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FORTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE-FIFTH CALLED SESSION. 217
this Act, it shall be the duty of the Prison Board to use prison
labor where practicable, but if such labor is found impracticable,
then the Board may contract for such free labor as is necessary.
For these enterprises the Board is also directed to use the services
of any experts, engineers, architects, or specialists now
employed by the State in any Department or Institution, and if
not inconsistent with pre-existing duties, it shall be incumbent
upon any and all such experts, engineers, architects, and specialists
to render such aid as may be requested by such oBard.
SEC. 5. The Prison Board and the State Highway Commission
are hereby directed to construct such adequate hard surfaced
roads as may be necessary to connect the three prison farms
specially mentioned in this Act, to-wit: the Imperial, Darrington,
and Harlem Farms with existing improved or hard surfaced
State or County highways, it being the intention of the Legislature
to make these farm units accessible to vehicular traffic at
all times. The Highway Department will lay out the necessary
roads, make all plans and specifications, necessary therefor, and
furnish all such material and equipment as may be necessary
for their construction, and also furnish all such supervising,
engineering service as may be necessary for such road building
projects. The Prison Board is herebly authorized to provide
portable housing facilities and road camps for the purpose of
utilizing prison labor on these road building projects. The
Prison Board is directed to furnish all labor for these road
building enterprises and to cooperate with the Highway Department
in their construction, to the end that these projects may
be built out of prison labor as nearly as practicable. The expense
incurred by the State Highway Department in the construction
of these roads shall be borne by said Department and
paid out of any funds in its hands available for building or for
aiding the construction of public highways in this State.
SEC. 6. The Prison Board is here directed to remodel, repair
and renovate the present improvements on the Wynne farm and
to make such additions to the present housing and hospital
equipment thereon as may, in the opinion of the Board, be necessary
to convert same into a modern and sanitary prison unit for
all tubercular inmates of the prison system, it being the intention
of the Legislature to authorize the Prison Board to so
equip this unit as to make the same available for the proper
housing, treatment and employment of prisoners afflicted with
tuberculosis.
SEC. 7. The Prison Board may in its discretion, sell the
Shaw Farm located in Bowie County, (same being all the prison
owned land in said County,) at any time after having given
public notice in as many as four daily newspapers published in
the State, stating the time, place, and terms of sale, and terms
being for not less than one-fifteenth cash, with remainder divided
into fifteen equal annual payments, maturing in one to
fifteen years, with interest payable annually at the rate of 5%
per annum, said deferred payments to be secured by vendor's
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1929-1931 [Volume 27], book, 1931; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16362/m1/229/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .