An Act To Make Appropriate Provision for The Confinement Elsewhere Than In Bilibid of Prisoners Suffering From Tuberculosis and Other Dangerous Communicable Diseases, and For The Utilization Of Prison Labor In The Production of Foodstuffs, and Making Appropriation Therefor

March 9, 1917

ACT NO. 2695

AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATE PROVISION FOR THE CONFINEMENT ELSEWHERE THAN IN BILIBID OF PRISONERS SUFFERING FROM TUBERCULOSIS AND OTHER DANGEROUS COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, AND FOR THE UTILIZATION OF PRISON LABOR IN THE PRODUCTION OF FOODSTUFFS, AND MAKING APPROPRIATION THEREFOR

SECTION 1. The Secretary of Justice is hereby authorized to ascertain and secure an appropriate site for the confinement and care of persons committed to prison who are found to be suffering from tuberculosis and other dangerous communicable diseases and for such persons as during imprisonment shall be found to have developed such diseases for which suitable provision has not otherwise been made by the Government. In addition to conditions favoring the isolation, restoration to health by appropriate exercise and productive labor of such of these prisoners as are in the earlier stages of disease, and the greatest practicable economy in the maintenance of such prisoners there shall be provided in connection with this prison sanitarium the necessary and suitable land for the utilization of prison labor in production of foodstuffs for the subsistence of prisoners in the establishment hereby authorized, at Bilibid Prison and other Insular prisons.

For the purpose of carrying into immediate effect the above provisions and requirements there is hereby appropriated from any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of twenty-five thousand pesos which is hereby made available immediately, and in addition thereto the Secretary of Justice is hereby authorized to incur obligations in a total sum not exceeding one hundred thousand pesos payable during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, for the acquisition of the necessary land and equipment, the construction of the necessary structures of light or mixed materials and other necessary services and supplies not available from those authorized and provided for in the regular appropriation for the Bureau of Prisons: Provided, That with the approval of the Secretary of Justice, the Insular Auditor is hereby authorized to place to the credit of this appropriation for the construction of permanent buildings and other improvements all savings from the funds otherwise appropriated for the Bureau of Prisons which are not required for expenditure as previously appropriated because of economies in the subsistence and maintenance otherwise of prisoners in the various Insular prisons by reason of the establishment of the prison sanitarium herein authorized and the foodstuffs there produced by prison labor.

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, March 9, 1917.