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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
or negligence in work, or wilful mismanagement of it, or of
disobedience to the orders or regulations which the board of inspectors
are herein authorised to make, by confining such offenders in the
solitary cells of the penitentiary, and by keeping them on bread
and water only for any term not exceeding ten days; and if any prisoner
shall be guilty of any offence within the said penitentiary,
which the said keeper is not authorised to punish, or for which he
shall think the said punishment is not sufficient, by reason of the
enormity of the offence, he shall report the same to a board of the
inspectors, who, if upon proper enquiry shall think fit, may order
such offences to be punished by moderate whipping, or by repeated
whippings, not exceeding thirteen lashes each, or by close confinement
in the said solitary cells, with bread and water only for sustenance,
for any time not exceeding thirty days, or by all the said
punishments. |
NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 138. |
41. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the keeper,
or any other person,
shall introduce into, or barter, give away or sell, within the
said penitentiary, any spirituous or fermented liquors, except only
such as the said keeper shall make use of in his own family, or such
as may be required for any prisoners in a state of ill-health, and
for such purpose prescribed by an attending physician, and delivered
into the hands of such physician, or other person appointed to receive
them, such person shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty
dollars, one moiety to be paid to the person warranting, and the
other to the inspectors, for the benefit of the institution, to be recovered
before any justice of the peace in and for Baltimore county. |
No spirituous liquors
to be sold
within the penitentiary. |
42. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the keeper of
the penitentiary
shall from time to time, with the approbation of any seven of the
inspectors, provide a sufficient quantity of stock and materials,
working tools and implements, for such offenders, and the said inspectors,
or any seven of them, shall make report thereof to the
governor and council, specifying in such report the quantity and
nature of the materials, tools or implements wanted, with the amount
and costs of the same, which shall be paid in the manner hereafter
to be provided for by law, for which materials and implements,
when received, the said keeper shall be accountable; and the said
keeper shall, with the approbation of any seven of the said inspectors,
have power to make contracts with any person whatever for
the clothing, diet and other necessaries, for the maintenance and
support of such convicts, and for the implements and materials of
any kind of manufacture, trade or labour, in which such convicts
shall be employed, as shall be there wrought and manufactured. |
The keepers, with
approbation of inspectors,
to provide
stock and materials
and working
tools for the
prisoners. |
43. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every inspector
and keeper of
the state penitentiary, before he acts as such, shall take an oath,
or affirmation, as the case may be, that he will not receive, either
directly or indirectly, at any time during his acting as such, any
profits arising on any agency or contract for the supply or victualling
the said penitentiary, and the certificate of the said oath, so as
aforesaid to be taken, shall be deposited with the clerk of the court
of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery for Baltimore county, and
to be by him recorded; and any inspector or keeper knowingly
swearing or affirming falsely in the premises, and being thereof
convict in due course of law, shall suffer as in the case of wilful
and corrupt perjury. |
Inspectors and
keepers to be
sworn. |
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