manner common to all similar
houses built here without efficient ___ enferintendence-
In the Year 1845 one
half of
the building Debtors Prison, and subsequently the remainder was nied as a
Gaoler's recidence; and although the utmost was done to render it suitable for such purposes it was perfectly impossible to arrange anything satisfactorily for the former both on account of the _ unsuitableness of the plan and the insufficiency of the materials and workmanship, which to correct roould have insolved the reconstruction of the greater portion of it_
was converted into a
The madequacy of the Building for the purposes of Alace of confinement indeed is
a
quite apparent, but every means
been adopted
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has
to render it as secure
as circumstances would permit; several times at the decire of His Excellency I have conferred with the Theriff as to improvements and
additional services there to to render it more secure, but as before stated ui consequence of
its unsuitableness
in plan and insufficient construction, anything that could be done was naturally of a temporary kind; and as at the present time it is in a dilapidated state and fash falling into decay the necessity In the crection of a new Prison is most imperative-
His Excellency the Governor has also directed me to prepare plans and an Estimate for a new Prison, but as it will be quite