institution within the line of excellent discipline; hence the warden desires to express his appreciation of their services. The law requires the warden to transport to the penitentiary at Albany, N. Y., the prisoners sentenced by the criminal court of this District to that prison, and to the Reform School of this District such boys as may be sentenced by the courts to that institution. In discharging that duty the warden has transported ninety-nine convicts to the Albany penitentiary, at an actual cost and expense of $2,397.23. Last year there were sent to said penitentiary fifty convicts, at an actual cost and expense of $1,399.52. He has also conveyed thirty-two boys to the Reform School of the District of Columbia during the year. Last year there were forty-one boys so conveyed to the reform school. The annual salaries of physician, guards, engineer and assistant engi neers, firemen, messenger, and cooks have amounted to $35,152.73. There have been expended $1,519.21 for painting, glazing, gas-fitting, sewerage, grading roads, erecting temporary out-buildings, fences, and moving from the old jail, and $281.28 for repairs on machinery and heating-apparatus. The other expenditures on account of the jail during the year were as follows: Subsistence of prisoners.. Medicines, delicacies for the sick, lime, and disinfectants. Beds, bedding, and clothing.. Fuel and lights... Stationery, blanks, and blank-books... Furniture, hard, tín, and wooden ware, night-tubs, and cell-buckets...... Horse-keeping, repairs on wagon and harness, ice, and miscellaneous articles.. The daily average number of prisoners during the year was 236. Last year the daily average was 181. The highest number of prisoners in jail on any day during the year was 295, and the lowest number was 194. Last year the highest number was 230 and the lowest number 131. The total number of prisoners in jail during the year was-males, 2,074; females, 228. Total, 2,302. There were in jail at the close of the year, males 192, females 18. Sent to the penitentiary at Albany, N. Y., males 93, females 6. Sent to the Reform School, District of Columbia.. Males. Female 32 6 The prisoners received during the year were committed for offenses as follows: Murder Males. Females Accessory to murder 10 Rape Arson.. 9 Highway robbery 2 Petit larceny.. Robbery. Larceny and burglary Grand larceny Horse-stealing Forgery Assault with intent to kill. False pretenses.. Bigamy. Perjury. Of those who were committed to jail, as above stated, 1,379 were tried, convicted, and sentenced for crimes classified as follows: Males. Females. Incorrigibility Trespass Embezzlement Keeping disorderly house.. Contempt of court. Maintaining a nuisance... Carrying on bar-room without license.. Carrying concealed weapons. Creating false alarm of fire Riot.... Cruelty to animals Robbing mailed letters Malicious mischief... Enticing prostitution.... Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. ALPHONSO TAFT, JOHN S. CROCKER, Warden. 10 3 1 5 4 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 5 15 Attorney-General United States. HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT, UNITED STATES JAIL, D. C., November 1, 1876. SIR: The most interesting fact which I have to report this year is the comparative freedom from malarial diseases which we have enjoyed since our occupation of the new jail. Only ten cases have occurred among the prisoners, and six or seven among the officers of the prison, having during the whole time since December 1, 1875, when we took possession of it, about 250 to 300 prisoners. This proportion of cases is very small under ordinary circumstances during a full season in any southern climate, but when we consider the fact that this prison is surrounded by marshes bordering a slowly current stream of water, our astonishment is only commensurate with our gratification at this happy result. Many circumstances must enter into our calculations as to the causes. First, it has been an unusually healthy season as regards malarial diseases throughout the District. Our neighbors, the almshouse and workhouse, have suffered less than usual. How much bave our hygienic means operated upon the result? Every precaution has been taken; the windows on the marsh-side have been kept closed from an hour before sundown to 9 or 10 a. m. every day. The most perfect cleanliness has been preserved; the prisoners have been bathed twice weekly regularly, and their diet has been of the most wholesome kind, and served at regular hours and in healthy abundance; their bedding carefully cared for, aired, and changed. The complete ventilation of the house has aided greatly; not an odor ever arising of any kind perceptible to the most sensitive. Frequent whitewashing, scrubbing, the free use of antiseptics, careful washing of the building, and all other means used to secure sanitary results. Add to this every sign of approaching disease has been promptly met by the most efficient means. We have been assisted in a great measure by our neighbors of the almshouse in removing causes of disease. Their "potter's field" has been cleared, new graves of sufficient depth made, and efficient sewerage established on their part as well as ours. We may, I think, reasonably look to all these means as efficient causes to account for the gratifying results. We have had many severe cases of disease of chronic character, and the usual number of diseases incident to the kind of life led by prisoners before their admission, but all have responded satisfactorily to treat ment. No death has occurred. I have been most efficiently aided in my duty by all the officers, and particularly by the guard detailed as my steward of hospital. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, N. YOUNG, Physician United States Jail, D. C. General J. S. CROCKER, Warden. EXHIBIT H. December 14, 1875. Received from Government Printer 1,000 copies of Opinions of the Attorneys-General. Distributed, 353 copies; on hand, 647 copies. May 1, 1876. Received from the Department of the Interior 130 copies of 22d vols. of Wallace's Supreme Court Reports. Distributed, 118 copies; on hand, 12 copies. October 2, 1876. Received from the Department of the Interior 130 copies of vol. 1st of Otto's Supreme Court Reports. Distributed, 123 copies; on hand, 7 copies. October 18, 1876. Received from Government Printer 425 copies of Pamphlet Laws 44th Congress, 1st session, 1875-76. Distributed, 388 copies; on hand, 37 copies. October 31, 1876. Received from Government Printer 1,000 copies of Register of Department of Justice. Distributed, 584 copies; on hand, 416 copies. November 13, 1876. Received from Department of the Interior 130 copies of 23d vol. of Wallace's Supreme Court Reports. Distributed, 119 copies; on hand, 11 copies. November 25, 1876. Received from Department of Interior 130 copies of vol. 2 of Otto's Supreme Court Reports. Distributed, 122 copies; on hand, 8 copies. This Department has also distributed since last report, December 6, 1875, the following volumes: Four copies of 18th vol. United States Statutes. Three copies of the Revised Statutes of United States. Three copies of Revised Statutes District of Columbia. One copy of 15th vol. of Wallace's Supreme Court Reports. One copy 19th Wallace. One copy 20th Wallace. One copy 21st Wallace. Four copies of 13th vol. of Opinions of Attorneys-General. EXHIBIT I. ARCHITECT'S OFFICE, U. S. CAPITOL, Washington, D. C., December 30, 1876. SIR: I have the honor to report that during the past season there have been various repairs and improvements made to the court-house in this city. The criminal-court room has been renovated, the ceiling of which partly replastered, the walls and ceiling painted, and its ventilation improved by piercing its ceiling and placing an additional ventilating shaft on roof. The rooms in the basement of the eastern wing have been fitted up ready for occupancy; and the register in bankruptcy, whose office has been heretofore in the upper story, has been moved into two of the rooms in this basement. The room formerly occupied by that officer has been assigned to the recorder of deeds. The exterior of the basement has been painted, and the water-pipes and hot-air furnaces kept in repair. I again urge that the court-rooms, at least, be heated by steam, as the present mode is not only hurtful to the health but more expensive to maintain. An appropriation of one thousand dollars will be required to keep this building in good repair during the next fiscal year. A considerable portion of this annual expense is occasioned by the water pipes being so exposed in consequence of the corridor not being heated in winter that they often burst from freezing. Yours, very respectfully, Hon. ALPHONSO TAFT, Attorney-General, Washington, D. C. EDWARD CLARK, EXHIBIT K.-Fifteenth annual report of the board of Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia for the year ended September 30, 1876. DEPARTMENT OF METROPOLITAN POLICE, OFFICE OF THE BOARD, Washington, November 6, 1876. SIR: In submitting its fifteenth annual report of the condition of the police of the Metropolitan police district of the District of Columbia, agreeably with the requirements of law, which report is applicable to the year ending September 30, 1876, the board of police commissioners respectfully present the same as follows: The maximum numerical strength of the force proper as authorized by law is two hundred and thirty-eight, including officers and men of all grades. This number, distributed as it must be over the entire District, is totally inadequate to the performance of the duties required of the force, as will be fully shown in a subsequent portion of this report. Unfortunately, and probably unintentionally, the effect of the legisla tion contained in the sundry civil appropriation act of the last session of Congress has forced the board to materially reduce the force numerically, in order to keep the expenditures within the amount appropriated. This reduction of the force is resulting in increased loss of time from sickness induced by overwork and overtaxed energies on the part of the members of the force who constitute its depleted ranks. For the salaries and other necessary expenses of the police establishment for the year ending June 30, 1876, Congress appropriated the sum of $205,270, and further required that an additional sum, amounting to $102,635, should be paid out of the treasury of the District of Columbia for the same purpose, making a total appropriation amounting to $307,905 for the support of the police establishment for the year ending as already stated. The above last named sum represents the apparent total only, however, of appropriations for police purposes. The fifteenth section of the act of Congress, organizing the present force, approved August 6, 1861, provides "that it shall be the duty of the common councils of the cities of Washington and Georgetown to provide, at the expense of said cities, respectively, all necessary accommodations within their respective limits for the station-houses required by the board of police for the accommodation of the police force, for the lodging of va grants and disorderly persons, and for the temporary detention of persons arrested for offenses, and the same suitably to warm and light." The Revised Statutes of the United States, published in 1875, contain the requirements just cited, only modified in language to conform to our changed form of local government. These items of expenditures. including necessary outlays for the erection of new and the repair of old station-houses, would amount to an approximate average annual sum of $25,000, which has never appeared in or been provided for by any special appropriation in the annual appropriations of Congress. Nor was there a sum for this purpose included in the appropri ations for the year ending June 30, 1876. The expenditures included in this aggregate of $25,000 have been annually made by our District authorities without special appropriation, and simply under the general requirements cited in the act organizing the force. By adding the $25,000 to $307,905, the apparent annual expenses of the police estab lishment, a grand total of $332,905 appears as the real necessary annual expenditure for police purposes. The act of Congress making appropriations for sundry civil expenses for the year ending June 30, 1877, contains, under the head "Metropolitan police," the following: "For sala |