THE STATE'S PRISON

RALEIGH, N.C.,

Whereas the Legislature at the session of 1915 passed an Act requiring the Board of Prison Directors to appropriate 30 convicts and 40 mules and the necessary wagons and other implements to build a public road in Halifax County from Halifax to the State farm, and

Whereas it is the opinion of this Board that to comply with the said Act of the Legislature, which requires that the said work shall be begun by August 1st, 1915 and prosecuted to its completion, will greatly menace the welfare of the State farm and the Prison because of the present depression incident to the low price of farm produce, and

Whereas further, this Board has already made appropriation of convicts to build public roads in other sections of the State under and by authority of Legislative enactment,

Now Therefore, the Board of Directors of this institution respectfully declare that by reason of the conditions above recited, they are unable to begin building of the road in Halifax County as above set out at the time designated in said Act without great hurt and injury to the institution and tax payers of the State, unless convicts shall be withdrawn by authority of the Council of State from some of the other public roads to which they have heretofore been appropriated.