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fined in a solitary cell for six long years; and the directors justly remark," to be bereft of reason is a calamity which should enlist our sympathies, instead of incarcerating such subjects in a penitentiary appropriate to felons, where bolting of bars and every movement in connection with the discipline, being averse to their repose, tends consequently to increase the malady and prevent their recovery."

Your committee are happy to notice a general awakening in several States in the Union to the importance of visiting the poor pris oner in the prison house and of examining into the cases of mental derangement and providing means for the comfort and recovery of the suffering sons and daughters of insanity.

With a view to the amelioration of the condition of this class of the unfortunate insane we would recommend that a committee be appointed by the Governor and Council to ascertain facts in relation to the number and condition of insane convicts in the several county jails in this State, and also the State prison, together with the number of insane persons in the State, and to report to the next Legislature.

All which is respectfully submitted.

JOSEPH BARRETT, Chairman.

STATE OF MAINE.

IN SENATE, March 21, 1845.

ORDERED, That 1,000 copies of this report be printed for the

use of the Legislature.

J. O. L. FOSTER, Secretary.

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE.

No. 31.]

[SENATE.

STATE OF MAINE.

IN SENATE, March 25, 1845.

The Joint Select Committee to whom was referred the communication of the Governor in relation to the infraction of the Treaty of Washington and the accompanying papers, have had the same under consideration and ask leave to

REPORT.

The controversies and negotiations in relation to the northeastern boundary have occupied a large portion of the history of Maine since she became a State. Her ablest statesmen have devoted their sagacity and energies to sustain the rights of Maine-her patriotic sons have ever been ready with their zeal and affections to guard those rights in the darkest and most dangerous hour-and there has ever existed on this subject within the precincts of Maine a ready and determined spirit which has neither failed nor faltered in field or forum.

But the controlling power rested elsewhere than in Maine-and after long years, mortified, exhausted and almost dispirited, the State through her commissioners yielded reluctantly to the Treaty of Washington. We had been thwarted and harrassed at every step in this proceeding-we had been impoverished in our resources-we had patiently endured the most unreasonable procrastinations, awaiting the time when the country should awaken to a sense of its indignities and be ready to enforce the just claims of a sister State, and if necessary to redress her wrongs.

Wm T. Johnson, Printer to the State.

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