the chairman of the Directors of Prisons, containing the portion and estimated cost of a Tread wheel. Secondly, I sent you a letter from the stating that their Lordships would not object to the supply of the article, but pointing out that in the climate of Hong Kong it may probably be viewed to a great extent as experimental, and conveying their Lordships' desire therefore that the expense might be kept within £2,157. (29/51)
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within as moderate limits as possible. Having been led by this letter and by other considerations which suggested themselves, to doubt whether the objects of the prisoners at Hong Kong might not be better met by a simpler kind of Hard-labor Machine which has come into very general use in the Prisons of this Country and been much approved, I requested the Chairman of the Directors