CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS 1325

An. Code, 1924, sec. 683. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 637. 1937, ch. 215.

770. Each prisoner in any of said institutions shall be entitled to a
diminution of the period of his confinement under the following rules and
regulations:

(1) For each calendar month commencing on the first day of the
month next after his arrival at the institution, during which he shall not
be guilty of a violation of the discipline or any of the rules thereof and shall
labor with diligence and fidelity, he shall be allowed a deduction of five days
from each month of the period of the commitment or sentence.

(2) For each calendar month commencing on the first day of the sixth
month next after his arrival at the institution, during which under such
regulations as shall be established by the Board of Correction he shall be
deemed to have manifested exceptional industry, application and skill in
the performance of industrial, agricultural or administrative tasks assigned
to him, he may, in the discretion of the Board of Welfare, be allowed an
additional deduction of five more days from each month of the period of
his commitment or sentence.

(3) For each and every violation of the rules and discipline of the in-
stitution, or want of fidelity or care in the performance of work, the per-
son therein confined shall not only forfeit all gained time in the month
in which such delinquency occurs, but, according to the aggravated nature
or frequency of his offense, the Board may deduct a portion of all his
gained time for good conduct under sub-section (1) of this section but the
deduction allowed and earned under sub-section (2) hereof shall not be
affected thereby.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 684. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 688.

771. No member of the Board of Correction, or any employee of said
Board, or any Warden, or other employee in connection with any of said
institutions, shall be directly or indirectly concerned or interested in any
contract, purchase or sale made by said Board, or by its authority or shall
accept any reward or gift or any promise of any reward or gift directly
or indirectly from any person interested in any contract, purchase or sale
made by said Board or by its authority, and every member of said Board
of Correction and every employee of said Board and every Warden, and
other employee connected with any of said institutions, shall make report to
the said Board of all such offenses coming to his knowledge, and a failure or
neglect to do so shall be a breach of duty and punishable under this Section.
Any person violating any provision of this Section shall be punishable by
a fine not more than $500.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 685. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 639.

772. No member of said Board of Correction, or any employee of said
Board, or any Warden, or other employee connected with any of said insti-
tutions, shall accept any reward or gift, or any promises of reward or gift,
from any convict in any of said institutions, or from any one on his behalf,
or shall receive any devise or bequest, or any promise of devise or bequest,
from any such convict, or from any person on his behalf, or shall enter into
any contract with any such convict, or with any person on his behalf. All
such gifts, rewards, bequests, devises, promises and contracts shall be void;
and any person, violating any provision of this Section, shall be punishable
by a fine of not more than $500.