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signed by the superintendent, or other officer, in charge of
in the City or County where such, institution is located; also
on or before the twenty-eighth day of each and every month,
the warden or other person in charge of any of said institu-
tions, shall furnish to the superintendent or other officer in
charge of police, in the City or County where said institution
is located, the name of every convict whose sentence expires
the following month, together with the date when sentence
commenced, the County or City from which committed, the
crime for which committed and the exact date when said con-
vict will be discharged.

646. For the purpose of obtaining accurate descriptions of
convicts, the warden or other person in charge of any of said
institutions, is hereby authorized to adopt the Bertillon method
of measurement and registration or such other method as shall
minutely describe convicts.

647. Whenever a person shall be convicted of crime and
sentenced to imprisonment in any of said institutions, the
Clerk of the Court imposing such sentence shall make and for-
ward as soon as practicable, but not later than thirty days from
time of commitment, to the warden or other person in charge
of the institution to which the prisoner is sentenced, a record
containing a short copy of the docket entries, the name and ad-
dress of the judge presiding at the trial, the State's Attorney
and Sheriff, and the names and addresses of the jurors and the
names of the witnesses sworn on the trial, together with a state-
ment of any facts which the presiding Judge may deem impor-
tant or necessary for a full comprehension of the case. In each
case in which he shall perform the duties required by this Sec-
tion, the Clerk of the Court shall be entitled to one dollar as
compensation, which shall be taxed as a part of the costs of
said case.

648. Whenever the State Board of Prison Control may deem
it necessary, they shall have full power to summon the State
Lunacy Commission to examine and pass upon the mental con-
dition of any convict in any of said institutions, and if the
convict so examined be adjudged insane by said Commission,
or a majority thereof, and removal for treatment be deemed
advisable, said Commission shall make complaint to the Court

 

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