Excerpt from Report of Committee on State Prison: Submitted February 25th, 1857 By the terms of the contract, the State Prison property, consisting of thirty six acres of land, prison, and houses, and all improvements - also all shipping, vessels, boats, fixtures, implements, tools, furniture, stock, and all other property of the State, connected with the Prison, with the labor of the prisoners, were farmed out to Mr. Estell for the term of five years; and the Commissioners agreed, on behalf of the State, to pay $10, 000 per month for the safe keeping of the prisoners, in addition to the lease of said property. By the Act referred to, the Board of Commissioners were required to per form certain duties in attending to the Police of the Prison. They were re quired to visit the Prison from time to time, and examine into its government, and from personal observation and conference with the Directors, to change, alter or abolish such rules and regulations as, in their judgment, might be found necessary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.