Ex parte Darling

By the Court,

Hawley, J.:

Petitioner is held in confinement in the state prison under a commitment, issued on the sixteenth day of November, 1872, ordering him to be imprisoned for the term of ten years. He claims that he is entitled to his discharge under the amended act “for the government of the state prison” (approved March 1, 1881), which provides that every convict faithfully performing such labor as may be required of him by the rules and regulations of the prison “shall be allowed from his term, instead and in lieu of the commutation heretofore allowed by law, a deduction of two months…