H CHAPTER 57. An Act respecting Industrial Farms. [Assented to March 10th, 1916.] IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Industrial Farm Act." Short title. L.-G.-in-Coun 2. An industrial farm may be established in the Province Established by of Manitoba by the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council. cil. 3. The objects among others of the said industrial farm Objects. shall be (a) to provide open air employment, with moral and Open air emphysical reformatory methods, for persons who would other-ployment, etc. wise have been kept in idleness in the common gaols of the Province of Manitoba; ture. (b) to lessen the expenditure hitherto made for gaol main- Lessen expenditenance by making the industrial farm as nearly self sustaining as possible; ings to be ap (c) to permit the earnings of a person sentenced to the Provide earnindustrial farm to be applied towards his own maintenance, plied in various the maintenance of his wife, children or other members of his ways. family dependent upon him, and to pay any necessary travelling expenses of any person to any place where employment has been secured on his parole or discharge. committed to 4. Persons who are convicted of offences against any Act Who may be of the Legislature of Manitoba or against a municipal by-law, industrial farm or who may be lawfully committed for offences against the criminal law, may be committed to such industrial farm or may be transferred to it from any common gaol in the Province. board of 5. (1) The industrial farm shall be controlled and managed Control by by a board of governors, consisting of three persons, one of governors. whom shall be the sheriff of the Eastern Judicial District of the Province of Manitoba, and the others shall be appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council. (2) The said board of governors shall have charge of the Duties of board. industrial farm, and shall, subject to the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council, appoint a superintendent and such Appointment of other persons as may be required for its care and management, up at such salaries and with such duties as may be fixed by the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council. superintendent etc. Meetings of board. Cost of maintenance, how paid. Light, heat, power, water. L.-G.-inCouncil may make regulaagement, etc. (3) The said board of governors shall meet as often as occasion shall require for the proper fulfilment of their said duties. 6. The cost of the maintenance of the industrial farm, including the salaries of the superintendent and the officers and servants thereof, and the allowances to the persons committed to it and all other expenses incidental thereto and to the transfer of persons to it, shall be paid out of the consolidated revenue fund of the Province. 7. The Government may contract with any municipal corporation, or with any company or individual for the production and supply of electricity for light, heat or power, and for the supply of water for all purposes at the industrial farm. 8. The Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council may make regulations for the management, government, conduct and discipline of tions for man- the industrial farm and for prescribing the duties and conduct of the superintendent, officers and employees thereof and as to diet, clothing, maintenance, employment, classification, instruction, discipline, correction, punishment and reward, either monetary or otherwise, of persons detained therein. Employment on 9. The Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council may direct or public works beyond limits of authorize the employment upon any public work beyond the industrial farm. limits of the industrial farm of any person who is under sentence of detention at such industrial farm. Prisoners subject to regulations. Highways, part of farm when used by pris oners. Account by superintendent. Detention for municipal offences. Superintendent to report to eral. 10. Every such person shall, during such employment, be subject to the regulations made for the government and conduct of the industrial farm and the care of the inmates thereof. 11. Every street, highway or public thoroughfare on which prisoners may pass on going to and returning from their work, and every place where they may be employed, shall, while so used, be deemed a part of the industrial farm. 12. An account shall be kept by the superintendent of the industrial farm of the amounts earned by the labor of inmates thereof beyond the limits of the industrial farm. 13. The Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council may make arrangements with any municipality in the Province for the detention at the industrial farm of persons who have been convicted of offences against any by-law or by-laws of the municipality. 14. The superintendent of the industrial farm shall, on Attorney-Gen- the first day of each month, transmit to the Attorney-General of the Province of Manitoba a report, showing the number of inmates committed to the industrial farm during the preceding month, together with such other particulars as the AttorneyGeneral may require. powered to dustrial farm. 15. The sheriff of any of the judicial districts of the Pro- Sheriffs emvince of Manitoba may transfer from the common gaol of his transfer to indistrict to the industrial farm any person who may be committed thereto. 16. This Act will come into force on the day it is assented to. |