15 the same terms as are prescribed in the second set

16 tion of this act.

SEC. 6. All moneys or securities in the possession 2 of the treasurer or county commissioners of any 3 county, received from the sales of timber and grass 4 cut upon said reservations, or collected from trespass5 ers upon the same, shall be delivered and paid over to 6 the land agent, accompanied by a statement, describ7 ing the amount belonging to each particular reserva3 tion, and the expenses incurred upon the same, and 9 the land agent shall keep an accurate account of all 10 moneys and securities received by him, describing 11 the particular reservations from whence received.

SEC. 7. All expenses heretofore incurred by any 2 county in the location, protection, or management of 3 said reserved lands, shall be reimbursed to such county 4 whenever such amount shall be received from the 5 sales of timber and grass from said reservations in 6 such county, and the account of such expenses shall 7 be audited by the land agent, and when approved by 8 the governor and council, shall be paid by the land 9 agent to the treasurer of the county aforesaid.

SEC. 8. All balances of money in the hands of the

2 land agent, received from the sales of timber and 3 grass from said reservation, and from trespassers on 4 the same, or from county commissioners and county 5 treasurers as before mentioned, shall be paid over to 6 the state treasurer, who shall keep a just account 7 thereof, and pay the same to treasurers of towns, the 8 rightful owners, whenever applied for.

SEC. 9. Whenever the inhabitants of any such 2 township or tract, in which lands have been reserved 3 for public uses, shall have become organized into a 4 plantation for election purposes or otherwise, and 5 shall have organized one or more school districts ac6 cording to law, the state treasurer shall cause the 7 annual interest arising from such funds as may have 8 been paid to him by the land agent, arising from the 9 sales of timber and grass on the reserved lands in such 10 township or tract, to be paid yearly to the clerks of 11 such plantations, and the same shall be applied to the 12 support of schools in said district, to be distributed 13 according to the number of scholars in each district : 14 Provided, that if any district or plantation shall be 15 composed of parts of two or more townships, the in16 terest aforesaid shall be distributed as nearly as may

17 be, according to the proportion of the funds arising 18 from the reserved lands in each township, for the sup 19 port of schools in such township.

SEC. 10. In all cases, where proceedings have been 2 commenced under the present law, by county com3 missioners, in relation to the location of said public 4 lots, the same may be prosecuted to final judgment 5 notwithstanding the passage of this act.

SEC. 11. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent

2 with this act, are hereby repealed.

STATE OF MAINE.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, July 26, 1848.

ORDERED, That 350 copies of the foregoing report and ac companying bill, be printed for the use of the Legislature.

SAMUEL BELCHER, Clerk.

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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE.

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STATE OF MAINE.

SENATE.

THE joint select committee appointed to visit the state prison to nake an examination in relation to the classification of convicts, as ecommended by the governor in his annual message, and also the rection of a hospital as recommended by the warden in his annual eport, have attended to the duty assigned them, and ask leave to ubmit the following

REPORT:

The committee waited on the warden at the prison, on the venty-first instant, who very politely received them, and extended > them every possible facility for prosecuting the object of their isit. The committee spent most part of the day in examining the ells of the prison, hospital, and the various departinents of labor nbraced in the institution. The committee found the warden to > correct as to the required improvements, as we also found the atements made by Hon. Mr. Kimball, member of the senate, and r. Cochran, member of the house, who gave the committee a full d clear description of the prison and its different departments, fore the sub-committee were selected, and we cannot but speak ghly of the recommendations so strongly urged by them to the

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committee, and since we have visited the prison, we can but wonder that the improvements and alterations we shall recommend bare not been recommended before, by individuals intimately acquainted with the construction and situation of the prison. The attention of the committee was first called to the situation of the old prison, and they found on examination and inquiry, that the cells formerly used as confinement cells, are now unoccupied, and are so usually, unless some unruly or ungovernable prisoner is put into them for the purpose of punishing him for his misbehavior. The remainder of the old prison is sixty feet long and about twenty-three feet wide. The hospital is connected with the old prison, being in one end adjoining the new prison, and directly under the guard room in the basement story. It is lighted only by two small windows in one side, about eight feet high and not more than fifteen or eighteen inches square, being very dark and damp. It is even so dark, that in case the doctor has to dress a wound or extract a tooth, the pri soner has to be removed to some more convenient place. It is not only small and dark, but without any suitable chance to ventilate it, which is so essential for the sick. The door by which the hos pital is usually entered is about three and a half or four feet high, and about one and a half wide, which opens into the prison yard, and the only ventilation is through an iron grate which covers the door way by which the hospital can be entered from the guard room. It is necessary that this grate should remain uncovered in order that the guard can see what is going on in the hospital, while he is s E situated that he can glance over the prison yard at the same time Thus it will be seen that all stench which may arise from the hospital is liable to pass up into the guard room, and from the into the clerk's office at any time when the door is opened, even into the room where the cooking is done for the officers of the prison. Your committee think the dignity of the state,—the com fort of those unfortunate individuals who are there, some of the to spend the remainder of their days, while others to spend the be→ part of their lives,-that the obligations binding on us as accours able beings, call on us to provide for them in their condition. T