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14. Report to enquire into the sufficiency of the legal provisions for the maintenance of untried prisoners and debtors: and report alterations and amendments with respect to the regulations affecting their condition. Mr. Gibbon, chairman

19. Report of the Committee on the Comparative Health, Mortality, Length of Sentences, &c., of White and Colored Convicts: read before the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, November 1849, and ordered to be published

20. The history of the tread-mill: containing an account of its origin, construction, operation, effects as it respects the health and morals of the convicts, with their treatment and diet. Also, a general view of the penitentiary system, with alterations necessary to be introduced into our criminal code, for its improvement