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(Report continued.)
Pardoned
15 scaped
Died *
Remaining September 30, 1830
Convict*—December 31» 1828
Received in 9 months
Discharged on expiration of service in 9 months 10
Pardoned in 9 months
Escaped none
Died none
O
0
0-
92
16
108
1
2
a
o
—12
96
-3
06
JaUing «,«. ft* «*•»>«• 10 *'“< ** *“ * ** "
quarter of 1830“ ^ dA8jI aCcoUNT ,
1799 99 Debts due prior to lo« P* 1 ®,
8t0 14
P^ious 40S 72
13
■ , <boa 1»*4
Debts of 1889 ,mn «• 1987 SO
Debts of 1st and «dq«-1*» ‘Sg S
Paid in business of 3d quarter,
Cash oo baiM June 30, I WO,
Collected from bosiness 1SK»
Collected “
to 1929 ■ A uAott 99
Cash sales 3J quarter 1830, 1098 72
Collected from credit sales ^ ^ haod gept. 30,1830,
1830
3997 6<
6S5 01
§46S» 62
B Tv 1 tffiT'Z Fb,;fct shows the conditiooof^eHo,;
Vital during the quarter, as toJ* » °& e ^°?jo*£ Wa 1, i» u ug..
there has been a
good deal of sickness since the first of January,
there has not occurred a single fatal disease * , .
In the discharge of their duties as regards the convicts, d,, . r ' n £>
»he current year? two cases occurred which should be provided
for by Legislative enactments, should the like occur *“
two instances writs of habeas corpus, granted by the Judge of he
Superior Courts of the Ocmulgee Circuit, were served on he
Principal Keeper, requiring him to take convicts to distant coun
ties, in one case to teslifv, and in the other to stand his^trial on a
second indictment In both instances the Inspectors felt them
selves bound bv the circumstances of the Institution, the impossi
bility of sparing the Guard already employed—the heavy expense
to be incurred by employing additional guard sufficient—tbe in
terferenee with the sentence already passed on the convicts—and
the general responsibility of their trust as regards the security ol
Hie Prisoners during their terms of punishment, to direct the Prin
cipal Keeper respectfully to decline in part a compliance with the
KiioM'Wktf'S c<&«A-I. h .?£
the order of the Court, but to deliver them to the proper officers
of the counties respectively to which they were to be taken, when
ever he might apply for them in due form- It is no slight matter
for tbe Inspectors thus to set up their authority, even partially,
in opposition to that of the highest Judicial I ribunal of the coun
try; and nothing hut the clearest convictions of duty could induce
them to doit. Having done it, they state the fact candidly to the
pr »’>er authority, with the desire, that special direction may be
•riven to govern their conduct hereafter in similar cases.
OF CONTRACTS AND PURCHASES.
There hare been no public contracts made daring the quarfpr.
The purchases on credit were $3211 83
There has been paid off on this debt 277 96
Balance of the quarter's purchases da® $2933 87
The cash purchases are shewn in the Book Keeper’s Report
OF THE STOCK.
ow *-• —* -f ilia s;inrlr on il»n 30ih SeDiember, accompanies
this Report as required by law.
The following table shows the condition of the stock on the 30ih
of Jane and 30;h September last
Cash sates 3d quarter 1930,
Credit sales.
Increase of Stock*
1098
6756 66
138 14
$6993 52
Nett less on 1st and 2d quarters,
Profit in 3d quarter,
Statement shearing profit of Third Quarter,
. tMO. 1098 72 Expenditures chargeabi ^
quarter, - .* ~
Debts due bj Peniter.wry on
business 3d quarts, _
Due Contractors foi subsis
tence 3d quarte*, * *
407 25
Balance fur pro?*,
$6365 79
627 73
$6993 52
5 75 32
627 73
Departments
Carriage,
Wagon,
Cabinet t,
Coopers,
Segar,
Harness,
Shoe,
Tailors,
Blacksmiths,
paints,
Tools in store
TABLE OF STOCK.
flaw Materials. \ Manufactured Articles
Nett profit in 9 months, - - - * ~ $»53 41
Comparative Statement of the threeQuarters
Cash sales 1 st qr. 1458 83
2J do. 1177 43
• 3d do. 1098 72
Credit sates 1 st qr.
24 do.
S i do.
Increase of Stock 1st.
quarter, -
2d do.
3d do.
3736 03
3345 27
4230 57
5756 66
13,332 50
170 97
2338 65
13S 12
Expenditures 1st qr.
2d do.
3946 60
4620 40
3J do. 30.4 67
-11,591 67
Debts of 1^ qr. due by
PenhcutafJ", - tS2l 32
2d do. 2709 76
3d do. 334l 12
7572 20
2647 751
Veit prop, in 9 months
$19,163 87
552 41
$19,716 28j |t 9,716 28
The statements concerning the finances might stop here, but lor
a nitvnAc a ftf nrnvinir that 1 hr* rpsnll is riff lit. 8 balance sheet
is subjoined Preparatory for the balance sheet the five following
state-merits are made out—they show bo^w the items in the bal
ance sheet are obtained.
(0
Statement shearing the Receipts and Expenditure on the old busi
ness in the Lr 2d and 3d Quarters of 1830
Collected old debts in 1st qu.trt r (Paid old debts dur by Fenten-
1830,
2d
3d
do.
do.
2657 35
2977 i d
403 72
tiary in 1 -t quarier 1836,
2d
SJ
do.
do.
522 41
97 66
13
Balance,
$ 433 07
£610 12
$6043 19
$6043 19
„ (3)
Statement shewing the Receipts and Expenditures cm account of the
business of 1829 in the 1st, 2d and 3d Quarters of 1830,
Pai<! d.-bt* of |829 in 1st quar
ter 1830 - - • 358234
Collected debts of 1829 in 1st
1830.
454 29 I
1682 52
351 28
15 38
622 86
371 25
44 26
417 81
189
--
18 0.
1830.
457 16
1572 22
370 46
59 09
685 59
472 45
21 97
293 24
240 36
562 60
649 50
1939 50
61 50
64
857 '
872 25
41 50
1778 41
Tools.
3Utb ScjjI.
1830.
30th June,
1830
30tb Sept.
1830.
579
95 50
102 26
642
98
142 07
1932 27
278 75
307
61 50
7 62
7 62
61 25
866
43 13
47 63
1161
106 50
107
43 75
' 31 50
31 58
1537 02
499 38
514 75
50 75
59 25
1
36 37
33 95
65 1 4172 541 6875 16 I 6883 89 I 1247 50 I 1353 02
one 30,1930
Be pi. 30, 1830
Raw Materials
Manufactured Articles
Tools
Raw Materials
Manufactured Articles
Tools
4148 65
6875 16
1247 50-12,271
31
4172 54
6883 89
1353 02-12,409 45
$138 14
Increase of Stock
OF THE FINANCES.
The Book Keeper was directed, at the beginning of the present
quarter to discontinue keeping his books according lo depart
ment*. The plan was originally adopted for the purpose of as
certaining what department was the most profitable. To accom*
fdi?h that purpose would require another officer, to act as Store
Keeper, in whose charge all the raw materials should be placed,
he giving out and charging to the difforont Departments. As it
is, materials are taken out, and part may bo used in one depart
ment and part in another, yet oil may be charged to one—so that
any result obtained as to the comparative profit* of the Depart.
ment8, i* doubtful. To keep up the system, therefore, would be
imposing extra labor on the book keeper without any useful result.
The Statements of the Book Keeper exhibit tho following facts
Sales for cash during the quarter.
Collections on credit sales
<vi.i rler JS30.
-•
- £765 35
L4 do.
1396 60
3J do.
giO 13
$49/2 4»
21
3d
do.
d«.
101 49
122 24
Balance,
$3806 07
J166 41
(3)
$4972 48
Statement shewing the debts due by the Penitentiary on the business
cf the 1st. 2d. and 3d Quarters of 1830.
Purchased on credit 1 at quarter 2444 85
2d “ 3233 71
fi “ 321183
Paid of purchases on credit 1st
qrorter, - - 923 53
“ debts of 1st quarter in 2d
quarter - * 460 26
“ di-bis of 2d quarter 523 95
** debts of 1st and 2d quar
ter in 3d quarter - 1287 20
“ debt* of 3d qr. In 3d qr. 277 96
Balance,
3472 SO
$54;7 49
$8690 39
$8890 39
'(<>
Statement shewing the Debts due the Penitentiary on the business cf
the 1st, 2d, and 3d Quarters of 1831)
Sales 00 credit 1st quarter
2d “
3d *»
3345 27
4230 57
6756 G<J
$13,332 50
Collected from credit sates in
1st quarter, - - 21S 53
of 1st qr. in 2d quarter, 136 25
of2dqr. in 23 quarter, 280 54
of 1st 2d and 3d quarters
iu 3d quarter - 536 04
he charted to the Institution, there will be pay of 21
Inspectors for 9 mouths at $56 each per quarter mak
ing
504 00
$48 41
Final balance iu favor of the Penitentiary
REPAIRS - •- ~ , r
The act passed at tbe last session of the General Assembly tar
"changing the manner of punishing convicts in tbe Penitentiary
&c.». required three things chiefly to be done. ■ .
Jut. The erection in the Penitentiary building of 150 cells, lor
the reception of one convict each.
2d. Certain alterations in the location and construction ot the
workshops in the Penitentiary.
3d. The purchase of stock under certain regulations.
In obedience^ to tbe requisitions of this act, the Inspectors ear
ly in the year,'advertised for plans and estimates for the ceils.
Plans entirely suhahle, in the judgment of the Inspectors were
submitted An estimate of the expense of executing the plan
which seemed best, was also submitted.
Ao abstract of it is as follows:
75,000bricks to run S partition walls
370,000 do. for new cells
445 000
J 45 000
bricks to be got out of the buildings Bow standing
do. to be purchased at $6
• 6
300,000
120 casks lime
250 waggon loads sand
41 000 feet plank and timber
16.000 shingles
300 lbs nails
1800 do. sheet Iron
4 1-2 tons bar Iron besides old grate*. &c.
6 months hire of a tnasoo -
0 5Qcts
13
c\
O
9
O 12 1-2 cf?
ISO
TheIaspectors doubted whether they have any
to take the bricks out of tho buildings now standing, nnd
even if (hey had the right, they believe the greater part
of those thus obtained, would be worth less. Irom their
bad quality originally—add therefore
$1800-
720
125
. 533
' 48
- 27
225
6F5
300
4363
€70
For the work shop 50 lightwood posts $1
42000 feet plank and timber - *3
200 tbs nails . . 9
23000 shingles ?
5233
50
546
18
84
The general result of tbe estimate is this-*—
For the materials wherewith to build the cells
For do. do. do. do. the workshop
For hire of a mason 6 mopfbs
Superintendent of the whole
608
4033
698
5631
300
600
6531
The estimate contemplated taking 13 men from among tbe con
victs and employing them on the cells and workshop. -
The Inspectors ne^t advertised for proposals for furnishriig ma
terials and ascertained that they would cost very nearly what had
been specified in the estimate.
In the estimate however there were no allowances for contin
gencies. From tbe experience of practical men in this country, it
is not safe to omit that allowance, and it should be a very bheral
one. Ten per cent is usual. And the Inspectors believed flint
no good Mason could he had for $600 per year. Three dollars
per day is a more probable allowance for that expense, making
574"dollars for six months.
The estimate would then stand (bust
Estimated cost of materials, 5631
Add 10 per cent for contingencies, 563
5. That the L^gMature could
no* consistent!) i^iuse to make a
further appropriat'd ., when satisfi
ed of the insufiiciency of that al
ready made, and that the progress cf
the work would furnish an addition
al reason for a* longer and more ef
fectual trial of Penitentiary confine
ment, which it' aboiished must be
substituted by a resort to !l.t for.
mer sanguinary modes of punish
ment, » resort not to he regarded
without horror, disgraceful to the
enlightened age in which we live,
and demonstrated by the experi
ence of our own and other coun
tries, to be ineffectual in the pre
vention or diminution of crime.
4. That the smallness of tbe
appropriation might be politic, as
furnishing an effectual restraint <*-
g..»inst extravagant expenditure?,
and inducing a necessity of erect r
iug a building more remarkable for
strength and adaptation to lb*
ends tor which it was designed,
than for superfluous decoration, 10
which so much had been sacrificed
in the Anginal const ruction.
6. Tied although ihe abstrac
tion of those fcfitht convicts whose
services rmgut be required in tho
contemplated work, would occa
sion some diminution in the re
ceipts of the current year, that de
ficiency would be lessened.
1. IJy employing convicts igno
rant of any trade and less ii.t■ lii*
gent than others.
2 By the greater amount of
work which would be performed
after the shops were arranged in
suefc a manner that the ch«vicf.3
would he constantly under tbe su
pervision of the keepers.
3. By a reduction of the guard
which might be made after the com
pletion of the work in consequence
of tbs impracticability of Tinning
combinations for the purpose of es
cape.
6. That since if would he impor
tant that ih#timbers should be -e;i-
soned before they were employed
in the budding, il would he ndvanta*
Balance due or business of
1163 4v
1330
met oo
w.
$13,332 50
Statement shewing the condition of the Stock December 31, 1830,
and September 30, t830
Raw muteriidsSept. 30,1830, 4l72 54
Manufactured articles, 6333 89
Tools, 1353 02
$12499 45
flaw Maurials Die. 31, 1829,
Manufactured articles **
foots;
3449 07
5212 38
1100 25
Increase in 9 months,
1098
536
72
04
Bales on credit daring the quarter
Collections on credit sales
Balance sales on credit due the Penitentiary
Oq the old business there was collected
On the business of 1829 there was collected
$1634 76
6756 66
536 04
$6220
408
810
62
72
15
EXPENDITURES..
By the Book Keeper’s Statement, the expenditures are shown
to be as follows:
F r Stock $1909 bl
Principal Keeper’s Commissions 86 03
Convicts’ Clothing 21 00
Convicts’ Transportation 45 44
Incidental Expenses ~ 114 81
Guards’ Clothing 5 00
Hospital Supplies 18 15
Pay of Officers and Guard 1662 43
P* Ms prior to 1829 paid
PebU of 1829 paid
Expenditures in 3d quarter
M3
122
$3862 37
00
24 135 24
$3997 61
Of the above sum of $3C62 37, part was paid for purchases on
credit, made during the two previous quar
ters, then $3862 37
WnW ib««« payments deducted—viz; izot *0
And (he advance to contractor added
2575 17
449 50
4
Gives the amount chargeable to tbe quarter $3024 67
The abstract of the Contractor fpr subsistence, shows that there
have bear issued during the quarter 10230 ratiens which at 8 3-8
cents, amount to > * . ; $856 75
There was advanced to him in 2d quar. on tbime’k 449 50
Balance due contractor on subsistence of 3d quar. $407 25
* The Report «f tho Phyoirisa shews the number of Convicts who bare been
taken to tbe Hospital during the qaorter to be—Fever SI casee-t-Catarrhel Fever
tmPferrbes 18—Byseutory V^Scurvj l—Cot 1—70 m *!h
Balance Sheet for 1st, 2d, and 3d Quarters of 1830.
9761 7(>
2647 75
$12,409 45
DR.
Cashon hand 1st Jen. 1830, 2313 17
Debts due lo Penitentiary prior
to 1829, 19072 92
Debts of 1029 due to Penitenti-
tentiary, January 1,1830, 13407 4 2
Stock January 1st 1S30 9761 70
Debts due by Penitentiary for
purchases on credit in 1,2,3
quarters of 1830 5417 49
Due contractor for subsistence
3d quarter
Profits in 9 month*
407 25
50379 95
552 41
$50,932 36
- CR.
Debts due to Penitentiary prior *
10 1829 rcmninit g t. be col-
leeltd 30.ihStpt. IS30 13029 73
Debts due lo Penitentiary on
business of 1829 remaining
to be collected September 30,
1830,
Debts due by Penitentiary pri
or to 1899 paid cfl’in the 1st,
2d and 3d quarters of 1830, 433 07
Debts due by Penitentiary in
1829 psid efl’in 1st. 2d and
• 3d quarters of 1830.
’ock September 1830, 12,409 45
Debts due to Penitentiary on
business of 1st, 2d & 3d qrs.
of 1830, - 12,164 09
Cash on band, 655 Oi
$50 932 36
8434 64
3806 07
Hire of Musoa 6 months,
" ’* Superintendent of the whole w ork,
Hire of IS convicts 6 month?,
Now tho amount appropriated by the Slate h only,
■Deficit of means.
6194
547
600
7341
650
7991
£.000
geous to preenro the n
.■i!('rs
its at
feast, the present yr::r
-ve n
if the
cells should not corM
: Uf’te
ih
1. Thflt it was not t i
T It
vin~n
of the Ir» c pcc‘or? to do;
1e wl
ir! her
1-he cells should he er
er.ted
.. A *
officers of the State, v.
was
(he :r
dntv to submit to the l
t'.VS (
:f ft Vo
Legislature, oho alor.e
were
cersj-
petent to d-teriwine up
>n ih
print y of undertaking t b
C Wt i
Wdh these view®, tl:
0 foil
vr h ■ ?
entry was made on the
o*i*j 0
es i i
2991
The following additional statement 4s submitted for the pur
pose of proving that the halauce sheet is right—and for, the pur
pose of shewing what is the standing of the business of 133() up
to the end of the 3d Quarter in reference to the assistance it ha*
received from the old business and from the business of 1829.
Oa the 30th September 1330, the business of 1830, was in
deht for the following sums :
For cash on hand January 1st 1830. 2313 17
” Nett cash it bad collected from <4,1 business up to
30th Sept. (Table I) 56ID 12
“ Nett cash it had collected flora business of 1829^
(Table 2) - - 1166 41
“ The balance due for purchases on credit in the 1st,
2d, 3d quarters 1830 (Table 3) - 5417 49
“ The stock on hand 1-4 January 1830. (Table 5) 9761 70
“ Balance due Contractor for subsistence tor 3d quarter 407 25
$24,676 14
To meet these dehts the Penitentiary had the fottbwiojr* means
Sept 30th, 1630: ' -- ■ 6
® fG , ck * $12409 45
Debts due to it on 1st, 2d, 3d quarters . , • ; • , ' ■.
1830. (Table 4) 12,164 09
Cash on hand, (Cash Account) 655 Ol 25,228 55
Excess of means above tbe dehts.
$652 41
The nett profit for the 9 montns ending September 30; 1830, is
then shown to be by four several and dissimilar ope- •
rations to be r
But if the pay of tbe Inspectors which is provided
for by special appropriation by the General Assembly.
41
The Inspectors dreaded at once that on this sfiew of the sub
ject they ccold not do any thing with the contemplated workshop
Il appeared'moreover that evenomiaing to undertake (lie work-
-hop, and 1 even if they charged nothing for the labor of the con
victs, who might ho employed on them, there would not be
means sufficient at their disposal to cover the expenses of Irhdd-
• ng the cells. They abandoned the undertaking altogether for
this and the following principal reasons : • -
1 They could not consistently with what appears to (hem to
-be their duty, permit the tabor of the convicts to f»e thus bestow
ed, for they wi*re to Ipse. 13 of their best workmen in the course
of the year, by the expiration of their term of punishments. 1»,
was indispensable that the profits of tlieir labor should ho supplied
Ivy the steady exertion of all those that might remain in confine
ment. -
2. No fund having been appropriated by the State for tbe sup
port of the Institution, during the year; if it should happen lo be
needed, the loss of the labor of the men proposed to be employed
upon the cells, would possibly interfere with the important exp'eri
ment m-w making to ascertain its capability of self support.
3. The Institution got through the list year on its own resour
ces. The experiment of a single year, the Inspectors could not
consider as decisive of the fact that it was able to support itself
And they thought that if, by any interruption of the experiment
during the second year, it should result unfavorably, greater mis
chief by far would be done to the cause of (lie system of the
Penitentiary punishment generally, m the present state of popu
lar feeling in this State,than could possibly result from an omis
sion for a single year to build any cells.
4 The Inspectors could not reconcile it to themselves, to en
ter upon the execution of a project, foreseeing at the outset that
they were to he cramped for means, and that they would most
probably be compelled tc suspend their operations and leave tbe
work half done, with the uncertainty distinctly before them more
over, whether the General Assembly would at its next session
make another appropriation to fiuish it- They would not act thns
in their own private affairs, and ihey would not feel themselves
justifiable in acting for the public otherwise than they would for
themselves.. They must see their way clearly (o the end of anv
project they may undertake, so far at least as the means of ac
complishing it are concerned.
5i If by t heir exertions, they could, by a second year’s experi
ment, establish the certainty of the fact, that even under the pre
sent defective system of operations, ttre Institution can very neart
ly support itself, and hence that under an improved system, it
may wholly do so, the Inspectors believed that the General As
sembly would probably not hesitate to make appropriations suffi
cient to enable them to .undertake a reformation of the whole
system from the very foundation of it. On the other hand the
minority insisted that the work should proceed, urging the fol
lowing considerations to sustain that course:
1. That although the appropriation might be inadequate to
the construction of ISO ceils, a sufficient number might he built
for the accomodation of the present convicts.
2 That the dissatisfaction already existingvtgainst tbe Insti
tution, would be augmented by continued evidence of its failure
to effect any important reformatrcfijt
the Inspectors. ‘/T'ffi Inspectors
proceeded to'if.n consideration of
the proposals fi*r. materi-.ils to hwii-i
one.humhed ;*ml fifty co!K <!i ;*ct-
vd to b<* built Kv tin' *C? p:»"«s» d ;:t
the last sessi> n of the vienr-ra! As
sembly, and after a~j>->ti *nt exami
nation of the plans ^wonvitfo.d, <*1
the exp* nses c-fi rseeociity 1*> be in
curred, and of (he ddl'icahies < f
uvejv sort tp bn cur minified, and
a comp a'ism of afi these- matter-:
with 1 lie appmpria ion made by itio
General As««, rnblyAvame to toe con
clusion that n is utterly impossi
ble With the means providoJ, to do
any thing likely to result in any per
manent hens ill to the Institution,
Resolved therefore, That the erec
tion ol tue CLiis be postponed for
the-’present.
On ngreoin^ to the rcsplution,
the yeas were. Ales«rs. CVboun and
Camak. Nn-v, Dr.- While. The
tlfird item ol directi;>n a?H*ve sp;>«
cified has t»eeu con nKni v.ii!i, so
fir as the meat s.cd the lii-Lkutiou
would warm* t
GENERAL REMARKS.
The rerult stated in thi^ rrport,
as ascertained by the experiment
of the second year, so far as it
has gone by, i* decidedly favora
ble to a continuance of the sys
tem, so far os its financial con
cerns are involved in it. Twentv-
one - months have passed away
since the attempted reformation
was undertaken. In that time,
not a dollar has been drawn from
the Treasury on its account, ex
cept for the pay of the Inspectors.
In the first twelve months, profits
were reported sufficient to cover
that item, and for the last nine
months, this report shows that
there are profits sufficient to cov
er the Inspectors pay for the
same time* and have a small bal
ance left. These results depend
however, on the certain collec
tion of all the debts that have
been created, and the sale of the
stock at inventory prices. The
Inpesctors believe that as to the
debts; few, if any bad ones have
been created, for they have been
positive at all times in their or
ders, that goods should not be
sold on a credit to persons of
doubtful responsibility. The ex
periment has not gone far enough
to ascertain whqt will be the actu
al result in this particular. This
much, however, is altogethercer-
tain: that even if it do not succeed
in supporting itself from some-
contingency how unfbrseen, it
will lack very little of it, if there
be sufficient energy and care ex-*
ercised by its officers.
Viewing the subject therefore;
as merely a matter of pecuniar^
calculation, there »a strong in*
