EXHIBIT B.

SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT OF THE BUILDING COMMISSIONERS, INDEPENDENCE HOSPITAL.

SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

IOWA HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE AT
INDEPENDENCE, January 3, 1884.

To his Excellency, BUREN R. SHERMAN, Governor of Iowa:

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In our former report we represent the necessity of the State purchasing eighty acres of land for the use of this Institution.

This land is the south-half of the southeast quarter of section six (6), township eighty-eight (88), north of range nine (9).

It lies north of the north-half of the northeast quarter of section seven (7), and west of the south half of the southwest quarter of section five (5), in said township and range, which the State now owns.

The southeast corner of this land is within about twenty rods of the cow-barn and hog-house belonging to the Hospital. It is so situated that it could be fenced in with the other lands without extra cost, and can be used and farmed by the employes of the Hospital at very little extra expense.

This eighty acres is good farm land and has been cultivated by the Hospital people the past year. In order to show what has been done, we annex a statement of the crops raised on the place, and the cost of raising them aside from the labor done by the patients.

Products raised on the Gray farm for the season of 1883:

Labor, (other than patients).

Profits without including labor of patients....

.$120.00

34.20

17.00

16.00

25.00

76.75 288.95

$702.55

It will be seen by the above statement that the farm will yield a profit to the Institution each year, aside from the water supply that is under it.

If we call the value of the labor done by the patients the same as we paid rent this year, then each year we might expect a net income about seven hundred dollars, which would be a good interest on the two thousand six hundred and eighty (2,680) dollars, which the land can be purchased for now.

We have a contract in writing with Dr. G. H. Hill to sell this land to the State, which is as follows:

INDEPENDENCE, IOWA, August 4th, 1883.

I bought eighty acres of land adjoining the farm belonging to the
Hospital of Elizabeth Gray, October 25th, 1882, for $30 per acre. . $2,400.00
Seven per cent. interest on money for one year and a half.....

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