Excavation per cubic yard. Ventilating registers, each. do Joists, rafters, and all other timbers and Inmber of 20 feet in length and under sand feet. board or inch measure. All matched flooring laid per square, 114 inch thick All rough floor per square, 1 inch thick........... Iron roofing, (or slate, as may be hereafter determined) per square Conductor per lineal foot... Framing timber over 20 feet in length, per lineal foot. Paving of brick per square yard............. Tin piping per foot in walls for furnaces. Any work that may be wanted and not herein enumerated, will be furnished at a corresponding rate of prices, and any work herein mentioned and not wanted, will be stricken out; the State paying for only what is received and no more. David J. Silvers in account with State of Indiana. Before me, a Notary Public in and for the county and State aforesaid, personally appeared C. F. Kimball, Clerk of the Northern Indiana Prison, who, being duly sworn, says the above and foregoing is a true and correct statement of the accounts, as appears upon the books of the Treasurer, and copy of said bill of prices as the same appears upon the record of the Board of Commissioners, to the best of his knowledge and belief. C. F. KIMBALL, Clerk. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of January, A. D. WARDEN'S REPORT. WARDEN'S OFFICE, MICHIGAN City, To Hon. HUGH HANNA, WILLIAM WILLIAMS, and JONAS VOTAW: GENTLEMEN:-I have the honor to submit the following annual statement of the general affairs of this State Prison. During the year closing to-day, nothing has transpired calculated to seriously disturb the quietness of ordinary prison life. Courtesy has marked the intercourse between officers, promptness and efficiency distinguished the guards, and general good feeling and satisfaction characterized the convicts. The financial condition of the Prison has not been satisfactory, as you are well aware. In order to render the prosecution of the work upon construction profitable to the State, the expenditures for the year 1861 exceeded the amounts appropriated for that year by at least $10,000, and at the commencement of the present fiscal year, there was an indebtedness of that amount to pay from the limited appropriation for 1862 ($25,000), leaving but about $15,000 for the current expenses. From this small sum $3,000 was set aside for the contractor, rendering our available means, aside from income, about $12,000. The appropriation of the Regular Session of the Legislature for expense at this Prison for support and construction, was $25,000 per annum. The Extra Session passed an act removing 200 convicts from Jeffersonville to this Prison, and appropriated $30,000 as necessary additional expense for 1861, but failed to make additional appropriation for 1862. Hence, the commencement of this year found us with 253 convicts, at the beginning of a severe season, with no buildings in which to render their labor available, and but about $12,000 available funds for the coming year. Every effort was made to relieve the embarrassment under which we labored, and make the labor as profitable as possible, under the cir cumstances. By the issue of "certificates of indebtedness," we have succeeded in keeping starvation and nakedness from the door; but to any one. who will reflect for a moment, the difficulty of carrying forward an institution of this kind, for the better part of a year, upon an order basis, will be apparent. It has not only placed the responsible officers of the institution in a diflicult situation, but has seriously embarrassed all employees, and resulted in much pecuniary sacrifice to obtain the necessaries of life. The supplies for the Prison have been purchased with a due regard to economy, and in view of the derangement and general distrust in public securities, perhaps upon as fair terms as could be expected. The bills can be reviewed as they appear in detail in the Clerk's Report, appended. To every candid mind, the necessity of a prompt appropriation to meet and liquidate the indebtedness accrued and accruing, must be apparent. The indebtedness was necessary, imperative and unavoidable, and in every way a debt of honor, and I trust your honorable Board will make such representations to the Legislature as may lead to prompt action and relief. The exhibit, as made in the tabular recapitulation, for support account, shows at a glance the monthly and total amount to each account. The bedding account, major part of the hospital, lime and cement, part of the meat, lumber, part of clothing, fuel, railroad track, clay, iron, stone, and some other accounts were deferred from 1861. It The discharged convict account is very large, showing a discharge of 119 convicts, each of whom drew $15. About one-third of this number were remanded by order of the Supreme Court. sceins very strange that courts should be thus loose in their judicial proceedings; fully 33 per cent. of men convicted of crime being turned out upon the community through some radical error in proceeding or information, their guilt being unquestionable. It has been a serious detriment to the institution, keeping the inmates in a state of mind far from satisfactory, as regards labor or discipline. During the month of May last, a rebellion was planned, and came very nearly being successful, during which 17 convicts escap d, 15 were recaptured. The trouble was quieted with but little bloodshed, but it involved, in the search for the escaped, a heavy cash expenditure, as will be seen by reference to the escaped convict account. Of the telegraph and transportation account, but a small amount. is properly chargeable to support, it being to the amount of $2,431 88, for freights on stone, lime, &c., to D. J. Silvers, contractor, which is charged to him and deducted from his account, as will be seen by reference to the Supplemental Report rendered your honorable Board by the clerk. The total expenditure of the Prison, in support, has been |