Chap. 0214 An Act RELATING TO ThE REMOVAL OF SICK prisoners TO THE STATE FARM.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. "When it appears to the governor and council that a convict under imprisonment in any jail or house of correction is suffering from disease that cannot be safely treated in such jail or house of correction, the commissioners of prisons may, upon the request of the governor and council, remove such convict to the state fixrm for such treatment as may be required; and said commissioners may at any time return such convict to the jail or house of correction froin which he was so removed. Any convict removed or returned under this act shall be held in the place of imprisonment to which he is so removed or returned, according to the terms of his original sentence, and the period for which such convict is so removed shall be reckoned as a part of the term of his sentence to imprisonment.
Section 2. Every order for the removal or return of a prisoner under this act shall be signed by the secretary
of the commissioners of prisons, and may be executed by any officer authorized to serve criminal process. All mittimuses and other official papers or attested copies thereof, by virtue of which a prisoner is held in custody, shall be removed or returned with him.
Section o. The cost of the removal or return of a prisoner under this act shall be paid from the treasury of the Commonwealth. The cost of supporting a prisoner removed to the state farm under this act shall be paid by the county from which he is removed, but the expense thereof shall not exceed three dollars and twenty-live cents per week.
Section 4.   This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved April 5, 1S94.