JEFFERSONVILLE PRISON.
Mr. JONES of Vermillion, from the Committee on the Penitentiary, submitted a written report, recommending an investigation into the demand for reducing the price of convict labor, and an appropriation of $12,000. 2. A regulation prohibiting convicts from being worked outside the prison walls. 3. The purchase of four acres of ground for a prison grave yard. 4. An enlargement of the female department of the prison. 5. A law authorizing a transference of insane convicts to the Insane Asylum
page: 350[View Page 350]Mr. DOBBINS said the body of the report shows the financial operations of the prison since 1856.
On motion of Mr. McLEAN and Mr. BRANHAM, the report was laid on the table and the committee was directed to report a bill in accordance with the recommendations of the report.
On motion of Mr. McLEAN, (the orders and constitutional provision being suspended for the purpose,) the House took up the consideration of the Sinking Fund bill [S. 114] amendatory of the 2d and 5th sections of the act of January 28, 1847, was passed the first and second readings. It was then passed the third reading-yeas 87, nays 0.
