Decreto de Enero 5

Abstract

The image contains news about the Decree of January 5, Francisco de Paula Santander, president of Nueva Granada, regulates the organization and regime of urban presidencies. Title 1. Preliminary provisions to systematize, by appropriate general rules, the organization and regime of urban prisons, providing them with the necessary employees in proportion to the number of inmates who must be incorporated into them for work in public works, and classifying them according to as follows: 1st class urban prison where more than fifty prisoners will be incorporated. 2nd class designed to receive from twenty-six to fifty convicts. 3rd class designed to receive up to twenty-five convicts. News published in the Official Registry newspaper, page. 1-6, Col. 1-2,1, Bogotá (1) 1837.