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he will be able to complete during the cold-
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the next service I propose to adopt
will be a particular survey of the road round
the Island, with a sketch of the ground either side, for such distances as
may be considered advisable, for the purpose of showing its capabilities either for agricultural purposes
12 otherwise, but this cannot be commenced until the next cold season.
- engages much of my attention, assisted by Mr. Bowden, Road Overseer, who is also employed as a Clerk, in which capacities he has shewn himself most useful, and given satisfaction; he prepares the monthly reports of their labour, measures their work, and superintends the direction given for the works they are engaged upon; in addition to this he is storekeeper, and fills to the utmost of his ability the duties of a Clerk of Works.
In my reports upon Roads I have spoken of the 326 labour of the Convicts, at least of such Convicts as are sent out to work under directions; now it frequently happens that Europeans and others are confined in Gaol who, although condemned to hard labour, there is not the means of employing them; the former - generally sailors, they might be employed in making hemp mats or in making light ropes from picked out coir, which are much used by all coolies here for slings to carry baskets or other weights, and even supply the wants of the Convicts employed upon the roads alone it would be a great Service and saving of expense; also baskets might be made, which being of the simplest description, the commonest Coolie might be made to construct, and lastly, for actual hard labour I could respectfully suggest that all refractory Convicts should be compelled to break a certain quantity of Stones, which I could now