Grant. Alexander X Co, were the lessees
under the contract of 1860 with Bullock.
“In 1874 another act was passed authorizing
the leasing out of < onvicts lor not less than
• •:ie nor more than live years. Not only was the
labor limited to ten hours per but thecon
\ ids wen* not to be permitted to work on the
Sabbath day. The present lessees have vio
lated this provision world without end. In
tin' furnm • s at liising Fawn and at the Chat
tahooeheo (amp. world without end! Tho
lessees
ori xi.v VXD DEFIVNTLV ADMIT IT.
Corporal punishment wa-not to be intlided
mile • absoluit’ly necessary tor discipline. The
guards admit they whipped convicts and nover
told them why they were whipped.
“I wish tie* members knew tlie peculiar cir
cumstances under which companies one, two
and three were organized—organized, some
say, x\ ith four convicts from Fulton county
and five from the Marietta and North Georgia
railroad Will some one deny it ? Infamous!
••.Josepli E. Brown said before the peniten
tiary committee that in one instance the state
had robbed him.
‘‘Look at the history of the act of 1876. Two
years after the passage of the act of 1874, and
three before the expiration of the lease under
it, this act was passed. The term of lease was
extended to twenty years. No lease for such a
length of time was ever made in the world.
