Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1871-05-06

We WoUll IcbItVNlhi'y eH""'' 49, ~
least 10 per cent. should be deducted ircm
the above figures, on the credit side.
Our information upon oil points wac not
| so complete as we would wish, but We feel
satisfied the reduction proposed is not too
large, This. will leave deficit of fome
six thousand and ninoty-three dollars aud
twenty-seven cents, (S6O93 27.)
A continued loss for one year, ut the
same ratio, will seia the figures up to about
thirteen thousand dollars (Sl30OO) IN
! debtedness OF the Pcniten,iary.
We would respectfully recommend that
an appropriation be at once mado By the
Legislature which will bc snfi cient to pay
the first claims against the institution, for
services rendered, material supplied, as
well as for moneys due sheriiis for the
transportation of prisoners 10 Huntsville.
Upon Sherifs especially dOes the want Of
an appropi intion bear hard, inasmuch as
they are for the most part, unaware Of
there being no appropriation, and hnd, up
on arriving at huntsville, that there are
no funds 10 reimburse them for the pay
ment of guards and necessary travelling
expenses; and it has not unfrsquent!y
Happened that n sheriff has had 10 dispose
of his horse or horses at sacrihce, il or
der to obtain means to return home.
Your committee would suggest that there
arc SONIC items. in the expense of convey
irg prisoners to the penitentiary, that may
be materially lessened. For instance, the
bill of the sheriff of Collin county, for
bringing seven prisoners to Huntsville, IL
q charge for ten guards for said prisoners.
The sheriff Of Anderson county charges
for ten guards for ten prisoners. Only
eighty miles WE'RE Travelled but the expense
TO the Statt was two hundred and forty
dollars tS240.l .,....
The sheriff Of Fannin county charges for
nine guards to convey six pris oners at u
cost Of six hundred dollars.
These are only few Of the many excess
siye charge, on the books Of tile institution
for similar services, but we deem them
quite sutficsnt TO show the Necessity Of o
charge in tbs law bearing upon the subject.
Your committee would also call your at
tenlion TO another case where, we think,
the fdhds of the Institution were. improp-
erly though legally appropriated. pris-
oner wos sentenced by the Dallas county
District Court, in last October, to one hour
of hard labor In the Poniientiary, and the
cost to the state for conveying him thither
was iS6sl sixty -eirht doilars. Some ac-
ton should be taken, We think, to prevent
the recurrence of such n case. STaf hrby
Upon examination. of the old books of
the State ,Peniteutiary, we find large
.monn, unon Them still due the State.
M 6erswiib give n co,y of the financial
agenf sreport on this subject, which, by
cemnaring with the books, we find to be
sSnrp"t
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tract from the report OF inc present gu
pgtihtendant, which they verify as correct,
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bilities' have been ahJusteu, ana suggest
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employed to adJust ehese o'o cia''ns, anu
add, quoting from the Report of the Su-
nrr;ntendept:
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ave would here say that we are quite
well satisfied that Mr.. Stevenson has con-
dtcted the affairs Of hts office in an honest