The Arkansas banner., 1844-11-27


 Your honorable body will perceive that the exnan.s
 ton have exceeded its income 10 certain degree m prising when the many disadvantages under which i into consideration Ii is well known fact that all ea are necessarily expense 10 their founders for 4L years of their existence, and this, too, where a eaa a prices were always found for their productions and combined to further their advancement Unfortunale eVa market and good prices blessings have moi ! i@ only obliged to labor reduced prices but to take deprecaed paper and as for advantages, they have single exception, against Aconsiderabe disadyan we labor, and which is nseparably connected wi B Under tjon of such homogeneous and dscordant materials eh a nearly all the convicts in the various branches of b3 W g dures time and expense before they able to Mi to say nothing of the destruction Of material and tool @ on the introduction of raw hands to mechanical @ '9hs the 12 convcts confined in the Penitentarv P were men having knowledge of mechanical labor % M coming here. As this proper place. will ,oI pO@ have taken pains to discover and foster the incnat ed convicts who have shown desire to learn trades so tb sent time of the whole number of conVicts (4 tb aa gagged in the various branches 26 But their proores ~ W & be slow, making but trife than their expenses n material The want of fund to purchase material ,o1 % the use of the institution, is the considerable d, progress having obliged than close certa confne the their cells for weeks together Asit n easy matter collect with facility the debts due us Wa Y compelled to lay until this effected when @ @ rial would be purchased But such way of doing blsn9 ed with many inconvenience, and almost invariably @ - sacrifice, being left the mercy of the merchant who nc of the deprecated of paper and other causes s m tant price upon his goods: In the article of shoes % acture from fifteen hundred to two thousand pair annually @ pairing spposng that have a sufficient stock of lea the hands steadily employed. Without fund to lay in a compelled purchase in small quantities at second a hands and at heavy prices which in great measure red m fits and such is the competition in trade that shoes can m and sold here cheaper than make them with safe m obliged purchase material here. In manufacturing I iron we are able with stock of material tomakea cleaf9 thousand dollars annually. With fund to import our iron @ abed make choice in the quality of the article and m,b first hands wholesale obtain n for almost half wb I heretofore been compelled to pay. fund also necessary n import working tools, of which there so many ra supply the branches wholesale instead of has been the case small quantities, and exobin @ Little Rock The clothing of the prisoners, which, Little prIees has heretofore cost about annually, might be n from the east for onehaf that have maintained win sstanee of the underkeeper, rigid economy in all the d of the prison, with the view of making the establishment se ing One but without succeeding III my object Being unn with the capital ndspensably necessary to ensure pnf sness an besides, compelled to struggle against many other which Is needless to enumeIate here and which the absence capital begets. would therefore, respectfully beg of yo a body careful consideration of this subject of my report hoping its merits will show you the eXpediency of appropriation three thousand dollars, in par funds for the express purpose chasing material toos &c., for the of the Pentenay S appropriation necessary preserve the character and npora the institutional necessary enable the institution suppu it necessary because will remove from the shoulders o pie which has heerofoe been drawn from them for is took oceason n my last Repof, to call the attention of tn gislatuTe 10 the eXpedlency of making further improvements the building of a Hospital and Wall and Conduit which been rendered necessary in consequence of deviation from na plan of building the Prison. The of Hospital for cepon of the sick convict has been severely felt and Col series of cast-on pipes leading from each cell sink outside as common to all other Peneniares, is measure that wo tribute largely to the health of the prisoners The popne ting wall to enclose the Peneniay, is apparent and is bee every day more and indispensable. The number of fast increasing and for lack of this of security 6 be confined to their cells dead expense the State. Beside risk of health withdraw needl exercise solitary conn must eventually destroy the health of the convict and cury of the prisoners without wa ii is sufficient rema under existing circumstances, combined attempt of the leave the prison, could not be prevented.
 For particular detail of the improvements necessary leave to refer to the suboned letter of Capt D. H. BNeHn ask that 1t be received as part of this Report The plan Vaton of the improvements proposed are herewith submt which is respectfully submitted
 By your ob't. serv',
 JAS McYICAR dgs
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