PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 85 



GEORGIA ASYLUM FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB, 



AT CAVE SPRINGS, FLOYD COUNTY, 



The Legislature of the State at different times have made 

 liberal appropriations for the support and education of the 

 deaf and dumb. Formerly, a commissioner was appointed to 

 receive applications in behalf of indigent deaf and dumb in- 

 habitants of this State, and to make all necessary arrange- 

 ments for conveying such beneficiaries to the American Asy- 

 lum at Hartford, Connecticut ; but that office is now abolished. 

 In 1847, the Legislature passed an act authorizing the Gover- 

 nor to appoint five commissioners, who are required to make 

 all necessary arrangements for the erection of an Asylum. 



This institution is now in successful operation. 



PUBLIC BUILDINGS AT MILLEDGEVILLE. 



The State-House stands upon an eminence, about three- 

 fourths of a mile from the river. In it are rooms for the Le- 

 gislature, offices for the Governor, Secretary of State, Trea- 

 surer, Comptroller, and Surveyor General ; and rooms for 

 clerks, committees, &c. This building cost f 115,000, and was 

 erected under the direction of General Thomas. 



State Arsenal. 



Governor's House. 



Penitentiary. The outer walls are made of brick, aver- 

 aging twenty feet in height, by two and a half feet thick, con- 

 taining within the walls two and a half acres. The cells, or 

 prison proper, are contained in a three-story granite building, 

 two hundred feet long by thirty feet broad, each story con- 

 structed with a passage eight feet wide, running the whole 

 length. On each side are the cells, facing each other, and 

 doors opening into these passages, with one grated window. 

 The rooms are eight feet high, eight feet long, and six and a 

 half feet wide, intended for one inmate only, the whole build- 

 ing containing one hundred and fifty cells. These are divided 

 into four wards, designated by the letters A, B, C, and D. 



