Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906

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Page 727 - This section shall not be construed to prevent the Legislature from providing that convicts may work for, and that the products of their labor may be disposed of to the State or any political division thereof...
Page 723 - January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, no person in any such prison, penitentiary, jail or reformatory, shall be required or allowed to work, while under sentence thereto, at any trade. Industry or occupation, wherein or whereby his work, or the product or profit of his work, shall be fanned out, contracted, given or sold to any person, firm, association or corporation.
Page 786 - All goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part In any foreign country by convict labor or/and forced labor or/and Indentured labor under penal sanctions shall not be entitled to entry at any of the ports of the United States, and the importation thereof is hereby prohibited, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to prescribe such regulations as may be necessary for the enforcement of this provision.
Page 781 - The term of such imprisonment of any person so convicted and sentenced shall be terminated by the managers of the reformatory, as authorized by this act, but such imprisonment shall not exceed" the maximum term provided by law for the crime for which the prisoner was convicted and sentenced.
Page 711 - ... but to remain while on parole in the legal custody and under the control of the board of managers, and subject at any time to be taken back within the inclosure of said reformatory...
Page 726 - FOR THE USE OF STATE, AND DIVISIONS THEREOF. — All convicts sentenced to state prisons, reformatories and penitentiaries in the state, shall be employed for the state, or a political division thereof, or in productive industries for the benefit of the state, or the political divisions thereof...
Page 741 - Elmira, and the courts of this state imposing such sentence shall not fix or limit the duration thereof. The term of such imprisonment of any person so convicted and sentenced shall be terminated by the...
Page 652 - When it appears to the said managers that there is a strong or reasonable probability that any prisoner will ,live and remain at liberty without violating the law, and that his release is not incompatible with the welfare of society...
Page 672 - ... to return to actual custody any conditionally released or paroled prisoner, and it is hereby made the duty of all officers to execute said order the same as ordinary criminal process.
Page 675 - The brand, label, or mark hereby required shall contain at the head or top thereof the words 'convict made/ followed by the year and name of the penitentiary, prison, reformatory, or other establishment in which it was made, in plain English lettering, of the style and size known as great primer Roman condensed capitals.

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