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State to employ the proceeds of said fund, to the whole State, for the
benefit of Schools in such manner as the Legislature may direct.
Be it further resolved, 4v., That it be further requested that in those
cases in which the sixteenth section happens to be upon lands that are
worthless, or of little value, the State of Louisiana, by the United States
Deputy Surveyors, under the direction of the Governor, be authorized to
locate anew the same quantity, for the same objects on any unlocated
Land belonging to the United States in this State.
(signed) A. BOUDOUSQUIE, Speaker of the House ofRepresentatives,
(Signed) FELIX GARCIA, President or the Senate.
qpproved, March, h 1845.
t3Igned) A. MOUTON,Goverior of the State of Louisiana.
No. 55-AN ACT to provide for the return of the colored convicts to the Peniten-
tiary, and for other purposes.
Se.cT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
Colored can- State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened; That all the colored
vieta returned
to the reniten- male convicts, sentenced to hard labor, and now under the charge of the
iary. State Engineer according to the provisions of an act entitled An Act
providing for the manner of employing the colored male convicts in the
Penitentiary and for other purposes, approved Mlarch twenty-sixth,
eighteen hundred and forty-two, be returned to the Penitentiary, and
put in charge of the lessees, to be worked separate and apart from the
white convicts, and all colored convicts sentenced to hard labor hereafter
be disposed of in the same manner, provided, the lessees of the Peni-
tentiary will receive said colored convicts on the same terms they have
agreed to'receivethe white convicts.
SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, 4c., That the present lessees of the
Ceritin im- Penitentiary be allowed to remove the back or cast wall of the prison
wed net ae not exceeding one hundred and twenty feet in the rear of its ];resent
made, location, and he required to raise it six feet above its present height, and
to construct within the area so taken in a two story brick building, the
whole length of the wall, the upper story of the building to be fitted up
suitable for the spinning of warps and filling for bagging, and the lower
story for a rope-walk, said building to be constructed under the super-
vision and control of the Board of Directors of the Penitentiary and to be
How paid. paid for out of the funds of the Penitentiary on the warrant of the Board
of Directors of the Penitentiary at such times as may seem to them
proper, the building not to cost over fiftecn thousand dollars.
i'owergranted SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, 4-c., That the Clerk of the Penitentiary
totheClerk. be and is hereby authorized and empowered to demand, receive and
receipt for any monies due the Penitentiary, and to institute suits, in his
said character as Clerk of the Penitentiary, for the recovery of any
money or debts due) the Penitentiary, subject to the control and super-
vision of the Board of Directors of the Penitentiary.
Noney rorthe SECT. 4. Be it further enacted, 4r., That the sum of one hundred dol-
puchase o'lars be paid to the Chaplain of the Penitentiary on his own warrant out
of the funds of the Penitentiary to be invested by him in the purchase of
books of a religious and moral tendency for the use of the white con-
victs.
SECT. 5. And be it further enactcd, 4c., That the Board of Directors
of the Penitentiary be authorized to allow, at their discretion, to relcaseil](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsla0278&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)