Section 12. Any State industrial farm shall make such reports and keep such accounts as are now or may hereafter be required by law, and shall in all such matters be subject to the rules and regulations established by the Committee on Delinquency.
Section 13. The original cost of the site and buildings of any State industrial farm, and all additions thereto, and all fixed overhead charges in conducting the institution, shall be paid by the Commonwealth out of moneys appropriated for the purpose by the General Assembly.
The cost of the care and maintenance of the inmates of such institution shall be certified monthly to the counties from which inmates shall have been committed. Such cost shall be paid by the counties in proportion to the number of days spent by the inmates committed from each county. All payments shall be on requisition of the board of managers and on warrants of the county commissioners countersigned by the county controller.
Section 14. (Provides for transferring prisoners from one institution to another, if deemed advisable.)
Section 15. All the property real and personal authorized to be held by virtue of this act shall be exempt from taxation by the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof.
Section 16. The rules and regulations governing State industrial farms shall be uniform and shall be made by the Committee on Delinquency. They shall be general in character and the respective boards of managers of each institution may add local rules not inconsistent with the spirit and substance of the regulations adopted by the Committee on Delinquency.
Section 17. To carry out the purposes of this act the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), or so much thereof as shall be necessary, is hereby appropriated but not more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) shall be expended for the purchase and equipment of the State industrial farm of any district.
Section 18. (Repeals the Act of 1917, authorizing the establishment of nine Industrial Farms.)
AGRICULTURAL PRISON LABOR.
Harry R. Campbell.
An article prepared for the County Commissioners’ Convention, Pittsburgh, August 7, 1918.