964 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

has been convicted and sentenced to prison for a felony, shall
forward to the warden or other officer in charge, at the request
of such warden or other officer, and upon blanks furnished by
him, a criminal history of such criminal as fully as is known
or can be ascertained by such State's attorney.

1892, ch. 273, sec. 424 C.

586. The register herein provided for shall not be made
public, except as may be necessary in the identification of per-
sons accused of crime and in the trial of offenses committed
after having been imprisoned for a prior offense. The record
shall be accessible, however, to any officer of any court having
criminal jurisdiction in this State, upon the order of the judge
of the court, or of the State's attorney of the county or city in
which the person is being held for a crime, which said order
shall be attested by the seal of the court, and any such record
may be given in evidence upon any trial of any offender indicted
under the habitual criminal law of this State for the purpose of
proving a former conviction or convictions, and the offense or
offenses for which convicted.

Ibid. sec. 424 D.

587. For the purpose of obtaining, accurate descriptions of
criminal convicts, the warden or other officers in charge of the
several prisons in this State are hereby authorized to adopt the
Bertillon method of measurement and registration or such other
method as shall minutely describe convicts.

Ibid. sec. 424 E.

588. A copy of the description and of the history and of
the photograph or photographs of any convict entered upon
such record or register shall be furnished upon the request of
any warden or other officer in charge of a prison for felons in
any other State of the United States to such warden or other
officer in charge, provided such State has made provision by
law for requiring the descriptions of its criminals convicted
and for furnishing such descriptions to the authorities of such
other States as have made provisions by law for the keeping of
registries of descriptions and history of their convicts.

Ibid sec. 424 F.

589. A copy of the description, history and photograph or
photographs of any convict entered upon such records shall
be furnished to any officer of the bureau of police in the cities