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1872."] OF THE SENATE. 295
Also, from a Select Committee, reported
A bill, entitled an Act to repeal sections 194,196 and 197,
of chapter 35, of Article IV, of the Code of Public Local
Laws, relating to docks, and to re-enact the same with
amendments.
Which was read the first time.
Mr. Blake from the Joint Special Committee, appointed to
visit the Penitentiary and House of Refuge, submitted the
following
REPORT.
To the Honorable, the General Assembly :
The undersigned, a Joint Special Committee, appointed by
your Honorable Body to visit and examine into the condi-
tion of the Maryland Penitentiary and the House of Refuge,
beg leave, respectively, to report that in the discharge of the
duties assigned them, they visited the Penitentiary and House
of Refuge, and made a thorough examination into the condi-
tion and management of each, and found them under the
control of able, capable and faithful officers, and both Insti-
tutions in as perfect order, as the means, at the disposal of
the Directors and Warden of the former, and Superinten-
dent of the latter, could be made available.
The healthy and general appearance of the convicts in the
Penitentiary, and their cleanly condition, made a most favor-
able impression on your Committee; and that everything consistent with the proper discipline of a convict prison had been
done for the health and comfort of the prisoners, and the
highest sanitary condition was maintained among the in-
mates. An examination of the medical records of the prison
exhibited conclusive evidence of entire success in that direc-
tion.
At the date of our examination, there were confined in the
Penitentiary, 669 convicts. These were divided as follows:
White males 203; colored males 408; white females 6; colored
females 52 —total whites 209; colored 460—showing an excess
of 251 colored over whites.
The number employed under contract at mechanical labor
was 400, and are divided as follows :
Manufacturing shoes, boots and brogans, 120, barrels, 106;
furniture, plumbers and marble, 73; harness,16; caning chairs,
63; brooms,20; match-boxes, 38; making a total, mechanically
employed, of 460. Those not employed in the work-shops,
are engaged as hospital nurses, servants, runners, etc., ex-
cept such as are sick and physically disabled.
The appropriation at the last Session of the General As-
sembly to enlarge the dormitory for the more comfortable and

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