The Portland daily press., 1885-01-20
include the result OF the same in its appropriate

include the result of the same in its appropriate
account.
The debtor account amounts to S14 s94 55,
and the receipts to S90408 less than the ex-
penditures.
Labor of prisoners at the jail workshop
during the year ending December 81, 1884, has
resulted in the manufacture of the following
articles, viz.
Sheets of heeling Observation-Disclosures. S,SS4
Pairs of heels. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 16 $50
Falrs OF inner solee ABS, 1914
The whole number of men employed during
the year was 440, with a daily average OF So;
rendering in the aggregate 16, $50 single days
labor. AS whole, for business at the shop
the past year has been hard one, and aside
from furnishing employment for those sen-
fenced to labor has not been a success.
At the commencement of the year the
leather trade became so disturbed by heavy
failures that we were unable to obtain the
usual supply of scraps, refuse and waste ma
terlal from the tsnneries, and other material,
at increased expense, had to be used instead;
while the prices obtained for manufactured
articles, In many instances, barely exceeded
tne cost OF the raw material from which they
were made. An unusually large amount of the
LABOR rendered at the shop during the year has
been by short sentenced men; those who choose
to serve the alternative sentence of thirty days
IN jail rather than TO pay fine of three or FIVE
dollars and costs. The solution of the whole
question underlying the financial success OF
labor, under such circumstances SO that it will
result in profit to the county. In view of
the fact that by provision of statute we are
Obliged to pay more for the board of prisoner
who labors, than for one who does not the
opinion OF the commissioners is, that aside
from its reformatory considerations, a Jail
workshop to be run with an idea of utilizing
the labor of the prisoners in jail, is most un-
fortunate investment to make.
The labor Of the female portion of the pris-
oners during the year has been devoted mostly
to the manufacture and mendng of prison
suits for the men, aside from furnishing the
requisite labor for washing clothing for tie in
mates, and caring for the same.
The shop continues under the superinten-
dence OF Job I. Sanford, with Thomas Pen
nell as overseer.
at a Court of County Commissioners begun
and held at Portland within and for the Coun-
ty of Cumberland, on the first Tuesday of De-
cember a. d. 1884, to wit: on the thirty-frst
day OF said month, an estimate of the sums
necessary to defray the expenses which have
accrued or may probably accrue for one year
from said day and also like estimate for the
succeeding year in said county, was prepared
to wit:
Estimated receipts for 1885 ............SS3 $4,000
expenses for 1885. ........... SO ,OS6.00
expenses for 1886 ............ 80 10000
g receipts Tor 1886. 6............. 5S 10000
The funds now in the Treasury and the esti-
mated receipts will be sufficient to pay all bills
against the county for the next two years, with
an assessment of thirty thousand dollar, $780,
OOO) for each year, which sums We respectfully
recommend.
Given under our hands at Portland, this
thirty-first of December, A. d. 1884.
VIM. L PEINoE, County Commissioners