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CHAPTER CLVIL. AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE PENITENTIARY.
That the said board are hereby authorized and directed to deliver to the board of directors for the Institntion for the Deaf.and Dumb and Blind as many of the rick now at the penitentiary as may be necessary in the onstruction of the colored Deaf and Dumb and Blind Institution, and said board are directed to use as many convicts as practicable in the construction of such building.