inmates shall have been completed, the Court of quarter sessions of
every county embraced in such district shall transfer from the county
prisons and jails respectively to the State industrial farm of the
district all persons who shall have been sentenced to any of said
county prisons and jails for any crime, misdemeanor or felony, murder
and voluntary manslaughter excepted, or who shall have been committed
to any of such county prisons and jails for non-payment of any fine
or penalty, or for non-payment of costs, or for default in complying
with any order of court entered in any prosecution for desertion or
non-support, and any other persons legally confined in any of said
county jails or prisons except persons confined awaiting trial or
detained as witnesses; _Provided_, That any person whose term will
expire within thirty days shall not be transferred.
Thereafter, when any person is convicted in any of the said courts
of any offense, crime, misdemeanor, or felony, murder and voluntary
manslaughter excepted, the punishment of which is or may hereafter be
imprisonment in any county jail or prison, the said court shall, if
sentence of imprisonment for thirty days or more be imposed upon such
person, commit such person to the State industrial farm of the district
in which said court may have jurisdiction. If sentence of imprisonment
for more than ten but less than thirty days be imposed, the court may
in its discretion commit such person to the State industrial farm for
the district.
Courts of record and courts not of record of the counties included
in any such district shall hereafter commit to the State industrial
farm of the district all persons who might be lawfully committed to
the county jail or prison on charges of vagrancy, drunkenness, or
disorderly conduct, or for default or non-payment of any costs, fine,
or penalty, or for default in complying with any order of court entered
in any prosecution for desertion or non-support, where in any such
case the commitment will be for a period of thirty days or more. If the
commitment be from ten to thirty days the committing authority may in
its discretion commit any such person to the State industrial farm.
The superintendent may under the direction of the court of quarter
sessions remove any inmate to the county jail for the unexpired term
of his or her term of commitment, or to the poorhouse of the proper
city or county, or to any hospital or lunatic asylum in such county as
circumstances may require.