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880 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 17
fully report that in accordance with the requirements
and provisions of said joint order, they performed
the duties thus required and made the said visit of
investigation on Monday, March 14th.
Your Committee respectfully report that after care-
ful examination into all features of the management,
that they find that the "Home" is conducted in the
most economical and judicious manner.
The entire expense of the institution (outside of the
maintenance of the inmates) for management and
labor of all kinds, does not exceed ninety six dollars
per month.
The improvements to the buildings, both as to ex-
ternal and internal work, have been conducted on a
scale of economy in keeping with the costs for man-
agement and labor; and though these improvements
are in good taste, appropriate and durable, the cost of
materials has been the only expense to the State, the
work and labor having been done by the inmates of
the "Home."
Many improvements have been made by private in-
dividuals who have furnished nearly all the rooms as
a memorial to some friend who had died in the Con-
federate cause, or who had honorably served therein.,
and since died The additions and improvements
thus made, and those made by the management of the
Home from the appropriations received and contri-
butions of friends, have added probably not less than
ten thousand dollars to the value of the property.
The management took charge of and began repairs
of the buildings under very adverse circumstances,
the buildings having been granted them in the Spring,
and the first appropriation not having been available
until the Autumn following.
At its opening it had sixteen inmates; it now has
seventy-three, and as the soldiers of thirty years ago
are now getting to be old men, it is reasonable to sup-
pose that this number for sometime to come must be
increased.
The discipline of the Home is unexcelled, the rules
and regulations being strictly carried out; they are
framed in a spirit of comradeship, but are also mill-
tary in their exactions.
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