction of the board of directors. Act 1844, p. 43, sec. 8. How rewarded SEC. 2863. For the purpose of encouraging exemplary conduct in the convicts, and as a reward for the same, the board of directors shall have power to remit a small portion of the term of any convict. for conduct. It shall in no case exceed two days per month, and one month shall intervene between each remission. A book shall be kept by the clerk, in which shall be recorded a brief statement of the circumstances and reasons of each remission, and the name of the convict, which book is to be submitted to the inspection of the directors and the committees of the legislature. Act 1842, p. 520, sec. 6. Solitary con SEC. 2864. Hereafter solitary confinement in the penitentiary is abolished, except in enforcing obedience to the police regulations finement. thereof. Act 1838, p. 109, sec. 4. SEC. 2865. The lease of the penitentiary executed between his excellency, Governor Joshua Baker, and Messrs. John M. Huger and Prior lease of penitentiary Charles Jones, approved by Major-General W. S. Hancock, and dated ratified and March eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, be and is hereby ratified and confirmed, subject to the provisions and stipulations of this act. Act 1869, p. 56. approved. Board of con trol to have control of the SEC. 2866. The board of control of the penitentiary shall have the direction and control of the health and religious regulations of the convicts. They shall take care that the food and rations of the convicts shall not be less than those prescribed by the United States ligious regulaarmy regulations for soldiers, and that the clothing of the convicts victs. health and re tions of con Provided. Excessive pun. shall be comfortable, suitable and adapted to their employment; provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed into a right to impair their efficiency in their labor, or to interfere in the employment of the convicts in accordance with the terms of the lease; and it shall be the duty of the board to see that no unusual or excessive mode of ishment prohib punishment be introduced into the penitentiary discipline; and should the lessees, on due notice from the board, persist in violating the provisions of this section, the president of said board shall prosecute the lessees, and, on conviction, they shall be subject to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, at the discretion of the court. ited. Buiding to be erected and repairs made. Machinery to be furnished. Provided. SEC. 2867. As part of the improvement which shall be made with the consent of the board of control, under the sixth item of the lease, the lessees shall complete the cotton and woolen factory buildings already commenced; shall remove and rebuild the foundry to the rear of the main building, and construct it with the view of using it as a machine shop for the manufacture of agricultural implements; shall thoroughly repair the department for female convicts; and shall construct a brick wall fifteen feet in height around the penitentiary grounds; and generally to make such repairs as may be indicated by the board of control. The board of control shall appoint the physician, who shall have the entire control over his department. SEC. 2868. In order to carry out fully the seventh item in said contract, the lessees of the penitentiary are required to procure and place in the buildings prepared for the purpose two hundred looms, with all the necessary machinery for preparing and finishing cotton cloths, and such machinery as may be thought advisable by the lessees for preparing woolen cloths; provided, that before said purchase shall be made, a detailed estimate of the cost of such machinery shall be made out and filed in the office of the auditor of public accounts, and provided that the whole cost of such machinery shall not exceed the sum of three hundred thousand dollars. SEC. 2869. The governor of this State is hereby authorized and directed to issue the bonds of the State, to be signed by him and State bonds to countersigned by the secretary of State, and sealed with the seal of be issued. the State, to the amount of five hundred thousand dollars, payable in forty years, and bearing interest payable semi-annually at the rate of seven per cent. per annum. The said bonds shall be registered in the books of the auditor and treasurer; shall be dated on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine; shall be in sums of one thousand dollars each; shall be payable to bearer, and shall have interest coupons attached, payable in New Orleans or in the city of New York, at the option of the holder, on the first day of March and |