amend title two of chapter three of part four of the Revised Statutes, relating to State prisons, and for other purposes connected therewith," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Board to fix values of articles man ufactured for public insti tutions. § 107. The comptroller, the superintendent of State prisons and the State commission in lunacy, but said commission shall be entitled to only one vote, shall constitute a board whose duty it shall be to fix and determine the value or prices at which all articles manufactured, as provided in the last preceding section, and furnished for use in the several public institutions of the State shall be so furnished, which prices shall be uniform to all such institutions. The comptroller Forms for shall devise and furnish to all such institutions a proper form for such requisitions, and also a proper system of accounts to be kept for all such transactions. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to pre- public instivent in any one of the said public institutions of the State the manufacture by its own inmates of articles or supplies as may be needed for its own use or for the use if its inmates. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. (1) requisition, &c. Rights of tutions to manufacture. CHAPTER 395. AN ACT to amend title two of chapter three of part four of the Revised Statutes, relating to State pris ons. APPROVED by the Governor May 21, 1890. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Title two of chapter three of part four of the Revised Statutes, as amended by chapter three hun (1) Amended by Laws of 1896, chap. 429. Employment of prisoners in hat making and typesetting restricted. Proviso. dred and eighty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, is hereby amended by adding a new section thereto, to be known as section one hundred and sixteen, to read as follows: § 116. No prisoner in any of the State prisons, penitentiaries or reformatories of this State shall be employed in making or finishing fur or wool hats, or in setting type or printing, except in setting type for or printing printed matter for use in the prison, penitentiary or reformatory in which the same is printed, and no products of any labor in the trade of printing or type-setting of any prisoner in any such prison, reformatory or penitentiary shall be put upon the market for sale or sold; but nothing in this act shall prevent the printing within a prison, penitentiary or reformatory of the official reports of the prison, penitentiary or reformatory, in which the same are printed respectively, or the making or finishing of fur or wool hats for use in such prison, penitentiary or reformatory, or for use in any of the public institutions of the State. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. (1) CHAPTER 130. AN ACT to amend section one hundred and sixteen of APPROVED by the Governor March 15, 1892. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate SECTION 1. Section one hundred and sixteen of title (1) Amended by Laws of 1892, chap. 130; Laws of 1896, chap. 429. ment of prisoners at certain trades, etc., § 116. No prisoner in any of the State prisons, peni- Employtentiaries or reformatories in this State shall be employed in making or finishing fur or wool hats, or in restricted. making or laundering shirts, collars or cuffs, or in setting type or printing, except in setting type for or printing printed matter for use in the prison, penitentiary or reformatory in which the same is printed, and no products of any labor in the trade of printing or type-setting of any prisoner in any such prison, reformatory or penitentiary shall be put upon the market for sale or sold; but nothing in this act shall prevent the printing within a prison, penitentiary or reformatory of the official reports of the prison, penitentiary or reformatory, in which the same are printed, respec-. tively, or the making or finishing of fur or wool hats, or the making or laundering of shirts, collars or cuffs for use in such prison, penitentiary or reformatory, or for use in any of the public institutions of the State. § 2. This act shall take effect July first eighteen hundred and ninety-two. (1) CHAPTER 429. AN ACT to amend title two of chapter three of part BECAME a law May 4, 1896, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: of act. SECTION 1. Sections ninety-seven to one hundred and Amendment nine inclusive, and sections one hundred and twelve (1) Amended by Laws of 1896, chap. 429. Contract for labor of prisoners, etc., prohibited. Prisoners to be employed at hard labor. Labor of prisoners of first grade, how directed. and one hundred and fourteen of title two of chapter three of part four of the revised statutes relating to state prisons, and for other purposes connected therewith, as amended and superseded by chapter three hundred and eighty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, are hereby amended so that said sections shall read as follows: § 97. The superintendent of state prisons shall not, nor shall any other authority whatsoever, make any contract by which the labor or time of any prisoner in any state prison, reformatory, penitentiary or jail in this state, or the product or profit of his work, shall be contracted, let, farmed out, given or sold to any person, firm, association or corporation; except that the convicts in said penal institutions may work for, and the products of their labor may be disposed of, to the state or any political division thereof, or for or to any public institution owned or managed and controlled by the state, or any political division thereof. § 98. The superintendent of state prisons, the superintendents, managers and officials of all reformatories and penitentiaries in the state, shall, so far as practicable, cause all the prisoners in said institutions, who are physically capable thereof, to be employed at hard labor, for not to exceed eight hours of each day, other than Sundays and public holidays, but such hard labor shall be either for the purpose of production of supplies for said institutions, or for the state, or any political division thereof, or for any public institution owned or managed and controlled by the state, or any political division thereof; or for the purpose of industrial training and instruction, or partly for one, and partly for the other of such purposes. § 99. The labor of the prisoners of the first grade in each of said prisons, reformatories and penitentiaries, shall be directed with reference to fitting the pris oner to maintain himself by honest industry after his discharge from imprisonment, as the primary or sole object of such labor, and such prisoners of the first grade may be so employed at hard labor for industrial training and instruction solely, even though no useful or salable products result from their labor, but only in case of such industrial training or instruction can be more effectively given in such manner. Otherwise, and Proviso. so far as is consistent with the primary object of the labor of prisoners of the first grade as aforesaid, the labor of such prisoners shall be so directed as to produce the greatest amount of useful products, articles and supplies needed and used in the said institutions, and in the buildings and offices of the state, or those of any political division thereof, or in any public institution owned or managed and controlled by the state or any political division thereof, or said labor may be for the state, or any political division thereof. § 100. The labor of prisoners of the second grade in said prisons, reformatories and penitentiaries shall be directed primarily to labor for the state or any political division thereof, or to the production and manufacture of useful articles and supplies for said institutions, or for any public institution owned or managed and controlled by the state, or any political division thereof. § 101. The labor of prisoners of the third grade shall be directed to such exercise as shall tend to the preservation of health, or they shall be employed in labor for the state, or a political division thereof, or in the manufacture of such useful articles and supplies as are needed and used in the said institutions, and in the public institutions owned or managed and controlled by the state, or any political division thereof. Labor of prisoners of second grade, how directed. Labor of prisoners of third grade, how directed. of convicts § 102. All convicts sentenced to state prisons, reform- Employment atories and penitentiaries in the state, shall be em- for State, ployed for the state, or a political division thereof, or etc. |