Chapter XV. *in Relation to certain Territorial Penitentiaries*
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CHAP. XV.— An Act *in Relation to certain Territorial Penitentiaries*. Jan. 10, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Penitentiaries in Territories to be under the control of the marshals. That the penitentiary which has been, or may hereafter be, erected by the United States in any organized Territory thereof, shall, when the same is ready for the reception of convicts, be placed under the care and control of the marshal of the United States for the Territory or District in which such penitentiary may be situate.
Sec. 2. Attorney-General to prescribe rules for their government.*And be it further enacted*, That it is hereby made the duty of the Attorney-General of the United States to prescribe all needful rules and regulations for the government of such penitentiary, and the marshal having charge thereof shall cause them to be duly and faithfully executed Compensation of marshals and expenses of prisoners.and obeyed. The reasonable compensation of such marshal and of his deputies, for their services under this act and said regulations, shall be fixed by the Attorney-General; and it and the expense incident to the subsistence and employment of offenders against the laws of the United States, who have been or may hereafter be sentenced to imprisonment in such penitentiary, shall be chargeable on and payable out of the fund for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offences committed against the United Proviso.States: *Provided*, That this act shall not be construed to increase the maximum compensation now allowed by law to those officers.
Sec. 3. Persons convicted in Territorial courts may be imprisoned in penitentiaries.*And be it further enacted*, That any person convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction in a Territory, for a violation of the laws thereof, and sentenced to imprisonment, may, at the cost of such Territory, on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by such rules and regulations, be received, subsisted, and employed in such penitentiary during the term of his or her imprisonment, in the same manner as if he or she had been convicted of an offence against the laws of the United States.
Approved, January 10, 1871.