The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1846-11-03
THE LEGISLATURE.
WEDvEs October 81.
SENATE.

SENATE.
Engrossed Bills-So amending section 63
chap. X. s. that when the plaintiff. his agent
or attorney, shall file affidavit. that the defen-
dant is about to remove from the State. and
has secreted about his person or elsewhere
money or other property, the writ may issue
against his body: passed. after remarks up
on it by Messrs. Villas, Cushman, Hodges.
Cram; Harrington and Smith. substantially
concurring IN the exoediency Of the BILL and
he adoption Of an amendment, prepared by
Mr.. Hodges inserting the words 'or abscond'
after remove In construction of the act OF
40 relating TO the trustee law, SO thai in case
Of nonresident principal debtors one COPY of
the writ, against each of such debtors, left
with one Of the trustees, shall be sufficient
service as regards debtor; passed.
Bill undoubtedly Mr. Onion. providing
| thai no election OF town Representatives,
| whenever the ballotng commenced after
midnight Of freemen's meeting day, shall be
valid, and that three ilths Of the legal voters
present may, after Intellectual attempts TO
elect, dissolve the meeting. Mr. Onion re-
marked that he introduced the bill by request.
and would not be understood as committing
himself thereby upon it.
Joint Resolulions-By VI. IIaring ton, re-
questing the Governor to appoint a commit
tee Of three TO visit the State Prison, and. by
the examination of officers and inspecting OF
accounts, construct a table of the annual ex
penses. and annual number ofprisoners since
IFS establishment, and also TO inquire wheih-
er the Prison could not be advanI az eously re-
moved 10 Isle La Mot 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 chief,
from the misapplicaion OF labor. The boot
and shoe. and carriage business. which had
been principally carried on, subjected the
State to great expense in the provision Of
proper materials, and moreover, The articles
OF manufacture being extensively disposed of
in way Of barter, unavoidably involved the
accounts in great confusion. He desired
that the Prison should he so located and so
conducted as to obvate these difficulties
In New Hampshire, the prisoners were en-
ployed, he believed, in working stone provi-
died them for the purpose. The prison at
Sing Sing was situated on a quarry, as they
all knew. And so advantageous had this
plan been found in New York, that the
State had recently established another peui-
tertiary near Plattsburgh, where the con-
victs 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 in New England. There
were now employed upon il laborers whose
number was more than twice that Of our
present cOnvicts. At least niue tenths OF the
work now performed there was of such |
character as TO require no more skill than |
that possessed by the common iaborng man.
Noapprentceship would be necessary. The |
were inexhaustible, and could be |
obtained and wrought without expense TO |
the State. He would venture the assertion |
that five years Of labor devoted on that spot |
to the erection and completion Of proper
buildings by the convicts would cost the
State less than the maintenance of the pres
emf prison had done for the last five years.
He would not say that the prison had been
wrongly or injudiciously managed.-There
was something in the very nature Of the en-
ployment now prosecuted that resulted in
confusion and loss. Yet he thought it very
desirable TO make inquiry il the present state
Of things could not be Temedled.
These views were forcibly sustained by
Mr.. Smith. He stated in tie course Of his
that there was a capital Of $4,000
invested 10 the boot and shoe department Of
The Prison, and yet that owing TO inexpe-
ricnce and The want Of machinery about
laws labor was required 10 manufacture a
pair of shoes. while in other states pair
could be made. or from IA TO IL cents and
also that the carriage mandatory at Clare
mont Oh the opposite side OF the river sold
carriages from 10 to 20 dollars cheaper than
he Prison could do.
Report by Mr.. Bradley. from tho commit
zee on Banks. against the incorporation Of the
Green Mountain Bank al Bennington: bill
aid on the table.
The Governor notified the Senate that
Joshua w. Sheldon declined the Office of
Assistant Justice in Franklin County: re-
erred TO the Senators from Franklin. He
lso transmitted the report for the Deaf,
Dumb and Blind, from which it appeared
here were nineteen Deaf and Dumb persons
in whole and in part by the State
il the Asylum in Hartford, six Of whom have
'een admitted the past year: and that there
ire seven blind persons in like manner sup
ported at the Asylum in Boston, one Of
whom has been admitted during the past
Iear: also that Commissioner has paid, the
asst year, TO the Hartford Asylum, 81, PSI OF
md to The Boston Asylum 1907 75.
Adjourned.
The Senate came in, and the following ap-
continents were made:
OFFICERS OF THE STATE PRISON.
HIRAM HARLOW. Superintendent. ;
Harlow 100, ID. 5. Ewing so. IL