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School; but as it received inmates from every part of the state, and is practically a state charity, the name has been changed to the Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls. Boys under the age of ten years, only, are admitted. The facilities now commanded by the School will enable the managers to provide the inmates not only with a fair English education, and a full knowl edge of housekeeping, but with such industrial training as will enable them to earn honest livings in respectable and useful callings.

The school draws from the proper counties two dollars and fifty cents per week for the instruction, board, lodging and clothing of each child committed by the courts.

Appended is a statement of the prominent facts in the history of the Institution:

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The number of inmates November 20, 1878, was 43; 38 girls and 5 boys. Of this number 40 are of native birth and 3 foreign. About three-fourths are children of foreign born parents.

The following is a statement of receipts and disbursements from the organization of the school, in March, 1875, to November 20, 1878.

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This statement does not include the appropriation of $15,000 for building purposes on the one hand, nor the cost of the new building on the other.

WISCONSIN STATE PRISON.

NELSON DEWEY

GEO. W. BURCHARD.

Board of Directors.

Carsville Term expires January, 188) Fort Atkinson.. Term expires January, 1882 HOWARD M. KUTCHIN.......... Fond du Lac..... Term expires January, 1884

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The State Prison was located at Waupun in July, 1851, by Messrs. John Bullen, John Taylor, and A. W. Worth, who were appointed commissioners to determine such location under a law enacted that year. A contract was at once entered into for the construction of a temporary prison; in 1853 the contract was let for the mason work upon the south wing of the prison, and additions have been made from time to time since that date.

In 1873 the legislature passed a law changing the management of the prison, which law went into effect on the first Monday in January, 1874. Three directors were appointed, with the advice and consent of the senate, to hold their offices: one for two years, one for four years, and one for six years, and thereafter all appointments to be made for six years. In place of the commissioner heretofore elected by the people at the general election, the directors appoint a Warden, who has charge and custody of the Prison; also appoint the Clerk, both to hold their offices for three years. The Warden appoints all other officers, subject to the approval of the directors.

The convict labor was leased to M. D. Wells & Co., of Chicago, for the manufacture of boots and shoes, for five years from Jan. 1, 1878. Manufac ture on the part of the State was therefore discontinued after that time.

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