DR. THE BOARD OF STATE-PRISON DIRECTORS, IN ACCOUNT WITH THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, CR. [G] 25 1859. April 29. To Cash received from State Treasury................... To balance in favor of State-prison, 1858. By Labor done, Improvements made, 1859. By Labor done and Improvements By Bricks and Bats on hand.. By Cash due on Bricks sold. 1859. April 29. By Balance in favor of State-prison.... STATE-PRISON, SAN QUENTIN, April 29, 1859. [H] ABSTRACT Of Provisions issued from May 1, to December 31, 1858, to the Officers, Employés, and Prisoners, at the State-Prison of California. 26 Total consumption for 245 days, pounds. .632,109 2,580 To the foregoing, add fish caught and used, not taken into account; as, also, the heads, hearts, liver, tripe, etc., of the cattle bought on hoof, but not included in the weight of said cattle, but actually consumed by the prisoners and employees, amounting to 7,500 pounds. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of Marin.-88: The above abstract shows the true amount and kind of provisions issued by and through the Commissary Department of the State-prison of California, to the officers, employees, and prisoners, at the said Prison, from May 1, to December 31, inclusive, in the year A. D. 1859. W. R. ISAACS MACKAY. Of Provisions issued from January first, 1859, to April thirtieth, 1859, to the Officers, Employés, and Prisoners, at the California State-Prison. State of CalipoRNIA, County of Marin.~88: I, W. R. Isaacs MacKay, do solemnly swear that the above Abstract shows the true amount, and kind of provisions, J. BERRY, Chairman Senate Special Committee. NOTE.-Total consumption for one hundred and twenty days, two hundred and sixty-five thousand six hundred and thirty-five pounds, (265,635 lbs.,) counting sacks of potatoes and vegetables at one hundred and twenty pounds each, vinegar eight pounds to the gallon, and molasses twelve pounds to the gallon-making a fraction less than two thousand two hundred and thirteen pounds as the average daily issues. [J]. ·MEMORANDA OF PRISONERS WHO HAVE ESCAPED, AND WHOSE NAMES ARE NOT ENTERED IN THE STATE-PRISON REGISTER. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Point San Quentin, Marin County.-I certify the following List of Escapes of Prisoners from the State-prison, in the years one thousand Sworn and subscribed before me this twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine. H. BRISTOL. J. BERRY, Chairman Senate Special Committee. 23 [N] No. 1.-DEED OF B. R. BUCKELEW TO THE STATE OF CALI- (20) acres of land hereby conveyed is bounded and described as follows, to wit: Commencing at a point about four hundred (400) feet eastward from, and parallel to, a due north and south line run from the southernmost of the point of land called San Quentin, and marked S; north thirpoint teen hundred feet from said southernmost point of land, at high-watermark, at the point of intersection of a line run at right angles to the first line; due east eight hundred (800) feet, or more, from ordinary highwater-mark, on the west side of said point of land, distant thirteen hundred feet north (1,300) from the first-mentioned southernmost point; thence, due south, in a straight line, to high-water-mark; and commencing again at said point of intersection of the east and north lines, and running due west, in a straight line, eight hundred (800) feet, to a point at, or near, ordinary high-water-mark; thence, due south, in a straight line, to high-water-mark; the south boundary of said tract of land to run in a straight line due east and west, and sufficiently far south from the north boundary-line to embrace, within all said boundary-line, twenty (20) acres of land above ordinary high-water-mark. The two first-mentioned lines are to be subject to the correction of any error in the lines of the streets of the survey of the City of Marin, a plan of which is hereunto annexed, and marked in red ink, thus, (B;) which lines are bounded by a street fifty (50) feet wide, on the north, and a street one hundred (100) feet wide, on the east; the said streets having been already surveyed, and are believed to be correct, according to the plan of said City of Marin, and the Prison-grounds adjoining, hereunto annexed. To have and to hold the afore-described and granted premises to the said John Bigler, in his capacity as Governor, as aforesaid, and to his successors in office, as such Governor of said State of California, to the sole use of the State, for Prison purposes and buildings, as herein-before provided, forever. And I, the aforesaid Benjamin R. Buckelew, do hereby, for myself, and my heirs, executors, and administrators, covenant with the said John fice, as Governor of said State of California, for the use of the State Bigler, in his capacity as Governor, as aforesaid, and his successors in AND WHEREAS, James S. Graham, Commissioner of Public Buildings; nd granted premises; that they are free of all incumbrances, and that I seized, in fee-simple, of the afore-mentionate George McDougal, Horace W. Carpentier, and James Miller, State ofre good right to sell and convey the same to the said John Bigler, as respectors, as such Board of Commissioners, on the part of the Statas, Governor, heirs, and ca California aforesaid, agreeably to the Act above referred to, did purchase, stornor, and for the use of the State; and that I, and my hei Bigler, as alors, of Benjamin Buckelew, of the County of Marin, in the State of California, ps, and administrators, will warrant, and forever defend, the said twenty (20) acres of land lying in said County of Marin, on which to have emises, to the said John Bigler, as Governor, and to his successors in office, as such Governor, for the use of the State, as aforesaid, forever, inst the lawful claims and demands of all person, as aforesaid, And the aforesaid Benjamin R. Buckelew herein, and hereby, further State of California, that the two blocks of land (exclusive of the which with the aforesaid John Bigler, Governor of the streets are forever to remain open,) lying longitudinally in front of the eastern line of the afore-mentioned State-prison grounds, are herein ded [COPY.] WHEREAS, By an Act entitled an Act to provide for the erection of a State-prison, passed at the last session of the Legislature of the State of California, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fiftytwo, section first of said Act constitutes the State-prison Inspectors, and the Superintendent of Public Buildings, as a Board of Commissioners to tele et pud purchase twenty acres of land, on which to erect a State-prison, as for in said Act; น erected said State-prison and appurtenances: Now, know all men, by these presents, that I, Benjamin R. Buckelew, of the County of Marin, and State of California, for, and in consideration of, the sum of ten thousand ($10,000) dollars to me in hand paid, by John Bigler, in his capacity as Governor of the State of California, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, and for the further consideration that conveyed, do hereby grant, bargain, and sell, convey, and confirm, unto nia, and to his successors in office, as such Governor, and for the use of Covenants and agrees the said State-prison shall be erected on the piece or parcel of land herein icated and appropriated, by the said B. R. Buckelew, as public parks, to the said John Bigler, in his capacity of Governor of the State of Califor of California, and to be under the direction and control of said State, forever; or, provided the State shall refuse to improve, embellish, direct, and said State of California, and for the erection, on said parcel of land hereby control said grounds, as public parks, then said control shall be, and the bargained and sold, of a State-prison, as aforesaid, to the use and behome is hereby, vested in the future corporate authorities of the aforeof the State, forever, all that certain tract or parcel of land lying in the mentioned City of Marin. Said blocks of land are each four hundred feet long, north and south, and three hundred feet wide, east and west-the County of Marin, in the State of California, known and designated on the map, or plan, of said parcel of land hereunto annexed, which plan is made a part of this conveyance, and marked in red ink, thus, (A.) The twenty Bouthern block is at present nearly all covered with water, and the south And the east corner of the northern block is also covered with water. said B. R. Buckelew does herein further covenant, and agree, with the said John Bigler, Governor, and so forth, that the wharf which he intends building in front of the said City of Marin, and to connect the same with the ship-channel, to a depth of water not less than sixteen feet of water, at the lowest stage of the tide, shall be used by the said State of Califor nia, for all purposes connected with the said Prison-grounds, free of charge to the State, for such use, forever. And the said B. R. Buckelew does hereby further covenant, and agree, with the aforesaid John Bigler, Gor. ernor, etc., that the said wharf shall be completed, ready for use, on or before the first day of January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. And the said B. R. Buckelew does herein, and hereby, grant to the party of the second part the right-of-way between the said whart and Prison-grounds, the same to conform to the survey of the streets, and be in said streets when the blocks are built up, and fenced in, as may be necessary. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, in the City of San Francisco, in the State of California, this ninth day of July, 4. i. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. B. R. BUCKELEW. [SEAL.] Executed in presence of C. GARVEY. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of San Francisco.-ss: On this ninth (9th) day of July, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, (1852,) personally appeared before me, (in said County,) a Notary Public in and for said County, Benjamin R. Buckelew, known to me to be the person described in, and who executed, the foregoing instrument of writing, as a party thereto, who acknowledged to me that ho executed the same freely and voluntarily, and for the uses and purposes therein mentioned. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and official scal, the day and year afore written. C. GARVEY, Notary Publie. [SEAL.] No. 2.-DEED FROM ARCHIBALD WOODS TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. [COPY.] of This indenture, made the third day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, between Archibald Woods, of the City San Francisco, State of California, of the first part, and John Bigler, Governor of the State of California, and his successors in office, for the use and benefit of the State, party of the second part, witnesseth: that the said party of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of forty thousand dollars, lawful money of the United States of America, to me hand paid by the party of the second part, at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, anto by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell, release, remise, and convey, the said party of the second part, and to his successors in office, all the following described real and personal property, to wit: All that tract, or parcel of land, lying and being in the County" 33 Marin, in the State of California, being part of the land known as Punta de San Quentin, bounded as follows: Commencing at or near the south end of the west line of the land recently sold by Benjamin R. Buckelew to the State of California, for the erection of a State-prison; thence north, on said line, eight hundred and fifty (850) feet to the north-west corner of said Prison-grounds; thence east, on the north line of said Prison-grounds, four hundred (400) feet; thence north, four hundred and fifty (450) feet; thence west, four hundred (400) feet; thence north, four hundred and fifty (450) feet; thence west, three hundred (300) feet; thence south, four hundred and fifty (450) feet; thence west, four hundred (400) feet; thence south, seventyfive (75) feet, more or less, to the water's edge; thence, following sinuosities of the Bay, to the place of beginning, making, in all, sixteen acresbeing all the tract acquired by James M. Estill, Robert Allen, Ferdinand Vassault, and Andrew Garr, from B. R. Buckelew, and by them conveyed to the San Francisco Manufacturing Company, and by said Company conveyed to Archibald Woods, the said party of the first part, together with, all and singular, the tenements, hereditaments, and appurtenances, thereunto belonging, or in anywise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and profits thereof, to have and to hold, all and singular, the above-mentioned and described premises, together with the appurtenances, unto the said party of the second part, and his successors in office, forever. [SEAL.] In witness whereof, the said party of the first part has hereunto set his hand and seal, the day and year first above written ARCHIBALD WOODS. Signed, sealed, and delivered, in presence of JOHN S. LOVE, (Signed) L. H. ALLEN. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of On this fifth day of July, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, before me, A. A. Selover, a Notary Public in and for said County, personally appeared Archibald Woods, known to me to be the individual described in, and who executed, the foregoing conveyance, and acknowledged that he executed the same freely and voluntarily, for the uses and purposes therein mentioned. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my official seal, in the County aforesaid, the day and year first above written. (Signed) A. A. SELOVER, Notary Public. Entered July tenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, at five [SEAL.] o'clock, P. M. |