Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-01-30

thy and double object, but as the sum was e.
n~erously deemed inadequate, aresolution was
adopted at the extra session, authorising the Go
vernon to contract with the distinguished Anne
rican artist, on the most liberal terms. Hence,
this correspondence, from which you will per-
ceiye the work is expected to be finished IN a
reasonable time, in theEbestD f mabie, and tes
be delivered at New Qfeans for IN thoalsauds
dollars. The appropriate on renaiI9 untoucbed,
and as it will expire oRthe l6tb Of March Dext,
by reason O fthe Const3tuion, wheh r~estricts
lal appropriation to &c jterm of Two years, |
advise an appropriation o ften thousand dollars,
as the price and delivery of the statue, or OF five
thousand dollars, ifthe fund already voted is
drawn before the 10th of March next.
Transmit to YOU the annual Eeportofthe D-
rectors of the Penitentiary, and the documents
to which itaefefs.~4Th b reports9preselta H.
yorable view of the management ofthe institu-
ton, and Sihdiiieattss the plan Of leasing It as es-
tablished tby law! The lease with Medaston,>
Pratt g. Co. expired on the 30th5 September,
ls49, at which time the State was.reqnired to
take from the lessees all manufactured articles
and materials then on hand, alta price to befix-t
ed by appraisement,. and to credit the amount
on the bond executed by the ~lessees when the
Pepitentiary a administered to them. 1.-The ap-'
praisemept, it appears, exceeded the bond $s,-i
935 20, to meet which, if found correct it will
be just and properto make an approximations
Your attention is solicited to the sensible and
humane reasons of the chaplain, who indhis re-
port urges a-snall appropriation toinerease the
Penitentiary library. In exercising the sacred
function Of public punishment, Government is,
bound always to act as a good and prudent
parent, and to use it as an instrument OF REFORM;
and not of vengeance. Unhappily, the deter
rent principle of the ~jurists, but few OF whom
are eminent for philanthropy, still predomlnates
in the penal codes, and aonce a feIon always q
bson,' is still the hopeless, crushing doom OF
the convicted and chastsed criminal. ii iIts19az
laval myself of the opportunity to. notice the
fact, that the new lessees are bound to pay to
the State one-fourth ofthe annual profits OF thea
institution, coupled with a. guaranty that the
profits shall never beless than $4,000. Oat40f
this fund ample, moral and educational means
of instruction may be afforded the convict from
whose labor it arises, and the balance should be
secured to him in money and clothing, byra pre-
crbed tariff, when he is discharged, from his
cell. .sii5ega et5g ta,.sa}4 t8ga ,qFL afgablilh1
stItis my duty to inform you that the supreme
Court, in a recent decision, pronounced the trst
section Of the act fthe 18th 81 March, lS4S,
in virtue of which liquidators Of certain insoiy-
ent Corporations were appointed, to be an direct
conflict with the llSth and 10th articles OF the
Constitution. This act intended to amend an
act entitled, San act to provide tor the lhqntda-
ton Of the affairs and payment Of the debts Of
insolvcnt Corporations approved 4th OF, May,
1874, but failedt to- state its object except by rers
ference to the title, of the, act it purpOrteda to-