The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-28
yTo TnE MANUEACTURERs, MECHANICS, ANl.

ITO THE MANUFACTURERS, MECHANICS, AM;
Business Men Generally.-Sealed Proposals will
be received until the 10Th day of JUNE next, by
undersigned, to employ, by hire, all the convict labor
of the State Penitentiary.
The Lessee is to take all the able-boded convicts
now on hand, or who may hereafter come into the
prison during his term of lease, except those needed
by the State to keep up the establishment He shall
also be authorized to occupy and take charge of all
the shops and warehouses; in said prison, TO put up
such machinery as he may DESIRE and shall have the
privilege of buying, at such prices may be agreed
upon, all the machinery, tools, fixtures, and mate
rials ON hand, both finished and unfinished.
Said Lessee shall treat those hired with humanity
and Kindness conforming to such rules bylaws, and
regulations as may be established by the Directors
and work them not exceeding ten hours each day.
For each convict so employed, the lessee shall pay
into the State Treasury the price per day bid said
payment TO be made quarterly.
He shall also give bond, with approved security, in
the sum of fifty thousand dollars, payable TO the State
OF Tennessee for the faithful performance of the un-
dertakng hereby imposed. Said lease TO continue for
four years, at the end OF which term new proposal
from said lessee shall have preference for the next
four years; provided he shall have faithfully dis
charged his obligations to the satisfaction OF the
Directors said preference not to exclude proposals
from others manifestly more conducive 10 the in
terests OF the State.
The workshops are built in q very substantial man.
ner with sufficient capacity for working five or six
hundred hands; well lighted and ventilated; also
conveniently arranged. There is one sixty-dye horse
power engine, capable Of running all the machinery.
The machinery has all of the most modern improve
ments for the manufacturing OF cedar ware, furni-
ture, agricultural implements wagons, etc. There
is also machine shop, containing nine lathes and
two bolt maChiHes, blacksmith shop with nine
orges clevis machine, three tTp-hammers and tools
complete; a foundry one hundred aud forty feet
long and forty-fiye feet wide with tasks for making
all kinds of hollow ware poughs, corn-shelers, ETC.,
also, patterns for stove and other castings. Also,
one building used for manufacturing bagging, con-
tanning fifteen looms, with all the necessary ma
chinery for spinning, etc. There is also a stone
shop, paint shop, and dry house
The prison buildings are beautifully located just
outside the corporation Of Nashville, and within one
quarter of a mile of two railroad depots, and one
mile Of the steamboat landing.
There are now about four hundred and fifty con-
victs in the prison. most OF whom have served some
years and are skilled mechanics in their respective
branches of business The prison is under the con-
troll of a Board of Directors, and Warden, whose
duty it is to provide for the wants Of the eonvlcs
and TO see that strict discipline is maintained.
Proposals may be addressed TO the undersigned or
he Secretary OF State within case they should be en-
dorsed Proposals for leasing the Tennessee Peni-
tentiary."
Any further information desired will be furnished
by addressing the Directors OF the Penitentiary.
WILLIAM SHANE,
M. r. MURRELL,
@. ROBINSON,
64Gw Directors,