State Prison.
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The report of the joint Committee to whom was
referred (in June, the Report of the Commissions
ers on the subject Of the State Prison, and other
papers concerning that Institution, with The follows
ing resolutions annexed their report, was taken
Into consideration.


Resofued, That SO much of the Report Of tho
Commissioners on the State Prison, as recommends
the erection OF District Brdewes, be not accept
ed.


ResoIyed, That provision be made by law, that
no persons, sentenced to Imprisonment for term
less than three years, be confined in the State
Prison and that no person be confined in that
prison whose sentence will expire befure he or she
shall have reached the age Of eighteen years and
that an additional period of solitary Imprisonment
aud hard labor, be imposed on every confinement
of the same convicts, after the first.


Resolued, That more strict and severe system
ofdisciplne for the State Prison be established or
authorized by law and that the Directors Of that
institution be requested TO report from time To
time, any improvements which their experience
may suggest on the subject.


Rgsoired, That so much Of the report Of ths
Commissioners, as relates TO the erection of addl-
tional buildings, and the purchase Of land for the
State Prison, be referred 10 the Joint Committee,
who have under consideration so much Of ihc Mes
sage OF Ills Exoellency the Governor, az the open
ing Of The present sessions feales 10 said Prison


AesolEed That committee be sppeinlrd 10
bring in Bill, in conformity to The secoud and
thir. Resolutions now reported.


tn the Discussion of this report a very able de-
bate ensued, In siich the Hon. Messrs. SULLIVAN
Williamson, Quincy, Pickman, Saltenstall, BssS
mister. and Varnum, took Iart The farther
consideration Of the report wes referred to Tues.
day.