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The commissioner shall transmit to the general assembly, at each regular session of that body and during the first week of the session, a report in full of the transactions of the penitentiary during the two (2) years preceding the report, and showing, among other things:

  1. The number of inmates confined in the penitentiary;
  2. The offenses for which committed;
  3. Their ages, previous occupation, birth place and residence;
  4. Their respective periods of imprisonment;
  5. The different kinds of businesses in which they are employed;
  6. How many employed in each; and
  7. The profit or loss.

Code 1858, § 5460 (deriv. Acts 1829, ch. 38, § 13); impl. am. Acts 1883, ch. 171, § 21; impl. am. Acts 1895 (Ex. Sess.), ch. 7, § 21; impl. am. Acts 1897, ch. 125, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1915, ch. 20, § 9; Shan., § 7477; impl. am. Acts 1919, ch. 39, §§ 1, 2; impl. am. Acts 1923, ch. 7, § 42; Code 1932, § 12075; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 41-131.

Cross-References. Administration of department of correction institutions, title 4, ch. 6, part 1.

Reporting requirement satisfied by notice to general assembly members of publication of report, §3-1-114.


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