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Rh CHAPTER 108.

[S. B. 1.]

LABOR OF CONVICTS.

AN ACT in relation to the Labor of Convicts in the State Prison of North Dakota.

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. Labor of convicts.] No person in any prison, penitentiary, or other place for the confinement of offenders in said state, 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 farmed out, contracted and given, or sold to any person, firm, association or corporation; but this act shall not be so construed so as to prevent the product of the labor of convicts from being disposed of to the State, or any political division thereof, or to any public institution owned or managed by the State or any political division thereof for their own use; Provided, that nothing in this act shall prohibit the use of convict labor by the State in carrying on any farming operations or in the manufacture of brick, or prohibits the State from disposing of the proceeds of such enterprises.

§ 2. Repeal.] All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

§ 3. Emercency.] This act shall take effect and be in force from and after November 1, A. D. 1897.

Approved March 2d, 1897.

PLEDGES.

CHAPTER 109.

[S. B. 128.]

RELATING TO PLEDGES.

AN ACT to Amend Section 4764 of the Revised Codes of the State of North Dakota, Being Chapter 74, Entitled Pledge.

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. Amendment.] That section 4764 be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: S. L.—17