ant keeper shall be allowed a commission of five per cent. on the clear profits of the institution, after a like deduction. IN COUNCIL, January S1st, 1807. 1. IT is advised, that twelve persons be appointed by the executive to visit the penitentiary, who shall continue in office until the first day of January next, and a similar appointment shall be annually made. The persons so appointed, seven of whom shall be a quorum, shall meet once in three months, in the apartment heretofore provided for the use of the inspectors in the said jail, and shall then and there select two of their body to act as visitors for each month, who shall examine into the management of the said jail, and the conduct of the keeper and his deputies, and shall make a report thereof to the visitors when quarterly convened, or, if they deem it necessary, immediately to the xecutive. The said visitors at their quarterly meetings are request ed to make such communications to the executive, and to suggest such alterations and amendments in the system, as they may deem proper. The said visitors are particularly requested to report any interruption or indignity they may receive, either from the keeper, the turnkeys, or any other person, in the discharge of their duty. 2. Any one of the said visitors shall be empowered to grant a permit to any person whom he may think it proper and safe to allow to visit the penitentiary. ADDITIONAL RULES. IN COUNCIL, June 29th, 1809.. 1. WHENEVER the keeper shall furnish any manufactured articles to an agent, he shall immediately send a certified copy of the invoice to the auditor of public accounts, to enable him to debit such agent with the amount. 2. The several agents, in the settlement of their accounts, shall render accounts of stock on hand, as well as of sales of manufactured articles; and at the end of each year an actual inventory shall be taken. 3. The auditor is instructed to keep regular accounts between the commonwealth and each agent. IN COUNCIL, September 19th, 1809. IT is advised that the auditor be directed to open and keep a regular account between the commonwealth and the penitentiary; charging that institution with warrants of every description appertaining thereto, and giving it credit for all work done for the public, and for sales made by the several agents. The several agents for selling articles manufactured at the penitentiary are required to settle their accounts quarterly with the auditor, and pay into the treasury whatever balances may be due from them to the commonwealth; and the auditor is instructed to report to the executive, immediately after each quarter day, the name of any agent who shall fail to settle and pay as aforesaid. RULES AND REGULATIONS For the internal government of the public jail and penitentiary; adopted by the executive on the twenty-ninth of April, 1807. 1. It shall be the duty of the keeper, upon the receipt of any convict, to take his or her height, and cause the same to be entered in a book; in which he shall also note when such convict was received; his or her name, age, complexion; coloured hair and eyes; the district in which he or she was convicted; the nature of the crime; period of confinement; what portion of that period in solitude, and the place of his or her nativity. 2. Every prisoner shall be carefully searched, and deprived of any instrument by which he or she may effect his or her escape, before he or she is received into the jail. 3. The keeper is authorised and required, as to him shall seem most conducive to the public interest, and the reformation of the pri soners, to punish any convict who shall be guilty of disobedience, profane cursing and swearing, indecent behaviour, idleness, and other*. breaches of duty and good order, by whipping, not exceeding thirtynine lashes for any one offence, or by confinement in the solitary cells, in darkness, and without a bed, on a scanty allowance of bread and water only. Provided, that for the first offence, the period of such confinement shall not exceed ten days, nor for any subsequent offence, fifteen days, without the consent of the governor by and with the advice of the council. 4. Solitary confinement may in all cases be dispensed with, where, in the opinion of the keeper, the state of any prisoner's health, or the interest of the commonwealth, may render it expedient to do so. 5. The particular employment of each prisoner shall be such as the " keeper may consider best adapted to his or her age, sex, and state of health; having due regard to that employment which is most profitable. The keeper shall deliver out the materials and receive the work by weight or measure, as far as practicable, in order to prevent embezzlement or waste. He shall cause each assistant to keep a book, in which shall be entered, opposite the name of every prisoner in his ward, the quantity of raw materials delivered out to him or her in any week, and regularly enter, under each day of the week, the work which has been completed on that day. At the end of the week the labour of each convict shall be ascertained; and any convict who shall be found remiss or negligent in performing the work required, to the best of his or her power and abilities, or who shall wilfully waste, da mage, or embezzle the said materials, or any part thereof, shall be severely punished, as prescribed by the third rule. 6. The males and females shall at all times be kept separate and apart. 7. The keeper shall take care that the prisoners wash themselves every morning, and before meals, and put on clean linen at least once a week (when all the males shall have their heads and beards close shaved) and that their apartments be swept every morning, and fu migated during the summer and fall seasons, once a week, or oftener, with tar and vinegar. 8. The keeper shall permit no person (except the visitors of the penitentiary and others authorised by law) to go into the jail and penitentiary house, without a written license from a member of the executive, or from one of the said visitors. In all cases of permits to visit the penitentiary, the names of the parties permitted to visit ought to be inserted in the license for that purpose. And where a person wishes to visit a friend or connexion who may be a prisoner in the penitentiary, it must be so expressed in the permit, if the fact can be ascertained. If the applicant to visit be of known bad character, or have been frequent in making applications, or shall have been detected in any improper intercourse with any of the prisoners, or if the conduct of the prisoner whom he or she may wish to see has not been uniformly correct, the keeper may refuse admittance beyond the inner gate, or prevent the parties from conversing, except through the aperture of the said gate, notwithstanding a permit may have been obtained to visit the interior of the penitentiary. An indulgence to a person to visit a friend or connexion within the interior of the peni tentiary can only be the result of good conduct in both parties; and when such indulgence is granted, the keeper or one of his assistants shall always be present. No letter or other communication in writing shall be suffered to go in or out of the said jail, until the same shall have been examined and approved by the keeper; nor shall any person, without his consent, carry any thing in or out, for the use of the prisoners. 9. The keeper shall cause all the rooms and cells to be numbered, and divided into so many wards as there may be assistants; alloting to each ward, as nearly as may be, an equal number of rooms and cells, and one of the said wards to each assistant; whose duty it shall be, under the direction of the keeper, to examine every evening the doors, windows, beds, and rooms of the prisoners belonging to his ward to search and lock them up before dark, and not suffer them to carry into their apartments any instrument that may assist them in escaping; and also to extinguish carefully all the fire in the work-rooms. 10. The keeper shall not suffer more than one of the convicts at a time to approach the visitors, or other persons permitted to go into the jail, nor any convicts to listen to any thing such persons are saying, except when spoken to and desired to pay attention. 11. The keeper shall not suffer any kind of gaming in the jail and penitentiary house, either among the convicts or his assistants; nor cursing or swearing, or other profane language. 12. The keeper shall cause the yard of the jail and penitentiary house to be kept free from horses, cows, goats, hogs, and fowls, and the necessary to be kept inoffensive. 13. It shall be the duty of the keeper, on the receipt of each prisoner, to read to him or her such parts of the penal laws of this commonwealth as impose penalties for escapes, and to make all the prisoners in the penitentiary acquainted with the same. It shall also be his duty, on the discharge of each prisoner, to read to him or her such parts of the said laws as impose additional punishments for the repetition of offences. ཏ 14. It shall be the duty of the keeper carefully to inspect the moral conduct of the prisoners; to furnish them with such moral and religi ous books as shall be recommended by the visitors; to procure the performance of divine service, on Sundays, as often as may be ; and to enjoin a strict attention to all the rules of the institution. 15. The visitors are respectfully requested to recommend to the keeper the introduction among the prisoners of such cheap books as they may deem best calculated to improve the mind and ameliorate the heart; and the acting visitors will please to report to the executive such of the convicts as may distinguish themselves for their industry and good morals, and who by an exemplary line of conduct may have evinced a total reformation. 16. It shall be the duty of the turnkey and his assistants to continue at all times in the prison all night, and to keep watch in such manner as the keeper shall direct. 17. It shall be the duty of the keeper to cause the clothes of the prisoners, when received into the penitentiary, to be washed and carefully put away, putting a ticket with their names to each, to be returned them on their discharge; or if it should be the wish of any of the prisoners that their clothing should be sold, he shall dispose of them to the best advantage, and retain the money arising from such sale, to be returned to such prisoners on their discharge. 18. The clothing annually furnished the prisoners shall consist, for each male, of one short coat and one pair of overalls, made of coarse drab and blue cloth, and one waistcoat, made of brown and green cloth, alternately forming the different parts; two pair of shoes, two pair of yarn stockings, two shirts, and two pair of trowsers, made of oznaburgs; and for each female, of two short gowns and two petticoats, made of blue and green plains, alternately; two shifts and two petticoats, made of oznaburgs, two pair of shoes, two pair of yarn stockings, and two blue linen or cotton neck handkerchiefs. 19. The diet of the prisoners shall be as follows.* For breakfast, three-fourths of a pound of meal made into bread, and one-half of a gill of molasses mixed with water. For dinner, half a pound of meal made into bread (a sufficient quantity to thicken soup being reserved) half a pound of coarse meat made into soup, and a pint of Irish potatoes. But when potatoes or coarse fresh meat cannot be had, the keeper may, in lieu thereof, receive of the contractor any other provisions in season, of equal value, though of different quantities. Provided, however, that, for extraordinary services performed by any prisoner, the keeper may increase the said allowance, and may diminish it for any neglect of duty or other offence. The said provisions shall be sound and wholesome, and served at the ringing of a bell, at the sound of which all the prisoners shall assemble, and eat together, except the sick, who shall be furnished agreeably to the directions of the attending physician. 20. The acting visitors are requested, at the expiration of their respective terms of service as such, to make a report to the executive of The component parts of each day's ration for a convict have, since the seventeenth of April, 1807, been furnished by contracts with the executive, annually renewed; and the price has varied from six to nine cents a ration. Before that period, the keeper was permitted to furnish them, and was allow ed by the inspectors, thirteen and a half cents for each ration. The clothing of the prisoners is now manufactured within the building. the manner in which the foregoing rules have been carried into effcct, during the time of their visitation at the penitentiary house. On the first of April. 1807, a new keeper of the penitentiary entered on the duties of his office, and on the twenty-ninth of the same month a new set of rules and regulations were adopted by the executive, which were digested from those of Pennsylvania, New-York, and the former rules and regulations proposed by the board of inspectors, together which such alterations and amendments as experience had suggested. In order to estimate the advantages which have resulted from the change of system, the following comparative statement, taken from official documents, is given. Comparative view of the internal operations of the penitentiary, under the former and present system, embracing a period of nearly six years. FORMER SYSTEM. No. 1....From first December, 1803, to first December, 1804. To expences arising from purchase of raw materials, tools. diet, and clothing of prisoners, stationary, and keeper's commissions, By manul.ctured articles, and stock on hand, Loss 18,392 28 16,578 67 $ 1,813 61 No. 2....From first December, 1804, to first December, 1805. To expences, &c. (as in No. 1.) and stock remaining, 21,758 2 By manufactured articles, and stock on hand, 19,066 74 No. 3....From first December, 1805, to first December, 1806. 24,932 13 21,871 80 To expences, &c. (as in No. 1.) and stock remaining, PRESENT SYSTEM. J No. 1....From first April, 1807, to first December, 1807. To stock on hand, and expences arising from purchase. of raw materials, tools, diet, and clothing of prisoners, stationary, and agent's commissions, By manufactured articles, and stock on hand, 41,395 341 52,266 29 No. 2.... From first December, 1807, to first December, 1808. 61,938 731 79,910 341 To expences, &c. (as in No. 1.) and stock remaining, |