Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report of the Committee on State Prisons, on Petitions of Mechanics and Others, Relative to Employing Convicts at Mechanical Labor in the State Prisons: April 30, 1840
The committee being fully impressed with the hardship of this pri son contract, made inquiry of the contractor upon what terms he would relinquish it. He declined making any conditions, saying he would reply to any definite proposition which might be made him on behalf of the State.
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