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night head guard shall receive an animal salary of two thousand dollars
($2, 000. 00) and the second shift night head guard shall receive an annual
salary of nineteen hundred dollars ($1, 900. 00). The guard assigned as
the Bertillion Officer, shall be paid an annual salary of eighteen hundred
dollars ($1, 800. 00). Each of the other guards who shall have been em-
ployed as such under two years, shall be paid an annual salary of fifteen
hundred dollars ($1, 500. 00). Each guard who shall have been employed
as such, over a period of two years to five years, shall be paid an annual
salary of sixteen hundred dollars ($1, 600. 00). Each guard who has been
employed as such for over a period of five years to ten years, shall be paid
an annual salary of seventeen hundred dollars ($1, 700. 00). Each guard
who has been employed as such for more than ten years shall be paid an
annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars ($1, 800. 00); provided, however,
that each guard who shall be assigned to duty in any of the shops or dormi-
tories for day service, shall receive in addition to the salaries herein set
forth, an additional compensation at the rate of two hundred dollars
($200. 00) annually, said salaries to be paid in equal semi-monthly in-
stallments. The Board shall likewise prepare and put into force and oper-
ation a schedule whereby each and every guard shall have at least thirty-six
days off each year including the period of vacation.

682.

For penalties in connection with escapes from the penitentiary, see sec. 138.

1929, ch. 258.

694A. If a representation is made to the officer in charge of any Penal
Institution that a woman confined in such Penal Institution is pregnant
and about to give birth to a child, a reasonable time before the anticipated
birth of such child, such officer shall make careful inquiry and, if the facts
so require, recommend to the Governor through the Board of Welfare the
exercise of Executive clemency. The Governor may, without notice, parole
such convict, commute the sentence or suspend its execution for a definite
period or from time to time as he deems proper. If the sentence is sus-
pended, the officer in charge of such institution, a reasonable time before
the anticipated birth of such child, shall cause such woman to be removed
from such institution and provided with comfortable accommodations,
maintenance and medical care elsewhere under such supervision and safe-
guard to prevent her escape from custody, as he may determine, and sub-
ject to her return to such institution as soon after the birth of such child
as the state of her health will permit. The expenses of such accommoda-
tion, maintenance and medical care shall be paid by said woman or her
relatives or friends, or from any fund that would be available for the hos-
pital expenses of such inmate within the institution, or if not otherwise
available, shall be a charge upon the county, city or town from which such
inmate was committed to such institution, and collectible by such officer in
charge of such institution. A child so born may be returned with its
mother to the institution in which the mother is confined, if the Board of
Welfare, in its judgment, deems it. will be for the best interest of the said