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of the debts then contracted and yet unpaid of more than three thousand dollars; and no part of said appropriations has been applied to the expenses of the present year. Some may suppose that the income of the present year is less and the expenses more than has been absolutely necessary; yet I am confident no reasonable foundation exists for such an opinion, and will appear so, on taking into consideration the fact that many of the most effective and profitable convicts have been discharged during the year; several others were received incapable of earning their food and clothing. The sickness already alluded to, taken in connection with the small number of laboring convicts, while the same number of officers and more fuel and lights were of necessity required; these and other like causes have unavoidably operated to reduce the income, and consequently leave the expenses of the prison about the same as in other years.

Accompanying this is the Physician's report, and a list of the convicts, with the time of commencement and expiration of their several sentences. All of which is respectfully submitted.

Windsor, Oct. 1843.

CHIPMAN SWAIN, Sup❜t Vt. S. Prison.

REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE VERMONT STATE PRISON.

To His Excellency, the Governor of Vermont:

In conformity to the provisions of the act of the General Assembly in relation to the State Prison, passed Nov. 10, 1841, making it the duty of the Directors to settle and liquidate the accounts of the Superintendent, and to make an inventory of the property of the Vermont State Prison, at its true value in money, the undersigned would submit the following report:

That upon an examination of the account of I. W. Hubbard, the former Superintendent, which accrued after the first day of October, 1842, to Dec. 1, we found his account balanced by the sum of $485 18, which Mr. Hubbard states was the amount which his predecessor, Mr. Brown, agreed to allow him on his account, it being for overcharges made in the year 1839, in which condition it now remains.

After an examination of the present Superintendent and the book keeper, under oath, and examining the accounts kept at the Prison, we found that the Superintendent should be charged with the sum of $308 76 for cash and sundries received by him since Dec. 1, 1842, and that he should be, and was allowed the sum of $815 47, in which sum is included services rendered by his family, and his salary, as fixed by the General Assembly, for services as Superintendent.

The undersigned would remark, that upon entering upon the duties of their appointment, they deemed it advisable, that all partnership of the State with individuals should cease, and consequently recommended the Superintendent to close the copartnership of L. Damon & Co., in the shoe business, and it was effected the 8th of December.

In regard to the tannery connected with the Prison, the undersigned would say, that it has been valueless the past year, for a want of a sufficient supply of water, and they are of the opinion, that the disposal of the building and fixtures would best conduce to the interests of the State, The papers accompanying this report, marked A, B, C, D, present, first, the business operations of the several shops and departments of the Prison, in which the income exceeds the disbursements; second, those departments which show the expenditures; third, an aggregate of the personal property as appraised at the Prison by the Directors; fourth, an abstract of the profit and loss account of the whole, by which it appears that the expenses for the last year have exceded the income, two thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixty-five cents.

The undersigned would state, that many items in the inventory of 1842 they regarded as of little or no value, and they have appraised much of the property at a lower rate than has been inventoried.

All which is respectfully submitted.

ABNER FIELD,

STEPHEN PRENTISS, Directors.
DANIEL DENISON,

October, 1843,

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INCOME FROM OCT. 1, 1842, TO OCT. 1, 1843.