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 840 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 529, 530. 1891. _ enitentiary, and their delivery to the superintendent, warden, or Eeeper of such United States prisons, shall be by the marshal of the District or Territory where such conviction may occur, after the Expenses. erection and completion of said prisons. That the actual expenses of such marshal, including transportation and subsistence, hire, transportation and subsistence of guards, and the transportation and subsistence of the convict or convicts, be fpaid, on the approval of the Attorney General out of the judiciary und. Discharged pi-an- Sec. 6. That every prisoner when discharged from the jail and ‘;£,'“;,,nsp0mu°uh°m°_ rison shall be furnished with transportation to the place of his residence within the United States at the time of his commitment under sentence of the court, and if the term of his imprisonment shall have been for one year or more, he shall also be furnished with cleaning, sm. suitable clothing, the cost not to exceed twelve dollars, and five dollars in money. mmnmmmel Sec. 7. That this act shall not ap ly to minors, who, in the judgment of the judiges presiding over lilnited States courts, shou d be uma. committed to re ormatory institutions. And provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed as prohibiting the courts of the United States from sentencin to or coniining prisoners, either civil or military, in the United Sgtates military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. ‘ oummumm nn Sec. 8. That the said Attorney General, in formulating rules and "°°‘"’°'“"“'· regulations for the conduct of said prisons, is hereb authorized to establish rules for commutation for good behavior oiy said convicts, but not for a longer time than two mouths for the first year’s imprisonment, and two months for each succeeding year. pesignation or SBC. 9. That the Attomey-General shall be authorized to desig- "“"“ nate to which of said prisons persons convicted in such States or mm, · Territories shall be carried for confinement: Pro/vided, That in the construction of the prison buildings provided for in this act there shall be such arrangement of cells and yard space as that prisoners ` seppmonssysnm- under twenty years of age shall not be in any way associated with °'1’"“°"°" prisoners above that a, and the management 0 the class under twenty years of age shsdll be as far as possible reformatory. Approved, March 3, 1891. mm]; 3, 1mi. CHAP. 530.-An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Eastern wm Branch of the Potomac River at the Bennings Road, in the District of Columbia. ' Be it enacted by the Senate and H0ll·8€ of Representatives of the Bennlngs nudge, United Sfates oézlmerica in Congress assembled, That the Commis- DQ, mum up sioners of the istrict of Columbia be, and they are hereby, author. uwrlwl. ized and directed to cause to be constructed across the Eastern Branch of the Potomac River, on the Benninlgs Road, in the District of Columbia, a substantial stone or iron bri ge, with necessary approaches; Appmpnmon. and the sum of sixty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any mone in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, which said sum shall be available immediately upon the passage of this act for the construction of said bridge a11d approaches, and for such investigation and surveys and such contingencies as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall deem necessary, the same to be pm., b,·mg.,_ maintained as a free brid e for travel. Hajf mm mmm Sec. 2. That the sum wl ich shall be expended under the provisions mmm of this act shall be treated and regarded as gart of the general expenses of the District of Columbia, and the nited States shall be · credited with the amount which it may pay under this act upon the fifty per centum of the expenses of the District of Columbia, as v,,;_ 2O_ ,,_ m provided in the act of June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy- eight, entitled An act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia.