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PENITENTIARY. 1 29 infectious or contagious disease, from the persons or clothing of such convicts; which precautions it shall be the duty of the inspectors to regulate, and prescribe in their by-laws. Second. A descriptive list of the names, ages, persons, crimes, and Dcscriptivelish sentences of the convicts shall be kept by the warden, and such description shall be entered immediately upon the reception of each convict. Third. Every convict shall be confined singly in a separate cell at Confinement in night, and at such times of the day as he may be unemployed in labor, °°P*"°*° °°u¤· °x‘ except at such hours and places as may be specially assigned, by the °°pt’&°‘ rules of the penitentiary, for religious or other instruction, or for meals,. or when transferred to the intirmary on account of sickness, upon the recommendation of the physician. Fourth. The male and female convicts confined in the penitentiary S°P”·”·*l°” °"h° shall be kept, and shall labor, wholly separate and apart from each °°x°°‘ other. Fifth. The convicts shall he clothed at the public expense during the Clothing. whole term of their confinement, in habits of coarse and cheap materials, uniform in color and make, and so striped, or otherwise conspicuously marked, as may clearly distinguish them from the ordinary dress of other persons. Sixth. Their bedding and other personal accommodations shall be of B<=ddi¤s·6w· the cheapest and coarsest kind con istent with use and durability. Seventh. The convicts shall be fed on the cheapest food which will Fwdsupport health and strength, with as little change or variety in diet as may be consistent with the health of the convicts and the economy of the penitentiary. Eighth. They shall be kept, as far as may be consistent with their Kind of labor at age, health, sex, and ability, to labor of the hardest and most servile **1****** *° "° k°P*~ kind, and, as far as may be, uniform in its nature, and of a kind where the work is least liable to be spoiled by ignorance, neglect, or obstinacy, or the material to be injured, stolen, or destroyed. Ninth. They shall not at any time be permitted to converse with one Not to converse another, or with strangers, except by the special permission and in ‘Y**h°“*· P°"“”‘ presence of some officer of the prison, as may be regulated by the °‘°°' b —laws. 5'Tenth. They shall be made to labor diligently, in silence, and with Method oflabor. strict obedience. _ Sec. 1127. The warden shall have power to punish any convict in the mP°W?'h°f "*¤1°¤ penitentiary- L First. Who willfully violates or refuses to obey the rules of the peni- 3 Much.1829, c. teutiary; 0,,,65,s.12,v.4,p.367. Second. Who willfully refuses to perform the work assigned to him; or Third. Who resists by violence any of the officers of the penitentiary in the exercise of their lawful authority; or, _ Fourth. Who willfully destroys any property, tools, or materials. _ Sm:. 1128. It shall be the duty of the warden to inilict such punish- Hgh °f P¤¤*¤h· ment either by confinement in solitary cells, by dict on bread and water, E°I;;._ or by putting such convict in irons or in the stocks. [su s s. us. sam 36£bi<1., pp. 367, Sec. 1129. All such uuishmeuts shall be regularly reported to the An P'""“h“’°°*‘ visiting inspectors at the next weekly visitation, and to the board of inspectors at their monthly meeting. _ 1bid.,1>· 366- Sec. 1130. It shall be the duty of the inspectors to adopt and enforce Igf special rules and by-laws regulating the times, measure, extent, and Il:,',, ,0 C0,,g,!m_ mode of such punishments in relation to the several offenses against the .-é discipline of the penitentiary, and to report the same in their annual Umireport to Congress whenever such regulations shall be adopted, altered, or re aled. _ _ · ,, SEI; 1131. All prisoners confined in the penitentiary for a term of m£n°‘}.gf°:;’00diL'3,'Qf years, who txmduct themselves so that no charge for misconduct shnll be duct 11 s 1I——9