History of Concord, New Hampshire, from the original grant in seventeen hundred and twenty-five to the opening of the twentieth century; . s building, and for cul-inary equipments, an additional appor-tionment of thirteen hundred dollarswas made, increasing the original oneto thirty-seven thousand three hun-dred dollars. In their final report the constructing agents say that,owing in part to the sinking of a well in the prison yard, their ex-penditures had exceeded the sum placed at their disposal in the sumof twenty-seven dollars and seventy-six cents. This deficiency wasgraciously provided f
History of Concord, New Hampshire, from the original grant in seventeen hundred and twenty-five to the opening of the twentieth century; . s building, and for cul-inary equipments, an additional appor-tionment of thirteen hundred dollarswas made, increasing the original oneto thirty-seven thousand three hun-dred dollars. In their final report the constructing agents say that,owing in part to the sinking of a well in the prison yard, their ex-penditures had exceeded the sum placed at their disposal in the sumof twenty-seven dollars and seventy-six cents. This deficiency wasgraciously provided for by a prudent legislature, and their accountwas allowed and closed. Inasmuch as the erection of a state prison involved the purpose ofthe state to substitute imprisonment and confinement to hard laborfor many of the former penalties for crime, it became necessary torevise its penal code. To that end the legislature appointed an ablecommittee, consisting of Jeremiah Mason, Daniel Webster, and JohnGoddard, all of Portsmouth, to consider this subject and suggestsuch alterations of the existing statutes as to them might Original State Prison. STATE PRISON. 1157 In accordance with their recommendations the legislature, at itsJune session, hi 1810, passed An act for the punishment of certaincrimes by solitary imprisonment and confinement to hard labor,which was approved by the governor on the nineteenth day of thatmonth. This law reduced the existing capital crimes of treason, murder,rape, sodomy, burglary, arson, robbery, and forgery of public securi-ties, of which the punishment was death, to the two first penalty of the other six was changed to solitary imprisonmentfor not less than six months, and confinement to hard labor forperiods varying from one to twenty years, or for life. Thus constructed and equipped with this modification of thepenal laws the state prison entered upon its career under the imme-diate control of three directors and a warden
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