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other guards paid by the Government. With a large Chinese population, whole sympathics are invariabling in favor of the prisoner, and
with the mainland not a
n
mile distant.
+ from us convicts the ponds require a much grater number of quards than in penal settlements
in any other locality under the English flag
:so forme another importent Item of the whole question . holasquection. 2 he objects to be aimed at
Bo
area
and this
" conceive tomo Rejconvict
labor reminers hive and
band to save paid
beneficial, an
to
cador in guarding the prisoners
white at work.
thave every hope that thes object can be attained in this Colony if the experiment, be made of insiting the prisoners to good behaviour and work
of
by giving them the hopes surtailing their several terms of imprisonment by their own
ach . Incarceration ind
Hongkong is a punishment far heavier than transpor
transportation for a similar term to any place