Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-03-16

Fur discount and interest. l,JUl U2
Total .,... .......... .,......... SO 100 1.
Balance Dec. slst. 1871 go. ....... ss. As3 ~
POPULATION.
1885 prison days in 1877.
Cost. per cdpitn, twenty-cne Gents |
and six-teuths mills.
EXHIBIT "B."
Does not need any further explanation. |
AS it only shows the disbursements. in |
cluding the pay OF officers. employees
aud guards.
EXHIBIT "B"
Receipts and disbursements from Jan
uary 23d. 1877, tor the payment OF saia-
ries to officers and guards to December
3lst, 1877
total amount received .......... SSa OF 81
Total smount dl.bursed .............. St5.oi' 81
Amount received and disbursed for
payment of otrcrrs and guards as
above ....... ..... ......... .....- s73, OF IS
Dlsbursed Tor mainren me- "f the Pen
tentiary per exhibit A.......... 500 $50 40
Total cost of Pen. during ls'7......siA, ,sSI s5
POPULATION.
AIS 595 prison days in 1877.
Cost, per capita. twenty-eight cents
four and seven-tenths mills.
EXHIBIT "C.'
In preparing this statement l have
| tried to lay before you, a recital of the
labor performed by the inmates during
the whole year. sh wing for each month
number of days worked tor proht and
tor the state. and it IS with pleasure that
| direct the attention OF your honorable
body to the gradual increase OF days
of profitable labor from February to
| November. while the month Of Decem-
Der shows decline arising from general
stagnation OF business. and the usual
decline Of labor during the winter
months.
| This result was attained by new con-
tracts made with parties for the manu-
lacture Of goods inside and tor coal
mluing outside OF the Peniten.ary walls.
| The most prominent of these contracts
are for the manufacture OF shoes and
boots byV. B. Buck & Co.. OF ST joseph,
and horse collars and saddlery goods by
Jacob Straus g. Co., OF St. LOUIS, and j.
b. Price & Co. for coal mining outside
of the Penitentinry walls.
The latter contract was made in last
March, but owing 10 the act passed by
the legislature ducing the last session,
for the construction OF new building
Tor the supreme court by prison labor.
declined furnishing the men required
under it To any large extent. as the new
court house absorbed nearly all the able
bodied material at my disposal during
the whole summer. | only commenced
last September to furnish them to the
company as last MS they could be spared
from the court house and other work
until we have now about 225 men at
work digging coal in the mines. and a
number requisite TO work for their COM
tort As cooks. walters, &c.
The receipts OF this enterprise tor tho
month of December was nearly $500.
and although it met with a serious draw
| back last November. which was duly
reported to you by me. it is now running
very successfully. and bids tar to be-
come source of large revenue to this
prison.
In addition to the labor performed for
pay. amounting in the aggregate to
S72343 %, desire to call your atten-
ton to the labor performed by the state.
Firs, to the building erected for the su-
preme court.
Tris building is estimated by the vari-
Gus builders to be worth. il built by
contract, from $4,000 to SOC. 1000. All
has been done by convict labor; the
stone taken IRON the quarry, dressed
and laid the brick made, burned and
laid ;the lime burned the wood used for
the burning of lime and brick, was cut
by convict labor; the hauling OF wood.
bricks, stone, sand and water, WAS done
with convict labor and with the teams
and wagons OF the Penitentiary; and at
the usual price OF prison labor. the
amount, including teaming. would GER
tanly not fall short OF $4,000.
. am pleased to be able TO report to
you that the experiment OF cultivatlng
farm Gas recommended by you) for
the purpose OF raising vegetables for
, prison use. has proved itself one of the
} most successful enterprises that has
been inaugurated during my Official
term. have raised 5000 bushels OF
potatoes. 5000 bushels of turnips. 25.-
, 900 heads OF cabbage, corn. tomatoes,
: and other vegetables in their season,
: sufficient for prison use. The work was
principally done by such men as were
unsuitable to work under contract. the
!, outlay in money only being the rent and
e the seed.
, Beside the labor furnished for the
. erection OF the court house. have com.
piled with the act OF the Legislature
and furnished the Galloway Dyke Co
with all the labor needed during thu
season. aud their work is still in pro
gress.
81 Extensive improvements have beer
made Inside the walls by erecting new
workshops, building g new Office, tan
house, sewers. water closets. painting &c
EXHIBIT &c"
J. Showing the number OF prison day
during 1877 and now employed.
h Month. @ wo-1,ns for ssii. tsiS Z Z Total.