Chapter 400. To establish a site for the erection of a penitentiary on the military reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 400.— An Act To establish a site for the erection of a penitentiary on the military reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and for other purposes. June 10, 1896. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kans.Selection of site for new buildings on military reservation.States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Attorney-General is hereby authorized and directed to select on the military reservation at Leavenworth, Kansas, within limits hereinafter described, a site for the erection of a penitentiary and other buildings, wall, and workshops for the employment of United States prisoners, with such improvements as he may direct in connection with the completion of the several buildings; said penitentiary to be of a capacity to accommodate at least one thousand two hundred convicts, and to be situated on said grounds and within the following boundary lines:
Beginning at a point at the northwestern intersection of Grant and Logan avenues, thence north seventy-two degrees west more or less, forty-five hundred feet more or less to a stone in the field north of the Government farm barn, thence due west fifteen hundred feet more or less to the north side of Logan Avenue; thence along said avenue and its prolongation to the western boundary of the Military Reservation; thence south along said line to the southwest corner of said reservation, thence east along the south line of said reservation to the pike leading north from the city of Leavenworth to the post of Fort Leavenworth; thence north along said pike to the point of beginning; and that these grounds thus described shall be, and hereby are, set apart from the contiguous military reservation for United States penitentiary purposes, and assigned to and placed under the care and control of the Attorney-General as a United States penitentiary *Provisos*.Return of present buildings, etc., to War Department.Vol. 28, p. 957.reservation: *Provided*, That when the United States Penitentiary shall be occupied and applied to the purposes contemplated by this Act, the buildings and grounds within the said Military Reservation of Fort Leavenworth that were transferred from the Department of War to the Department of Justice, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall be restored to the control of the said Department of War: *And provided further*, That this prison reservation shall be open for military tactical purposes, when such purposes do not interfere with the discipline of said prison.
Sec. 2. Plans, etc.That the Attorney-General shall employ an architect skilled in the construction of penitentiary buildings, who, with the warden of the existing penitentiary, shall prepare plans, specifications, and estimates, and submit them to the Attorney-General for approval. Sec. 3. Construction by convicts.That upon the approval of plans and estimates the Attorney General is authorized to incur the expense necessary to construct the penitentiary buildings thus approved, and for this purpose shall employ the labor of the convicts in the present United States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth that can, under proper guards, be used on the necessary stone, brick, and wood work, in the manufacture of lime on the reservation, until the completion of the same, and shall use all the equipments for carrying on the work that are in the possession of the present United States Penitentiary building, including the sawmill and Use of shops, etc.shops equipped for working in iron, stone, brass, and wood, with the use of the animals and wagons there belonging to the United States for hauling material, and other necessary transportation, and said prison shall have the right to quarry stone for prison purposes in any of theFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 400, 401. 1896.381 quarries on the Fort Leavenworth Reservation: *Provided*, That no*Proviso*.No expense before appropriation. expense shall be incurred under this Act until an appropriation is made with which to commence the buildings. Sec. 4. That the cost of employing an architect and of building saidLimit of cost. penitentiary, workshops, and improvements shall not, exclusive of the prison labor, exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which no more than fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended in a fiscal year.
Approved, June 10, 1896.