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... fifty cents a day , which it is thought may be obtained when the contracts shall again be let , the convict labor will quite pay the expenses of the prison . The amount of cash received by the Agent for the No. 1 . 11.
... fifty cents a day , which it is thought may be obtained when the contracts shall again be let , the convict labor will quite pay the expenses of the prison . The amount of cash received by the Agent for the No. 1 . 11.
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... Agent Nov. 30th , 1853 , of $ 445 73 . The number of convicts in the prison Nov. 30th , was There were received during the year 1853 , on sentence , Retaken , Total , ... 206 71 1 281 During the same period , there were discharged as ...
... Agent Nov. 30th , 1853 , of $ 445 73 . The number of convicts in the prison Nov. 30th , was There were received during the year 1853 , on sentence , Retaken , Total , ... 206 71 1 281 During the same period , there were discharged as ...
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... Agent , Nov. 30th , 1854 , of $ 481 02 . The number of convicts in the State Prison Nov. 30th , 1853 , was 205 Number received during the year 1854 , on sentence , - - Total , During the same period there were discharged , as follows ...
... Agent , Nov. 30th , 1854 , of $ 481 02 . The number of convicts in the State Prison Nov. 30th , 1853 , was 205 Number received during the year 1854 , on sentence , - - Total , During the same period there were discharged , as follows ...
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... Agent of the Prison , for the years 1853 and '54 , for a detailed statement of the Prison affairs . I believe it to be the duty of the Legislature to establish a House of Correction for juvenile offenders . There are many children of ...
... Agent of the Prison , for the years 1853 and '54 , for a detailed statement of the Prison affairs . I believe it to be the duty of the Legislature to establish a House of Correction for juvenile offenders . There are many children of ...
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... Agent of the State Prison is fixed by law at $ 700 , and it is so small that it is very difficult to obtain the services of a suit- able man for that post . I therefore respectfully call your attention to the subject of these salaries ...
... Agent of the State Prison is fixed by law at $ 700 , and it is so small that it is very difficult to obtain the services of a suit- able man for that post . I therefore respectfully call your attention to the subject of these salaries ...
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Page 14 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 14 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 4 - That to enable the state of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands made unfit thereby for cultivation, which shall remain unsold at the passage of this act, shall be and the same are hereby granted to said state.
Page 84 - University shall be to provide the inhabitants of this Territory with the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of literature, science, and the arts.
Page 4 - The State shall not be a party to, or interested in, any work of internal improvement, nor engaged in carrying on any such work, except in the expenditure of grants to the State of land or other property...
Page 7 - That the proceeds of said lands, whether from sale or by direct appropriation in kind, shall be applied, exclusively, as far as necessary, to the purpose of reclaiming said lands by means of the levees and drains aforesaid.
Page 18 - The legislature shall, within five years from the adoption of this constitution, provide for and establish a system of primary schools, whereby a school shall be kept without charge for tuition* at least three months in each year, in every school district in the State ; and all instruction in said schools shall be conducted in the English language.
Page 38 - No chamber for the use of a single patient should ever be less than eight by ten feet, nor should the ceiling of any story occupied by patients be less than twelve feet in height. XII. The floors of patients' apartments should always be of wood.
Page 39 - A complete system of forced ventilation, in connection with the heating, is indispensable to give purity to the air of a hospital for the insane; and no expense that is required to effect this object thoroughly can be deemed either misplaced or injudicious.
Page 37 - No hospital for the insane, however limited its capacity, should have less than fifty acres of land, devoted to gardens and pleasure grounds for its patients. At legist one hundred acres should be possessed by every State hospital, or other institution for two hundred patients, to which number these propositions apply, unless otherwise mentioned.