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Annual receipts, estimated at thirty-eight cents per thousand, on forty-four millions feet,

Annual expenses for repairs and right of occupation,

&c.

Insurance or risk two per cent. on capital,

Annual losses from decay, damages and inci-
dents not covered by annual charges for
repairs, three per cent. on capital,
Annual cost and expenses of rafting and run-
ning logs, including warp, at twenty-one
cents per thousand on forty-four millions,

Annual receipts,
Annual expenses,

$16,720 00

1,000 00

1,060 00

1,590 00

9,240 00

$12,890 00

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Excess of receipts,

equal to seven and three-tenths per cent. per annum.

All which is respectfully submitted.

JOSEPH SEWALL,

JN'o LEE,

CHARLES E. BARTLETT,

Commissioners.

STATE OF MAINE.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

January 23, 1843.

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Laid upon the table, and 200 copies ordered to be printed for

the use of the House.

WM. T. JOHNSON, Clerk.

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[WM. R. SMITH & Co....Printers to the State.]

REPORT.

To the Honorable, the President of the Senate

and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

In compliance with the requirements of law, the undersigned has the honor to submit the following

ANNUAL REPORT.

The whole number of convicts, Dec. 31, 1842, is 57, and they are employed as follows, viz:

In the Blacksmith Shop,

4|| Waiters,

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"Shoemakers, Wheelwrights,

"Tailors,

"Cooks,

"Washers,

28 Lumpers,

9 Barbers,

4 In Hospital,

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In submitting this report, I do it with some degree of satisfaction, believing as I do, that the Legislature, and in fact the public generally, are anxious to know the condition of the institution and that of the unfortunate inmates therein contained. The convicts are generally healthy, as much so as could be expected, considering the cells are so uncomfortable at this inclement season of the year. I am happy to be able to say that the conduct of the prisoners for the year past, has been unusually good, and but slight punishments have been inflicted. When the undersigned made his annual Report, at the close of the year 1840, he stated that for the first time since the erection of the Prison, it had paid all of its expenses and saved the sum of $1,165 76 to the State. However, as the charge of the Prison went into other hands for the year 1841, and the Inspectors for that year labored hard and long to show that the Warden and Inspectors of 1840 had misrepresented the facts, and made

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