Excerpt from Report of the House Committee on Investigation of the Affairs of the State Prison South The brick-yard fund heretofore mentioned in this report was not examined by us for the reason that' the Warden failed to produce the vouchers claimed to have been paid out of this fund. Warden Howard testified that the total amount of this account was between and but claimed the balance now due the State to be The estimated charge of against him, as given in this report, is based upon testimony before the Committee. 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.