Acts of Assembly Relating to the Eastern State Penitentiary 1829-1903 PDF Download

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ISBN: 9780484790789
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Excerpt from Acts of Assembly Relating to the Eastern State Penitentiary 1829-1903: As Regards Establishment, Treatment of Prisoners Management, Insane Convicts, Convict Labor, Board of Public Charities, Pennsylvania Prison Society, Appendix, Index And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, be, and is hereby appropriated, to be paid after the first day of October, on warrants drawn by the Gov cruor in favor of the said Commissioners, on the Treasurer of the Commonwealth, to be by them ap plied in purchasing the site and thereon erecting the Penitentiary aforesaid, and the said Commissioners shall furnish a detailed statement of their accounts, to the accountant department quarterly, to be settled and adjusted in the usual manner: provided, That the Governor Shall have full power to draw warrants for said money, in such instalments only as in his Opinion the progress of the work requires - Section 4, Act of March 20th, 1821. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.