THE FEMALE PRISON
chairs occupy others, All labor not mechanical including cultivation of the garden, is done by the inmates. Additional ground-at least ten acres in extent-is needed for pasture, and, in the opinion of the managers, a wall about the inclosure is needed for protection. The importance of providing a library additional to that donated by a friend of the Institution is commended to your consideration. The managers have been involved in litigation with the occupants of the United States Arsenal Grounds, by reason of the imperfect and offensive sewerage of the institution. Opportunity for your action has been afforded before final judgment. The appropriation made in 1879 has not been used, because of adverse action on the part of those assuming to control the right of way for a sewer to be built under authority of the State. An inventory of the personal property, November 1 1880, was in the sum of $6,952.95. The institution received $160.25 for boarding United States prisoners. This sum with that derived from Counties went into the State Treasury. The average number of inmates was 192,and the cost per year was $104.87 for each. By the reslgnation of Mrs. Emily A. Roache, October 16, 1880, a vacancy was occasioned in the Board of Managers, which was filled by the appointment of Mrs. Eliza J. Dodd for the residue of the term ending March 7, 1883.
