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 SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. C11. 192. 1911. 1003 offenses against the United States, for the fpurposes named in the law authorizing the acquisition of the site or said workhouse and such other work or services as may be necessary, in the discretion of the Commissioners of said District, in connection with the construction, maintenance, and operation of said workhouse, or the rosecution of any other public work at said institution or in the District of Columbia: Provided further, That, on the direction of ]§r;>¤¤¤tt<;£¤ emsaid commissioners, male and female prisoners confned in any P y °" J existing workhouse or in the Washington Asylum and Jail of the District of Columbia shall be delivered into the_ custody of said superintendent or the authorized deputy or deputies of said su r- intendent aforesaid, to perform similar work or services to thiise hereinbefore required of male and female prisoners serving sentences in the District of Columbia Jail: Provided further, That the Com- mJ‘},'*,g§*r,$:Q*°‘},0§n°},§°,;_* missioners of the District of Columbia are hereby vested with juris- sinners. diction over such male and female prisoners from the time they are so delivered into the custody of said superintendent or the duly authorized deputy or deputies of said superintendent, including the time when such prisoners are in transit between the District of Columbia and the site acquired for such workhouse, and during the period such prisoners are on such site or in the District of Columbia until they are released or discharged under due  of law: Provided further, That all the authority, duties, rscretion, and t ‘{g“·(§°*g;; wers now vested in the Attorney General of the United States, minions:. ` E; law, in relation to the support of prisoners sentenced to confinement in the jail of the District, including the custody of the jail, building, grounds, and appurtenances, and authorigy over the warden and employees thereof, and in relation to an accounting for all a propriations in connection with such prisoners, jail, warden, and) employees, are hereby transferred to and vested in the , Commissioners of the District of Columbia, to take effect and be in force on and after the first daybof July, nineteen hundred and eleven, and the Commissioners of the istrict of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to receive and keep in the jail of the District of Columbia all other prisoners committed thereto for offenses against the United States: rooided further, That the Ei! of the District of m·;¤2H;·g°:;mE Columbia and the Washington Asylum of said istr·ict, on and after amiga. the first day of July, nineteen hundred andeleven, shall be combined as one institution, known as the Washington Asylum and Jail; and "’P°’*°‘°"°°“‘· the Commissioners of said District are hereby authorized to appoint a srhperintendent of said institution, at a compensation of one thousan eight hundred dollars per annum, and the positions of warden rprmer positions of the jail and superinten ent of the institution now known as °°° hh"' Washington Asylum are abolished on and after said date; and all Dunes fgnnamea the duties, discretion, and powers now vested in and exercised by the t° °°"° °°”‘ warden of the gil of said District and the superintendent of the present Washington ylum are hereb transferred to and vested in the superintendent herein provided, for, who shall give bond to the B¤¤d· District of Columbia for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, as are now or may hereafter be prescribed, in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, with surety or sureties to be approved by said commissioners: Provided further, That whenever and wher- €¤¤¤¤¤i*¤¤¤*¤*¤· ever authority of law exists to sentence, commit, order committed, or confine any person to or in said jail or as lum, said authority shall, on, from, and after July Erst, nineteen hundred and eleven, be exercised by sentence, commitment, order of commitment, or confinement to or in said Washington Asylum and Jail: Provided further, That all of the powers, duties and authority now vested in A··¢¤¤¤¢g‘0Qg’i¤})Qg; the supreme court of the District of, Columbia in relation to the jiiliiiiiii, muse-mr appomtment and removal of the warden of the jail of the District ‘°°°“°'“*“*°“°‘*