eight P.M.
Once every year these officers , and the matron , wagoner , and baker are elected . Sixteen ounces of bread and eight ounces of beef are the ration of the district pauper . The turnkey , gate-keeper , chief watchmen , and chief nurses , are selected from the inmates . The gates are closed at sunset , and the lights go out at eight P.M. all winter . The inmates wear a uniform , labelled in large letters `` Work-house , '' or `` Washington Asylum . '' The poor-house is an institution coeval with the capital . We are told that while crabbed old Davy Burns , the owner of the most valuable part of the site of Washington City , was haggling with General Washington over his proportion of lots , his neglected and intemperate brother , Tommy , was an inmate of the poor-house .