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Grand Jury Report.

ter County, Maryland:
The Grand Inquest for the STATE
of Maryland. for the county of Dor
chester, in session assembled this
18th day ut November, in the yea.
1912, beg leave to make this, ouI
report. to your Honorable body.
We have been in session days:
have examined 1875 witnesses, cou-
sidered 81 cases, and found FL true
bills.
AS a part of our duties, we visit
ed the county jail in a body, and
found the premises in an ex-
ceptionally clean condition and nice
~ kept. We recommend the build
ing of porch over the kitchen
steps and the installation of, cleo
trio lights in the building.
The Court House premises we
found in good condition and nicely
kept. There should be some M
proyemen1 of the sanitation and
for the comfort of the Grand jury
rom.
We recommend the placing Of adj
ditional book shelves in the CLERK S
office for the preservation ofthe
records contained therein.
We recommend that the old sys-
tenn of heating the several offices
by stoves he supplanted by steam
heat, thereby reducing to the
minimum the danger of looss OF
valuable records and papers by fire.
We refer your Honorable body
70 the report of the Aims House
committee, annexed to and made q
part Of this report.
Aims House Report.
To the Grand Jury of Dor. Co.
Gentlemen: We, the COMMITTEES
appointed by the foreman of the
Grand Jury of the November term
OF the Circuit Court for Dorchester
county, to visit and inspect the
Aims House property, having visit
ed and inspected the same, respect-
fully submit the following report:
We find that the overseer's house
needs painting very much, the steps
and floor of the porch need repairs;
otherwise. the building is in good
repair. We also find that one "
the stables and one corn crib need
repairing badly; all Of the other
buildings are in very good conditiQn
We found sixteen inmates in Up
walls, including. three white W omd
five white men, four .colored W9
men and four colored men, (tM3
of the colored inmates sick,J alIpf
whom seem to be we'll, cared III
and who speak well of the oVer-
seer. We found forty-six acres,
more or less, of the land in grow
ing wheat, which is looking vsxy
good; forty acres in timothy and
clover, looking well; $50 bbls. ~
long corn; 20 bbls. short corn.
700 bushels of wheat; IL stacks Of
top fodder, 5000 lbs. of good blade
fodder, more or less; one bindffI
2 mowers, 4 single harrows,4 ploN
/ spring drag, / tooth drag. q
er seeder, 1 corn planter.
roller, 1 drill, corn shelter 4
disk, two-horse wagons, one
horse wagon, scoop. 1 hay rake. 1
grindstone, 2 spades, 2 shovels, lot
of pillow harness and wagon hAt-
ness, Is bags of fertilizer.
We found the following live
stock:
l horse, 6 mules, 10 cows, oxen
S yearlings, 1S ewes, 1 buck, ~
killing hogs, 3 brood sows, IL pigs.
We also found the following popf.
try on the farm:
$50 chickens, 141 geese. 26 ducNs
and 8 turkeys
The wall Is clean and in good
condition, also the farming imple-
ments are all in good condition.
We advise the sale of such guam
THY of corn on hand as shall not be
needed to serve the farm. After
visiting and inspecting this proper
ty, on account of it's healthful and
secluded location, we believe that
it is well adapted for a greater use
as a place of refuge for the In
dignent and many of the mental
unfortunates in our county. There
are many who are sent, at a great
er expense, to the various institu-
lions for the insane, but who are
not suffering from the dangerous
degrees of insanity. We further
recommend that instead of the pay
ing out of such small sums of none
to individual outpensioners, such
small sums cannot possibly contrib
ute much to their comfort, and 1t
would be better to make this prop
erty the home and asylum for all
such county dependents.
There should be careful supervi-
sion of the finance of this institu-
ton and full credit be given it for
its contr button to the support OF
the county teams, and the greatest
development of it's resources shout,
be encouraged.
Respectfully submitted,
E. e. Wright,
J. X. Spfcer,
Thos g. Ross