EMPLOYMENT.

Of the 1,774 convicts remaining in the penitentiaries at the end of the year, September 30, 1891, the following statement exhibits their employment:

PENNSYLVANIA INDUSTRIAL REFORMATORY,
HUNTINGDON.

STATE APPROPRIATION.

The state grant to this institution for 1891 and 1892 was $217,565, viz: For salaries, $78,000; insurance, etc., $2,000; railroad track, etc., $7,500; heating, lighting, etc., $12,500; farm, $3,500; library books, etc., $1,600; school books, etc., $1,200; tools and material, $6,000; mechanical instruction, $2,000; extraordinary repairs and betterments, $28,265, and for additional cell house, etc., $75,000.

The legislature also provided gratuities to discharged convicts, i. e., to those residing within fifty miles from the institution, each five dollars; over fifty miles, the sum of ten dollars each.

RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.

The receipts for the years 1889 and 1890 were $274,276.17; expenditures for same period, $218,783.28; leaving a balance of $55,492.89 in favor of the institution.

Receipts.

Appropriation by act No. 254, approved June 5, 1887,
Appropriation by act No. 7, approved February 14, 1889,
Appropriation by act No. 294, approved May 24, 1889, .
Amount returned by contract or for building,
Amount paid by county for funeral expenses of inmate,
Amount received for earnings of inmates,

$60,500 00

8,000 00 177,500 00

512 74

Amount received for work in the state shops,

Amount received for officers' meals and sundry sales,

Amount received from counties for maintenance, 1889,

Amount received from state for gratuities to discharged and paroled prisoners,

Total receipts,

23 00 7,625 05

808 58

549 24

17,827 56

930 00

$274,276 17

Their number and salary paid to each, for the year 1890:

6,986 36

2,078 62

3,417 11

2,840 96

5,011 50

12,632 09

8,051 89

$218,783 28

55,492 89

$274,276 17

$5,000 00

2,500 00

1,800 00

Physician, without apartments,

1, 500 00

1, 000 00 1,000 00 240 00 900 00 4,320 00

480 00

5, 280 00

6, 600 00 5,940 00

The average daily number of prisoners for the period beginning with February 15, 1889, and ending with December 31, 1890, was 198, and the average cost per capita was $280.28, or a weekly cost of $5.39.

COUNTIES.

Bills charged the counties for maintenance for the two years ending December, 1890.

RECEIVED AND DISCHARGED.

On October 1, 1890, there were 332 prisoners in confinement. During the year ending September 30, 1891, 310 prisoners were received, and 195 prisoners paroled and discharged, thus leaving 447 in confinement on September 30, 1891.

COUNTY EXHIBIT.

The 310 prisoners admitted during the year ending September 30, 1891, were received from the following counties, viz: