TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 65.
1829.
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be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to appoint a commissioner,to meet such commissioner as may be appointed on the part of the stateof South Carolina , to assess the value of a tract of land on the Catawbariver, at or near Rocky Mount, (and commonly known as Mount Dear-born,) or so much thereof as in the opinion of the superintendent ofpublic works in South Carolina may be important or necessary for thecompletion or preservation of the public works of said state: And ifsaid commissioners shall disagree as to the value of said land, they arehereby authorized to choose, jointly, a third commissioner, the assessmentand valuation of any two of whom, when certified under their hands andseals, shall be conclusive.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so soon as the state of SouthCarolina shall pay into the treasury of the United States the amount ofsuch valuation, the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed toconvey to the state of South Carolina, all the right and title of the UnitedStates in or to said land so assessed: and from and after the executionof said conveyance, the jurisdiction of the United States over the soil soconveyed, be, and the same is hereby, retroceded to the state of SouthCarolina .
Approved, March 3, 1829.
Chap. LXV.— An Act concerning the government and discipline of the peniten-• tiary in the District of Columbia .
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled ) That the penitentiary erectedin the. city of Washington, in pursuance of “An act to provide for erect-ing a penitentiary in the District of Columbia , and for other purposes,”passed twentieth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, shall be desig-nated and known as the penitentiary for the District of Columbia , andshall be exclusively appropriated to the confining such persons as may beconvicted of offences, which now are, or may hereafter be, punishablewith imprisonment and labour, under the laws of the United States , orof the District of Columbia .
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That it shall be the duty of thePresident of the United States to appoint, annually, five respectable in-habitants of the District of Columbia to be inspectors of the said peni-tentiary, who shall severally hold their offices for one year, from the dateof their appointment.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted , That the President shall also ap-point one warden of the said penitentiary, who shall hold his office duringthe pleasure of the President.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted , That said inspectors shall holdtheir first meeting within ten days after their appointment; they shallappoint one of their number to be their secretary, who shall keep regu-lar records of their proceedings; a majority shall be a quorum for thetransaction of all business, and all questions shall be decided by a majo-rity of those present; they shall hold regular meetings of the board, atleast once in every month, and oftener, if they shall find it necessary;they shall singly, in turns, visit and inspect the penitentiary, at least oncein each week, upon some stated day, to be fixed by their by-laws; theyshall direct in what labour the convicts shall be employed; it shall betheir duty to prepare a system of rules and regulations, minutely providingfor the discipline, health and cleanliness of the penitentiary, the hours oflabour, meals and confinement, the government and behaviour of theofficers and convicts, so as best to carry into effect the several directionsand requisitions of this act; they shall take care that these rules andregulations be made known to the officers of the prison, and the convicts,
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Statute II.March 3, 1829.
Appropriationfor the peniten-tiary.
Act of May 20,1826, ch. 81.
Annual inspec-tors to be ap-pointed.
Warden.
First meetingof inspectors.
Secretary.
Quorum.
Regular meet-ings.
Inspections.
Labour of con-victs.
System of rulesfor discipline,&c.
Promulgationthereof, &c.