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834

PLACES OF IMPRISONMENT AND REFORMATION. [ART. 74.

able effects, money, or securities, the court before whom any such
conviction shall be had may award restitution to the real owner
thereof; provided, however, that no bond fide holder thereof shall
be obliged to surrender up the same.

Id s 193
1853, c 175, a 1.
Removed cases,
where sentence
of imprison-
ment

28. If any person who has removed his trial shall be convicted
of any offence punishable by fine or imprisonment, the court shall
(if the sentence be imprisonment) sentence him to confinement in
the jail of the county or city from which such removal took place ;
and it shall be the duty of the sheriff of the county or city where
such conviction may be had to place the person convicted in the
custody of the sheriff of the county or city in which the indictment
was found, together with a certified copy of the docket entries in
the casc.

ARTICLE LXXIV.
PLACES OF IMPRISONMENT AND REFORMATION.

PENITENTIARY.

1 Appointment of directors , terms
2 Vacancies
3 Warden's appointment , removal
4 Oath of directors , false swearing, perjury.
5 Appointment of officers
6 False swearing by officers , perjury , act-
ing before taking oatb, and filing bond
7 Bonds of officers
8 Directors to fix salaries and define duties
of officers
9 Salary of warden
10 Pay of directors
11 Bookkeeper to keep record of attendance
12 Incorporated
13 Deeds, how executed
14 Penalties for neglect of duties; how re-
covered
15 Officers not to be concerned in contracts of
purchase or sale by or on account of said
prison , penalty.
16 Directors to have control of financial af-

fairs; to direct making of repairs, etc ,
and purchases of materials, etc , when
to invite proposals for supplies
17 Contractor to give bond
13 Employment of convicts , not to make tin
cans, purchasing agent.
19 Expenses, how paid
20 Appropriation to pay salaries
21 Statement to comptroller
22 Statement to the executive , affidavit.
23 Report to the governor
24 Grand jury to visit penitentiary each term
25 Female convicts may bring with them their
Infant children , children to be bound
out
26 No person connected with penitentiary to
receive property from convict
27 Property introduced, to aid escape of con-
victs, forfeited
28 Rules and regulations

CLERK.

29 Clerk to keep books and accounts.
30 To present accounts to board
31 To attend at prison dally
32 Not to interfere with policc.

33 To oversee accounts of departments
34 To record admissions, pardons, etc
35 What books to keep



 

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