1861.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 335

Liabilities of the Institution, over

and above cash on hand July 1st, 1861. J $45,298 41.

ASSETS,

Appropriation at April session

not yet collected. 25,000.

Active debt due (good) by con-
tractors. 6,764.65.

Suspended debt. 5,414.47.

Manufactured goods, and mate-
rials on hand. 12,669.29 49,848.41.

Nominal surplus, $4,550.00

The stock of manufactured goods on hand is not available
for reasons before stated, and the suspended debt is in the
same condition, from the same causes, it consis's of the notes
of merchants, hitherto of undoubted solvency, doing busi-
ness in the South, whose business is now prostrate and whose
only chance of paying their debts is in the probability of
being able at some future day to collect the debts due them, in
the Southern States.

From this exhibit it will be seen, that until peace is re-
stored, and trade resumes its accustomed channels, the Insti-
tution must become a heavy burden on the State, and that to
carry it through the next twelve months an additional ap-
propriation of not less than $25,000 will be absolutely ne-
cessary.

The General Management and Discipline.

On this subject it affords the committee much pleasure to
speak of the faithful and efficient manner in which the direc-
tors and officers have discharged their duties, under the im-
mediate management of Mr. Alfred D. Evans, the warden,
and his deputy Mr. Isaac G. Roberts. The entire prison pre-
sents an air of neatness and cleanliness rarely met with in
public buildings of the kind, and would indeed be creditable
to any private house; the prisoners were well clad and cleanly
in their persons, and the food sufficient in quantity and
quality. The discipline, if not at all times carried out to the
strict letter of the law, is as perfect as the limited number of
officers and guards would admit of.

But there are some matters in this connection which hu-
manity demands at the hands of the Legislature as early
action as the finances of the State will justify. The law re-
quires that each prisoner shall be confined in a separate cell,
this from the want of necessary accommodations cannot be
carried out; five, six and sometimes as many as eight are
confined in one room, subject to all the evils that arise from