Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That hereafter when ever any person shall be convicted and sentenced to confinement in the Penitentiary for any criminal offence, it shall be the duty of the Sheriff of the County when such conviction was had, to employ a sufficient force to guard all such convicts to the Penitentiary, and the said Sheriff shall be responsible for the safe delivery of such Convicts. A failure to deliver the same shall be a breach of duty in the official conduct of such Sheriff for which he may be indicted as in other cases of mal-conduct in office.

Sec. 2. The said Sheriff shall be allowed thirty cents for each mile necessarily travelled in going to the Penitentiary with each Convict; and each guard by him employed shall be allowed the sum of two dollars per day for each day’s travel in going to the Penitentiary with such Convict. ^and the number of the Guard shall be fixed by the circuit court.^ The said compensation to the Sheriff and guard shall be paid out of the State Treasury on the warrant of the Auditor, and shall be in full of all charges & expenses whatsoever.

sec. 3. The 17^th section of “an act to amend an act entitled ‘an act relative to Criminal Jurisprudence” approved Jan.[January] 6^th 1827, and to provide for the regulation and government of the Penitentiary” approved Feb.[February] 15^th 1831, is hereby repealed.