Other entries pointed to the Port Henry jail as a detention center for US illegal immigration case detainees, most Chinese. On Page 1: “A lease between Berne A. Pyrke and the County of Essex for a certain premises on Elizabeth Street in the Village of Port Henry to be used as a common jail for the detention of United States Prisoners was duly executed.” 
Other entries pointed to the Port Henry jail as a detention center for US illegal immigration case detainees, mostly Chinese. On bottom of Page 1 appears a note:

“A lease between Berne A. Pyrke and the County of Essex for a certain premises on Elizabeth Street in the Village of Port Henry to be used as a common jail for the detention of United States Prisoners was duly executed.”

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