returned as soon as it may be safe to do so, to the prison, and there confined according to their respective sentences, if the same be unexpired.

(6218.) SEC. 62. Whenever, by reason of the State prison In case of fire. being on fire, or any building contiguous or near such prison being on fire, there shall be reason to apprehend that the convicts confined therein may be injured or endangered by such fire, the keeper may remove such convicts to some safe and convenient place, and there confine them so long as may be necessary to avoid the danger.

tenced by Courts

(6219.) SEC. 63. It shall be the duty of the keeper of the convicts senState prison to receive therein and safely keep, and subject of United States to the discipline of the prison, any criminal convicted of any crime against the United States, sentenced to imprisonment therein by any Court of the United States, sitting within this State, until such sentence shall be executed, or until such convict shall be discharged by due course of law, the United States supporting such convicts, and paying the expenses of executing such sentence.

Corpu may be

vict to testify.

(6220.) SEC. 64. If any convict confined in the State prison when Habeas shall be considered an important witness in behalf of the granted for conPeople of this State, upon any criminal prosecution against any other convict, by the Prosecuting Attorney conducting the same, it shall be the duty of any officer or Court authorized by law to allow writs of habeas corpus, upon the affidavit of such Prosecuting Attorney, to grant a habeas corpus for the purpose of bringing such prisoner before the proper Court, to testify upon such prosecution.

quors not to be

(6221.) SEC. 65. No spirituous or fermented liquor shall, on Spirituous any pretence whatever, be sold in the State prison, or in any sold in Prison. building appurtenant thereto, or on the land granted to the State for the use and benefit of the prison; and no such liquors shall be given to, or suffered to be used by, any convict in the prison, unless he be sick, and then only under the special direction of the physician.

convicts to Pris

(6222.) SEC. 66. It shall be the duty of the Sheriff of every sheriffs to convey county in which any criminal shall be sentenced to confine-on ment in the State prison, as soon as may be practicable after 5543, p. 24, Sec. the passing of such sentence, to convey such convict to the State prison and deliver him to the keeper thereof.

5.

(6223.) SEC. 67. The fees and expenses of Sheriffs in con- Expenses of conveying convicts to the State prison, shall be audited and veyance.

Auditor General to draw Warrant.

Rigid economy to be practiced.

Admission fees of visitors to Prison.

Officers and

Guards exempted

Jury duty.

allowed by the Board of Supervisors of the counties from which the convicts are sent. (k)

(6224.) SEC. 68. The Auditor General is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for such sums as the inspectors of the prison shall from time to time direct; but such sums, so drawn at any one time, shall not exceed one thousand dollars, and no further sum shall be drawn until satisfactory vouchers are presented to and allowed by the Auditor General, for the amount previously drawn.

(6225.) SEC. 69. It shall be the duty of the agent and deputy keeper to see that rigid economy is practiced in all matters pertaining to the prison, and in the employment of prisoners, and that duplicate receipts be taken for all expenditures made by them on account of the prison, one copy of which shall be sent to the Auditor General's office monthly. (6226.) SEC. 70. It shall be lawful for the inspectors to establish uniform rules for the admission of visitors within the prison, and they may order the keeper to demand and receive, for each individual admitted within said prison, such sums as they may from time to time establish, not exceeding twenty-five cents for one admission for each person, and they shall cause an account to be kept of the number of visitors, and the amount received for their admission; which shall be accounted for in the same manner as other moneys belonging to the prison.

(6227.) SEC. 71. The agent, clerk, deputy keeper, assistant from Military and keepers, guards, and other necessary attendants, shall, while in the actual employ of the State, as such officers, guards, and attendants, respectively, be exempt from military and jury duties.

Extra copies of Report to be printed, etc.

Auditor General

to settle accounts

Agent.

(6228.) SEC. 72. There shall be printed annually, for the use of the prison, one hundred extra copies of the annual report of the inspectors, and the agent shall annually transmit to each of the State prisons in the United States, one copy of such report.

(6229.) SEC. 73. On the removal or resignation of any agent on removal of of said prison, the Auditor General shall settle the accounts of such agent, on the presentation of his books and vouchers, duly authenticated for that purpose.

(k) As Amended by Act 196 of 1848, p. 276.

An Act Relative to Convicts Sentenced to Solitary Imprisonment in the State Prison for Life.

[Approved April 2, 1849. Laws of 1849, p. 316.]

tenced to soli

to be employed

etc.

(6230.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Convicts sen Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the convicts tary confinement which have been, or may be sentenced to "solitary confine- as other convicts, ment in the State prison, at hard labor for life," may be released from solitary confinement and employed as other convicts are, whenever, and for such times as the inspectors may, by resolution, direct, until such time as proper cells are prepared to enable such sentence to be fully enforced.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

An Act Relative to State Prison.

[Approved February 12, 1857. Took effect May 18, 1857. Laws of 1857, p. 211.]

kept.

(6231.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Record to be That the agent of the State prison shall cause to be kept a record of each and all infractions of the rules of discipline by convicts, with the names of the convict or convicts offending, and the date and character of each offence, which record shall be placed before the inspectors at each regular meeting of the board, and every convict who shall have been sentenced for a term of years, whose name does not appear upon such record Deduction from of reports, shall be entitled to a deduction of one day per for good behamonth from his sentence for each month he shall continue to obey all the rules of the prison, for the period of one year from the passage of this act.

time of sentence

vior.

good behavior in

(6232.) Sec. 2. All such convicts who shall have been enti-Deduction for tled to a deduction of one day per month, according to the second year. provisions of the above section, shall for a like faithful observance of all the rules for the second year, be entitled to a deduction of two days per month; and if any convict shall continue his good deportment for the remainder of the time

remaining time.

of his sentence, after the expiration of two years, he shall be Deduction for entitled to a deduction of four days per month until his time shall expire. (6233.) SEC. 3. If any convict shall be guilty of a willful Convicts may be violation of the rules of the prison, after he shall have become duction for vioentitled to a diminution of service to which he has been

deprived of de

lation of rules.

sentenced, the inspectors shall have the power to deprive such convict of a portion or all of the deductions from the term of his sentence, to which he had previously become entitled by virtue of the provisions of this act, and it shall be the duty of the inspectors to direct the discharge of such convict when he shall have served out his sentence, less the time which shall be deducted therefrom by virtue of the provisions of this act.

House of Correc tion established.

An Act to Establish a House of Correction for Juvenile Offenders.

[Approved February 10, 1855. Laws of 1855, p. 145.]

(6234.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That there shall be establishad in this State, an institution under the name and style of the "House of Correction for Juvenile Offenders," and that the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated from the general fund, for preparing the grounds, for the erection of suitable buildings and fixtures therefor: Provided however, That it shall not be lawful for the board of control hereinafter created,

to draw upon the sum hereby appropriated, an amount exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars in any one year.

office.

(6235.) SEC. 2. The general supervision and government of Board of Control. said House of Correction, shall be vested in a board of control, to consist of three members, who shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, the members of which board shall hold their offices for the respective terms of two, four and six years from the first of Their terms of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and until their successors shall be appointed and qualified, said respective terms of office to be designated in their several appointments; and thereafter there shall be one of said board appointed every two years, whose term of office shall continue for six years, or until his successor is appointed and qualified. The members of said board of control shall constitute a body corporate, under the name and style of the "Board of Control of the Board a body corHouse of Correction for Juvenile Offenders," with the right of suing and being sued, of making and using a common seal, and of altering it at pleasure. (a)

porate.

to establish site,

(6236.) SEC. 3. The said board are hereby empowered to Board of Control select and establish with all convenient dispatch, a site for the etc." House of Correction, and for that purpose they are also hereby authorized to receive proposals for the donation of lands, money, or of building materials, for the location and erection of such House of Correction, in behalf of the State, and for the benefit of said institution: Provided, That good and sufficient titles to any lands thus granted, and securities for the payment of the money and delivery of the materials thus donated, shall be obtained by said board before any such site shall be fully established.

tablished, to de

conveyance, etc.

(6237.) SEC. 4. The said board having established a site for When site is essaid institution, shall immediately deposit a certificate of their posit certificate, determination, together with all conveyances of lands granted, and securities for moneys or materials donated, in the office of the Auditor General. They shall also prepare and adopt a plan for the grounds, buildings and fixtures necessary for such To prepare plan institution, of such form, dimensions, style and finish, as when completed, to come within the cost and limit of the sum hereinbefore appropriated.

(a) As Amended by "An Act to Amend certain Sections of an Act entitled An Act to Establish a House of Correction for Juvenile Offenders, approved February tenth, eighteen hundred and fiftyfive." Approved February 10, 1857. Laws of 1857, p. 203. This Act also makes certain appropriations for the institution.

for buildings.