Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Issues 401-425The Department, 1919 - Agriculture |
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Page 197 - The net proceeds from the disposition of convicts to municipalities or otherwise may be used by the prison commission in working convicts upon the public roads or works of counties not electing to utilize their allotment of convicts; and in case said commission shall elect not to work the roads in any of such counties, then their pro rata of said funds shall be paid into their respective treasuries to be used for road purposes only.
Page 33 - Lord one thousand nine hundred and between party of the first part, and party of the second part...
Page 35 - IN WITNESS WHEREOF, The said party of the first part has caused these presents to be signed...
Page 29 - ... of this agreement. No unnecessary damage shall be done to young growth or to trees left standing. Undesignated trees which are badly damaged in logging shall be cut if required by the forest officer in charge.
Page 197 - ... authorized to place convicts in counties desiring to use them in excess of their quota. If after the counties have been provided with convicts there shall still remain any convicts not otherwise disposed of, then the privileges conferred upon counties herein shall be extended to municipalities, which may hire convicts from the prison commission at the price of $100 per capita per annum.
Page 196 - Convicts may be awarded to counties other than the one in which the conviction was had. One county may, upon the approval of the Prison Commission, deliver its quota of convicts to another county to be used on the roads and bridges thereof, the counties so receiving such convicts to have the right to compensate the county from which the convicts come with work upon its roads or by the exchange of an equal number of convicts.
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