1. CITIES MAY ESTABLISH.] Act April 25, 1871. SECTION 1. That it shall be lawful for the municipal authorities of any city within this state to establish a house of correction, which shall be used for the confinement and punishment of criminals, or persons sentenced or committed thereto under the provisions of this act, or any law of this state or ordinance of any city authorizing the confinement of convicted persons in any such house of

correction.

2. BOARD OF INSPECTORS-HOW CONSTITUTED AND APPOINTED.] Ibid. SEC. 2. The management and direction of any house of correction already established, or which may hereafter be established in any such city, shall be under the control and authority of a board of inspectors to be appointed for that purpose as in this section directed. The mayor of said city shall, by virtue of his office, be a member of said board, who, together with three persons to be appointed by the mayor, by and with the advice and consent of the legislative authority of said city, shall constitute the said board of inspectors. The term of office for the appointed members of said board shall be three years, but the members first appointed shall hold their office, respectively, as shall be determined by lot at the first meeting of said board, for one, two and three years from and after the first Monday in May, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one; and thereafter one member shall be appointed each year for the full term of three years.

3. ADOPT RULES FOR DISCIPLINE-FIX COMPENSATION, ETC.] Ibid. SEC. 3. That whenever a board of inspectors have been organized, as in section second of this act directed, they shall have power and authority to establish and adopt rules for the regulation and discipline of the said house of correction, for which they have respectively been appointed, and upon the nomination of the superintendent thereof, to appoint the subordinate officers, guards and employes thereof; to fix their compensation and prescribe their duties generally; to make all such by-laws and ordinances in relation to the management and government thereof as they shall deem expedient. No appropriation of money shall be made by the said board of inspectors for any purpose other than the ordinary and necessary expenses and repairs of said institution, except with the sanction of the legislative authority of said city.

4. No CONPENSATION TO INSPECTORS THEIR DUTIES.] Ibid. SEC. 4. Said inspectors shall serve without fee or compensation. There shall be a meeting of the entire board at the house of correction once in every three months, when they shall fully examine into the management in every department, hear and determine all complaints or questions not within the province of the superintendent to determine; and make such further rules and regulations for the good government of said house of correction as to them shall seem proper and necessary. One of said appointed inspectors shall visit the said house of correction once, at least, in each month. All rules, regulations, or other orders of said board shall be recorded in a book to be kept for that purpose, which shall be deemed a public record, and with the other books and records of said house of correction shall be at all times subject to the examination of any member or committee of the legislative authority, the comptroller, treasurer, corporation counsel or attorney of any such city.

5. BOOKS AND ACCOUNTS TO BE KEPT.] Ibid. SEC. 5. Books of said house of correction shall be so kept as to clearly exhibit the state of the prisoners; the number received and discharged; the number employed as servants, or in cultivating and improving the premises; the number employed in each branch of industry carried on, and the receipts from and expenditures for and on account of each department of business, or for improvement of the premises. A quarterly statement shall be made out, which shall specify minutely all receipts and expenditures, from whom received, and to whom paid, and for what purpose, proper vouchers for each to be audited and certified by the inspectors, and submitted to the comptroller of said city, and by him to the legislative authority thereof, for examination and approval. The accounts of said house of correction shall be annually closed and balanced on the first day of January, of each year, and a full report of the operations of the preceeding year shall be made out and shall be submitted to the legislative authority of said city, and to the governor of the state, to be by him transmitted to the general assembly, and such report shall be published in the corporation newspaper thereof.

6. FURTHER REPORTS-REMOVAL OF OFFICERS.] Ibid. SEC. 6. The legislative authority of said city may require such further reports and exhibits of the condition and management of such institution as to them shall seem necessary and proper, and may, with the approval of the mayor, remove any inspector of said institution. But any subordinate officer or employe may be removed by the superintendent at his discretion; but immediately upon the removal of such officer or employe, he shall report to said board the name of the person removed and the cause of such removal.

7. SUPERINTENDENT-HIS POWERS AND DUTIES.] Ibid. SEC. 7. The superintendent of the said house of correction shall have entire control and management of all its concerns, subject to the authority established by law, and the rules and regulations adopted for its government. It shall be his duty to obey and carry out all written orders and instructions of the inspectors not inconsistent with the laws, rules and regulations relating to the government of said institution. He shall be appointed by the mayor, by and with the consent of said board of inspectors, and shall hold his office for four years, and until his successor shall have been duly appointed and qualified. But he may be removed by the inspectors at any time when in their judgment it shall be advisable. He shall be responsible for the manner in which said house of correction is managed and conducted. He shall reside at said house of correction, devote all his time and attention to the business thereof, and visit and examine into the condition and management of every department thereof, and of each prisoner therein confined, daily. He shall exercise a general supervision and direction in regard to the discipline, police and business of said house of correction. The deputy superintendent of said house of correction shall have and exercise the powers of the superintendent in his absence, so far as relates to the discipline thereof, and the safe keeping of prisoners.

8. AGREEMENT WITH COUNTIES.] Ibid. SEC. 8. visors or commissioners of any county in this state,

The board of supershall have full power

and authority to enter into an agreement with the legislative authority of such city, or with any authorized agent or officer in behalf of said city, to receive and keep in said house of correction, any person or persons who may be sentenced or committed thereto by any court or magistrate in any of said counties, for any term not less than thirty days. Whenever such agreement shall have been made, it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors or commissioners, for any county in behalf of which such agreement shall have been made, to give public notice thereof in some newspaper printed and published within said county, for a period not less than four weeks, and such notice shall state the period of time for which such agreement will remain in force.*

9. COUNTY CONVICTS COMMITTED.] Ibid. Sec. 9. SEC. 9. In counties having such agreement with any such city, it shall be the duty of every court, police justice, justice of the peace, or other magistrate, in such county, by whom any person, for any crime or misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in the county jail, shall be convicted, to commit such person to the said house of correction, in lieu of committing him to the county jail, there to be received and kept in the manner prescribed by law and the discipline of said house of correction. And it shall be the duty of such court, police justice, justice of the peace, or other magistrate, by a warrant of commitment, duly issued, to cause such persons, so sentenced, to be forthwith conveyed, by some proper officer, to said house of correction."

10. TRANSPORTATION OF CONVICTS.] Ibid. SEC. 10. It shall be the duty of the sheriff, constable or other officer in and for any county having such agreement with any such city, to whom any warrant of commitment for that purpose may be directed by any court, justice or magistrate, aforesaid, in such county, to convey such person so sentenced to the said house of correction, and there deliver such person to the keeper or other proper officer of said house of correction, whose duty it shall be to receive such person, so sentenced, and to safely keep and employ such person for the term mentioned in the warrant of commitment, according to the laws of said house of correction; and the officers thus conveying and so delivering the person or persons so sentenced, shall be allowed such fees as compensation therefor as shall be prescribed or allowed by the board of supervisors or commissioners of the said county.

11. FORMER LAWS MODIFIED.] Ibid. SEC. 11. All provisions of law and ordinances authorizing the commitment and confinement of persons in jails, bridewells and other city prisons, are hereby made applicable to all persons who may or shall be, under the provisions of this act, sentenced to such house of correction.

12. HOUSES OF SHELTER.] Ibid. SEC. 12. It shall be lawful for the inspectors of any such house of correction, to establish in connection with the same a department thereof to be called a house of shelter, for the more complete reformation and education of females. The inspectors shall adopt rules and regulations by which any female convict may be imprisoned in one

For agreement between city of Chicago and Cook county, see ante, Part II, page 239.

or more separate apartments of the said house of correction, or of the department thereof called the house of shelter. The superintendent of said house of correction shall appoint, by and with the advice of the board of inspectors, a matron and other teachers and employes for the said house of shelter, whose compensation shall be fixed and provided for as in this act provided for the officers and other employes of the said house of correction. 13. PAYMENT OF EXPENSES.] Ibid. SEC. 13. The expenses of maintaining any such house of correction, over and above all receipts for the labor of persons confined therein, and such sums of money as may be received from time to time by virtue of an agreement with a county, as in this act contemplated, shall be audited and paid, from time to time, by the legis lative authority of such city, and shall be raised, levied and collected as the ordinary expenses of the said city.

14. UNITED STATES CONVICTS.] Ibid. SEC. 14. It shall be lawful for the inspectors of any such house of correction to enter into an agreement with any officer of the United States authorized therefor, to receive and keep in such house of correction any person sentenced thereto, or ordered to be imprisoned therein, by any court of the United States, or other federal officer, until discharged by law.

15. EXISTING BRIDEWELLS.] Ibid. SEC. 15. That in any such city having, prior to the passage of this act, established a bridewell for the confinement of convicted persons, such institution shall immediately upon the appointment of the inspectors, in this act contemplated, be known and denominated as the house of correction of the city in which it is located.

16. SUPERINTENDENT'S SALARY-RECORD OF DISCIPLINE.] Ibid. SEC. 16. The superintendent of any such house of correction shall receive a salary per annum, to be fixed by the legislative authority of such city, to be paid quarterly. It shall be his duty to keep a record of each and all infractions of the rules and discipline of said house of correction, with the names of each, the convict offending, and the date and character of each offense; and every convict sentenced or committed for six months or more, whose name does not appear upon such record, shall be entitled to a deduction of three days per month from his or her sentence for each month he or she shall continue to obey all the rules of said house of correction.

17. OATH OF OFFICE-BONDS, ETC.] Ibid. SEC. 17. The inspectors of any such house of correction and the superintendent thereof, shall, before they enter on the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the usual oath of office. Said inspectors and superintendent shall severally give bond to such city with sureties and in a penal sum, such as may be required by the legislative authority thereof, for the faithful performance of their duties.

18. REPEALING CLAUSE.] Ibid. SEC. 18. That all laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

1. PENAL ORDINANCES TO BE PUBLISHED SIX TIMES.] Act February 18, 1863, chap. 17. SECTION 1. Every ordinance, regulation or by-law, imposing any penalty, fine, imprisonment or forfeiture, for a violation of its provisions, shall, after the passage thereof, be published six times in the corporation newspaper, and proof of such publication, by the affidavit of the printer or publisher of said newspaper, taken before any officer authorized to administer oaths and filed with the city clerk, or any other competent proof of such publication, shall be conclusive evidence of the legal publication and promulgation of such ordinance or by-law, in all courts and places.

2. ORDINANCES TO REMAIN IN FORCE.] Ibid. SEC. 2. All ordinances, regulations and resolutions, now in force in the city of Chicago, and not inconsistent with this act, shall remain in force, under this act, until altered, modified or repealed by the common council, after this act shall take effect.

3. EXISTING RIGHTS VESTED IN THE CORPORATION.] Ibid. SEC. 3. All actions, rights, fines, penalties and forfeitures, in suit or otherwise, which have accrued under the several acts consolidated herein, shall be vested in, and prosecuted by the corporation hereby created.

4. PROPERTY VESTED IN CORPORATION.] Ibid. SEC. 4. Ibid. SEC. 4. All property, real, personal, or mixed, belonging to the city of Chicago, is hereby vested