A person entering into and each and every person now confined in a penal or correctional institution shall be required to have an impression of his fingerprints made. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the admitting or confining institution to see that the provisions of this section are complied with and that at least 2 copies of the impression are made, 1 for the files of the institution and the other to be forwarded to the department of state police.

     It shall be the duty of the bureau of identification to install and maintain a filing system for the purpose of recording and preserving the various impressions received by it by virtue of the terms of this act, said filing system to be separated from the system now employed by the bureau for the recording and preserving of finger-print impressions of criminals. The equipment and supplies for the proper carrying out of this act shall be furnished by the department of public safety.