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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 12 STAT. · January 16, 1863 · Chapter X

Chapter X. to provide for the imprisonment of Persons convicted of Crime by the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia

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Chap. X.— An Act to provide for the imprisonment of Persons convicted of Crime by the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia.January 16, 1863.*Post*, p. 823. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That all persons who shall hereafterPersons convicted of certain crimes in the District of Columbia to be confined where. be convicted by the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia of any offence, the punishment of which by law shall be confinement in the penitentiary, shall be confined during the term for which they shall be sentenced by said court, in some suitable prison in a convenient State, where they can be employed at suitable labor, to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That it shall be the duty of theSecretary oi Interior to contract for imprisonment, subsistence. &c., of prisoners, Secretary of the Interior to contract with the managers or superintendent of a suitable prison in some convenient State for the imprisonment and subsistence and proper employment of all prisoners who shall be convicted in said court of such offences, on the best terms that he can; and he shall, on or before the first day of each term of the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia, inform said court in writing of the designation andto inform the court thereof. location of the prison in which he shall have made provision for the confinement and support of prisoners; and said court shall sentence all persons who shall, during said term, be convicted of such offences, to confinementSentences. at hard labor in the prison so designated.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That it shall be the duty of theTransportation. &c., of prisoners. Secretary of the Interior to make suitable provision for the safe transportation of all prisoners to the prison to which they shall be sentenced by the court, and until they shall be so transported they shall be confined in the jail of Washington City. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the action of the Secretary ofFormer transfer of prisoners to Albany, N. Y., declared valid. the Interior, in transferring the prisoners confined in the penitentiary of the District of Columbia to the penitentiary in the city of Albany, in the State of New York, in the month of September last, by direction of the President, is hereby legalized and declared valid, and the said prisoners shall continue in confinement in said prison until the expiration of their several terms of imprisonment, or until they shall be legally discharged.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That all appropriations heretofore636THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 10, 11. 1863. made for the support of the prisoners in the penitentiary of the DistrictAppropriations for penitentiary in District of Columbia, of Columbia, or for the payment of watchmen, laborers, and officers connected with said penitentiary, and all appropriations which shall hereafter be made for the expenses and support of prisoners convicted in the District of Columbia, shall be applied, under the direction of the Secretaryhow applied. of the Interior, to defray the expenses of transporting to and subsisting prisoners in any prison selected by him, as before provided for their confinement.
The Secretary of the Interior shall also cause to be paid fromPayment to discharged prisoners. such appropriations the sum of ten dollars to each prisoner when he or she shall be legally discharged, to enable such prisoner to reach the point he or she may wish to go to. Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That whenever a suitable penitentiaryWhen suitable penitentiary erected in District of Columbia, prisoners to be returned. shall be erected in the District of Columbia, and completed for the reception of prisoners, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to cause to be transferred to such penitentiary all persons who shall then be imprisoned outside of the District of Columbia, under sentence of the Criminal Court of said District.
Approved, January 16, 1863.
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