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saved

cases

several

picked up in ser prisoner was alive when

got into the boat, and the prisoner

to whom he

coupled was dead.

I never saw anything which

to suppose.

bre". he was unsuitable in Juni

would induce

ve

that the bout

to convey eighty.

tiive

at

are

I have conveyed eighty.

uvicts in.

arre

passage.

there

regular order as to

sis

the

number to be conveyed - a few days prior to the accident the Superintendent directed that fifty Convicts only should be placed in the boat, but that morning upon taking the Convicts aboard,

there being fifty-five convicts in the boat, the Superintendant directed

to place

prisoners in

the boat and I placed eighty men

on-board. it appeared to me

the boat was

eighty

with safety.

that

capable of carrying

deposed by Jami

Edward Ashton-sworn.

Acting Sergeant of Police doing duty on

board the Convict Hulk. On the afternoon

of

the 25th July I was

23

bound

the Convict Hulk - standing at the

port

gangway

at the time that

the last detachment of Convicts came in

the usual boat alongside

the vessel. The Warden Manning

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