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to keep employed all prisoners in said penitentiary who may become idle as herein stated, and to provide for the sale of goods therein manufactured; and the said commissioners shall employ said prisoners at such occupation or occupations as are best adapted to secure their health, discipline and reformation.

§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for the moneys hereby appropriated, upon the order of the Board of Commissioners of the said penitentiary, signed by the president and attested by the secretary, with the seal of said institution thereto attached.

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AN ACT making appropriations for providing the necessary power, tools, machinery and appliances for the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet, to keep the prisoners therein employed as provided by law, and for making repairs and improvements therein.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated for the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet, for the purposes hereinafter named, and for no other:

§ 2. For the purpose of providing the necessary power, the purchase of machinery, tools, appliances and raw material, and to provide for the sale of goods manufactured, so as to enable the commissioners of said penitentiary to keep employed from one thousand to thirteen hundred convicts as provided by law, at such occupation or occupations as are best adapted to secure their health, discipline and reformation, the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, from the first day of July, 18:3, to the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the

next General Assembly: Provided, however, that so far as practicable, the industries requiring the largest proportion of hand labor shall be introduced in the said penitentiary.

§ 3. For painting, relaying floors, repairing walls, roofs, buildings, steam and water pipes, engines, boilers and machinery, and making such other repairs as may be required to keep the buildings, walls, grounds and appurtenances of the said penitentiary is as good condition as they now are, the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

§ 4. For securing a sufficient supply of water from the Illinois and Michigan canal, for steam pumps, hydrants, valves and such pipes as may be necessary for supplying steam boilers, for flushing sewers and for protecting the property and buildings of said penitentiary from fire, the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

$ 5. For replacing old frame shed to entrance of warden's house, with stone portico, according to original plans as near as may be, the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

§ 6. For an elevator in warden's building from the ground floor to the fourth story thereof, now occupied as the female department of the said penitentiary, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

§ 7. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for the moneys herein appropriated, upon the order of the commissioners of said penitentiary, signed by the president and attested by the secretary, with the seal of said penitentiary thereto attached. APPROVED June 17, 1893.

PENITENTIARIES, SOUTHERN.

§ 1. Appropriates $18,600 for buildings de- § 2. Emergency. stroyed by fire.

AN ACT to appropriate the sum of $18,600 for rebuilding the foundry, photograph gallery and telegraph office at Southern Illinois Penitentiary.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of eighteen thousand and six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of rebuilding and refitting the foundry,

photograph gallery and telegraph office at the Southern Illinois Penitentiary, which was recently destroyed by fire; said appropriation to be paid out of the Treasury in the same manner and upon like conditions as govern the payment of other special appropriations for state institutions in this State.

§ 2. Whereas, the construction of the buildings specified in section one are now approaching completion, and payment for same will in a short time be due to the contractors, and whereas, the necessities of said institution require that this act shall take effect at once, therefore an emergency exists, and this act shall take effect from and after its passage.

APPROVED April 20, 1893.

PENITENTIARIES, SOUTHERN.

§ 2. How drawn.

$1. Appropriates to the Southern Peni

tentiary to meet a deficiency in the
ordinary expenses the sum of $27,-
356.07.

AN ACT to provide for a deficiency in the ordinary expenses of the Southern Illinois Penitentiary.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of twentyseven thousand three hundred and fifty-six dollars and seven cents ($27,356.07) or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby appropriated to meet a deficiency in the ordinary expenses of the Southern Illinois Penitentiary for the year ending June 30, 1893.

§ 2. The moneys herein appropriated shall be due and payable to the commissioners of the Southern Illinois Penitentiary, or their order, only on the terms and in the manner now provided by law.

APPROVED June 15, 1893.

PENITENTIARIES, SOUTHERN.

$1. Appropriates to the Southern Peniten

tiary $50,000 for the purchase of ma-
chinery, tools and materials for the
employment of convicts after the
expiration of lease.

§ 2. How drawn.

AN ACT making an appropriation to enable the commissioners of the Southern Illinois Penitentiary to maintain, purchase machinery and materials for employing certain prisoners now under contract whose present employment will cease June 30, 1894.

WHEREAS, The Menard Manufacturing Company have heretofore leased of the commissioners of the Southern Illinois Peni

tentiary, one hundred and seventy convicts, which lease expires on the 30th day of June, 1894, and,

WHEREAS, Said convicts will at that time be thrown upon the State without employment, and,

WHEREAS, The said commissioners will be without the necessary money to maintain them and buy the necessary tools and machinery to enable them to earn sufficient to maintain themselves; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the Southern Illinois Penitentiary to enable the commissioners thereof to maintain and keep employed the number of convicts now leased by the Menard Manufacturing Company after the expiration of said lease, and until the 30th day of June, 1895, or any other number of convicts who may become idle, and said commissioners are hereby authorized to expend so much of the amount hereby appropriated as may be necessary for maintenance, tools, machinery, fixtures and materials sufficient to keep said convicts employed.

§ 2. The moneys herein appropriated shall be due and payable to the commissioners of the Southern Illinois Penitentiary on their order only on the terms now provided by law. APPROVED June 15, 1893.

PENITENTIARIES, SOUTHERN.

§ 1. Appropriates to the Southern Penitentiary for ordinary expenses the sum of $100,000, per annum, and for repairs and improvements and contingent expenses the sum o $33,750.

AN ACT making an appropriation for the Southern Illinois Penitentiary and to enable the commissioners thereof to keep employed the convicts now idle or without profitable employment in said penitentiary.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the following amounts, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same are hereby appropriated to the Southern Illinois Penitentiary for purposes hereinafter named and no other:

For ordinary expenses for the two years ending June 30th, 1895, and to enable the commissioners to keep employed the convicts now idle or without profitable employment in said penitentiary, and the commissioners are hereby authorized to expend so much of the amount hereby appropriated as may be necessary for tools, machinery, fixtures and materials sufficient to keep employed as nearly as may be, all prisoners who are

now, or may hereafter become, idle and to provide for the sale of goods therein manufactured, and said commissioners shall employ said prisoners at such occupations as are best adapted to secure their health, discipline and reformation, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) per annum.

For the necessary materials and the building of a stone wall around the prison, 1,600 feet long and 24 feet high, sixteen thousand dollars ($16,000).

For contingent expenses, ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

For repairs and refurnishing, six thousand dollars ($6,000). For the building of a cow barn and the necessary fencing of barn and lots, seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750).

For the building of a slaughter house, five hundred dollars ($500).

For building engine house and cover for stone crusher, five hundred dollars ($500)..

§2. The moneys herein appropriated shall be due and payable to the commissioners of the Southern Illinois Penitentiary on their order only on the terms now provided by law. APPROVED June 16, 1893.

PUBLIC PRINTING.

§ 1. Appropriates $20,000 for the public printing to supply deficiency.,

§ 2. How drawn.
§ 3. Emergency.

AN ACT to provide for the necessary expenses of the State gov ernment, incurred or to be incurred, for the public printing, and now unprovided for, until the first of July, A. D. 1893. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated, for the purpose hereinafter specified, to meet the necessary expenses of the State government, incurred or to be incurred, and now unprovided for, until the first day of July, 1893, to-wit: The sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for public printing, to be paid upon the certificate of the Board of Commissioners of State Contracts, and approved by the Governor.

§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasury for the sum herein appropriated, upon presentation of proper vouchers, and the State Treasurer shall pay the same out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

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