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Description and Holding Information
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House. Bill to improve county prisons, 1852
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1852 House bill to improve county prisons and to establish houses of correction. Included were the procedures for construction of same, as well as
delineating the courts' duties and oversight of them. The bill also prohibited whipping, branding, or other corporeal punishment and substituted hard
labor and specific sentences for those offenses (except slaves and free Negroes always got hard labor). (Digitized from a microfilm copy of titles
originally held by the Library of Congress).
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Title:
A bill to improve county prisons, and to establish houses of correction.
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OCLC Number:
1200166834
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Available Volumes
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| Name | Fiche Count | Online | Paper Backup |
| Vol. 1 | | Yes | No |
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