Excerpt from The Laws of New York Relating to the State Prisons: Including the Provisions of the Constitution and Revised Statutes Applicable Thereto, and Miscellaneous Acts of the Legislature, as Amended to and in Force June 1, 1904 The Legislature shall by law, provide for the occupation and employment of prisoners sentenced to the several State prisons, penitentiaries, j ails and reformatories in the State; and on and after the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, no person in any such prison, penitentiary, jail or reformatory, shall be required or allowed to work While under sentence thereto, at any trade, industry or occupa tion, Wherein or whereby his work, or the product of his work, shall be farmed out, contracted, given or sold to any per son, firm, association or corporation. This section shall not be construed to prevent the Legislature from providing that con victs may work for, and that the products of their labor may be disposed of to, the State or any political division thereof, or for or to any public institution owned or managed and controlled by the State, or any political division thereof. Note. - Sec. 97 post page 83. Chap. 737 Laws 1894 an act to regulate the employment of prison labor in the manufacture of brooms and brushes made of broom corn is made obsolete by this section of the constitution and sec. 97 of the general prison law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.