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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
purpose by a resolution of the general assembly, passed at November
session, in the year eighteen hundred and four, so soon as
the same is completed or put in order, shall be and the same is
hereby appropriated for the reception of criminals that have been,
or may hereafter be, condemned under the laws of this state, for
such terms, upon such conditions, and under such regulations, as
are herein, or may hereafter be, enacted and declared. |
NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 138. |
26. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the cells
of the penitentiary shall
be appropriated to the purpose of confining such males and females
as shall be convicted of the offences above enumerated, as punishable
with imprisonment and labour, but the males and females are
hereby required to be kept separate and apart from each other,
and all the prisoners shall be subject to the visitation and superintendence
of the inspectors herein after mentioned. |
Males and females
to be kept
apart. |
27. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every person convicted
in any
court of this state, and sentenced to undergo a confinement in the
penitentiary, shall, as soon as possible after conviction, be safely
removed, by the sheriff of the county where such conviction took
place, and at the expense of such county, to the penitentiary, and
therein to be kept during the term of his or her confinement, in
the manner, and on the terms, herein mentioned; and every sheriff
who shall wilfully neglect to remove, and safely to deliver, at the
penitentiary, such convict, shall forfeit and pay the sum of one
thousand dollars, to be recovered by action of debt in any court of
record, and applied, one half to the use of the county where sentence
was passed, the other to the use of the such person as will sue
for the same. |
Persons sentenced
top penitentiary to
be removed by
sheriff. |
28. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every person convicted
of any
crime, the punishment whereof shall be confinement in the penitentiary,
shall be placed and kept in the solitary cells therefrom,
on low and coarse diet, for such part or portion of the term of his
or her imprisonment, as the court, in their sentence, shall direct
and appoint; Provided, that it be not more than one half, nor
less
than one twentieth part thereof; and that the inspectors (a)
of the said
penitentiary shall have power to direct the infliction of the said
solitary confinement, at such intervals, and in such manner, as
they shall judge best.
(a) See note to section 38. |
To be kept in solitary
cells, on
low and coarse
diet, for part of
the term of imprisonment.
Proviso.
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29. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all such convicts shall,
at the
public expense, during the term of their confinement, be clothed
in habits of coarse materials, uniform in colour and make, and
distinguishing them from the good citizens of this state; and
the males shall have their heads and beards close shaven, at least
once every week, and all such offenders shall, during the said term,
be sustained upon bread, Indian meal, or other inferior food, at
the discretion of the inspectors (b), and shall be allowed two meals
of coarse meat in each week, and shall be kept, as far as may be
consistent with their sex, age, health and ability, to labour of the
hardest and most servile kind, in which the work is least liable to
be spoiled by ignorance, neglect or obstinacy, and where the materials
are not easily embezzled or destroyed; and if the work to
be performed is of such nature as may require previous instruction,
proper persons for that purpose, to whom a suitable allowance
(b) See note to section 38. |
To be clothed in
coarse habits, uniform
in colour and
make, to be sustained
on bread,
Indian meal, &c.
and to be kept
at hard labour,
apart from each other
if practicable. |
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