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have consisted of temporary buildings, constructed of the most ordinary materials, and which have proved upon trial, entirely inadequate to effect the intended object; that the common jail system in itself is insufficient to answer the ends of justice, and the humane objects which should be kept constantly in view in the punishment of criminals, must be obvious from the fact that exercise and moral training is entirely neglected. This system is unjust and oppressive in its operations upon those counties which are so unfortunate as to have criminal convictions occur within their limits. The benefit derived from the punishments in these cases are shared equally by the whole community and the expenses should be as equally borne. Experience has shown the superiority of the penitentiary system over all others, both for the protection of the public and the benefit of the criminal.

Your memorialists would therefore earnestly solicit the attention of Congress to the subject, and ask that an appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars may be made at the present session for the purpose of erecting a penitentiary in this Territory.

Your honorable body must be sensible of the importance of the institution and of the present inability of the people of this Territory to bear the expense, and it is respectfully submitted whether the welfare of this community does not appeal forcibly in behalf of the appropriation solicited at the hands of the General Government.

APPROVED January 29, 1846.

INDEX.

INDEX.

ACADEMY, Madison, act to incorporate amended,
Prairieville, name changed to Carrol College,

66

ACCOUNT BOOKS, prima facie evidence only,

Party producing may be cross examined,

ADJUTANT GENERAL, appropriation to,

ALBION, town of organized,

APPEALS from Judges of Probates,

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APPORTIONMENT OF DELEGATES, when and how made,

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When completed, Governor to issue his
proclamation,

OF MEMBERS OF LEGISLATURE, to be made
by Governor,

25

APPROPRIATIONS (Territorial,) to George Beaty for interest, 195

Daniel Baxter, interest and settlement, 189, 221

Bentou and Garfield, stationery,

George Bennett, interest,

208

189

A. A. Bird, sheriff's fees,

190

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