Mr. Pruyn and his associate Inspectors esti-
mated that the building including the land, origin-
ally cost the county |50,000. not reckoning the
labor of the convicts who were employed in the
work ; if to this amount is added, grants since
made to meet deficiencies in income in 1849,
1850, and 1858; also, to make improvements in
buildings and land, and to pay the salary of the



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Superintendent, who, from the first, has been a
county officer, $75,000, which is supposed to be
beyond the sum, then the entire cost of the whole
to the county, with all the property belonging
thereto, is $125,000.
Now what has the county received in return ?
The following will show :

First, It has had kept and boarded, from No-
vember 1, 1848, to October 31, 1866, eleven
thousand six hundred and forty-two prisoners for
the average term of eight weeks, which is a low
estimate, at $1.25 per week (the price paid to
the sheriff of the county before the Penitentiary
was built), $109,143.75.
Second, It has been saved one-third additional
estimated expense, which must have been incurred
for medical attendance, salaries of ofl&cers, im-
provements and repairs of buildings, $29,105.
Third, It has the Penitentiary land and build-
ings, which are estimated to be worth at the very
lowest sum, $150,000.
Fourth, It has property belonging thereto
comprising prison furniture, fuel, oil, horses,
carriages, bedding and clothing, provisions and
stores of different kinds, stock, tools, machi-
nery, the apparatus of the whole establishment.
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debts and cash on hand, the value of all which
was, October 31, 1866, |80,4 74.27.
