AN ACT
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Relating to the Punishment Of Conyicts, who


may be sentenced 10 solitary Imprlson-


ment and confinement TO hard labour.


DE az enGrted by The Senate ond House Of
oeo = - Representatives., sa General Court as
senabIed, and blythe aathOrity II the same, That
from and after the passing otthis Act, whenever
any person convicted of any crime or offence
whatever, shall be duly sentenced therefori to
solitary imprisonment, aud confinement to hard
labour, for any term not exceeding three years (;
such convict not having been before sentenced
to like punishment by any Court u this, or ct
any other of the United States, the Court before
whom such conviction shall be Lad may. IN their
discretion, order the said sentence to be execut-
ed in the common gaol or house OF correction OF
the County in which the offence shall have been
committed. And the keeper ofsuch gao or house
of correction is hereby authorised and required to
execute such sentence of solitary imprisonment,
by contining the convict in one ofthe cells OF the
gaol or house of corrections il there be any such,
and If there be not, then in the most retired and
solitary part OF the prison house OF correction
and during the time ofsuch solitary confinement
the convict shall he fed with bread and water
only unless other food shall l. necessary for the
alton of bis or her life and no intercourse
shall be allowed with such convict, except fo-
the conveyance of food aud other necessary pur-
poses.


Sec 2. Be IL further enacted, That the keeper
of the gaol or house OF correction, - which such
convict shal be committed, shall after the e2ps-