ss. Prison, 21 67 19 40 18 72
" Library, 262 95 94 84 0
" Ordinary Repairs, 1,937 64 1,057 08 1,029 50
Earnings of Convicts, 25,338 22 22,619 70 19,134 45
" " per capita, 209 22 216 41 223 79

This table tells its own story and is in perfect unison with all that
has been uttered on former pages. The guards and overseers, the same in
number, and with no additional labors, receive increased pay from year
to year. Nor has there been any going up in the scale of wages outside
to cause a demand for this. Nor were they more experienced and
intelligent, thereby claiming higher compensation. Many were mere boys,
some not overstocked with intelligence. They had one boy of seventeen
for overseer in the shop.

The physician's pay has also received a yearly rise in the scale, though
with a large diminishing in numbers of prisoners and, as the Report
says, a remarkably healthy state among them. How can we reconcile this?
True, the first year he attended only when called, and subsequently
every morning. But why the difference between the second and third years
with the fewer men and alleged healthy state? This is what needs
explaining.

But we find the food expense going the other way,--19, 14 1-5 and 10 1-2
per day to a man. What a cutting off! Will it go on thus till the story
of Hierocles about the man's horse shall be verified in our prison? So,
also, of the lighting and fuel with no change of space to be
warmed,--$1,195 43, $954 41 and $682 13. No wonder there was such
suffering from cold that second winter, before pointed out. Then what of
the third? No change in the prices of the market can account for this
variance. It must have been sheer withholding the necessaries of life.
We see that the Charlestown food allowance per day, for those years
respectively, was,--18, 18 6-10 and 18 7-10, increasing a trifle. Nor
does any great extravagance appear in that first year with us, nineteen
cents, one cent lower than authors say should be, though one higher than
Massachusetts.

The allowance to the library is also suggestive,--$262 95, $94 84 and 0.
True, during the first year the library was repaired, enlarged and newly
catalogued, but the second year the appropriation was about what is
annually demanded for keeping the books properly replenished and in
suitable order. It is as small