2.

come to the conclusion

"M. Fillary's

Machine

"

that

for

cell

" labour would be found very

"useful

in

cases

where

prisoners

"were sentenced to Separate confinement with hard labour

and that it would be therefore

"desirable that 2 or 3

of

the Machines

"were sent out._ We do not think

however that they could be

on a

large scale in

employed this Colony unless the

arrangements

" and a new

were

prison

entirely altered

system of supervision

and Superintendence established

with the power of inflicting

gat once corporeal punishment

Prisoners ought,

when necessary

we conceive, after

the labour

of

" the day, to be confined in separate dormitories and to be

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never together unlere while at

work.

During the day it has

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"beem the system here and found "necerrary to work them in gangs, " and nothing appears to us " likely to convert what is now "considered no

hardship to a

punishment as the introduction

a Treadmill, and it has this "additional advantage

of

over Mr

"Fillan's Machine, that it can "be employed for useful and it

"may

be profitable purposes. "-

3. In the above

coneur

1

opinion

I

and I would

generally therefore beg to recommend that

a Tread-wheel such as is estimated to cast £158 should be sent out

for

the

use

of

this Colony, together with the apparatus for crucking

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