Appropriations for the last six items should be made available April 1, 1901. Appropriations for the last six items should be made available April 1, 1901. 6-LEG. COM. REP. The Superintendent of this institution asks for the following appropriations: Maintenance, annually For all over 900 daily average an additional allowance of $70 per capita. Repairs, annually Paroled and discharged prisoners, annually. Trade schools, annually $104,800 00 5,000 00 12,000 00 10,000 00 For 200 iron beds, "A" cell house, at $4.50... For furnishing officers' sleeping rooms, 21 rooms, at $40. For waterworks 2,633 00 900 00 840 00 7,993 00 The committee feels that the request made by the Superintendent for many of the above supplies and improvements are extravagant. It can not see the necessity of the expenditure of 1,908 00 2,112 00 6,000 00 $10,000 annually for trade schools. It considers that the cost of survey of the grounds for grading the yard ought not to exceed $25, which can be paid out of the maintenance fund. It believes that half of the amount of granitoid walks asked for would be sufficient; that since other institutions have purchased iron beds for $4 or less, this amount would be sufficient; that there can be no necessity for approximately a mile and three-quarters of sewer pipe line on so small a yard with close city connections; that the expense of vitrified brick paving for driveways is unnecessary; that the estimate for a suitable refrigerating plant is too low. For these reasons the committee makes the recommendations above. The committee would call the attention of the Legislature to the fact that the Superintendent is furnished a residence with his own kitchen and dining-room and his subsistence provided for by the State, but that no estimate could be given to the committee at the time of its visit there of the cost of the subsistence of the Superintendent or Assistant Superintendent. The committee would recommend that such accounts be kept as will afford this information to the Legislature. |