Excerpt from Report of the Commissioners, Directed by the Act of 17th April, 1826, to Visit the State-Prison at Auburn: Made to the Senate, Jan; 13, 1827 We found that upon the subjects of ourenquiry, there was a deeply seated division of public opinion in the county, and it soon appeared that our duties would be attended with great and most unexpected difficulties, which we could not hope to surmount, but by the utmost patience in examining, and calmness in deciding, the questions submitted to us. Many of these questions related to the testlmony which we ought to bear and report, or to reject. Some of them were either new or of rare occurrence; the nature of the enquiry was itself unusual, and we were placed in new and untried circumstances. These circumstances make us desirous, now to explain to the legislature, something of the history of the questions which were raised, and our decisions on them to the end that our minutes, and the matters which we have to report, may be clearly understood; (and if found right, be approved; *or be rejected, if wrong.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.