Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That the Inspectors of the Penitentiary are hereby authorized and directed to remove and relocate the present Penitentiary of the State in the manner hereinafter provided to some eligible situation within three miles of its present location, and out of the incorporated limits of the town of Alton.

Sec. 2. When the said location shall be made, the said Inspectors shall report the same to the Governor who shall thereupon appoint three persons to examine the said location and [r]eport, and should said report be in favor of said location the same shall be surveyed and a plat thereof returned to and filed in the office of the Secretary of State

Sec. 3. As soon as the said Inspectors shall have chosen a site for said penitentiary which shall be approved as aforesaid, they shall procure a proper deed to this State with general warrantee to be examined and approved by the Attorney General for a quantity of land not less than ten acres in the form of a square or parallelogram, and shall contract with some suitable person or persons for erecting thereon a penitentiary on the plan at present adopted, or on the plan of the Pennsylvania Penitentiary at Philadelphia, or any other improved plan the said Inspectors may choose to adopt; taking from said person or persons a bond with sufficient security in a penalty of thousand dollars that the work shall be completed according to contract in years thereafter.

Sec. 4. To enable the said Inspectors to carry into effect the aforesaid contract, they are hereby authorized to lay off into lots the ground remaining unsold which has been granted to the state for penitentiary purposes on which the Penitentiary now stands, and to make such streets as they may deem necessary to add to the value of said lots, and to sell the said lots at public vendue after giving three months notice in at least three newspapers of this State, and one in Kentucky and Missouri, ^to the highest bidder,^ on a credit of six, twelve and eighteen months, the purchaser giving bond with approved

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security, and a lien on the lots for the purchase money. Provided that until a sufficient number of cells of the new Penitentiary shall be completed, the present one with the lot whereon it may stand shall be reserved from sale and be used for the confinement of convicts therein under the direction and control of the Warden thereof; and also the wall in whole or in part, and the work shops and lots belonging to them to be applied to the use of convicts or to be leased for the benafit of the State, and as the new work progresses so much of the materials of the old as may be reserved may be used as the Warden under the direction of the Inspectors may authorize in the new construction which shall be composed of a wall enclosing four acres of land of the same height strength and dimensions as the present with suitable gates and openings, a wardens house equal to the present one, and convenient and suitable workshops equal in value to those now erected, and at such points within the wall as the said Inspectors may direct. The cells intended for solitary confinement to be lined with strong oak plank properly secured, for the purpose of preserving the health of those who may be confined therein.

Sec. 5. The proceeds of the sales of said lots shall be applied under the direction of the Inspectors to the buildings mentioned in the foregoing section, and the Inspectors shall not exceed in their contract the amount arising from the sales as aforesaid.

Sec. 6. When the new Penitentiary shall be placed in a condition to receive convicts and as capable of accomodating them as the present one and such fact is certified to the Warden of the Penitentiary by the Inspectors thereof, then it shall be the duty of said Warden to remove to said new penitentiary all convicts and the said new penitentiary shall thenceforth be the Penitentiary of this State, and the said Inspectors may thereafter proceed to sell the lots and buildings remaining unsold on the same credit and the same security as on the former sale

In lieu of 2^nd sec.

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the ^said^ Inspectors to procure upon the best terms for the State, either by donation or purchase a suitable location for the said penitentiary; and when the said location shall be made, the said Inspectors shall report the same to the Governor, who shall thereupon appoint three disinterested persons not residing or holding property in or near said town of Alton to examine the said location and report to him: and should said report be in favor of said location, the Governor shall notify the Inspectors thereof, and the said location shall be surveyed and a plat thereof together with the report aforesaid returned to, and filed in the office of the Secretary of State.

Insert between the word “Provided” and the word “That” in the 9 ^12^ ^th line of sec. 4. the words,

“That a lot most suitable for a warehouse shall be reserved for the use of the State for penitentiary purposes and[”?]