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I called attention to the crowded
Condition
of the Prison, and
that I and other Justices at
various dates from that time up to January last repeated a conviction of the necessity of instant Gaol extension. The matter was more directly urged in my report. See Blue Book report and Bowring's Despatch #89 of 24th May 1856.
3.
The point was subsequently brought to the notice of the Home Government (Sir J. Bowring's Despatch No. 114 of 14 October 1857) and a sum of £5,000 was included in a Parliamentary Grant for 1858 for the specific purpose of continuing the Gaol Buildings and on the expressed grounds that as the Gaol was "used largely for Imperial purposes, a demand on the Imperial Treasury was fairly made."
4. This money was drawn on 4 October 1858, from the Commissariat Account with the Banks and was transferred to the Account of the Colony.
5.
On my first inspection of the Gaol as a visiting Justice,
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