than one dollar nor more than twenty dollars for each and every offense. [G. O. No. 518, Sec. 7.

SECTION 1.

Purchaser entitled to ticket, etc.Every person keeping a wood yard and selling wood in small quantities, shall deliver to the purchaser thereof a ticket, setting forth the quantity so sold in cords and fractional cords, and shall deliver the quantity set forth in said ticket. [G. O. No. 437, Sec. 1.

SEC. 2. Cord of wood defined.-A cord of wood shall consist of one hundred and twenty-eight cubic feet. [G. 0. No. 437, Sec. 2.

SEC. 3. Penalty.—Any person delivering a less quantity than set forth in said ticket, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars. No. 437, Sec. 3.

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SECTION 1. Workhouse, establishment of. The building and enclosures erected and now standing, together with any addition that may be made thereto on lots numbered two, three, four, five and six, in block numbered thirty-one, in Robidoux's addition to the Original Town, now city of St. Joseph, heretofore established as a workhouse for said city, is hereby declared to be the workhouse for the confinement of persons duly committed for any cause by the chief of police, under the authority of any execution or warrant of commitment issued by the judge of the police court of the city. [G. O. No. 510, Sec. 1.

SEC. 2. Superintendent, power and duty of.— The superintendent of the workhouse is hereby declared to be the keeper of the same, and shall have superintendence and control of all persons detained therein, and furnish subsistence to the persons therein confined, and shall have the custody, rule, charge and the keeping of the same, and of all fixtures, tools and other property pertaining thereto; and he shall superintend the labor, safe keeping and employment of the prisoners in and about the workhouse. [G. O. No. 510, Sec. 2.

SEC. 3. Superintendent, appointment of—bond, etc.-At the first stated session of the common council, every two years, it shall be the duty of the mayor to appoint by and with the consent of the common council, some competent person as superintendent of the workhouse. He shall perform

such duties relating to his office as are and may be enjoined upon him by ordinance. He shall receive a stated annualsalary, payable in monthly installments, and shall also receive pay for the subsistence of the prisoners confined in said city workhouse, which pay for subsistence, at a stated rate per day, shall be fixed in the general appropriation ordinance for each year; and he shall be entitled to no other fees or emoluments whatsoever. And before entering upon the duties of his office, shall execute a bond to the city of St. Joseph, in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of the office, as herein provided. No. 510, Sec. 3.

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SEC. 4. Duty of officers on commitment or release of prisoners.-Whenever the chief of police shall commit any person to the workhouse, under the authority of any execution or warrant of commitment issued by the judge of the police court, he shall deliver to the superintendent thereof a copy of the execution or warrant of commitment under which such commitment is made, and he shall endorse thereon the amount of money or other property in his possession belonging to the prisoner; and the said superintendent shall endorse a receipt for the prisoner on the execution held by the chief of police, and no person shall be released from the workhouse by the superintendent thereof, except upon the certificate of the chief of police, as hereinafter provided, or by an order of the mayor; and in no case, unless the fine and costs assessed against the prisoner are paid, or the same have been remitted by the common council, which facts must be stated in the certificate of the chief of police or order of the mayor releasing the prisoner. The superintendent shall return

each certificate of the chief of police and order of the mayor releasing the prisoners to the comptroller at the same time he make his monthly report, hereinafter required. [G. O. No. 510, Sec. 4.

SEC. 5.

Chief of police to keep a record, etc.— The chief of police shall, upon committing any person to the workhouse as aforesaid, in a book to be kept for that purpose, register the name, age, height, sex, color and nativity of such person, with the date of such commital and the amount of the fine and costs for which such person was committed; and upon the payment to the chief of police the amount due on any such execution, or whenever any prisoner shall be otherwise legally entitled to a discharge, the chief of police shall certify that fact to the superintendent of the workhouse, who shall carefully preserve said certificate, and thereupon discharge the prisoner named therein. [G. O. No. 510, Sec. 5.

SEC. 6. Discharge of prisoners-escape.—It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the workhouse, at the expiration of the term of imprisonment of each person confined in the city workhouse, to conduct each person to the office of the chief of police, and report to him the fact of such expiration, and receive from him a written discharge for such prisoner; and when any person confined in the city workhouse shall escape therefrom, the superintendent shall forthwith give the chief of police notice thereof. [G. O. No. 510, Sec. 6.

SEC. 7. Superintendent to keep a record and report monthly.-The superintendent of the workhouse shall keep a record in which he shall enter the name of every person committed thereto, and shall also enter thereon the age, height, sex, color and nativity of each person committed, the date of such committal and the number of days labor which the prisoner must give to discharge the fine and costs; and shall, on the first day of each month, make a detailed statement, duly sworn to by him, of all persons who have been confined therein during the previous month, the number of days of their several

confinements during said month, and the number of days' service performed, and the value and description of the work performed by them in detail, the sex and nativity of all the prisoners, together with the names of all persons descharged or released during said month, and by what authority, the number of days and parts of days each and every prisoner confined in the workhouse has been furnished food, and the number of meals furnished each prisoner; which said report shall be filed in the office of the city comptroller. [G. O. No. 510, Sec. 7.

SEC. 8. Prisoners required to labor.-Upon the committal of any person to the workhouse, the superintendent thereof shall divest such person of all articles of value and all unnecessary wearing apparel, which shall be registered in a book to be kept for that purpose, and shall be returned to the owner upon his being discharged. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the workhouse to cause all male prisoners confined therein to be kept at labor at least eight hours in each day (except Sunday), within the limits of the city workhouse and grounds, at such public work for the city as the mayor and common council may from time to time direct. [G. O. No. 510, Sec. 8.

SEC. 9. Guards, employment of. The superintendent of the workhouse may with the consent of the workhouse committee and the approval of the common council, employ one or more guards as may be necessary for the control and safe keeping of the prisoners; which said guards shall perform such duties as the superintendent may direct in and about the guarding, management, control and working of the prisoners. Said guards shall be paid such compensation for their services as the common council may from time to time prescribe. Any guard while on duty found in the state of intoxication or otherwise failing in the discharge of his duties, shall be forthwith discharged. [G. O. No. 510, Sec. 9.

SEC. 10. Prisoners must be fed.--The workhouse shall at all times be kept clean, in good order and in a healthly