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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 of this state are hereby authorized and it is made their duty to cause to be erected Ninty-four additional cells for the confinement of convicts therein to be built of Stone or timber as the said board of Inspectors shall determine
Sec. 2. The Said Inspectors are hereby authorized and required to cause to be erected (in the place designed for that purpose) a house for the warden of said Penitentiary suitable for the accommodation of said warden and his family so as not to cost exceeding the sum of Two thousand five hundred dollars.
Sec. 3. The Said Inspectors shall cause to be erected suitable sheds for the protection of the ordinance and military stores belonging to the state now or hereafter to be placed in the custady of said warden or any person having the care and management of said Penitentiary, said sheds not to cost exceeding the sum of Two hundred and fifty dollars.
Sec. 4. The Said Inspectors shall cause the walls enclosing the area of said Penitentiary to be repaired and additions made thereto conformably to the reccommendations of said Inspectors in their annual Report to this General Assembly
Sec. 5. The Warden or other officer or person having the care or custady of Said Penitentiary is hereby authorized and required to furnish to each of said convicts at the time of his or her discharge suitable clothing not to exceed in value ten dollars, Provided however, that no provisions as above stated shall be made unless the said convict is wholly unable to procure such clothing.
Sec. 6. The said Inspectors shall receive proposals for the work to be done in conformity with the
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provisions of this act and give at least sixty days public Notice in at least two Newspaper of this State of the time and place where they will be received and upon opening thereof the contract shall be awarded to the person or persons agreeing to perform such work on the lowest terms, Provided such person or persons will give good and sufficient security to the satisfaction of said Inspectors for the completion of said work according to the terms which may be agreed upon.
Sec. 7. The said Inspectors may let out said work in such parcels as they may deem necessary and proper.
Sec. 8. The said Inspectors shall have power to lease the said Penetentiary for any time not exceeding two years upon the best terms they can obtain upon giving sixty days notice of such leasing in four public newspapers one of which shall be printed in this State and all the duties imposed by this act upon the warden shall be obligatory upon such lessee of lessees who shall give bond and security as now required by law.
Sec. 9. The Governor of this State is hereby authorized to negotiate Bonds of this State to an amount sufficient to raise the sum of twenty thousand dollars at an interest of six per centum per annum redeemable at the expiration of twenty five years and for the redemption of which the faith of this state is hereby irrevocably pledged.
Sec. 10. The said Inspectors are hereby authorized if they deem it consistent2 with interest of this State to dispose of all or a part of the Penitentiary land or property not included within the walls of said Penitentiary or needed for the purpose of enlarging the same.

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Sec. 11. Said Inspectors shall give notice for six weeks in some public newspapers of the time and place of the sale of said property (if such sale shall be deemed advisable) and the proceeds of such sale when realized shall be applied to the payment of any debts or demands against said Penitentiary and their amount deducted from the said twenty thousand dollars hereby authorised to be borrowed, Provided that Bond and security shall be taken from such purchaser or purchasers and a mortgage upon the premises sold for payment of the purchase money.
Sec. 12. The said Inspectors are hereby authorized to draw upon the treasurer of this State in favor of the person or persons to whom money may be due by virtue of this act, and the said Treasurer shall pay the same out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise specifically appropriated or the fund provided for that purpose.
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A Bill for An act in relation to Penitentiary.
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1Joseph Gillespie introduced HB 84 in the House of Representatives on January 6, 1841. The House tabled the bill and ordered printed 150 copies. On February 4, the House took up the bill, committing it to the Committee of the Whole and making it the special order of the day for February 8. The House passed the bill on February 19. On February 25, the Senate refused to read the bill a second time. The General Assembly did not authorize the construction of a new penitentiary until 1857.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 192, 329, 400, 429, 443; Illinois Senate Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 359, 403; “An Act to Locate and Build an Additional Penitentiary,” 19 February 1857, Laws of the State of Illinois (1857), 131-36.
2“consistent” written over “consistant”.

Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 53, HB 84, GA Session 12-2, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,