Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-04-23 | Page 6 | Ask Uncle Sam to Pay 28 Years of 'Board'

ASK UNCLE SAM SI TO 10 PAY MY 28 YEARS OF BOARD Montana Officials Believe Prisoners Prisoners Pris Pris- Have Been Eating Aw Away Aay y T Taxes Tax X S. S Special to The Helena Mont April 22 2 Commis Commissioners o of Lewis and Clark Clarc county will shortly petition the United States JO gov- gov for a payment to th the county of oC a sum running between 7 and for Cor housing federal deral prisoners during during- tho tito period of ot about cl eIght ht years ears Investigation o of the records nt ot the courthouse o shows that during all this time the tho government o obtained the housing of ot Its prisoners for tho the sum of or 10 tO per month or pr per year carTho car Tho current running expenses cs of ot the county Jail according to o figures se secured secured se- se c- c cured b by the commissioners Is approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately per year ear During tho ho tW eight twenty nt years c rs that this 10 per month rental of ot tho the Jail for or federal federal fed fed- eral prisoners has been In vogue It is known that tho the great majority of ot prisoners h have e been incarcerated on s brought in tho the federal court As n nearly nary as can bo be ascertained tho the sheriffs sheriff's office during these years has hag received on nn nfl average about Co GG cents c per day for tor feeding each prisoner rh There re appears c rs to be no contract on file tile cither in the county count courthouse o or in the office of or tho the United States marl marshal hal as to tho the amount th the govern government ment shall pa pay or lies has paid for tor tho the housing of ot its but the re records records re- re cords show that 10 no per month has hos been paid accurate accounts of ot the payments payments pay pay- ments having been kept b by tho tIlo various sheri sheriffs Tho The commissioners will propose that tho the Jo government and the the- county pay for forthe forthe forthe the keeping of ot their prisoners on a n proportionate basis depending upon the percentage e of or prisoners each has