DIMINUTION OF TERM AT THE ADDITIONAL PENITENTIARY.
In my biennial message I have adverted to the fact that the opinion at one time prevailed that the law of the code, allowing convicts a given number of days per month for good conduct, was applicable to the additional penitentiary; and accounts were kept of days earned, and prisoners were discharged at the close of their respective terms as diminished by such earned time. Being satisfied that this practice was unwarranted by law, I notified the warden, directing its discontinuance. I informed him, however, that I would grant commutation to those who had been led to suppose they had earned the same, for all time prior to May 5th, the date of my notification above referred to. In accordance with this determination, I issued pardons to forty-two prisoners, confined at the additional penitentiary, as follows:
James Daugherty. July 9. Committed from Delaware county, November 2, 1876, for the term of nine months. Pardoned twenty-four days before the expiration of term.
Henry Mitchell. July 9. Committed from Benton county, October 14, 1876, for the crime of larceny, for the term of nine months. Pardoned five days before expiration of term.
Antone Myers. July 11. Committed from Dubuque county, December 8, 1876, for the crime of larceny, for the term of eight months. Pardoned twenty-six days before the expiration of term.
Daniel McCarl. July 23. Committed from Scott county, May 13, 1875, for the crime of conspiracy, for the term of two and one-half years. Pardoned one hundred and fourteen days before the expiration of term.
George Farrell. July 23. Committed from Scott county, May 13, 1875, for the crime of larceny, for the term of two and one-half years. Pardoned one hundred and fourteen days before the expiration of the term.
Charles Rogers. July 27. Committed from Jones county, December 23, 1876, for the crime of larceny, for eight months. Pardoned twenty-six days before the expiration of term.
Henry Wright. August 22. Committed from Cerro Gordo county, February 27, 1877, for the term of six months for the crime of larceny. Pardoned three days before the expiration of term.
Edwin Barlow. August 24. Committed from Dubuque county
