LAWS OF TTIE UNION.

BY AUTHORITY.

PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE


NINETEENTH CONGRESS.
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AN ACT TO provide for erecting Penitentiary
in the District of Columbia, and for other pur-
poses.


Be ii enacted By the Senate and House of
Representatives offhe United States of II
merica in Congress assembled, That the
President of the United States be, and he is
hereby, authorized and required to appoint
three commissioners, whose duty it shall be
to select a proper site in the District of Co.
lumbia, on which to erect Penitentiary, for
the said District.


SEC. 2. lind be it further enacted, That,
as soon as the said commissioners shall have
selected the said site, and the President of
the United states shall have approved there
of, it shall be the duty of the Commissioner
OF the Public Buildings to cause to be built
thereon, of substantial materials, Peniten-
tiary for the said District, sufficiently large
acontain eighty separate cells, and other
necessary apartments, for the residence of
the Keeper of the said Penitentiary, and o.
ther purposes, and on plan to be approved
by the President of the United States, and
enclose the same in a securely walled yard
of sufficient dimensions to allow room to en-
ploy the convicts who may be there conhn-
cd at any kind of labour which may be found
most profitable.


SEC. 5. Ind be IL further enacted, That
for the purpose of defraying the expense of
erecting the sald building, there is hereby
appropriated the sum of forty thousand dol
lars, to be paid out OF any money in the Trea-
su,y not otherwise appropriated.


SEC 4. find be 1t further enacted, That,
1t shall be the duty of the said Commission
cr OF the Public Buildings, to cause the pre-
sent Jail in the city of Washington to be SO
altered and repaired, as to make it suita-
BILE, convenient. healthy, and comfortable
prison for the use of the city and county of
Washington, tor the making and finishing of
which repairs, the sum of five thousand dol :
lars is hereby appropriated to be paid out
Of any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated.


SEC. S. find be ii further enacted, That
the said commissioners shall also select
site in the county of Alexandria, for coun-
ty Jail, on which it shall be the duty of the
Commissioner of the Public Buildings to
cause county Jail, for the city and county
of Alexandria, to be erected and finished on
a plan to be approved by the President of
the United States. And there is hereby ap-
propriated for the building of the said Jail,
the sum of ten thousand dollars, to be paid
out of any money IN the Treasury not other
wise appropriated.


JOHN w. TAYLOR,


Speaker of the House of Representatives


]. C. CALHOUN,


Vice-President of the United States, and


President Of the Senate
APpRovED-May 20, 1896


JOHN OUNCE ADAMS.