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appropriated therefor by the general court, for the purpose of improving 

 and cultivating it by the labor of prisoners from the prison camp and 

 hospital; and the director of prisons may also make arrangements with 

 officials of the commonwealth and officials of cities and towns to employ 

 the said prisoners on any unimproved land, and in the construction, repair 

 and care of public institutions and highways adjacent thereto. When 

 prisoners are so employed they shall be in the custody of the superintendent 

 of the prison camp and hospital. There shall be paid into the treasury of 

 the commonwealth monthly for the labor of any prisoners employed as 

 above provided, such sums as may be agreed upon between the director 

 of prisons, the superintendent of the prison camp and hospital and the 

 other parties in interest. The director of prisons shall annually file an 

 estimate, at the same time and in the same manner as estimates for the 

 maintenance of the institutions under his control are required to be filed, 

 calling for an appropriation to carry out the provisions of this act, includ- 

 ing the necessarj' services of supervision. Expenditures from the appro- 

 priation shall be made upon schedules, with vouchers, approved by the 

 superintendent and the director of prisons; but the expenditures in any 

 year shall not exceed the amount of the receipts during that year from the 

 employment of prisoners as aforesaid ; and if in any year the said receipts 

 exceed the expenditures, the excess shall be transferred and applied toward 

 the maintenance of the prison camp and hospital. 



Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approred 

 Aprils, 1917. 



STATE BUILDING AT EASTERN STATES EXPOSITION. 



General Acts, Chapter 325. 



An Act to provide for the construction of a state agricultural 

 and industrial building in west springfield on the grounds of 

 the eastern states agricultur.'vl and industrial exposition, inc. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. For the purpose of providing a suitable and adequate 

 building upon the grounds of the Eastern States Agricultural and Industrial 

 Exposition, Inc., for the exhibition of the agricultural and industrial 

 products of the commonwealth, a commission is hereby established, to be 

 known as the Exposition Building Commission, which shall consist of the 

 secretary of the state board of agriculture, and two members to be aj)- 

 pointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council. 



Section 2. The said commission is hereby authorized to expend a sum 

 not exceeding fifty thousand dollars for the purpose of aiding in the con- 

 struction of a building upon the said grounds and to make on behalf of the 

 commonwealth all contracts for the construction of said building: pro- 

 vided, that they are approved by the governor and council; and puwided, 

 further, that before anj- contract is made, the Eastern States Agricultural 



