Salaries; pital, disease, and the prescriptions and treatment of each case. Fifth-To make report, monthly, to the commissioners, of patients received into the hospital, or treated in the cells, or elsewhere, during the month, stating their respective ages, color, disease, occupation in prison, quantity and kind of medicine administered during the month, time they shall have remained in hospital, date of commencement and termination of treatment, number of deaths (stating the cause of such deaths), and the number of days during which such convicts, in consequence of such sickness, shall have been relieved from labor. Sixth-To make a yearly report to the commissioners of the sanitary condition of the penitentiary for the past year, in which all the information contained in his daily record and his monthly reports shall be condensed. § 30. It shall be the duty of said physician, in case of any convict claiming to be unable to labor by reason of sickness, to examine such convict; and if it is his opinion, upon such examination, that such convict is unable to labor, he shall immediately certify the same to the warden, and such convict shall thereupon be relieved from labor and admitted to the hospital, or placed in his cell, or elsewhere, for medical treatment, as said physician shall direct, having a due regard for safe keeping of such convict; and such convict shall not be required to labor so long as, in the opinion of said physician, such disability shall continue; and whenever said physician shall certify to the warden that such convict is sufficiently recovered to be able to labor, said convict shall be required to labor, but not before. § 31. The annual salaries of the officers of said penitentiary shall be as follows: That of the commissioners, each fifteen hundred dollars. That of the steward, eight hundred dollars. That of the physician, one thousand dollars. The matron, assistant matron, assistant keepers and guards, and all other employees of the penitentiary, shall be paid such sum per month as said commissioners shall direct. § 32. In case said commissioners are unable to lease procure the labor of said convicts or of any portion of said convicts at ploy convicts reasonable rates, after having advertised for proposals for in certain cases bids for such labor at least for two periods of thirty days, Commissioners to tools and em as herein before provided; and if the same can not be advan tageously employed in completing the penitentiary buildings and grounds, or upon other public works or buildings. in process of erection by the state, it shall be lawful for said commissioners, and it is hereby made their duty to provide for the employment of the labor of such convicts in said penitentiary in such manufacturing or mechanical business, on behalf the state, as in their judgment will be most remunerative to the state; and for that purpose said commissioners are hereby authorized to procure on behalf of the state, in case it shall become necessary to so employ such convict labor, all necessary tools, machinery and fixtures for the carrying on such mechanical or manufacturing business by said convict labor, and said commissioners shall in such case provide for the purchase of all necessary unmanufactured material so as to keep the convicts so employed, continually supplied therewith, and for the most advanta geous disposition and sale for the state of all manufactured articles. The proceeds of all sales of such manufactured articles shall go into the general fund in the hands of said commissioners, to be used in carrying on said penitentiary and maintaining the convicts therein. funds. § 33. The said commissioners shall be the custodians of Custodian all funds belonging to said penitentiary, whether arising from the avails of the labor of the convicts, the sales of manufactured articles, or appropriations made by the general assembly or otherwise; and all such money, when collected or received by the warden or other officer, shall be immediately paid over to them, and said commissioners shall, from time to time, pay over to said warden or his order, such sum or sums of money as they may deem requisite for the purpose of defraying the necessary expenses of said penitentiary, not, however, in such sums as to place in the hands of the warden more than the sum of five thousand dollars at any one time. of Auditor to draw warrants in famissloners. vor of com $ 34. The auditor of public accounts shall, from time to time, draw his warrant on the treasurer in favor of said commissioners, for such portions of any appropriations that shall be made by the general assembly, for the purpose of carrying on and maintaining said penitentiary, as shall, from time to time, become necessary for said commissioners to expend in and about carrying on and maintaining said penitentiary; but said commissioners shall not obtain said auditor's warrants on account of any such appropriation, faster than the same is actually required for the purposes aforesaid. Such warrants of the auditor shall be paid by the treasurer to said commissioners, or their order, out of any funds in the treasury applicable thereto. Said com- Commissioners missioners shall make to the auditor, on the first day of to auditor. each month, a detailed statement of all moneys received and expended during the preceding month, and accompany such report with proper vouchers of all such expendituresduplicates of such vouchers to be retained by said commissioners at the penitentiary. They shall at the same time file with said auditor an estimate of the probable receipts and expenditures of said penitentiary for the succeeding month, report to whipping. and shall pay over to the state treasurer all moneys then in their custody belonging to said penitentiary, not necessary for defraying said estimated expenditures for the month. next succeeding, and the funds so paid in shall be kept separate from other funds in the state treasury, and shall be subject to the order of said commissioners, on the warrant of the auditor in the same manner as appropriations made by law. Convicts not to § 35. It shall not be lawful in said penitentiary to pun be punished by ish any convict by whipping in any case whatever. If, in the opinion of the warden, it shall be deemed necessary in any case to inflict unusual punishment, in order to produce the entire obedience or submission of any convict, said warden shall have power to punish such convict by solitary confinement in a dark cell, and by deprivation of food, except bread and water, until such convict shall be reduced to submission and obedience. convicts. re Officers to § 36. Whenever several convicts combined, or any single 81st violence of convict shall offer violence to any officer or guard of the penitentiary, or to any convict, or do or attempt to do any injury to any building or workshops, or any appurtenances thereof, or shall attempt to escape, or shall disobey or resist any lawful command, the officers of the penitentiary shall use all suitable means to defend themselves, to enforce the observance of discipline, to secure the persons of the offenders, and to prevent such attempted violence or escape; and if the guards employed in said penitentiary, or any of them, should, in the attempt to prevent the escape of any convict, or in attempting to retake any convict who has escaped, or in attempting to prevent or suppress a riot, revolt, mutiny or insurrection, take the life of a convict, such guard shall not be held responsible therefor, unless the same was done unnecessarily or wantonly. Commissioners may foremen, etc. 37. In case the labor of said convicts, or any portion employ thereof, shall be employed in manufacturing or other business, in behalf of the state, it shall be lawful for said commissioners to employ all such artisans and foremen as shall be necessary for conducting such business, and the same shall be paid such sum as said commissioners shall determine. Crimes commit § 33. The several courts of Will county having criminal to be tried in jurisdiction shall take cognizance of all crimes committed Will county. Within said penitentiary by the convicts therein confined, and said courts shall try and punish all such convicts charged with such crimes, in the same manner and subject to the same rules and limitations as are now established by law in relation to other persons charged with crimes in said county; but in case of conviction the sentence of said convict shall not commence to run until the expiration of the sentence under which he is then held in confinement in said penitentiary: Provided, that in case such convict shall be sentenced to punishment by death, such sentence shall be executed at such time as the court shall fix, without regard to the sentence under which such convict may be held in said penitentiary. amendments of 39. It shall be the duty of the said commissioners to Commissioners report to the general assembly, from time to time, such to report all amendments to this act as in their judgment shall be neces- law to general sary in order to secure the best, most economical and safest administration of the affairs of said penitentiary. assembly. § 40. The act of the general assembly entitled "An act Former acts reto lease the penitentiary," approved February 27, 1867, and pealed. an act entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled 'an act to lease the penitentiary,"" approved March 5, 1867, are hereby repealed. So much of an act entitled "An act to enable the governor to appoint a warden and to provide for the government and discipline of the state penitentiary," approved March 6, 1867, as authorizes the appointment of a warden of said penitentiary and all parts of said act inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. 8 41. The office of commissioners created by section five of an act entitled "An act to make additional provisions for the penitentiary," approved February 19, 1861, is hereby vacated and abolished, and the penitentiary commissioners to be appointed under this act shall supersede the commissioners appointed under the section aforesaid, and said last named commissioners are hereby required to surrender to the commissioners to be appointed under this act all the books, papers, plans, specifications and property, belonging to the state, in their custody or under their control, at the first meeting of said new commissioners. Office of commer former act abolished. missioners un missioners. and 42. The said commissioners appointed under this act' Powers shall possess all the powers and perform all the duties of duties of comthe commissioners appointed under the section aforesaid, so far as the same are not inconsistent with this act. Said commissioners heretofore appointed under said section five of the act aforesaid, shall however hold their office until the commissioners provided for by this act shall be duly appointed and qualified. warden. be 43. The said commissioners shall appropriate a sum Books to not exceeding seven hundred and fifty dollars, to be purchased by expended by the warden, under their direction, for the purchase of suitable books for the use of the prisoners, and for the increase and preservation of the library of the penitentiary, and of which the chaplain shall have charge as librarian. victs. 844. It shall be the duty of said commissioners imme- Temporary prodiately on taking possession of said penitentiary, to make vision for conprovision for temporarily supplying the convicts therein with food, clothing, bedding, and other necessaries, until permanent arrangements shall be made by them for obtaining such supplies for said convicts. Chaplain read rules prisoners. to to ers to be re sonville. § 46. It shall be the duty of the chaplain to read to the convicts, at least once in each week, the rules and regulations of the penitentiary, so far as the same relate to such convicts, and to make such explanations of the same as he shall deem proper. Insane prison- $ 46. If any case of insanity shall occur in said penimoved to Jack- tentiary, such insane person shall at once be removed to the insane hospital at Jacksonville, at the expense of the state; and should said patient recover before his or her time of imprisonment shall expire, he or she shall be returned to said penitentiary; and it is hereby made the duty of the superintendent of the said hospital for the insane to receive into said hospital and treat all such insane convicts, as in other cases of insanity. 47. All laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED June 28, 1867. In force June 28, 1867. for carrying AN ACT to provide for paying the expenses of carrying on and maintaining the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That for 'the purpose of carrying on and maintaining the Illinois Appropriation State Penitentiary located at Joliet, in the county of Will, on penitentiary and of defraying the expenses of feeding, clothing and employing the convicts therein confined in accordance with the provisions of the act of the general assembly passed at the present session entitled "An act to provide for the management of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet," the sum of three hundred thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury; which sum of money, or so much thereof as may be neces sary, shall be drawn from the treasury in the manner and subject to the limitations prescribed in the act above mentioned. Deficiencieshow provided for. § 2. That to meet any deficit in the revenue fund, whenever the same shall be insufficient for the purposes of this act, the governor, auditor and treasurer are hereby authorized to issue bonds of the state of Illinois and sell or dispose of the same at the best price to be obtained therefor, in money, at not less than par, the proceeds of which sale shall be used in payment of the appropriations made by |