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GENERAL LAWS OF TEXAS.
[28th Leg.
calculated to promote the success and profitable operation of such industry.
SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Penitentiaries
to assign to the use and control of said General Manager of said iron
industry for employmrent in said industry such number of able bodied
convicts best adapted to efficient and profitable labor in such industry as
shall be applied for by said General Manager by his requisition upon said
Superintendent when approved by the Penitentiary Board, to be made by
him from time to time as the necessities of the said iron industry may
require, and said Superintendent shall, also upon similar requisitions
assign and furnish to the said General Manager such wagons, teams, implements
and appliances, proper or required in the prosecution and operation
of said iron industry, as may be set forth in the requisitions for
same made by said General Manager so approved by the Board, and the
Superintendent of Penitentiaries shall not recall or withdraw from employmnent
in said iron industry, after their assignment thereto, any of
such convicts, wagons, teams, implements or appliances without the consent
of said General Manager and the Board; provided, nothing in this
Act shall be construed to repeal or impair the right of the Superintendent
of Penitentiaries, as under existing laws, to superintend and control
the general treatment, discipline and safe keeping of such convicts as
may be employed ini said iron industry, it being the intention of this Act
to continue the subjection of such convicts so employed in said iron industry
to all the rules and regulations of the penitentiary management as
now is or hereafter may be constituted except in so far as the control
of their labor is concerned or as is expressly provided for by the provisions
of this Act.
SEC. 8. That to carry out the provisions of this Act, there be and is
hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the State Treasury belonging
to the general revenue not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary,
and the same is to be expended under the direction of the Governor and
the Penitentiary Board.
SEC. 9. The General Manager and his assistants provided for herein
shall receive such salary as shall be fixed by the Penitentiary Board and
Financial Agent.
SEC. 10. Whereas, the timber upon the lands belonging to the State
of Texas, purchased for the purpose of supplying the State penitentiary
at Rusk, Texas, with charcoal and fuel, and the iron ore and land containing
deposits of iron ore belonging to the State, purchased for the
purpose of supplying the iron ore for the smelting furnace of the said
penitentiary are nearly exhausted; and,
Whereag, the officials of said penitentiary have on file orders for pig
iron and piping and other wares manufactured at said penitentiary by
State convict labor, far in excess of its present smelting and moulding
capacity to fill; and,
Whereas, the said iron product of said penitentiary commands a good
price, and the sale thereof makes a handsome profit to the State and prevents
the convict labor thus employed from being thrown in competition
with free labor; and the fact that ore lands and timber and timbered
lands in the vicinity of the East Texas penitentiary, such as the provisions
of this Act require the State to acquire, are rapidly advancing in
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1903-1905 [Volume 12], book, 1906; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6695/m1/80/: accessed May 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .