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Brevier Legislative Reports, Volume XIX XX, 1881, 475 pp.
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page: 133[View Page: 133]

REORGANIZATION OF THE STATE PRISONS.

The SPEAKER announced the special order for this hour to be consideration of Mr. Meredith's bill [H. R. 98] to provide for the organization and government of State Prisons by a Board of Directors, and other matters pertaining to the discipline thereof. [Five Directors to be appointed by the Governor, three of the dominant political party and two from the party having the next highest vote.]

The bill failed--yeas, 38; nays, 42.

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