s
necessary for the use of the prison, or the health and
comfort of the officers and prisoners.

V. To provide for the sale of all articles manufactured
in the prison or not needed for the use thereof.

VI. To make contracts, if expedient, for the support
and employment of the prisoners or any portion of them.

VII. To make all necessary additions, alterations and
repairs within the prison or its inclosure.

VIII. To provide such books and instruction as may be
considered necessary for the convicts.

IX. To draw its warrant through its Secretary upon the
State Treasurer in favor of the Warden for all
appropriations made by the Legislature for the State
Prison.

SECTION 3. Such Board shall visit the State Prison at
least once every month, and oftener, when thought
necessary, for the purposes of ascertaining whether the
laws, rules and regulations are faithfully observed.

SECTION 4. The Governor may remove either of the
Directors of the Prison for malfeasance or misfeasance
in office, after having furnished him with a copy of
the charges against him, and giving him an opportunity
to be heard in his own defense.

SECTION 5. All acts and parts of acts, inconsistent
with this act, are hereby repealed, and this act shall
take effect from and after its passage.

This bill was presented and went to the judiciary committee of the
House, a body composed of two ex-judges and other gentlemen of
influence, all of whom favored it, some saying to me, privately, that it
was the very thing needed. The committee reported it unanimously. It
passed the House with no opposition, and so also the Senate, the final
vote having been taken when some private interest in Concord started up
to defeat the measure and induced a member of the Senate to move a
reconsideration of that vote. His move prevailed, and the bill was
referred back to the Senate committee, before which this interest
appeared in objection to the measure, while friends were present in its
advocacy. The committee again reported unanimously in favor of the
passage of the document, but on taking final action it was postponed to
the next session of the legislature.

Here was the point where the story circulated of the warden and chaplain
quarrel, that this bill was the embodiment of certain peculiar notions
of the latter which he was pushin