4.

have a tap in the passage and each prisoner to be provided with a basin, 82, &c. This proposal however

I do not approve of,

as in this climate, all persons

require a much larger supply of water for washing

than

in

England.

An addition might be made to the south-end of the building, one story high, with a

flat roof

and cistern which might receive a supply of water during rains

from:

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I have shown it is possible to connect

5.

A and B, and if the Fails' House (recommended

by the Committee) is built, it would be attached

to Fail C, but not easily to the others.

It would be advisable to build the

kitchen proposed by the Committee.

larger

I do not think it advisable to divide the

rooms into separate sleeping berths; the system of discipline in the

the main

roof, which should be

as

provided with eaves-gutters (these might also be

applied to the other jails) and in winter or times of great drought, prisoners should be constantly employed carrying water in a suitable water-cart instead of in buckets as might be imposed upon some

at

this service

at present: for punishments or extra work. Each cell to have a close stool. It is necessary for one to remark with

regard

to the defective construction of these jails,

that they

were formed by the addition of an upper

floor upon the walls of the old jail built in 1841,

and therefore formed no part of an original design

prepared by

me.

New

Jail I know nothing of, but

the prisoners are at work all

day

on the roads,

the indiscriminate herding alluded to, I presume

not of such injurious tendency

as Lt. Col.

E. Jebb imagines.

(Signed). Chas. G. Gleverly.

Surveyor General.

True Copy

Mani (Colonial Secretary)

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