[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] OSSININGh 349 which has on its rolls not less than sixty scholars. The Union has about seventy-five members, who have been the means of accomplishing much good. The Ossining Branch of the American Soci-ety for the Prevention of Ckcelty to Ani-mal-was organized in this town in the year 1872. It began work with seventeen members. The Branch was chartered March 12, 1883, in order that it could accept any bequests that should be made to it by its friends. The society maintains an agent, and is quite active in carrying out its humane intentions. The State's Prisons at Sing Sing. — An actof the Legislature, passed March 7, 1824, authorized the building ofa'new State Prison in the First and Second Senatorial Districts, and appointed commissioners to Superintend the same. The present site was selected chiefly on account of its marble-beds, its accessibility by water and its salubrity. On the 14th of May, 1825, one hundred convicts from the Auburn Prison, under the supervision of Captain Elam Lynds, were landed on the grounds from a canal boat in which they were brought. Operations were at once commenced, and in May. 1828, the prison buildings were completed. The main structure, which was built of hewn stone