Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1846-11-05
THE LEGISLATURE.
"Wednesday, October 81.

Wednesday, October 81.
SENATE.-Thc Governor transmitted to the
Senate the Second Annual Report Of the State
GeoIogisi, printed document Of 267 pages.
Joint Resoiufion.--By Mr. Harrington, request.
ing the Governor TO appoint committee Of three
to visit the State Prison, and. by the examin zion
OF officers and inspecting Of accounts, construct
table of the annual expenses aud annual number Of
prisoners SINCE its establishment and also to in-
quire whether the Prison could not be advantage.
ously removed TO Isle La Mott upon the site Of
marble quarry.
Mr. Harrington said that he was satisfied that the
accounts Of the Prison were loosely kept, and that
its business was far from being profitable This
last fact resulted chiefly from the misapplic alton Of
labor The boot and shoe, aud carriage business
which had been principally carried on, subjected
the State 10 great expense in the provision Of prop
er materials, and moreover, the articles Of manu-
fncture being extensively disposed of in way Of bar
ter, unayoidaby involved the accounts in grea; con.
fusion. He desired that the Prison should be so
located and so conducted as to obya,e these diff
cuties. In New Hampshire, the prisoners were
employed, he believed. in working stone provided
them for the purpose The prison at Sing Sing
was situated on quarry, as they all knew
And so advantageous had this plan been found in
New York. that the State had recently established
another penilentiary near PIat,sbusg, where the
eonvicts were to be engaged in the manufacture Of
iron, obtained on the spot. On Isle La Mott was
found bed Of marble superior, he believed, TO any
10 New England. There were now employed upon
il aborers whose number was more than twice that
OF our present convcts. At least nine ten,hs Of
the work now performed there was of such char
acer TO require more skill than that possess
ed by the common laboring man. No apprentice.
ship would be necessary. The materials were ia.
exhaustble, aud could be obtained aud wrought
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the assertion that five years or labor devoted on
that spot 10 the erection and completion OF proper
buildings by the convics would cost the State less
than the maintenance Of the present prison had
done for the last five years. He would not say that
the prison had been wrongly or iniudiciousy man.
aged. There something in the very nature OF
the employment now prosecuted that resulted in
confusion and loss. Yet he thought it very desira-
bic to make inquiry II the present stale OF things
could not be remedied. ".
These views were forcibly sustained By Mr..
Smith. He stated in the course OF his remarks,
that there a capital Of Sl4 900 invested in the
boot and shoe department of the Prison, and yet
that owing to inexperience and the OF machin-
cry, about days labor was required TO manufac-
tnre a pair Of shoes while in other states a pair
could be made for from IA 10 IL cents and also
that the carriage mandatory al Claremont on the
opposite side Of the river sold carriages from 10 TO
20 dollars cheaper than the Prison could do.
After few remarks by MIR Hodges in favor Of
enlarging the scope of the inquiry TO the loca.
ton so as TO embrace the State, on motion OF MIR
Onion, the resolution was referred 10 the Commit
tee on Finance. -
Report by Mr. Bradley. from the committee on
Banks. against the Incorporation of the Green
Mountain Bank at Bennington bill laid on the
table. 17r -. rr..6
The Governor transmitted the Report Of the
Commissioner for the Deaf. Dumb and Blind, from
which il appeared there were nineteen Deaf and
Dumb persons supported in whole aud in part by
the State at the Asylum at Hartford six of whom
have been admitted the past year: aud that there
are seven blind persons IN like manner supported
at the Asylum in Boston, one OF whom has been
admitted during the past year also that Commiss
Toner, has paid, the last year. to the Hartford Asy
lum 81, 257 oil and TO the Boston Asylum 1907 IS
Bills infrodaced.-By Mr. Smith, preventing i'm
position in the sale Of medicines providing that all
vessels 10 the apoihecary's shops containing med
icina compounds not laid down in medical books
or dispcnsatories in common use shall have label
setting forth the ingredients aud their proportions
under the penalty Of FIVE dollars and twice The price
Of the medicines. and that fine Of from 20 to Sc
dollars shall be imposed for false label also thai
poison shall be kept in triangular vessel with
proper label, ander penalty OF twenty dollars
referred to the Judiciary Committee.
HoUsE.-R esolafon-By Mr. Lawrence, for /
select committee Of FIVE 10 examine the transactions
Of tho Vermont Asylum for the Insane passed.
The House took up the bill (which has been So
perseded by another already passed both Houses,
relative to the Passumpsic and Connecticut Riverl
Railroad Company, the question being upon adher
ing 10 the disagreement 20 the amendment of the
Senate the House adhered without asking con
ference and this kills the bill-a contamination de
sired by both Honses aud all concerned