This more than doubled the ~ize of the kitchen
room, added forty feet to the room for the accom-
modation of the subordinate officers : forty feet to
the hospital: made the chapel more than twice the
i^n.rh it was before. Tvith the addition of a uallery
for the accommodation of the women, and ?ave
another story to the front part of the central build-
ing. It is not easy to estimate the improvement
this alteration made. The male hospital is now
about seventy-two feet long, and twenty-three feet
wide: and the female hospital with adjoining
rooms are near the ;ame dimensions. The chapel
is seventy-- ix feet long, forty-eight feet wide, and
with the gallery will seat about six hundred per-
son-. It is really a fine room for v jr-liip. well
ventilated, neatly fornisLel. and afford- all the
accommodation needed. The entire cost of this
alteration was defrayed by the earnings of the
Penitentiary.
It is now proposed to make, when the funds of
the ]iLst:iit:on will allow, a considerable addition
to the win,- of the main building. This also is
greatly needed, for there has Ion. been an insuffi-
cient number of cells for the proper ac voynmoda-
tion of the prisoners. When this i- done, there
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to be desired ; and both the Superintendent and
authorities may congratulate themselves on the
great object secured. The entire building will
then stand as a monument to his practical
wisdom, exclusive devotion, indomitable perse-
verance, and unblemished integrity; and as an
example of their readiness to trust a faithful
public servant, and to do what is required for
the public good.
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134 Albany Penitentiary.
COMMITMENTS AISTD DISCHARGES.
