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69. WHO MAY BE COMMITTED AND RECEIVED INTO REFORMATORY. The said board of managers shall receive and take into said reformatory all male criminals, between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five and not known to have been previously sentenced to a penitentiary or state prison in this or any other state, who shall be legally sentenced to said reformatory, on conviction of any criminal offense in any court having jurisdiction thereof; and any such court may, in its discretion, sentence to said reformatory any such male person, convicted of a crime punishable by the laws of the state by imprisonment in the penitentiary, between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five as aforesaid; the discipline, to be observed in said reformatory, shall be such as is best calculated to promote and encourage the reformation of the prisoners therein confined, and the board of managers shall have power to use such means of reformation, consistent with the improvement of those confined therein, as they may deem expedient.

Sec. 8, Act of June 8, 1881, P. L. 63, No. 68, supplementing the Act of June 12, 1878, P. L. 179.

70. LAWS REQUIRING SENTENCING OF MALES BETWEEN THE AGES OF FIFTEEN AND TWENTY-FIVE, EXTENDED TO REFORMATORY. All provisions of existing laws, requiring the courts of this state to sentence male criminals, between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five, convicted of any criminal offense, to the penitentiary, shall, from and after the appointment and confirmation of the board of managers, provided for by section six of this act, apply to said industrial reformatory, so far as to enable courts to sentence the class of prisoners, mentioned in the eighth section of this act, to said industrial reformatory.

Sec. 9, Act of June 8, 1881, P. L. 63, No. 68, supplementing the Act of June 12, 1878, P. L. 179.

71. CLERKS OF COURTS TO FURNISH RECORDS. FEES OF CLERKS OF COURTS FOR CERTIFYING RECORD. Every clerk of any court by which a criminal shall be sentenced to the Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon shall furnish to the officer having such criminal in charge a record containing the trial and conviction of the defendant; and the clerk of the court shall receive such compensation as is now allowed by law for making and certifying to the record as in other criminal cases.

Sec. 8, Act of April 28, 1887, P. L. 63, No. 30.

72. SHERIFFS TO CONVEY DELINQUENTS TO INSTITUTION. When any person has been convicted and sentenced, it shall be the duty of the sheriff of the county in which the person has been so convicted and sentenced, to deliver the said person to the proper officer or officers of said reformatory institution at Huntingdon.

Sec. 9, Act of April 28, 1887, P. L. 63, No. 30.

73. TRANSFER OF CONVICTS FROM PRISONS TO REFORMATORY. Whenever there is unoccupied room in the reformatory, the board of managers may make requisitions upon the inspectors of State prisons, who shall select such number as is required by such requisition from among the youthful, well-behaved, and most promising convicts in the State prisons of the class described in section four of this act, and transfer them to the reformatory for education and treatment under the rules and regulations thereof; and the board of managers are hereby authorized to receive and detain, during the term of their sentence to the State prison, such prisoners so transferred; and the laws applicable to convicts in the State prison, so far as they relate to the commutation of imprisonment for good conduct, and the provisions of this act, shall be applicable to said convicts, when transferred under this section.

Sec. 7, Act of April 28, 1887, P. L. 63, No. 30.

74. TRANSFER OF CERTAIN INMATES TO STATE PRISONS. RETURN OF PRISONERS UPON REQUISITIONS. BOARD OF MANAGERS TO ADOPT RULES. The board of managers shall have the power to transfer temporarily to the State prison of the proper district any prisoner who, subsequent to his committal, shall be shown to their satisfaction to have been, at the time of his conviction, more than twenty-five years of age, or to have been previously convicted of crime; and may also so transfer any apparently incorrigible prisoner, whose presence in the reformatory appears to be seriously detrimental to the well being of the institution. And such managers may, by written requisitions, require the return to the reformatory of any person who may have been so transferred. The said board of managers shall also have power to make all rules and regulations necessary and proper, and not contrary to the Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth, for the employment, discipline, instruction, education, removal, and absolute, temporary, or conditional release of all convicts in said reformatory, and shall have authority to prevent the escape of convicts at all hazards.

Sec. 10, Act of April 28, 1887, P. L. 63, No. 30.

75. LIST OF INMATES TO BE KEPT BY CLERK OF THE INSTITUTION. The clerk of the reformatory shall accurately keep a list of persons received, together with a table, under the following heads, giving the statements made by each person received at the time of reception, to be corrected, from time to time, as the superintendent, the physician and moral instructor may obtain fuller information from these persons during their custody.

Sec. 15, Act of April 28, 1887, P. L.. 63, No 30.

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