Chapter 33. to shorten the terms of imprisonment in the jail and in the work-house of the District of Columbia on account of good conduct during confinement
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CHAP. 33.— An Act to shorten the terms of imprisonment in the jail and in the work-house of the District of Columbia on account of good conduct during confinement.March 15, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.Terms of imprisonment shortened. That all persons sentenced to and imprisoned in the jail or in the workhouse of the District of Columbia and confined there on and after the first day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety, for a term of one month or longer, who conduct themselves so that no charge of Good conduct deductions.misconduct shall be sustained against them, shall have a deduction of five days in each month made from the term of their sentence, and shall be entitled to their discharge so much the sooner, upon the In jail.certificate of the warden of the jail for those confined in the jail, and the certificate of the intendant of the Washington Asylum for those In work-house.confined in the workhouse, of their good conduct during their imprisonment (with the approval of the judge making the commitment): and it shall be the duty of said judge to write, or cause to be Docket entry.written, in the docket of his court, across the face of the commitment of the person to be so discharged, the following words:
“Order of discharge.Discharged by order of the court [giving date] on account of good conduct during imprisonment.” Sec. 2. Repeal. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved, March 15, 1890.