Letter from Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames to Mississippi State Senate; March 16, 1874

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Letter from Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames to Mississippi State Senate; March 16, 1874

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Ames, Adelbert, 1835-1933 Barrett, Fred

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Convict Labor Convict Labor. Mississippi

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Mississippi--Executive Department Mississippi--Legislature Mississippi--Legislature. Senate Mississippi--State Penitentiary (Jackson)Prisons

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Mississippi--Hinds County. Jackson

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[note] 3/16/74 [/note]

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

Jackson, Miss., [gap] 1873

In compliance with the request of—Resolution & C Wherewith Transmit two reports from the supt. of the Penit

That institution is no more capable of sustaining itself to-day than it was five years ago. It has not taken a single step forward.

I would recommend ~~the~~ immediate action for the establishment of additional manufacturies. The proper place for the convicts is within the prison walls. If fifty or twenty or even ten of them were employed at the looms of a cotton factory this year, the solution of this vexed question would soon bcome apparent to all. The labor of convicts in preparing a building and a small sum ~~appropriated~~ expended for looms would lay the foundation of ~~such~~ a factory which, I doubt not, would grow, in a few years to such proportions as to give employment to all the convicts and become a source of ~~profit~~ revenue to the State.

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[ard?] the Supt. for file
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Original of Message sent to Senate
March 16^th 1874

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EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.

~~From~~ His Excilleincy,
Address [gap]
Dated [gap]
Received [gap]
Answered [gap]

SUBJECT:

A short Message, relative to ~~the~~ Informing the State Penitentiary

ADELBERT AMES,
Governor.

FRED. BARRETT,
Private Secretary.

[note] Pein [/note]