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On this point it is not very easy to research the provision of the act of '63. The 6^th Sec. expressly provides that the Sup^t. with the approval of the Governor, "may employ any of the con-victs in or upon any of the State works carried on, in or out of the State & The 5^th Sec. also authorizes their removal, in case of danger of invasion, In the Temporary Penity, "to some place of safety, & secure & employ them, when so removed in the manners &c". It does not in, [?] [?], confirm the removal within the limits of the State. Whilst the 2^d Sec requires that said Temporary Penity shall be prepared "as speedily as possible for the reception" of the convicts—and the 4^th Sec as explicitly [?] to the policy of bringing them—back ^to the State^ speedily, declares that as soon as said Tempy Penty is rea-dy for their occupation, the fact shall be made known by proclamation, & immediately thereupon—all parties sentenced to the Penity shall be re-moved thereto. In like manner, the 7^th Sec. provides that as soon as said Tempy Penity is in readiness to receive them, the Sup^t shall bring back those confined in Al^a & confine them in the Penty in this State. This provision only be reconciled, & the intention of the Legisla-ture effectuated by this writ of construction—viz—the Tempy Penty was to be organized as [speedily?] as possible ^and the convicts in Ala. brought back as soon as it was organized^ seeing that no one was [held?] for their safe custody there—that was the primary purpose—