An Act Authorizing the Removal of Prisoners from the Provincial Jail of Rizal to Bilibid Prison on Account of the Unhealthfulness and Insecurity of the Provincial Jail of Rizal

November 12, 1902

ACT NO. 516

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE REMOVAL OF PRISONERS FROM THE PROVINCIAL JAIL OF RIZAL TO BILIBID PRISON ON ACCOUNT OF THE UNHEALTHFULNESS AND INSECURITY OF THE PROVINCIAL JAIL OF RIZAL

SECTION 1. In view of the unhealthful and insecure condition of the provincial jail of the Province of Rizal at Pasig, it shall be lawful, upon an order of the judge of the Court of First Instance for the Province of Rizal, spread upon the minutes of the court, to remove all persons lawfully committed to the provincial jail at Pasig, to Bilibid Prison in Manila. They shall be so removed in the custody of any peace officers of the province or of the Insular Constabulary, and shall remain in Bilibid Prison until duly discharged by law, or until returned to Pasig by order of the court ordering their removal.

SECTION 2. Such order of removal may include both those who are serving sentences in the Pasig jail and those who, having had or waived preliminary examination, are awaiting trial; but the Warden of Bilibid Prison shall not be authorized to require labor from those prisoners thus removed who have not been convicted and are only awaiting trial. The papers showing the lawful commitment of the prisoners thus removed, together with a certified copy of the order of removal, shall accompany the prisoners and be delivered to the Warden of Bilibid Prison.

SECTION 3. Proceedings to release on bail the prisoners removed under this Act who are committed for trial only, may be had in the town of Pasig, as formerly, and in case bail is offered and accepted, the prisoner shall be returned by order of the court to Pasig and there released.

SECTION 4. There shall be paid out of the provincial treasury of the Province of Rizal to the Warden of Bilibid Prison a per diem amount to be agreed upon between the Warden and the provincial board of Rizal, and approved by the Civil Governor, for the support of each prisoner under this Act removed to Bilibid Prison. The expenses of transporting the prisoners and their guards to and from Bilibid Prison under this Act shall be paid out of the provincial treasury of Rizal.

SECTION 5. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws" passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred. cDEHIC

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, November 12, 1902.