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manity, and as the advocate of an enlightened public policy, avail ourselves of the opportunity presented by this Institution, of extending new and invaluable privileges to a portion of our fellow citizens, who have heretofore shared but sparingly in the county of the State. | manity, and as the advocate of an enlightened public policy, avail ourselves of the opportunity presented by this Institution, of extending new and invaluable privileges to a portion of our fellow citizens, who have heretofore shared but sparingly in the county of the State. | ||
| − | Our Penitentiary System will necessarily be subject of inquiry. Under the Resolve of the twenty eighth of February last, a committee was appointed to investigate the conduct of its officers and the affairs of the Institution generally, and to report with all reasonable dispatch, the result of their examination. This committee have executed the trust confided to them, in a highly satisfactory, manner; and a copy of their report is herewith communicated. | + | Our Penitentiary System will necessarily be subject of inquiry. Under the Resolve of the twenty eighth of February last, a committee was appointed to investigate the conduct of its officers and the affairs of the Institution generally, and to report with all reasonable dispatch, the result of their examination. This committee have executed the trust confided to them, in a highly satisfactory, manner; and a copy of their report is herewith communicated. |
| + | An examination into the extent of Pauperism in our State, will be sufficient to demonstrate the propriety of some legislative action upon the subject of a precautionary character at least. While ample provision should be made for all cases of real indigence, great vigilance should be exercised, to guard against offering inducements either to the dissolute or the idle to proper a State of dependence upon public charity, to one if honourable industry and self support. Economy in the public expenditures will not only be peomoted thereby, but a moral influence of still greater, worth and consideration to an enterprising people, will be thus exerted, silently, to be sure, but not the less | ||
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manity, and as the advocate of an enlightened public policy, avail ourselves of the opportunity presented by this Institution, of extending new and invaluable privileges to a portion of our fellow citizens, who have heretofore shared but sparingly in the county of the State. Our Penitentiary System will necessarily be subject of inquiry. Under the Resolve of the twenty eighth of February last, a committee was appointed to investigate the conduct of its officers and the affairs of the Institution generally, and to report with all reasonable dispatch, the result of their examination. This committee have executed the trust confided to them, in a highly satisfactory, manner; and a copy of their report is herewith communicated. An examination into the extent of Pauperism in our State, will be sufficient to demonstrate the propriety of some legislative action upon the subject of a precautionary character at least. While ample provision should be made for all cases of real indigence, great vigilance should be exercised, to guard against offering inducements either to the dissolute or the idle to proper a State of dependence upon public charity, to one if honourable industry and self support. Economy in the public expenditures will not only be peomoted thereby, but a moral influence of still greater, worth and consideration to an enterprising people, will be thus exerted, silently, to be sure, but not the less