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Bill Taft: “In case any convict shall be guilty of the violation of any of the rules or regulations of the penitentiary or laws of…”

On the recordJuly 29, 1909
In case any convict shall be guilty of the violation of any of the rules or regulations of the penitentiary or laws of the Canal Zone as above provided, and has become entitled to any diminution of his sentence by the provisions aforesaid, he shall for the first offense forfeit, if he has made so much, two days; for the second offense, four days; for the third offense, eight days; for the fourth offense, sixteen days; and in addition thereto, whatever number of days, more than one, that he is in punishment, shall also be forfeited; for more than four offenses, the warden shall have power to deprive him, at his discretion, of any portion or all of the diminution of sentence that he may have earned, but not less than as provided for the fourth offense.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Executive Order 1116—Providing for Diminution of Time from Sentences of Certain Convicts in the Canal Zone

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