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64 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 6
STATE TOBACCO WAREHOUSES.
I wish to call the attention of your Honorable Body
to the recommendation I made at the beginning of the
Session of the General Assembly of 1902 in reference
to the conduct of the State Tobacco Warehouses. I
regret, and I feel that the State has lost thereby, that
the General Assembly did not act upon my suggestion
that means be given the Tobacco Inspectors to meet
competition as any business men of intelligence would
do.
Whatever may have been accomplished under condi-
tions as they exist today in the past the fact must be
recognized that the business of the waterhouses is not
in the best and most promising state. Opportunity
should unquestionably be given the inspectors to con-
duct the warehouses on modern business principles.
THE PENITENTIARY.
The same wise, firm and economical administration
of the affiairs of Maryland Penitentiary which has
heretofore marked its management still continues,
vigorous and unimpaired.
The institution is in almost perfect condition phys-
ically and in point of discipline.
After paying every expense incident to the support
of the institution a balance of $23,078.67 was paid
into the State Treasury as net earnings for 1903.
HOUSE OF CORRECTION.
The prisioners in the House of Correction earned
$28,172.68 for the past fical year. The health of the
prisioners has been excellent, and the discipline main-
tained at the institution has been faultless. Some
trouble is caused the officers by reason of insane per-
sons being sent by the magistrates and judges to the
House of Correction. This is a hardship on such
prisoners, who cannot be cared for to advantage at the
House of Correction, and it is also a hardship on the
officers of the institution as well to be charged with
the responsibility for the health, discipline and safety
of such a class when it was never contemplated that
insane persons should be received.
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