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Seventh Biennial Report of the
Board of State Commissioners of
Public Charities of the
State of Illinois
Presented to the Governor, November 1882


         
         [p. 251]
         
         JASPER. - Two years ago we reported to the legislature
       that the county board of Jasper county was at that time
       receiving proposals for the purchase of a county farm.
       Since then a farm has been bought, situated six miles
       southeast of Newton. It contains one hundred and twenty
       acres. There was on it, when bought, a farm building,
       twenty by forty feet, with four rooms. Since the purchase,
       a frame building, sixteen by thirty-two feet, has been
       erected for the use of the keeper. The inmates are said
       to be well cared for. The average number during the year
       was about twenty, but no almshouse register is kept. The
       keeper has the farm free of rent, and receives two dollars
       a week for each inmate, for which he furnishes all supplies,
       including medical attention and burial expenses. The cost
       of the farm last year was a little less than seventeen
       hundred dollars. The amount of outdoor relief in this
       county is small, being less than four hundred and fifty
       dollars.
       
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